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PACKARD, EDGAR: 1869-
" Edgar Packard taught in the Logansport schools for a number of years, later moving to Berlin, Wis. In 1895, while living in Logansport, he published A Study of the Song of Solomon.'"
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- A Study of the Song of Solomon. 1895.
- Picture Readings; a Study of Paintings by the Great
Masters. Bloomington, lll., 1918.
- Outlines for the Study of Shakespeare's
Plays. Kent, O. [1927].
PACKARD, JASPER: 1832-1899
Jasper Packard , son of Thomas and Nancy Ann Berry Packard, was born in Mahoning County, O., on Feb. 1, 1832, and moved with his family to Indiana in 1835, where they settled in Marshall County. He received his early education in the common schools, later attended Michigan Central College and Oberlin College, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1855. On Oct. 4, 1855, he married Harriet S. Tibbits.
In 1855-56 Packard taught school at Hillsdale, Mich., and from 1856 to 1858 at La Porte, Ind. During these two years he also studied law and edited THE UNION. From 1857 to 1861 he served as school examiner for La Porte County and as justice of the peace. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar.
In 1861 he enlisted in the 48th Indiana Volunteers and during the war rose through the ranks until, in April, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier general. He served in a number of campaigns, including the siege of Vicksburg, where he was severely wounded, and the campaign against Atlanta, where he was in command of the 128th Indiana Regiment.
page: 249[View Page 249]Following his discharge from the army in 1866 he became auditor of La Porte County for a two-year term. From 1869 to 1875 he was a member of Congress and from 1876 to 1884 an internal revenue agent. In 1874 he established and published the LAPORTE CHRONICLE, which he sold in 1878, and in 1886 he became owner and editor of the LAPORTE DAILY PUBLIC SPIRIT. He was also owner and editor of the NEW ALBANY EVENING TRIBUNE.
For two years before his death, which occurred in 1899, he served as a member of the Indiana Legislature.
Information from Who Was Who in America; Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. II; and Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IV.
- History of Laporte County, Indiana, and Its Townships, Towns
and Cities. LaPorte, lnd., 1876.
PAINE, DANIEL L.: 1830-1895.
Born in Richmond, Me., on October 30, 1830, Daniel L. Paine started in newspaper work in Bangor, Me., published a temperance paper for a time, and when he was twenty years of age moved to St. Anthony (Minneapolis), Minn., where he started a weekly newspaper. He has been credited with the naming of Minneapolis.
About 1860 he came to Indianapolis, where he was associated with newspapers for more than thirty years. His principal connection was with the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS as an editorial writer.
Mr. Paine died at Indianapolis on May 6, 1895.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Club Moss. [Grand Rapids], 1890.
PAINTER, GEORGE ALEXANDER STEPHEN: 1864-
George A. S. Painter , son of George Washington Alexander and Elvessa Louise Norris Painter, was born at Summitville, Ind., on Dec. 25, 1864. After attending Greencastle Academy he entered Harvard University, from which he was graduated with the A.B. degree in 1892. He also studied at Boston University and the University of Jena, receiving the Ph.D. degree from the latter institution in 1896.
He began teaching philosophy at Tufts College in 1897 and later was a member of the faculties of Bryn Mawr, George Washington University, Mt. Union College, and Clark University. After 1912 he was professor of philosophy at New York State College for Teachers.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Herbert Spencer's Evolutions–theorie
Dargestellt, Beurteilt und mit Einer Ubersicht fiber die Geschichte des
Entwicklungsbegriffes Versehen ….
Jena, 1896.
- Philosophy of Christ's Temptation, a Study in
Interpretation. Boston, 1914.
- Fundamental Psychology. New
York, 1938.
- Science and Evolutionary Theory. Takoma
Park, Md., 1940.
PALMER, FRANCIS LESEURE: 1863-
Francis Leseure Palmer , son of William R. and Clara Skeele Palmer, was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., on Aug. 28, 1863, and graduated from Amherst College in 1885, receiving the A.M. degree in 1902. In 1892 he graduated from Cambridge Episcopal Theological School. Seabury Divinity School awarded him a D.D. degree in 1923. On Oct. 1, 1895, he married Elizabeth E. Paine.
Ordained to the Protestant Episcopal ministry in 1893, he occupied pulpits in Gardner, Mass., Walla Walla, Wash., and Stillwater, Minn. From 1910 to 1913 he was an instructor at Seabury Divinity School, serving as professor of divinity in 1922-23. He was registrar and historiographer for the Diocese of Minnesota, and acted as canon of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, Fairbault, Minn. From 1886 to 1890 and again from 1898 to 1900 he was an assistant editor of Webster's International Dictionary. He was also a book reviewer for church publications.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Mahlon Norris Gilbert, Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota.
Milwaukee, 1912.
- The Class of 1885 of Amherst College; a Retrospect After
Fifty-Five Years. n.p., 1940.
PALMER, FRANK NELSON: 1859-
Frank Nelson Palmer , son of Eben Hawkins and Frances Boyd Nelson Palmer, was born in Danville, Ill., on Oct. 12, 1859.
page: 250[View Page 250]He received the A.B. degree from Wabash College in 1881, the A.M. in 1884 and the D.D. in 1903. He was a student in Union Theological Seminary in 1883-84 and McCormick Theological Seminary, 1884-85. He married Sarah Cynthia Hawkins, of Kankakee, Ill., on Dec. 8, 1892.
Palmer was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1887 and held various pastorates in Colorado from that date until 1891. He became pastor of the Dayton, Ind., Presbyterian Church in 1897 and served until 1903, when he became an instructor in the Winona, Ind., schools. He was director of the Winona Bible Summer School from 1908 until 1911 and in 1918 became pastor of the First Church of Warsaw, Ind.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- A Bird's Eye View of the Bible.
Winona Lake, Ind., 1906.
- Old Testament Characters. Winona Lake,
Ind., 1912.
- David and the Psalms. Winona Lake,
Ind., 1913.
- The Mastery of Genesis. Winona Lake,
Ind., 1914.
- Comparative Study of the Four Gospel Records.
Winona Lake, Ind., 1915.
- The Life of Christ. 1915.
PALMER, JOEL: 1810-1881.
Joel Palmer , son of Ephraim and Hannah Phelps Palmer, was born in Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 4, 1810. His parents were Quakers who returned to New York state at the beginning of the War of 1812. When he was sixteen years old, young Joel went to Bucks County, Pa., and worked as a laborer on canals and other public improvement projects. He learned canal construction and, since canals were being dug along most every likely waterway in the Midwest, found plenty of employment. By 1836 he was a resident of Laurel, Ind., with a contract for the construction of a part of the Whitewater Canal. He prospered, at least moderately, and was elected a representative (1843-45) of Franklin County in the Indiana General Assembly.
