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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Phoenix and The Irish Citizen, and in the be- 

 ginning of 1872 delivered a lecture on the his- 

 tory of Fenianisra, at the Cooper Union in New 

 York City. In 1857 he translated "Keating's 

 History of Ireland." 



PALMER, Captain NATHANIEL B., died at San 

 Francisco, Cal., June 21st, aged 78 years. He 

 was born in Stonington, Conn., and was the 

 discoverer of Palmer's Land in the South 

 Pacific Ocean, and had been identified with 

 the shipping and commercial interests of the 

 country for over half a century. 



PABROTT, ROBERT P., died at Cold Spring, 

 N. Y., December 24th. He was born in Lee, 

 N. II., October 5, 1804, graduated at the "West 

 Point Military Academy in 1824, and became a 

 second-lieutenant of artillery. From 1824 to 

 1829, he was Assistant Professor of Mathe- 

 matics and of Experimental Philosophy at the 

 Academy, and was afterward with his regi- 

 ment at Fort Constitution and Fort Indepen- 

 dence. In 1834, being detained for ordnance 

 duty, he acted as a staff-officer in the war 

 against the Creeks ; was made a captain in the 

 ordnance corps in 1836, but resigned shortly 

 after and became Superintendent of the "West 

 Point Iron and Cannon Foundry, at Cold Spring, 

 N. Y. While there he invented and perfected 

 the rifled gun which bears his name. He was 

 first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for 

 Putnam County from 1844 to 1847. 



PEEPLES, CINCINNATUS, Judge of the Superior 

 Court of Atlanta, Ga., died there June 1st. 



PERINCHIEF, Rev. OCTAVIUS, was born in 

 the island of Bermuda, in 1829, and died at 

 Bridgeport, Pa., April 29th. He graduated at 

 Trinity College, Hartford, in 1854, and after- 

 ward at the Episcopal Theological Seminary 

 in New York City. His first parish was the 

 Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn. After re- 

 maining there for two years, he went as a 

 missionary to "Wisconsin and Kansas. His 

 second regular parish was at Cumberland, Md., 

 and he was also engaged as a missionary among 

 the coal laborers at Mount Savage. In 1867, 

 he became rector of St. John's Church, George- 

 town, D. C., and was afterward Secretary of 

 the Evangelical Educational Society at Phila- 

 delphia. For two years he had charge of the 

 Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md., then of the 

 old Swedes' Church at Bridgeport, Pa., where, 

 after short interruptions, he remained until 

 his death. 



PERKINS, JONATHAN COGSWELL, died at Salem, 

 Mass., December 12th. He was born at Ips- 

 wich, Mass., November 21, 1809, and graduated 

 at Amherst College in 1832. After pursuing 

 his law studies in the office of Rufus Choate, 

 and at the Harvard Law School, he was ad- 

 "mitted to practice in 1835. He was appointed 

 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Mas- 

 sachusetts, served in the State Senate, and was 

 an able and voluminous commentator and 

 writer on law subjects. He edited " Ohitty's 

 Criminal Law," " Chitty on Contracts," "Jar- 

 men on Wills," "Abbott on Shipping," " Dan- 



iell's Chancery Practice," " Collyer on Partner- 

 ship," " Chitty on Bills and Notes," " Arnould 

 on Insurance," "Angell on Water Courses," 

 " Chitty on Pleadings," several volumes of 

 chancery reports, and nine volumes of Massa- 

 chusetts reports. 



PETER, Mrs. SAEAH, mother of Rufus King, 

 died in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 6th. In 



1854, while in Europe, she was converted to the 

 Catholic faith. She had crossed the ocean nine 

 times on special visits to the Pope, and founded 

 not fewer than twenty convents in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., and Cincinnati. She bestowed the 

 bulk of her wealth upon charitable institutions. 

 She brought from Europe a number of relics, 

 among which were the bodies of several saints, 

 which she presented to the different Catholic 

 churches in Cincinnati. 



PETTIT, JOHN, died at Lafayette, Ind., June 

 17th. He was born at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., 

 in 1807, and went to Lafayette in 1831. He 

 served as a Representative in Congress from 

 1843 to 1847, and as a Senator from 1853 to 



1855, having previously been a member of the 

 State Legislature, and United States District 

 Attorney. He was a member of the State Con- 

 stitutional Convention of 1850, was Presiden- 

 tial elector in 1852, and served as Judge of the 

 Circuit Court. In 1859, President Buchanan 

 appointed him Chief Justice of Kansas, and in 

 1864 he was a delegate to the National Demo- 

 cratic Convention in Chicago. 



PHILLIPS, Dr. JOHN B., died at St. Paul, 

 Minn., April 17th, aged 56 years. He was born 

 in Kennett, Pa., studied medicine in Paris, 

 France, and in 1855 settled in St. Paul. He 

 was Commissioner of Statistics of Minnesota. 

 About the year 1851, while traveling in Eu- 

 rope, he was declared to be the Italian revolu- 

 tionist Mazzini, and was seized and thrown 

 into prison at Basel, Switzerland. He was re- 

 leased through the efforts of Mr. Fay, the Amer- 

 ican Minister at Berne, and Switzerland paid 

 2,000 francs damages. He translated a num- 

 ber of sonnets from Heine and other German 

 poets. 



PLAOIDE, THOMAS, brother of the late Henry 

 Placide, died at Tom's River, N. J., July 20th. 

 He was born in Charleston, S. 0., in 1808, and 

 made his first appearance on the stage in 1828 

 at the old Park Theatre, New York, playing 

 there almost continuously until it was burned 

 down. In 1832 he first appeared at the Arch 

 Street Theatre in Philadelphia, left for the 

 South in 1849, and was manager of the Varie- 

 ties Theatre in New Orleans about 1850 to 

 1854. He played an engagement at Wallack's 

 old theatre in 1855, traveled with the Wal- 

 lack-Davenport combination in 1862, and after- 

 ward played brief engagements through the 

 country, but during the last ten years he had 

 not appeared at all. His line of business was 

 low comedy, in which he achieved considera- 

 ble popularity. 



PRATT, DANIEL D., died at Logansport, Ind., 

 June 17th. He was born in Palermo, Me., in 



