coln Park, Chicago, 111. (1879), and of Alexander
Hamilton, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1880) ; Kauffmann
memorial, Washington, D.C. ; bust of Edward
Everett Hale, Union League club, Chicago, 111. ;
bust of Whittier in Boston Public library (1896);
colossal equestrian statue of Grant for Union
League club, Brooklyn, N.Y. ; marble Madonna;
an heroic figure of Christ ; heroic statue of John
Reese (1897) ; heroic equestrian statue of Fight
ing Joe Hooker (1897) ; and a second ideal head
of Christ (1901).
PARVIN, Theodore Sutton, educationist, was
born in Cedarville, N.J., Jan. 15. 1817; son of
Josiah and Lydia (Harris) Parvin. Josiah Parvin
served as an aide to General Odgen in the war of
1812, and his father was a Revolutionary soldier.
Theodore Parvin removed to Cincinnati. Ohio,
with his parents in 1829, was graduated at Wood
ward college in 1836, and at the Cincinnati Law
school in 1837. He began practice in Burlington,
Iowa, in 1838, and was private secretary to Gov.
Robert Lucas and territorial librarian, purchas
ing the first books that formed the nucleus of the
Iowa state library with an appropriation of $5,000
made by congress. He was district attorney
for the middle district of Iowa, 1839-41. He
removed to Muscatine in 1840 ; was secretary of
the legislative council, 1840-41 ; probate judge
PASCHAL
PASCO
1841-47. and clerk of the U.S. district court. 1840-
50. He was county judge. 1848-50 ; register of
the state laud office. 1857-59 : librarian and cur
ator of the Iowa State university, 1858-70 ;
professor of natural history, 1800-70, and pro
fessor of political economy there. 1807-70. In
1844 he founded the Iowa Masonic library, and
was its first librarian, the building being erected
in 1884. He was secretary of the Iowa State
Historical society, 1804-00 ; organizer of the
Iowa State Teachers association in 1854, and
its president in 1807 ; president of the school
board of Muscatine in 1855, and later of the
school board of Iowa City. He was also a founder
of the state library society in 1890, and its pre
sident, 1892-94, and a member of the Pioneer
Law Makers association. He was married, May
17, 1843, to Agnes, daughter of George and
Nancy (Barton) McCully of Muscatine. Iowa. He
received the honorary degree of A.M. from Miami
university in 1861, and that of LL.D. from the
Iowa State university in 1894. He edited the
Historical Annals of Iowa, the Annals of Iowa
Masonry, the Western Freemason (1859-00) : the
Evergreen (1871-72), and the Transactions of tlie
Kniyhts Templar (1871-80). He is the author of :
The Xeii spaper Press of Iowa, ISJG-4 J : History of
Iowa (1877); History of Templar ij in the United
States (1877); History of the Early Schools of
Iowa. IS.IO-5 J (1889).
PASCHAL, George Washington, jurist, was
born in Skull Shoals. Greene county, Ga., Nov.
23. 1812, probably of Hebrew origin. He was
admitted to the bar in 1832, and practised in
Wilkes county, Ga., 1832-30. He was a lieutenant
in the volunteer service, engaged in the removal
of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Indian
Territory, and served as aide-de-camp to General
John E. Wool, 1834-35. He married Sarah,
daughter of John Ridge, the Cherokee chief. She
was a full-blooded Indian, descended from a long
line of chiefs, was well educated, a famous beauty
and a fine conversationalist. She was an aunt of
Elias C. Boudinot (q.v.). They removed to Van
Buren, Ark., in 1830-37, where he engaged in the
practice of law and was joined by his brother, who
had assumed the name of Brewer. They had an
extensive practice as Paschal & Brewer. He was
justice of the supreme court of Arkansas, 1842-44 ;
was defeated for representative in congress, and
in 1848 removed with his brother to Texas. It
was largely through his influence that Sam Hous
ton was elected governor of Texas in 1859. In
1801 he opposed the doctrine of secession and
published his opinions in the Southern. Intelli
gencer, a paper which lie had founded at Austin
in 1856. He removed to Washington, D.C., in
1869 where he was prominent in founding the
law department of Georgetown university and
was professor of jurisprudence at that institution
for many years. The honorary degree of LL.D.