Public honors and private prosperity were not enough to hold even a successful young business man when the Western fever struck, and in the middle Forties Joel Palmer made a trip to the West and wrote an account of his adventures.
It is a very small book, bound sometimes in printed wrappers and sometimes (evidently for the more affluent book buyers of the day) in cloth: in either case its modern selling price is well up in three figures. According to American Authors, 1600-1900, it is "the only complete written record of pioneering along the old Oregon trail" (p. 592). This would appear to be a rather broad statement, but it is certainly an informative, a fairly well written and a very rare book.
Palmer returned to Indiana in 1847 for a brief time, then went back to Oregon, where he laid out the town of Dayton and built a grist mill. In 1853 he was Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory, and he was active in state politics throughout the remainder of his life.
He died in Dayton, Ore., on June 9, 1881. Palmer was first married to Catherine Caffee. After her death he married Sarah Ann Derbyshire in 1836.
Information from Kunitz and Haycraft–American Authors, 1600-1900.
- Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains to the Mouth of
the Columbia River. Cincinnati, 1847.
PARKER, BENJAMIN STRATTAN: 1833-1911.
Born in a pioneer's cabin in Henry County, Ind., on Feb. 10, 1833, Benjamin Strattan Parker was educated at home by his parents. In 1869 he married Huldah Wickersham. During his life he was a teacher, editor, office-holder, and businessman and, in addition to his books, contributed poetry and prose to periodicals of his day. He was a resident of New Castle, Ind. He died in 1911.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- The Lesson: and Other Poems. New Castle,
Ind., 1871.
- The Cabin in the Clearing, and Other Poems.
Chicago, 1887.
- Hoosier Bards with Sundry Wildwood and Other Rhymes.
Chicago, 1891.
- Rhymes of Our Neighborhood. New Castle,
Ind., 1895.
- Poets and Poetry of Indiana. (Compiler and editor withEnos B. Heiney.) New York, 1900.
- After Noontide. Richmond, Ind.,
1905.
- Pioneer Life in Henry County.
PARKER, GEORGE FREDERICK: 1847-1928.
George Frederick Parker , son of Thomas W. and Eliza Ann Kirk Parker, was born in Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 30, 1847.
The family removed to Iowa and young Parker was page: 251[View Page 251] educated in the public schools and attended the University of Iowa for two years. He later received LL.D. degrees from Simpson College and Washington and Lee and Iowa State universities. He married Eloise Florence Dibble on Apr. 27, 1890.
Parker began his career in journalism in October, 1873. He edited newspapers in Iowa, Indiana, Washington, D. C., New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and New York City . He contributed to the LONDON TIMES from 1895 to 1905, and to many American and foreign periodicals. He served as U. S. consul at Birmingham, England, from 1893 to 1898 and served occasionally on the Democratic National Committee. He died on May 31, 1928.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- A Life of Grover Cleveland with a Sketch of Adlai E.
Stevenson. New York, 1892.
- Recollections of Grover Cleveland. New
York, 1909.
- John Pierpont Morgan: a Memorial Address.
New York, 1913.
PARRY, DAVID MACLEAN: 1852-1915.
Born on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pa., on Mar. 26, 1852, David MacLean Parry , son of Thomas J. and Lydia MacLean Parry, worked on the home farm until he was seventeen years old, attending school during the winter months.
Following a varied business career in Iowa, New York, and Indiana , he established a manufacturing business in Rushville, Ind., in 1882, a business which he moved to Indianapolis four years later. Mr. Parry was also a railway official and president of the National Association of Manufacturers. He retired from the manufacturing business in 1911. He was twice married: first to Cora Harbottle, who died in 1882, then to Hessie Maxwell. Mr. Parry died on May 12, 1915.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Scarlet Empire.
Indianapolis, 1906.
- Tariff Revision (with others).
Philadelphia, 1908.
PATTERSON, ANNE VIRGINIA SHARPE (MRS. ROBERT E.): 1841-1913.
Anne Virginia Sharpe , daughter of George Washington and Caroline Rebecca Snider Sharpe, was born in Delaware, O., in 1841 and was educated in private schools and at Delaware Female College. On Jan. 4, 1866, she married Robert E. Patterson.
In 1892 Mrs. Patterson moved to Indiana, where she was a resident of Kokomo . She was editor of what was said to be the first newspaper children's page in America. Active in the conservation movement, she was a leader in the widespread bird-house campaign among school children. She died on May 30, 1913.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The American Girl of the Period: Her Ways and Views. By Garry
Gaines. Philadelphia, 1878.
- Speeches, Prose, Rhyme and Jingle for the Trades'
Carnival. Springfield, 0., 1889.
- Supplement to Business Men's Jubilee, or
Trades' Carnival. Urbana, 0., 1889.
- Dickey Downy: the Autobiography of a Bird.
Philadelphia, 1899.
- Lady of the Green Scarf: an Entertainment Exercise for
Schools Embodying the Need for Conserving Our Country's Natural
Resources, Suitable for Weekly Rhetoricals, Class Exercises and Arbor
Day. Chicago, 1910.
PERKINS, LUCY FITCH (MRS. DWIGHT HEALD): 1865-1937.
Lucy Fitch , prolific author and illustrator of juvenile fiction, was born in Maples, Ind., on July 12, 1865, the daughter of Appleton Howe and Elizabeth Bennett Fitch. She graduated from the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston in 1886, and from 1887 to 1891 she taught in the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. On Aug. 18, 1891, she married Dwight Heald Perkins.
Mrs. Perkins' "Twins" series of books sold–and still sell–in astonishing numbers, furnishing pleasant and mildly instructive reading matter for at least two generations of American children. Probably no series of juveniles–except possibly the "Brownie" books by another Indiana author–has run through so many individual titles.
The chronology of the bibliography reveals two occasions (1919 and 1926) when the author made an effort to abandon twins–only to be forced by her publisher and her juvenile admirers to resume writing about them.
She died on Mar. 18, 1937.
page: 252[View Page 252]Information from Who Was Who in America and Burke and Howe–American Authors and Books, 1640-1940.
- The Goose Girl: Children's Rhymes.
Chicago, 1906.
- A Book of Joys: Story of a New England Summer.
Chicago, 1907.
- The Dutch Twins. Boston, 1911.
- The Japanese Twins. Boston,
1912.
- The Irish Twins. Boston, 1913.
- The Eskimo Twins. Boston, 1914.
- The Mexican Twins. Boston, 1915.
- The Cave Twins. Boston, 1916.
