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of Lehigh County; educated in the com- mon schools; received a teacher's pro- visional certificate at the age of fifteen years; entered the Keystone State Normal School, at Kutztown, from which he was- graduated in 1895; after teaching for a year, he entered Ursinus College, from which he was graduated in 1900; took special honors in the Department of Phil- osophy, at Ursinus; had charge of the Steinsville, Lehigh county, Secondary School for a year, from whence he went to Lancaster County as the principal of the Denver Borough Schools, and con- tinued to serve for two years. In 1903 was elected principal of the Hokendauqua, Lehigh County, schools. Address, Hoken- dauqua, Pa.
OUTERBRIDGE. Albert Albouy:
Lawyer; born in Bermuda April 20. 1841; he was educated primarily in St. Mark's School, Philadelphia, and after- ward entered the University of Pennsylva- nia, graduating from the Law Department in 1$62, being admitted to the bar in the same year. In 1874 he became editor in chief of Weekly Notes of Cases. Was Re- porter of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania from 1SS1 to 1885, and edited sev- eral volumes of Reports. For a number of years has been Trust Officer of the Land Title and Trust Company of Philadelphia. Address, S. W. corner Broad and Chest - nut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
OVER. James Watson:
Jurist; born in Clarion County, Pat .. April 11. 1843; educated in the public schools and Kittanning Academy, and ch- 'tered as law student under C. Heydrick. of Franklin. Pa., in 1861. He gave up luis studies to serve in the Civil War, being a member of the Fifteenth Regimeni. Pennsylvania Infantry. and Serving throughout the war. In 1965 he resumed his studies at Franklin, and in 1967 at Pittsburg, being admitted to the Alle- gheny County bar in IMES. After a pe- riod of successful private practice he was appointed Associate Judge in the Allegheny County Orphans' Court in Iss1. and elected to this position in the same year. He was re-elected in 1991. and again in 1901, his present term to coll- tinue till 1910. Address. Pittsburg. Pa.
OVERHOLT, Karl Frick:
Lawyer; born on April 19. 197. at Wooster, Ohio; son of John S. R. and Maria O. (Frick) Overholt; was giadu-
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ated from Wooster High School in June, 1893, and from Wooster University in June, 1597; received the degrees of LL. B. from Harvard in June, 1900, and LL. B. from the University of Pennsylvania in June. 1901. Admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio. December, 1900, and to the courts in Philadelphia, Supreme Court, etc., September, 1901, and to the Alle- gheny County courts, Dec. 21, 1901. Meni- ber and President of the Pittsburg Law Academy, an association among young lawyers for formal discussions. Ad- dress, Pittsburg, Pa.
OVENSHINE, Samuel:
Brigadier General United States Army; . born in Pennsylvania; appointed from Maryland; Second Lieutenant Fifth In- fantry, Aug. 5, 1861; First Lieutenant. Sept. 25, 1861; Regimental Adjutant, Jan. 1. 1863. to March 30, 1864; Captain, March 30. 1864; Major Twenty-third Infantry, July 10. 1885; Lieutenant Colonel Fifteenth Infantry, Jan. 31. 1891; Colonel Twenty- third Infantry, April 26, 1895; Brigadier General of Volunteers. Aug. 13, 189S; honorably discharged April, 1899; Briga- dier General of Volunteers, April 17, 1899; honorably discharged from Volun- teers, Oct. 20, 1899; Brigadier General of United States Army, Oct. 19, 1899; re- tired Oct. 20, 1899. Address, 1616 Twenty- first St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
OVERTON, E .:
Lawyer; born in Towanda, Pa., Feb. 4, 1536. He was educated in Princeton Col- lege. graduating in 1856: then studied law under Judge Mercur, and was admitted to the bradford County bar in 1858. In 1861 he was appointed District Attorney to fill a vacancy, and in 1867 was made referee in bankruptcy, which position he held for ten years without one of his decisions be- ing reversed by the Supreme Court. He was elected to Congress in 1876, and served four years in the National House. During the Civil War he served in the Army as Major of the Fiftieth Pennsylva- nia, a wound obliging him to retire in September, 1862. Address, Towanda, Pa.