was conferred on him by Georgetown university
in 1875. He is the author of : Annotated Digest of
the Laws of Texas (1866. new ed. 1873): Anno
tated Constitution of the United States (1868, new
ed., 1876); Decisions of the Supreme Court of
Texas (5 vols., 1869-71): Digest of Decisions of the
Supreme Court of Texas (1871-73) ; a sketch of
the last years of Sam Houston in Harper s Mag
azine in 1866, and many contributions to maga
zines. He died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 16, 1878.
PASCO, Samuel, senator, was born in London,
England, June 28, 1834 ; son of John and Amelia
(Nash) Pasco, and grandson of Samuel Pasco of
Launceston and of Edward Nash of London.
His father brought him to Prince Edward Island
in 1842, and thence in 1844 to Charlestown. Ma>s.
He was graduated at the Charlestown high school
in 1854; at Harvard college, A.B., 1858, and was
principal of the Waukeenah academy, Jefferson
county, Fla., 1859-01. He enlisted in the Con
federate service, Aug. 10, 1801, as a private in the
3d Florida volunteers, which regiment in 1862
formed a part of Bragg s army in the Kentucky
campaign, and was later in Breckin ridge s divi
sion in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. At
the battle of Missionary Ridge he was left on the
field severely wounded and remained a prisoner
until a few weeks before the war closed when he
returned to Florida. He was again principal of
the Waukeenah academy, 1865-66 ; clerk of the
circuit court, Monticello, 18(56-68, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1868, forming a partnership
witli Col. William S. Dilworth, his preceptor,
who died in 1869, leaving a large practice. He
was married, Oct. 28, 1869, to Jessie, daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Scott) Denham. He was
elected a mem
ber of the Dem
ocratic state
committee in
1872, was its
chairman. 1876-
88, and a Demo
cratic presiden
tial elector in
1880. He rep
resented his state on the Democratic national
committee. 1880-1900. and in the Democratic state
convention of 1884 received for a time a plurality
of votes as the nominee for governor, but with
drew his name to prevent a deadlock, and upon
his motion Edward A. Perry, his leading com
petitor, obtained the nomination. He was un
animously chosen president of the state constitu
tional convention in 1885, and was a representa
tive in the state legislature, 1886-87, being speaker
of the house. He was elected U.S. senator in April,
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PATERSON
1887, and took his seat, Dec. 5, 1887, Ins term ex
piring March 3, 1893, when he was appointed by
Governor Henry L. Mitchell to fill the office ad
interim. When the legislature met in April,
lie was reuominated by acclamation and un
animously re-elected for the term expiring March
3, 1899. Being again appointed to fill the office
ad interim by Governor William D. Bloxham, he
served until the election of James Piper Taliaferro
by tiie legislature. April 19. 1899. In the 53rd
congress he was chairman of the committee on
claims. On June 10, 1899, he was appointed a
member <>f the Isthmian. Canal commission.
PASKO, Wesley Washington, typographist,
was born in Waterloo, X.Y.. Jan. 4. 1840 : son of
Jeremiah and Martha (Van Osdol) Probasco and
a descendant of colonial families of New York.
He did not adopt the surname of Pasko until
after 1872. He was graduated at the public school
of Waterloo, was employed in a cotton and
woolen factory until 1853. when he entered a
printing office in Utica, X.Y., and in 1859 went
to the office of the Xe\v York Tribune, removing
to Charleston, S.C.. in I860. He was arrested as
an abolitionist by the vigilance committee, and
on failure to prove the charge lie was ordered to
leave the city. He was married. Oct. 21, 1860, to
Elizabeth Theresa Jarret. He published a paper
in Trumansburg, X.Y., 1860-61, and returned to
the Tribune in 1861. He enlisted in the 16th
N.Y. Heavy Artillery, and served in the army
under Gen. B. F. Butler. He returned to Xe\v
York at the close of the war and served on the
editorial staff of newspapers both in Albany and
Troy. He was an editor in the department of
public instruction, assisted in codifying the X.Y.