- The Belgian Twins. Boston, 1917.
- The Dutch Twins Primer. Boston,
1917.
- The French Twins. Boston, 1918.
- The Spartan Twins. Boston, 1918.
- The Scotch Twins. Boston, 1919.
- Cornelia: the Story of a Benevolent Despot.
Boston, 1919.
- The Italian Twins. Boston, 1920.
- The Puritan Twins. Boston, 1921.
- The Swiss Twins. Boston, 1922.
- The Filipino Twins. Boston,
1923.
- The Colonial Twins of Virginia.
Boston, 1924.
- The American Twins of 1812.
Boston, 1925.
- The American Twins of the Revolution.
Boston, 1926.
- Mr. Chick, His Travels and Adventures.
Boston, 1926.
- The Pioneer Twins. Boston, 1927.
- The Farm Twins. Boston, 1928.
- Kit and Kat: More Adventures of the Dutch Twins.
Boston, 1929.
- The Indian Twins. Boston, 1930.
- The Pickaninny Twins. Boston,
1931.
- The Norwegian Twins. Boston,
1933.
- The Spanish Twins. Boston, 1934.
- The Chinese Twins. Boston, 1935.
- The Dutch Twins and Little Brother.
Boston, 1938.
PETTIJOHN, GRACE SMITH (MRS. FRED L.): 1876-
Grace Smith , daughter of Samuel M. and Aletha White Smith, was born on a farm in Hamilton County, Ind., in 1876, and graduated from Friend's Academy, in Westfield, Ind., and from De Pauw University. On Sept. 12, 1901, she married Dr. Fred L. Pettijohn. A resident of Indianapolis , Mrs. Pettijohn was active as a member and officer in numerous national and civic organizations.
Information from Mrs. Grace Smith Pettijohn.
- Memorial Tribute to John Smith and Martha Pickens.
Indianapolis, 1912.
- Handbook of Drama. Indianapolis,
1940.
PFRIMMER, WILL WOOD: 1856-1935.
Will Wood Pfrimmer was born on Jan. 27, 1856, in Massac County, Ill., the son of Daniel A. and Melinda Conrad Pfrimmer, both natives of Indiana. His mother died when he was four years old, and his grandfather, Samuel Pfrimmer, took him to the old home in Harrison County, Ind., where he lived for nine years. Upon the death of his grandfather, he went to his father's home in Newton County, Ind.
He was educated for the law but from natural inclination drifted into school work. From 1889 to 1899 he was superintendent of schools of Newton County. In May of 1878 he was married to Mary Ellen Webster, and after Mr. Pfrimmer's retirement in 1910, they lived for a few years in Arkansas and later in Missouri, where Mrs. Pfrimmer died in 1926.
Mr. Pfrimmer died at the home of a daughter in Washington, D. C., on Dec. 24, 1935.
Information from Mabel Pfrimmer Hollister, daughter of Mr. Pfrimmer.
- Driftwood. Buffalo, 1890.
- The Legend of Grape Island and Other Poems.
Watseka, Ill., 1907.
PHILIPSON, DAVID: 1862-
David Philipson , son of Joseph and Louisa Freudenthal Philipson, was born in Wabash, Ind., on Aug. 9, 1862, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1883. Also in 1883 he graduated from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati as rabbi, receiving the D.D. degree in 1886. He married Ella Hollander on Sept. 9, 1886.
From 1884 to 1888 he served as rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore, and from 1888 to 1938 he was rabbi of the B'ne Israel Congregation in Cincinnati. After 1891 he was also connected with Hebrew Union College, first as professor of homiletics and later as lecturer. He served as consulting editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and contributed to magazines.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Jew in English Fiction.
Cincinnati, 1889.
- The Oldest Jewish Congregation in the West. 1894.
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- Old European Jewries.
Philadelphia, 1894.
- A Holiday Sheaf. Cincinnati,
1898.
- Lectures. New York, n.d.
- The Reform Movement in Judaism. New
York, 1907.
- The Jew in America. Cincinnati,
1909.
- Children's Harvest Service. New
York, n.d.
- Max Lilienthal—American Rabbi.
New York, 1915.
- Centenary Papers and Others. New
York, 1919.
- History of the Hebrew Union College. 1925.
- My Life as an American Jew; an Autobiography.
Cincinnati, 1941.
- The Reform Movement in America. New
York, n.d.
PHILLIPS, DAVID GRAHAM: 1867-1911.
" David Graham Phillips , American novelist, journalist, and reformer, was born in Madison, Ind., on Oct. 31, 1867, the fourth child and the first son of David Graham Phillips, a banker, and his wife, Margaret Lee Phillips, who came from the family made famous by 'Light-Horse' Harry Lee.
"After attending the Madison public schools, and studying foreign languages under a tutor at home, he attended Asbury College (now De Pauw University) in Greencastle, Ind., for two years, and then transferred to Princeton University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in June 1887, the youngest member in a class of eighty-six.
"Phillips had already begun to write while in college, and in the summer following his graduation, he visited the office of James A. Green, city editor of the CINCINNATI TIMES STAR, to ask whether there was an opening for which he might be considered. His statement that he had 'just graduated from Princeton' had no startling effect on Green, who looked at the 'conspicuously patterned suit, the eighteen-inch trousers, the dangling cigarette, and shuddered,' before answering in the negative. The city editor's reply, however, had no more effect on Phillips than Phillips' qualifications had on Green. With no trace of disappointment, Phillips made a very innocent request: he asked–and readily received–permission to come to the office to read the daily papers. The next morning, when Green arrived at the office at seven-thirty, he found Phillips ahead of him, calmly reading the exchanges. This performance continued for several weeks, and Green, and all the members of his staff, conceived a hearty dislike for the over-dressed Princetonian who refused to believe that a newspaper could exist without his services.
"The endurance contest that followed, in which Green's problem was to keep his temper, finally ended with Princeton as the winner, when the opportunity that Phillips was waiting for arrived. Some one committed a murder at the time best calculated to aid Phillips: when all the reporters were out on assignments, and the city editor was alone in his office. Unable to leave his desk, Green asked Phillips, who was busily engaged in reading a paper, to find out the facts and to return with them by twelve-thirty, so that he (Green) could write the story. At twelve twenty-five, Phillips stood in front of Green's desk, not with the facts, but with the complete story of the murder written in the approved TIMES-STAR manner. Green, who was above professional jealousy, printed it without changing a word, and, after another look at his trousers, offered Phillips a position.