OVIATT. Fitzalan C .:
Insurance journalist; born in Salem. N. Y .. in 1856. and was educated in the common schools and academies of his native county. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1585. The follow- ing year he removed to Delevan. III .. where he practiced his profession for
several years, being a part of the tund City Attorney. In 1888 he removed !. Chicago and took a position on the In- vestigator. Two years later he accepted an offer to enter the service of the Argus. of which he became the editor in 1992. On Jan. 1, 1$96, he resigned that posi- tion and removed to New York City fo take editorial charge of the Chronicle. At the close of 1896 he resigned from the Chronicle, and purchased the Phil: - delphia Intelligencer, of which he and Frank L. Miner were for several years editors and publishers. On Jan. 1, 1903. Mr. Oviatt purchased the interest of his partner, and since then has been sole editor and manger. Address, 421 Chest - nut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
OWEN, Charles Hunter:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Lieutenant First Connec- ticut Heavy Artillery, April 16, 1864; ro- signed and honorably discharged for dis- ability. Dec. 15, 1864; brevetted Captain United States Volunteers, March 13. 1565. "for gallant conduct at the battle of Spottsylvania." Elected Oct. 21, 1885. . 1d- dress, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion. 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
OWENS, Charles Truesdale:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in Ohio; appointed from Pennsylvania; Naval Cadet, Sept. 6, 1893; Ensign, July 1. 1899; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 1. 1902: Lieutenant, Jan. 1, 1904; command- ing Hist, June, 1897, to January, 1901: Marietta since January, 1901. Address, care of Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
OXTOBY, Rev. William Henry:
Presbyterian clergyman; born at North East, Erie County. Pa., Jan. 1, 1871. His father, Rev. John T. Oxtoby, D. D., is a Presbyterian minister; his mother a daughter of the late James Veech, LL. D., of Pittsburg; educated by private tutors and in the public schools of Saginaw. Mich., and at the University of Michigan; was graduated at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, in 1895; was awarded the Seminary Fellowship, and studied at the Universities of Jena and Berlin, Ger- many. Married Ida J. Corning of Sagl- naw, Mich., 1998. Pastor of First Priy- byterian Church, Muncie. Ind .. 1897-1903; pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyteri:tu Church, Philadelphia, since 1903. dress, Philadelphia, Pa.
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PACHALI. Theodore, M. D .:
Born in Lissa, Province of Posen, Prus- sia, April 10, 1846; educated in the schools of his native place; was graduated in medicine from the University of Kiel. Prussia in 1865; served as Surgeon in the North German Navy of Prussia for three years; then as Surgeon for one year on the North German Lloyd Steamship line; came to the United States and located in the city of Reading. Pa., in 1869, where he has since practiced medicine. Member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Reading, and was President of the same. Has devoted considerable attention to scientific research and invented different mechanical devices. Address, Reading, Pa.
PACKARD. C. S. W .:
President insurance company; born in Philadelphia, June 21, 1860; studied at Rugby Academy and in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1880. From 1883 to 1857 he was Secretary and Treas- urer of the Philadelphia Warehouse Com- pany; for the five succeeding years Treas- urer of the Washington Manufacturing Company and in 1892 was appointed audi- tor of the Pennsylvania Company for In- surances on Lives and Granting Annuities. The following year he was made Treasu- rer of this company, and since 1899 has been its President. Mr. Packard is a member of the Delta Psi fraternity and a Director and the Treasurer of the Uni- versity Athletic Association. Address, Twenty-first St. and De Lancey Place, Philadelphia, Pa.
PACKARD, John Hooker:
Physician; born in Philadelphia August 15, 1832; was graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1550, receiving the de- grees of A. M. and M. D. in 1853. Mar- ried, June 3, 1858, Elisabeth Wood. De- monstrator of anatomy, University of Pennsylvania. 1862-1563; Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, 1861-1865; surgeon to Episcopal Hospital, 1863;
1SS4; Philadelphia Hospital. 1884-1896; Women's Hospital, 1876-1877. Author of "Minor Surgery," "Lectures on Inflam- mation." "Operative Surgery." Trans- lator of "Malgaigne on Fractures"; edi- tor of Medical Directory of Philadelphia. 1868-1871, etc .; has retired from prac- tice. Address, 517 Chestnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
PACKARD, John Rooker, Jr .:
Vice President and Secretary of the American Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia; born in Philadelphia May 9, 1865. He received his education in the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. His business career was begun as an errand boy and clerk in the insurance agency of Thomas C. Foster in Philadelphia, in 1884. and later in the same year he en- tered the employ of the American Fire as a general clerk. He was appointed City Inspector in 1886, and did special work for the company in Delaware. In 1895 he was appointed Metropolitan Dis- trict Surveyor, with headquarters in New York, for the London Assurance Corpora- tion, and was appointed manager for Philadelphia and the suburban district of the Sun Insurance Office and London As- surance in 1896. He was Assistant Sec- retary of the Philadelphia Fire Under- writers' Association for 1897 to 1902, when he was elected to his present position. Address, 308 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Residence, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
PACKER. Gibson D .:
Lawyer; born in Center County, Oct. 20, 1859. and attended the public schools near his home, later moving to Pittsburg and graduating from the Pittsburg High School in 1851. He then took a three years' law course at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating in 1893. Toward the close of the same year 'he was admitted to the Allegheny Coun- ty bar and entered the office of Dalzell, Scott & Gordon. After a general law practice of six years he became solicitor for the Carnegie Company in 1899. Ad- dress, 5030 Castleman St., Pittsburg, Pa.