school laws in 1867, and on his return to Xew
York city in 1868, edited the Albion and subse
quently a newspaper in Lancaster, X.H., again
returning to Xew York to engage in the printing
business. He was literary advisor for a Cin
cinnati publishing house, 1879-83, and in 1883
established the Xew York Typothetae, being
made its secretary and librarian in 1885. He
invented the Pasko Press in 1886. capable of
producing 60,000 impressions of small financial
and stock exchange bulletins in one hour. He is
the editor of : Men who Advertise (1868) ; Old Xew
York (1870) ; author of : Biographical History of
Indiana (1881); History of Butler County. Ohio,
(1883) ; A Dictionary of Printing and Book Mak
ing and History of Printing in Xew York from
its Beginning to the Present Time. He died in
Xew York city, Dec. 15. 1897.
PATERSON, John, patriot, was born in Farm-
ington. Conn., in 1774; son of Maj. John and
Ruth (Bird) Paterson. His paternal grandfather,
a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, emigrated to
America during the latter part of the seventeenth
century. His father, Maj. John Paterson, an
officer in the British army, served in the
French and Indian wars, was with Wolfe at
Quebec and died at Havana, Cuba, Sept. 5, 1762.
Gen. John Paterson was graduated from Yale in
1762, taught school, and studied and practised
law. He was justice of the peace of Farmington
and was married, June 2, 1766, to Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Warren) Lee,
In 1774 he removed to Lenox. Berkshire county,
Mass., and the same year was elected clerk of the
propriety of Lenox, selectman and assessor. He
was a member of the Berkshire convention held
at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1774 and was a repre
sentative in the 1st and 2d provincial congresses
at Salem and Cambridge respectively. He or
ganized the Stockbridge Indians for military ser
vice and raised a regiment known as the 15th
foot in the Continental service, of which he be
came colonel. It marched to Boston the third
day after the battle of Lexington and threw up
the first redoubt along the lines around Boston,
which placed the city in a state of siege by
blockading the highways. During the battle of
Bunker Hill he held Fort Xo. 3, Prospect Hill,
Charlestown Heights, and engaged in the de
fence of Lechmere s Point, Xov. 9, 1775, for
which lie was complimented by Washington.
He joined Arnold in Canada and took part in the
battle of the Cedars near Montreal in June, 1776,
where seventy-nine of his men were taken
prisoners. He was engaged in the battles of
Trenton and Princeton, X.J. ; promoted brigadier-
general, Feb. 21, 1777 ; sent toTiconderoga, being
present at the evacuation, July 5, 1777 ; fought at
the battle of Hubbardton, July 7-11, and was with
General Gates at Saratoga in October, 1777. He
was with Washington at Valley Forge, 1777-78,
and participated in the battle at Monmouth, June
28, 1778. He was a member of the board that
tried Major Andre ; was in command at West
Point. 1780-81. and was commissioned major-
general, Sept. 30, 1783, being with the exception
of Lafayette the youngest of that rank in the
Continental army. In December, 1783, he retired
from the army and resumed his law practice in
Lenox. Upon the outbreak of Shays s rebellion
in 1785, he was appointed major-general of the
state militia and commanded the Berkshire
militia. For his services in this rebellion he was
tendered the thanks of the legislature. He was
one of the organizers of the Society of the Cin
cinnati, his name standing second on the list
after General Washington. He removed to Tioga
county, X.Y.. in 1791 ; was a member of the state
assembly, 1792, 1793, 1798 and 1801 ; was chief
justice of Tioga and Broome counties, 1798-1808,
and was a representative from Xew York in the
8th congress, 1803-05. He received his master s
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PATRICK
degree from Yale in 1779. His house was burned
soon after his death, destroying all his papers,
memoranda and portraits. A tablet to his
memory was erected in Trinity church, Lenox,
Mass., in 1887, and a granite monument was
erected in the town by his great-grandson,
Thomas Egleston (q.v.) in 1892, and Dr. Egleston
.also wrote his memoir in 1899. Gen. John Pat
erson died suddenly at Whitney s Point, Lisle,
N.Y.. July 19, 1808.