"Phillips worked on the TIMES-STAR staff for less than a year, not because he was not good enough, but because he was too good. He soon became the 'talk of the town,' and Murat Halstead, editor of the CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, and the father of a classmate of Phillips, offered him double the salary that Green could afford to pay. In speaking of the affair, Green said, 'Halstead told me that I had done remarkably well in training the young man, but he did not need any training: he was a born reporter.'
"Phillips remained with the COMMERCIAL GAZETTE for three years, constantly duplicating the successful performances that had induced Halstead to send for him. Only a few years before, the reporting staff had been honored by no less a writer than Lafcadio Hearn, and Halstead and his associates held him up as an example to be followed by young reporters. To Phillips, who paid attention to style, it was enjoyable to work for a paper that definitely encouraged literary merit, as well as mere form.
"His relations with Halstead were so pleasant that Phillips might have remained with him for a considerably longer period, had it not been for the continual urging of his married sister, Mrs. Carolyn Frevert, who was always telling him that New York was the 'only place' for a man anxious to make a name for himself as a writer. Finally, in the summer of 1890, he decided to accept her advice and to come to New York , to widen his experience and to avail himself of the better opportunities offered by a large city. After a very short time on the TRIBUNE, he joined the staff of the SUN, at a salary of fifteen dollars a week, his assignment being to cover the 'human interest' stories of the Jefferson Market Police Court. His first real chance came when the city editor, Daniel F. Kellogg, sent him to investigate the story of a child lost in the Catskill Mountains. Phillips' highly dramatic account page: 254[View Page 254] –'the kind of story that makes editors cheer and women weep'–attracted attention throughout the country, gave him a national reputation as a reporter, and brought him an increase in salary. It was not long before his superiors began to give him dull ordinary assignments that seemed to promise nothing, as a tradition arose in the SUN office that 'D. G. could see a story where no other reporter would believe one existed.' An illustration of this is offered by a statement in an after-dinner speech by Joseph Choate: 'it would be a good thing for this country if all the Irishmen, instead of trying to control politics here, would go back to Ireland and govern their own sorely misgoverned land.' Phillips made a feature story out of it, while other reporters struggled for half a column.
"Early in 1893, he left the SUN for the WORLD, where he came under the notice of Joseph Pulitzer. Besides his genius for news, Phillips, according to all accounts, was an exceedingly likeable personality, and Pulitzer's respect for his talent soon deepened into affection for his character. He sent him to London as a special correspondent, and in June 1893, Phillips 'achieved one of the historic beats of the decade' in his exclusive report of the sinking of H. M. S. Camperdown, in collision with the H. M. S. Victoria off the coast of Asia Minor. Upon his return to New York , he was rewarded by promotion to the WORLD'S editorial staff, and he frequently took charge of the editorial page in the absence of William H. Merrill when he was ill or away on vacation.
"In 1901, as 'John Graham,' he published his first novel, The Great God Success, an appropriate title in view of the enthusiastic reception it gained from readers and critics. The general verdict that it was one of the best 'newspaper novels' ever written, and the urging of his sister encouraged him, early in 1902, to give up daily journalism for freelance magazine writing. An interesting feature of the novel is that Pulitzer figures in it prominently as one of the characters. He was not especially pleased with the fictional presentation of his personality, and he was wounded when he found out that Phillips was the author, not only because of the way in which he was portrayed, but because he felt that employees of the WORLD should devote their talents exclusively to his organization.
"Phillips began his magazine experience with a series of articles on some unpleasant aspects of journalism, for the SATURDAY EVENING POST. He also contributed to McCLURE'S, MUNSEY'S, EVERYBODY'S, SUCCESS, HARPER'S WEEKLY, the DELINEATOR, and many others. It was as a magazine writer that he aroused the anger of Theodore Roosevelt, earning from him the title of 'muck-raker' for his sensational articles, The Treason of the Senate, in which he exposed the political corruption of that body. The title is still remembered, and it is to be feared that it does him, today, more harm than it did when it was first applied. Phillips is, and always was, much more than a 'muck-raker' and the name has done its share in unjustly lowering his reputation.
"From 1901 to 1911, Phillips wrote twenty-three novels and a four-act play. His drama, The Worth of a Woman, was produced, with only moderate success, at the Madison Square Theatre in February, 1908, with Katherine Grey as Diana Merivale, the heroine. Historically it is of interest as being one of the first plays to exploit what is now one of the staples of American entertainment: sex appeal. He also wrote a one-act play, A Point of Law, that was popular with amateur dramatic societies.
"On Jan. 23, 1911, Phillips was shot in the street without warning, by a paranoiac, Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, of a well-known Washington, Boston, and Maryland family, and the son of Dr. Edmund K. Goldsborough, a prominent Washington physician. Goldsborough, who had a quixotic strain in him, resented the novelist's portrayal of American women in general, and was under the ridiculous impression that Margaret Severence, in The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig, was intended as a portrait of his sister. Although he had no radical interests, Goldsborough lived in a small room on the top floor of the Rand School of Social Science–opposite 119 East 19th Street, where Phillips lived with his sister Carolyn– and it appeared that he had been watching his intended victim for several weeks. As for Phillips, who was walking in the direction of the Princeton Club to keep a luncheon engagement, he was entirely unaware of the existence of his assassin, or of the latter's sister. He was almost at the entrance of the club, when Goldsborough emerged from his hiding-place and fired six shots into Phillips' body, crying 'Now, I have you.' The assassin then shot himself in the temple. Phillips died in Bellevue Hospital on Jan. 24 …
"Phillips' place in American fiction is still to be determined. He has been called America's greatest novelist by Frank Harris and H. L. Mencken, an 'American Balzac' by J. C. Underwood, and an 'American Zola' by his friend and biographer, I. F. Marcosson. Granville Hicks, on the other hand, holds that Phillips was a journalist from beginning to end, a journalist and nothing more."
page: 255[View Page 255]Condensed from H. S. R., Authors Today and Yesterday.
- The Great God Success. (John Graham, pseud.)
New York, 1901.
- A Woman Ventures. New York,
1902.
- Her Serene Highness. New York,
1902.
- The Golden Fleece. New York,
1903.
- The Master-Rogue. New York,
1903.
-
The Cost
. Indianapolis, 1904.
- The Reign of Gilt. New York,
1905.
-
The Plum Tree
. Indianapolis, 1905.
-
The Social Secretary
. Indianapolis, 1905.
-
The Deluge
. Indianapolis, 1905.
- The Fortune Hunter.
Indianapolis, 1906.
- The Treason of the Senate. 1906.
- Light-Fingered Gentry. New York,
1907.
- The Second Generation. New York,
1907.
- The Worth of a Woman. New York,
1908.
- A Point of Law. New York, 1908.
- Old Wives for New. New York,
1908.
-
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig
. New York, 1909.
- The Hungry Heart: a Novel. New
York, 1909.
-
Husband's Story: a Novel
. New York, 1910.
- White Magic: a Novel. New York,
1910.
-
Grain of Dust: a Novel
. New York, 1911.
-
The Conflict: a Novel
. New York, 1911.
- The Price She Paid: a Novel. New
York, 1912.
- George Helm. New York, 1912.
- Degarmo's Wife, and Other Stories.
New York, 1913.
-
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
. New York, (Feb.) 1917.
2 vols.
(On demand of John S. Sumner and the Society for the Suppression of Vice
the second edition, Sept. 1917, was cut to 474 and 490 pp.)
PIATT, JOHN JAMES: 1835-1917.
" John James Piatt … poet, journalist, was born at James' Mills (later Milton), Ind., the son of John Bear and Emily (Scott) Piatt … When John James was six years old his parents moved to Ohio, establishing themselves near Columbus. The boy attended the high school in that place, and later, Capital University and Kenyon College. Apprenticed to the publisher of the OHIO STATE JOURNAL to learn the printer's trade, he became acquainted with William Dean Howells, who was then associated with that paper, and the two formed a lasting friendship. Some of Piatt's verses appeared in the LOUISVILLE JOURNAL in 1857, and soon afterward he accepted an editorial position on it. In 1859 he began contributing to the ATLANTIC MONTHLY. His poem 'The Morning Street' evoked Howells' praise and the statement that he himself wished he could write something worthy of inclusion in the ATLANTIC. The following year (1860) the two published in collaboration Poems of Two Friends.
"On June 18, 1861, he married Sarah Morgan Bryan, poet and contributor to the LOUISVILLE JOURNAL. They went to live in Washington where Piatt was a clerk in the U. S. Treasury Department from 1861 to 1867. During this period he became acquainted with Walt Whitman, who frequently referred to Piatt's writings. In 1867 Piatt joined the staff of the CINCINNATI CHRONICLE, and removed to North Bend, just below Cincinnati, on the Ohio River. From 1869 to 1878 he was literary editor and correspondent of the CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL, but also served as assistant clerk (1870) and as librarian (1871-75) to the U. S. House of Representatives. From 1882 to 1893 he was U. S. consul at Cork, Ireland, and for a few months in the latter year at Dublin.
"During all these years he was writing and publishing poetry and some prose … Piatt's poetry shows the regular meters of his time but is original and varied in subject matter and appreciative of natural beauty, literary associations, and human feelings … When political changes caused Piatt's recall from the consulate of Ireland, he settled at North Bend, O. He continued his literary work, contributing to the CINCINNATI INQUIRER as editor of book reviews and to various periodicals, until a few years before his death, when he became an invalid through injuries received in a carriage accident. He died at Cincinnati, his wife, three sons, and one daughter surviving him."
He edited and compiled The Hesperian Tree: an annual of the Ohio Valley for 1900 (reissued in 1901) and for 1900-03.
Condensed from S. G. B., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XIV.
- Poems of Two Friends (withWilliam Dean Howells). Columbus, 0., 1860.
- The Nests at Washington and Other Poems (withSarah Morgan Bryan Piatt). New York, 1864.
- Poems in Sunshine and Firelight.
Cincinnati, 1866.
- Western Windows, and Other Poems. New
York, 1869.
- Landmarks, and Other Poems. New
York, 1872.
- The Lost Farm, and Other Poems.
Boston, 1877.
- May Festival, 1878. Ode for the Opening of the Cincinnati
Music Hall. [Cincinnati, 1878.]
- Poems of House and Home. Boston,
1879. (Reissued in 1888 as Dream of Church
Windows, Etc.: Poems of House and Home.)
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- Pencilled Fly-Leaves: a Book of Essays in Town and
Country. Cincinnati, 1880.
- Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley.
Cincinnati, 1881.
- Children Out-of-Doors: Verses (withSarah Morgan Bryan Piatt). Cincinnati, 1885.
- At the Holy Well; with a Handful of New Verses.
Cincinnati, 1887.
- A Book of Gold and Other Sonnets. London,
Eng., 1889.
- Lost Hunting Ground, Etc.; Little New-World Idyls and Other
Poems. New York, 1893.
- The Ghost's Entry, and Other Poems. 1895.
- Odes in Ohio, and Other Poems.
Cincinnati, 1897.
- How the Bishop Built His College in the Woods.
Cincinnati, 1906.
PIERCE, GILBERT ASHVILLE: 1839-1901.
Gilbert Ashville Pierce was born in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., on Jan. 11, 1839. His parents were Sylvester and Mary Olive Treat Pierce.
He was educated in the common schools, accompanied his parents to Porter County, Ind., and was employed as a clerk in the general store which his father opened ten miles south of Valparaiso.
He married Anne Marie Bartholomew in 1858 and the couple settled in Valparaiso, where he began to read law. He studied in the old University of Chicago for two years and was admitted to the Indiana bar.
At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the 9th Indiana Volunteers and was elected second lieutenant and was discharged with the rank of colonel at the close of hostilities. He returned to Valparaiso, practiced law and began to contribute to newspapers. In 1869 he served in the state Legislature and was later appointed secretary to Gov. Oliver P. Morton.
In 1872 he joined the staff of the CHICAGO INTEROCEAN, serving later as managing editor. After twelve years he joined the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS staff. His first book had been published in 1872 and most of his literary production occurred during his residence in Chicago.
Pierce had been an active Republican and was appointed governor of Dakota Territory, removing his family there in 1884 and serving until 1886. Upon the division of the Territory he was chosen a senator from North Dakota.
In 1891 he moved to Minneapolis, worked first on the staff of the DAILY PIONEER PRESS and shortly bought a half interest in the MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE. He was appointed Minister to Portugal in January, 1893, but was forced to resign because of ill health the following April. He died in Chicago in 1901.
Information from the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XIV, and the Valparaiso Public Library.
- The Dickens Dictionary. A Key to the Characters and Principal
Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens (withW. A. Wheeler). Boston, 1872.
- Zachariah, the Congressman.
Chicago, 1880.
- One Hundred Wives. (Play)
1880.
- A Dangerous Woman: Experiences of the Hon. John Billings,
M.C. Chicago, 1883.
- Peggy, a Country Heroine.
Chicago, 1883.
PIPER, DAVID ROY: 1887-
David Roy Piper was born in Hartsville, Ind., in February, 1887. No other information, except that he entered the Christian ministry, is available.
Information from the Indiana State Library.
- The Yoke. Minneapolis, 1914.
- Saving Rural Religion. Elgin,
Ill., 1926.