PATERSON, William, associate justice, was
born in the north of Ireland in 1745 ; eldest son
of Richard Paterson, who with his wife and son
came to Philadelphia in 1747 ; settled first in
Trenton, in Princeton in 1750, and in 1779 in Rar-
itan, where he died in 1781. William Paterson
prepared for college at the grammar school and
was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B.,
1763, A.M., 1766. He read law with Richard
Stockton, afterward the signer, and was admitted
to the bar in 1769. He was a deputy to the New
Jersey Provincial congress that met May 11, 1775,
and was secretary of that body. He was an officer
of the Somerset battalion of minute men in 1776,
and in June of that year was appointed, with
John Witherspoon, William Livingston and John
Meheltn, the committee to arrest and depose the
ernor. He
was the
first attor
ney-gener
al of New
Jersey, 17-
76 : a mem
ber of the
legislative
council. 17-
76 ; a delegate to the Continental congress, 1780-
81, and to the constitutional convention of 1787.
He was elected U.S. senator on the organiza
tion of the first state legislature in 1789, and
drew the long term. He served in the senate
as one of the tellers to count the electoral
vote, was chairman of the committee on election
certificates and a member of the judiciary com
mittee. He resigned his seat in the senate in
1790, having been elected by the legislature gov
ernor of New Jersey, as successor to Governor
Livingston, the first governor of the state. His
term of service expired, Jan. 1, 1793, and he was
appointed by President Washington associate
justice of the United States supreme court, talc
ing his place on the bench in 1793 and serving
up to the time of his death. He presided over
several of the Whiskey Insurrection trials, and
over the trial of Ogden and Smith for aiding
Miranda in his South American expedition. He
was married in 1779 to Cornelia Bell of Perth Am-
1785-1788.
E/^T HOUSE, Alv
boy, N.J., who died, Nov. 15. 1785, leaving two
children, William Bell and Cornelia, and he mar
ried secondly in 1785, Euphemia, daughter of Col.
Anthony White of New Brunswick, N.J. She
died Jan. 29, 1822, childless. He declined the
appointment of secretary of state in President
Washington s cabinet, as successor to Thomas
Jefferson, and also that of attorney -general. He
received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the
University of the State of New York in 1792,
from Dartmouth and the College of New Jersey
in 1805, and from Harvard in 180(5. He was a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and the author of Latrs of New Jersey
(1798-99). On his way to the springs in Saratoga
county, N.Y., for the benefit of his health, he
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Stephen
Van Rensselaer, in Albany, N.Y.. Sept. 9, 1806.
PATRICK, George Thomas White, educator,
was born in North Boscawen, N.H., Aug. 19,
1857 : son of John and Harriet (White) Patrick ;
grandson of William and Mary (Gerrish) Patrick,
and of Thomas and Mary (May) White, and a
descendant of Matthew Patrick, of Scotch-Irish
stock, who settled in Western (Warren), Mass.,
about 1731. and of William White, who came
from Norfolk county, England, to Massachusetts
in 1610. lie was graduated from the State Uni
versity of Iowa, A.B., 1878, and from Yale uni
versity, B.D., 1885, took a post-graduate course in
philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins,
1885-87, and received from there the degree of
Ph.D. in 1888, having been twice appointed to a
fellowship in philosophy in that institution. In
1887 he became professor of philosophy in the
State University of Iowa ; in 1902 was the editor
of the university s Studies in Psychology, and be
came the head of its department of philosophy
and psychology. He was married. Nov. 28, 1889,
to Maud, daughter of William and Jeannette
(Buck) Lyall. He was a student at Leipzig uni
versity, 1894. He is the author of: The Frag
ments of tJte Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus (1889),
and many contributions to scientific periodicals,
notably the Popular Science Monthly.