- Community Churches; the Community Church Movement.
Chicago, 1928.
- How Would Jesus Teach? Elgin,
Ill., 1931.
- Youth Explores the Bible.
Boston, 1941.
PLANTZ, MYRA GOODWIN (MRS. SAMUEL): 1856-1914
Myra Goodwin , daughter of the Rev. Thomas A, and Content L. Craft Goodwin, was born in Brookville, Ind., on July 22, 1856. She was educated at Indianapolis High School, Mt. Vernon Seminary in Washington, and under private teachers. She also spent one year abroad. For two years she taught in De Pauw University. She married Samuel Plantz, Methodist minister, author, and president of Lawrence University, on Sept. 16, 1885. She died in 1914.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Corner Work; or, Look Up and Lift Up.
Cincinnati, 1892.
- A Great Appointment. New York,
1895.
- Why Not? Cincinnati, 1900.
- Songs for Quiet Hours. New York,
1915.
POKAGON PLEAS, ELWOOD: 1831-1897.
Elwood Pleas was born in Richmond, Ind., in 1831. He became a resident of Henry County during his early years, and his small history of that county is one of the early interesting works of its kind–produced before the introduction of paid biographical sketches robbed this type of historical writing of its interest and usually of its truth.
Pleas died near Spiceland, Ind., in 1897.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Henry County, Past and Present, 1821-71.
New Castle, Ind., 1871.
PLUMMER, MARY WRIGHT: 1856-1916.
" Mary Wright Plummer (Mar. 8, 1856-Sept. 21, 1916), librarian, teacher, poet, was a native of Richmond, Ind., the daughter of Jonathan Wright and Hannah (Ballard) Plummer, and a descendant of Thomas Plummer born in Prince Georges County, Md., in 1723 … She received her education in local, private and public schools, and in her early days was described as a 'book hungry' girl. After special study at Wellesley in 1881-82, she spent the following four years with her family in Chicago, reading widely, and teaching. On Jan. 5, 1887, she entered the recently opened library school at Columbia College … In the following October she entered as student in the senior course and as a teacher for the incoming junior class. The next two years she served as cataloguer in the St. Louis Public Library under Frederick M. Crunden.
"Resigning in 1890, she spent the summer in Europe, and in the autumn went to the library of Pratt Institute established in Brooklyn in 1887. In 1894 she was made librarian and put in charge of the library school, being given a year's leave of absence, which she spent in Europe. In September 1895 she returned to finish the planning of the new library building, which was opened in 1896 … In 1900 she served as one of the United States delegates to the International Congress of Libraries in Paris. In 1904 she resigned as librarian of the Institute to give her whole time to the school. She left Pratt Institute in 1911 and became head of the new library school opened in connection with the dedication of the central building of the New York Public Library, and there she spent the rest of her life … In June, 1915, [she] was chosen president of the American Library Association. Her fatal illness prevented her presiding at the next meeting in 1916 … She died at the home of her brother in Dixon, III.
Condensed from H. M. L., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XV.
- Hints to Small Libraries. (Anonymous.)
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1894.
- Verses. New York, 1896.
- Contemporary Spain as Shown by Her Novelists.
New York, 1899.
- The Pros and Cons of Training for Librarianship.
[Chicago], 1903.
- Roy and Ray in Mexico. New York,
1907.
- Roy and Ray in Canada. New York,
1908.
- Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid. New
York, 1910.
- Training for Librarianship.
Chicago, 1913.
- The Seven Joys of Reading. New
York, 1915.
POKAGON, SIMON: 1830-1899.
Whether Simon Pokagon , last chief of the Pottawattamie Tribe in the midwest, was born in Indiana or Michigan is a matter of only a few rods, one way or the other. His tribe claimed the territory for many miles along the southern shores of Lake Michigan, without regard to territorial lines imposed by the whites, and the village of his father, Chief Leopold Pokagon, as reported by Daniel McDonald in his History of the Removal of the Pottawattamie lndians from Northern lndiana, "was located on the line between Indiana and Michigan , north of South Bend and about one mile west of the St. Joseph River."
The tribe was forced to sell its lands–including the sites of Chicago, Hammond, Gary, Elkhart, South Bend and many other cities–by treaty, payment being made sixty years later. The Pottawattamies were expected to take lands in the West, but those offered were barren and they resisted. Finally they were taken by force, and their removal west of the Mississippi was one of the major scandals of Indian management.
The Pottawattamies in this locality had been educated and instructed in religion for decades by the Catholic fathers and by the Rev. Isaac McCoy's Carey Mission near Niles, Mich. Some of those less amenable to culture were willing to make the western move had decent lands been offered, but many preferred to keep their Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan lands and to continue their farming. In the late Thirties Gen. John Tipton, then Indian agent, enlisted the northern militia companies, herded together all the Pottawattamies that could be caught, and drove them to the Indian territory, page: 258[View Page 258] a large percent of the victims dying on the way, due to a total lack of preparation or arrangement for their care or comfort.
Pokagon's and a few other small bands then residing in Michigan escaped removal and managed to retain a little swamp and dune land upon which they eked out an existence until time brought about either their oblivion or their assimilation.
Simon Pokagon was born at his father's town in 1830, shortly before the general removal. Chief Leopold, his father, a wise leader and a Christian, died in 1840 or 1841. Leopold's wife, Elizabeth, encouraged their son to gain an education.
At fourteen, when he entered the preparatory department of Notre Dame University, he spoke only his native language. He remained at Notre Dame three years, attended Oberlin College for one year, and studied at Twinsburg, O., for two years more.
By 1860 he was back with his people, recognized as chief of the eastern Pottawattamies and a leader in race betterment. He had a knowledge of Greek and Latin, translated at least a thousand sermons into his language, learned to play the organ in order to accompany church services, wrote verse and prose for publication, and, year in and year out, devoted his efforts to securing the payment for his people's lands, which the government, characteristically in such matters, withheld. Finally, in 1897, when the value of the lands involved had risen to perhaps two or three thousand times the price promised the Pottawattamies, the original $150,000 was paid.
During his later years Pokagon lectured widely and contributed to such currently leading periodicals as HARPER'S, THE ARENA, THE CHAUTAUQUAN, REVIEW OF REVIEWS, and THE FORUM. He appeared at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, representing his people as original owners of Chicago lands (then still not paid for) and was enthusiastically received.
Simon Pokagon died at his home in Lee Township, Allegan County, Mich., on Jan. 27, 1899.
Information from Pokagon–O-Gi-Maw-Kwe Mit-I-Gwa-Ki; McDonald–Removal of the Pottawattamies from Northern Indiana; Indiana Historical Society–The Tipton Papers, etc.