PATRICK, Marsena Rudolph, soldier, was
born in Houndsfield, N.Y., March 15, 1811. He
was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in
1835, and was promoted brevet 3d lieutenant, 2d
infantry, U.S.A., July 1, 1835. He was promoted
2d lieutenant, Oct. 31, 183(i ; took part in the
Florida war, 1837-42 ; was promoted 1st lieutenant.
March 1, 1839; engaged in the war witli Mexico,
1846-48; served as chief of commissariat of Gen
eral Wool s column in northern Mexico, 184617,
and was promoted captain in the 22d infantry,
Aug. 22. 1847. He was stationed at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, 1847-48, and was brevetted major. May
30, 1848, for meritorious conduct while serving in
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PATTEN
the enemy s country. He was assistant in the
commissary-general s office, Washington, D.C.,
1848-49, and resigned from the arm} , June 30,
1850. He engaged in farming at Sacket Harbor,
N.Y., 1850-59; was president of the Sacket Har
bor and Ellisburg railroad, 1853-54; general
superintendent of the New York State Agricul
tural society, 1850-61, and president of the New
York State Agricultural college, Ovid. N.Y.,
1859-61. He was brigadier-general of staff and
inspector-general of New York state volunteers,
1861 ; a member of the staff of General McClel-
lan, 1863 ; was promoted brigadier-general of U.
S. volunteers, March 17, 1863, and commanded a
brigade in the defence of Washington, D.C.,
March-May, 1863. He was military commandant
of Fredericksburg ; took part in McDowell s pur
suit of Jackson, May 7-Aug. 9, 1863 ; in the
Northern Virginia campaign in command of
the 3d brigade, 1st division, 3d army corps,
Aug. -Sept., 1863, and was present at the second
battle of Bull Run and in the 1st army corps in
the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
He was provost-marshal-general of the Army of
the Potomac, 1863-65, and of the armies opera
ting against Richmond, 1864-65. He was bre-
vetted major-general. U.S. volunteers. March 13,
1865. for " faithful and meritorious services dur
ing the rebellion," and was provost-marshal-gen
eral of the department of Virginia, commanding
the district of Henrico, Va., May 25-June 9, 1865.
He resigned, June 13, 1865. and resided at Geneva,
N.Y. He was president of the New York State
Agricultural society, 1867-68 ; commissioner for
New York state, 1868-69 and 1879-80 ; removed
to Dayton, Ohio, and was governor of the cen
tral branch of the National Home for disabled
volunteer soldiers in Ohio, 1880-88. He died in
Dayton. Ohio. July 37. 1888.
PATRICK, Mary Mills, educator, was born in
Canterbury. N.ll.,- March 10, 1850; daughter of
John and Harriet (White) Patrick ; granddaugh
ter of William and Mary (Gerrish) Patrick, and
John and Mary (May) White, and great-grand
daughter of John Patrick, her first ancestor in
America, who came from the north of Ireland
and settled in Warren, Mass. She attended
Franklin and Boscaweii academies, New Hamp
shire : Lyons college, Iowa ; studied privately at
Heidelberg and in the universities of Zurich,
1893-94, Leipzig, 1894, Berlin, 1895, and Berne,
1896-97. She received the honorary degree of
A.M. from the University of Iowa, 1890, and the
degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berne,
1897. She made special language study in
ancient and modern Armenian, ancient and mod
ern Greek, French, German and Turkish, and
studied in several libraries in Europe, making
research on the subject of Pyrrhonism. She was
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elected president of the American College for
Women, in Constantinople, Turkey, 1890, and
member of the psychological congresses, Munich,
1896, Paris, 1900, and Philosophical congress,
Paris, 1900. She is the author of : Armenian Trans
lation of Text Book on Physiology (1876); Sextus
EinpiriciiK and Greek Scepticism, (1899). and popu
lar articles, including : Education of Women in
Turkey (Forum, June, 1896); Women s Struggle
for Liberty in Germany (Popular Science MontJdy,
January, 1900) ; Ethics of the Koran (International
Journal of Etltics, April, 1901.)