- The Red Man's Greeting. (Printed on birchbark.)
Hartford, Mich., 1893.
- O-Gi-Maw-Kwe Mit-I-Gwa-Ki (Queen of the Woods). Also Brief
Sketch of the Algaic Language. Hartford, Mich.,
1899.
PORTER, GENE STRATTON (MRS. CHARLES DARWIN): 1868-1924.
Gene Stratton , popular novelist of the first quarter of the Twentieth century, whose books are still widely read, was born on a farm in Wabash County, Ind., in 1868. She was the youngest of twelve children of Mark and Mary Shellenbarger Stratton and developed an interest in nature during her early life on the farm.
In 1886 she married Charles Darwin Porter. The couple lived in a cabin adjoining the Limberlost swamp –later made famous by Mrs. Porter in her books–and she continued her studies of wild life. For two years she edited the camera department of RECREATION, for another two years was on the natural history staff of OUTING, and for four years served as a specialist in natural history photography on PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES ANNUAL ALMANAC.
While criticism can be made of her literary skill and her sugary sentiment, no one can deny her thorough-going knowledge of nature and wild life, particularly of birds. She died in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1924.
Information from Who Was Who in America and Twentieth Century Authors.
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The Song of the Cardinal: a Love Story; the
Illustrations Being Camera Studies from Life by the Author
. Indianapolis, 1903.
-
Freckles
. Garden City, N. Y., 1904.
- What I Have Done with Birds.
Indianapolis, 1907.
(Reissued in 1917 as Friends in Feathers.)
- At the Foot of the Rainbow. New
York, 1907.
- Birds of the Bible. New York,
1909.
-
A Girl of the Limberlost
. Garden City, N. Y., 1909.
-
Music of the Wild; with Reproductions of the
Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls
. New York, 1910.
- The Harvester. Garden City, N.
Y., 1911.
- Moths of the Limberlost; with Water Color and Photographic
Illustrations from Life. Garden City, N. Y.,
1912.
- After the Flood. Indianapolis,
1912.
-
Laddie; a True Blue Story
. Garden City, N. Y., 1913.
- Birds of the Limberlost. Garden City, N.
Y., 1914.
- Michael O'Halloran. Garden City,
N. Y., 1915.
- Morning Face. Garden City, N.
Y., 1916.
- Friends in Feathers; Character Studies of Native American
Birds Which, Through Friendly Advances, I Induced to Pose for Me, or
Succeeded in Photographing by Good Fortune, with the Story of My Experiences
in Obtaining Their Pictures. Garden City, N.
Y., 1917. (Reissue of What I Have
Done with Birds.)
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A Daughter of the Land
. Garden City, N. Y., 1918.
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Homing with the Birds
. Garden City, N. Y., 1919.
- Her Father's Daughter. Garden
City, N. Y., 1921.
-
The Fire Bird
. Garden City, N. Y., 1922.
- The White Flag. Garden City, N.
Y., 1923.
- Jesus of the Emerald. Garden City, N.
Y., 1923.
- Wings. Garden City, N. Y., 1923.
- The Keeper of the Bees. Garden City, N.
Y., 1925.
- Tales You Won't Believe. Garden
City, N. Y., 1925.
- Magic Garden. New York, 1927.
- Let Us Highly Resolve. Garden City, N.
Y., 1927.
- Freckles Finds Himself.
POST, MARTIN MERCILLIAN: 1805-1876.
" Martin M. Post was born in Vermont in 1805. He was educated at Middlebury College and Andover Theological Seminary. On Christmas Day, 1829, he arrived at Logansport, Ind., to be the first minister of the gospel to locate there. He served the community faithfully in his profession until he died in 1876.
"Under his guidance the first church in Cass County was erected … President Tuttle of Wabash College assisted Rev. Post in dedicating the second church in December, 1862.
"The Reverend Post had five sons all of whom became Presbyterian ministers. His one daughter married Stanley Coulter, well known educator of Indiana.
"Rev. Post wrote many articles and addresses which were published by the religious and secular press."
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- Retrospect of Thirty Years of Ministerial Work.
Logansport, Ind., 1860.
POST, MARTIN, JR.: ?-
Reared in Logansport, Ind., if not born there, Martin Post was the son of the Rev. Martin Mercillian Post, long-time (1829-1876) Presbyterian minister of that place. He attended Logansport schools and received the A.B. degree from Wabash College in 1858. Entering the Presbyterian ministry, he was occupying a pulpit in Georgia at the time he published his one recorded book reminiscences of his father's life in Logansport.
Information from the Wabash College Archives.
- The Riverton Minister; a Story of the Early Days in
Logansport, Atlanta, Ga., 1897.
POTTER, LEMUEL: 1841-1897.
Lemuel Potter , son of Jesse and Margaret Sams Potter, was born in Edwards County, Ill., on Oct. 28, 1841, and received a limited education in the district schools. His mother died when he was ten years old, and, until he was a young man, he helped his father on the farm. In March of 1863 he married Lydia Jane Humphreys.
He began teaching in 1862 but joined the Baptist Church in the fall of 1863 and following his conversion felt himself drawn to the ministry, which he formally entered in January of 1865. For about twelve years, beginning in 1868, he preached at Grayville, Ill., and had charge of four other churches in Posey County, Ind., traveling to them on horseback or by carriage. He was not paid for his preaching at this time and had to farm to support his family.
In December of 1880 he moved to Posey County, Ind. In 1885 he became pastor of the church at Owensville, Ind., while continuing to serve his former churches.
Information from Labors and Travels of Elder Lemuel Potter …
- Joint Discussion of Foreign Missions Between the Rev. H. Clay
Yates, Pastor of the Owensville Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Elder
Lemuel Potter, Pastor of the Owensville Regular Baptist Church, Held in
Owensville, Indiana, December 14-19, 1885. Nashville,
Tenn., 1886.
- A Two Days' Debate on the Atonement, Between Elder
Lemuel Potter … and Elder Thomas W. Dickey … Held at
the Lilly Meeting House in Wayne County, Ill., on … April 19-20,
1887. Evansville, Ind., 1887.
- Labors and Travels of Elder Lemuel Potter, as an Old School
Baptist Minister, for Thirty Years, with a Brief Sketch of His Earlier Life,
Christian Experience, and Call to the Ministry, Together with His Doctrinal
Sentiments on Some Vital Points. Evansville,
Ind., 1894.
POWELL, JEHU Z.: 1848-1918.
Jehu Z. Powell , son of Jacob and Martha A. Troutman Powell, was born in Cass County, Ind., on Aug. 13, 1848. He attended the Logansport schools and the Presbyterian Academy and was graduated from the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1871 and from the medical department in 1874. He opened an office in Logansport in the same year.
page: 260[View Page 260]Dr. Powell was a member of the city council for four years, a presidential elector in 1896 and postmaster of Logansport from 1892 to 1902. He was chairman of the Cass County Republican Committee from 1892 to 1896.
Dr. Powell was married three times. His first wife, Mary J. Leffel, died in 1877. His second marriage was to Mrs. Louisa F. Ewing (nee Harris) who died in 1899, and Catherine A. Market was his third wife.
Dr. Powell served as secretary of the Cass County Medical Society for 25 years, and in 1903 he was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Madrid, Spain.
He edited the History of Cass County which was published in 1913. It was a distinctive piece of work. Unlike most compilers of county histories, Dr. Powell took a keen and scholarly interest in the subjects of his biographical sketches. He took a particular interest in those citizens who had written for publication and the information he gives is accurate and complete. His work is the source of most of the Cass County entries in this compilation.
He died on Jan. 8, 1918.
Information from the Logansport Public Library.
- History of Cass County. Chicago,
1913. 2 vols.
PRAIGG, DAVID TODD: 1850-1937.
David Todd Praigg was born in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 16, 1850, and came to Franklin, Ind., as a young teacher.
He became city editor of the INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL in 1881, soon after his marriage to Agnes Noble of Greenwood, Ind. He also acted as Indiana representative for metropolitan dailies throughout the country and wrote occasional fiction and verse for periodicals.
In 1908 he bought the Portland ( Ind. ) COMMERCIAL-MAIL and operated it until 1916, when he established the INDIANA INSTRUCTOR, a periodical for teachers, which he published for a year or two.
He died on June 9, 1937.
Information from the Indiana State Library.
- Almetta. Indianapolis, 1894.
- Marriage Made Easy. Lebanon, 0.,
1922.
PRATT, SARAH SMITH (MRS. W. D.)" 1853-1942.
Few facts are available on the life of Mrs. Sarah Smith Pratt . She was born in 1853 and in 1883-86 was a resident of Logansport, Ind., where she was editing a weekly newspaper called the SUNDAY CRITIC which belonged to her husband, W. D. Pratt, and to which she contributed a column, "Flotsam and Jetsam."
She was founder and for six years editor of ON MERIDIAN, a publication of the Indianapolis Y.W.C.A. In 1917 she was contributing to the LIVING CHURCH, the CHURCHMAN and to other periodicals.
Information from the Barry Ms., quoting Indianapolis newspapers.
- Blue Cashmere Gown: a Story of a Missionary Box.
Milwaukee, 1914.
- The Old Crop in Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1928.
- Episcopal Bishops in Indiana; a Churchwoman's
Retrospect. Indianapolis, 1934.
- Guess This Word. Indianapolis,
1938.
PRESTON, ELLEN LASSELLE (MRS. ROBERT EMMETT): 1839-1909.
" Mrs. Ellen Lasselle Preston , daughter of Hyacinth and Nancy (Polk) Lasselle, was born in Logansport in 1839 and moved with her parents to Washington, D. C., in 1849. In 1863 she married Robert Emmett Preston; they had five children. She died May 1, 1909."
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- Magdalene the Enchantress.
PRICE, WILLIAM HENRY: 1855-?
William Henry Price , clergyman, was born in Kokomo, Ind., on July 10, 1855. His parents were John and Anna D. Wentz Price.
Price graduated from Capital University (O.) and the German Lutheran Theological Seminary at Columbus, O., in 1883. On Sept. 25, 1884, he married Charlotte C. Schmalz at Patricksburg, Ind.
He served Evangelical Lutheran churches as pastor and synod officer in Indiana and Ohio .
Information from Who's Who in America.
page: 261[View Page 261]- Life and Labor of Rev. Christian Frederick Schwartz.
Columbus, 0., n.d.
PROSSER, CHARLES ALLEN: 1871-
Charles Allen Prosser , son of Reese William and Sarah Emma Prosser, was born at New Albany, Ind., on Sept. 20, 1871, and graduated from De Pauw University in 1897, receiving the A.M. degree in 1906 and the Ph.D. in 1919. In 1898 he graduated from the law school of the University of Louisville. In 1915 he received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University and he also received honorary degrees from various institutions. He married Zerelda A. Huckeby on Dec. 30, 1896.
After teaching in the New Albany public schools, he served as superintendent from 1900 to 1908. In 1909-10 he was superintendent of the Children's Aid Society in New York , from 1910 to 1912 assistant commissioner of education for Massachusetts, and after 1915 director of William Hood Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. He lectured at various colleges and universities.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The New Harmony Movement (withGeorge B. Lockwood). 1905.
- Training of the Factory Worker Through Industrial Education:
Address Delivered before 5th Annual Convention of National Society for
Promotion of Industrial Education. Cincinnati, November, 1911.
New York, 1912.
- Why Federal Aid for Vocational Education?
New York, 1912.
- Teacher and Old Age (withW. I. Hamilton). Boston, 1913.
- Study of the Boston Mechanic Arts High School, being a Report
to the Boston School Committee. New York, 1915.
- Vocational Retraining; a National Conservation.
New York, 1918.
- Vocational Education in a Democracy (withC. R. Allen). New York, 1925.
- Have We Kept the Faith? America at the Cross-Roads in
Education (withC. R. Allen). New York, 1929.
- The Evening Industrial School. 1929.
- Adult Education; the Evening Industrial School (withM. R. Bass). New York, 1930.
- Information Book on Selecting an Occupation; Helpful
Information, Suggestions, and Directions for Finding the Demands and
Opportunities of Occupations; for Checking Individual Assets against Such
Demands; and for Selecting a Suitable Occupation (withR. H. Palmer). Bloomington, Ill., 1936.
- Information Book on Getting a Job (withW. A. Anderson). Bloomington, Ill., 1936.
- Information Book on Keeping Physically Fit (withW. A. Anderson). Bloomington, Ill., 1936.
- Information Book on a Health Program; Information,
Suggestions, Directions, and Practice in Doing the Things that Promote Good
Health, Safeguard Against Disease, and Lengthen Life, through All Such
Things as: Fighting Disease Germs; Fresh Pure Air, Etc. (withW. A. Anderson). Bloomington, Ill., 1936.
- Information Book on Taking a Look at Yourself; Information
Regarding the Principal Personal Qualities that Make for Success,
Usefulness, and Happiness in Life; Regarding the Ways by which
One's Personality Can be Checked and Improved.
Bloomington, Ill., 1937.
- Secondary Education and Life. Cambridge,
Mass., 1939.