PATTEE, Fred Lewis, educator, was born in
Bristol. N.H., March 33, 1863 ; son of Lewis and
Mary P. (Ingalls) Pattee ; grandson of Moses
Pattee, and a descendant of Peter Pattee, who
settled in Haverhill, Mass., about 1640. He was
graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1891.
He was principal of Coe s Northwood academy,
New Hampshire, 1890-94, and in 1894 became
professor of English language and literature at
the Pennsylvania State college. He was married,
March 9, 1889, to Anna L., daughter of Charles L.
and Louisa P. (Simons) Plumer of Bristol, N.H.
He is the author of : The Wine of May and other
Lyrics (1893); Pasquaney, a Study (1894); .4 His
tory of American Literature (1896); Reading
Courses in American Literature (1897) ; Tlte Foun
dations of English Literature (1900); Mary Gar-
vin : The Story of a New Hampshire Summer
(1903); The Poems of Philip Freneau (3 vols.,
1902). He also edited Macbeth and contributed
frequently to periodicals.
PATTEE, William Sullivan, jurist, was born in
Jackson, Maine, Sept. 19, 1846 ; son of Daniel and
Mary Ann (Bixby) Pattee ; grandson of Daniel
and Ann (Putnam) Pattee and of Willard and Ab-
bie (Ferguson) Bixby of Monroe. Maine. He was
graduated from Bowdoin, A.B., 1871 ; A.M. 1874;
was married Nov. 30, 1871, to Julia E., daughter of
Jacob and Hannah Tuttle of Plymouth, Maine ;
taught school and studied law, 1871-78 ; was pro
fessor of natural science at Lake Forest university,
111. , 1873-73 ; was admitted to the bar June 28, 1878,
at Faribault, Minn., and practiced in Northfield,
Minn., for ten years. He was a Republican
representative in the Minnesota legislature in
1885, and became dean of the college and pro
fessor of the law of contracts and equity
jurisprudence at the University of Minnesota, in
1888. Iowa college conferred upon him the
honorary degree of LL.D. in 1891. He is the
author of : Pattee s Illustrative Cases in Con
tracts, in Realty, in Equity, in Personalty, and
author of the Elements of Contracts, and the
Elements of Equity.
PATTEN, John, delegate, was born in Kent
county, Del., in 1746. He was commissioned
first lieutenant in the Delaware regiment, Jan.
PATTEN
PATTERSON
15, 1776, and major in the Delaware line or
" Blue Hen s Chickens," Dec. 14, 1779. He fought
in almost every battle from Long Island to
Camden, where he was taken prisoner, Aug. 16,
1780, and was on parole until the close of the
war. He was a delegate to the Continental
congress from Delaware, 1785-86, and was a
representative in the 3d congress, 1793-94, when
his seat was successfully contested by Henry
Latimer, who served tire remainder of the term.
He was re-elected to the 4th congress, serving
1795-97, and died at Dover, Del., June 17, 1801.
PATTEN, Simon Nelson, political economist,
was born at Sandwich, III., May 1, 1852; son of
William and Elizabeth (Pratt) Patten ; grandson of
James and Mary (Robertson) Patten and of Simon
and Deborah (Nelson) Pratt, and a descendant of
William Pratt of Saybrook, Conn. (1632), and
of William Patten, New York, 1794. He was
prepared for college at Jennings seminary,
Aurora, 111. ; attended Northwestern university,
Evanston, 111., 1874-76; and was graduated at
the University of Halle, Germany, A.M. and
Ph.D., 1878. He was principal of public schools
in Illinois and Iowa, 1882-88, and in 1883 became
professor of political economy in the Wharton
School of Finance and Economy, University of
Pennsylvania. He contributed to the Annals of
the American Academy of Political anil Social
Science, the Political Science Quarterly, the
Journal of Economics, Conrad s Jahrbueher, and
other periodicals, and is the author of : The
Stability of Prices (1888); The Consumption of
Wealth, (1889); Tlie Economic Basis of Protection
(1890): Principles of Rational Taxation (1890);
The Educational Value of Political Economy