PACKER, Hornce B .:
Attorney at law; born in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa .: educated at Wells- boro Academy and Alfred University, New York: studied law with Mossrs. Wilson & Niles: admitted to practice in all the courts of the State. In polities he is a Republican, and was appointed District Attorney to serve a year and then elected District Attorney for a term of three years. He was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1884, and in 1886 re- elected: elected to the State Senate in the year ISSS, and represented the Twenty- fifth Senatorial District, comprising the counties of Tioga, Potter and Mckean, for
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the following four years. Author of "Cot- tage Hospital Law," "The Abolition of the Old Fence Law" "The Practice Act of 1887." Was elected to represent the then Sixteenth Congressional District, comprising the counties of Lycoming, Clinton, Potter and Tioga, in the United States House of Representatives at Wash- ington, in the Fifty-fifth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifty-sixth Con- gress. Since his services in Congress has been engaged in practice of law; also in buying and selling timber and coal lands. Address, Wellsboro, Pa.
PAFF, Alfred M .:
President of the First National Bank of Bangor. Pa; born Dec. 14, 1$49; edu- cated in Millersville State Normal School; was Chief Burgess of Bangor, Pa. Or- ganized the First National Bank of Ban- gor in 1882, and acted as its cashier for twenty years, and was then elected its President. Married to Ariella B. Beck, May 6, 1876. Republican in politics. Ad- dress, Bangor, Pa.
PAGE, Benjamin :
President of the South Side Trust Com- pany. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
PAGE, George Bispham:
Architect; born in Philadelphia Sept. 24, 1870; educated at the Episcopal Acad- emy, Philadelphia; studied architecture in the office of Cope & Stewardson; won the Traveling Scholarship in Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania in 1894. Devoted about two years to architectural studies in Paris, and in European travel. Architect for the United States Post Of- fico Building at Allentown, Pa. Mem- ber of the American Institute of Archi- tects; at one time President of the T- Square Club of Philadelphia. Address, 1117 Harrison Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
PAGE, Glenn Charles:
Banker; born in New Milford, Pa., July 15, 1871; son of Charles S. and Ella Hough Page; descendant of Capt. Levi Page, a native of Vermont and one of the earliest settlers of Susquehanna County. Is a graduate of Wyoming Sem- inary, Kingston, and non-graduate stu- dent of Wesleyan University, class of 1896. Member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. From 1594 to 1899 teller of Wyoming Valley Trust Company, Wilkes- barre. Pa .; then elected Treasurer and executive officer of the company; in 1902
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became cashier and Director of Marine National Bank of Erie, Pa. In 1$94 mar- ried Mabel L. Severson, daughter of Rev. O. L. Severson, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now located at West Pittston, Pa. Address, Erie, Pa.
PAGE, Henry:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry, May 8, 1861; Quartermaster Ser- geant June 13, 1861; discharged for pro- motion, Sept. 10, 1861; Second Lieutenant Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry, Sept. 10, 1861; discharged for promotion, Feb. 25, 1863; Captain and Assistant Quarter- master United States Volunteers, Nov. 26. 1862; honorably mustered out, July 17,1867; Major and Commissary of Subsistence United States Volunteers, July 16. 1898: honorably mustered out, May 31, 1899: brevetted Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel United States Volunteers. March 13, 1865,. "for faithful and meritorious services during the war." Elected May 6, 186S. Transferred to Commandery of Arkansas, May 6, 1868 (charter member): transferred to Commandery of Pennsyl- vania, Jan. 11, 1SS2. Address, care of Re- corder of the Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PAGE. S. Davis:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia Sept. 22. 1840; son of William B. Page, an eminent physician. In 1859 he was graduated from Yale College; then read law in the office of Peter McCall, and at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1564. Since that time he has been active- ly engaged in the practice of law. Twenty years after his admission he formed the law firm of Page & Allinson, to which Boies Penrose, now United States Senator. was afterward admitted. The firm of Page, Allinson & Penrose was dissolved on death of Mr. Allinson in 1901, and is suc- ceeded by Page & Page in which Howard W. Page only is associated with his father. In 1883 Mr. Page was made City Controller, serving a short term. in which he very ably managed the city's affairs. HIe was appointed Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Phil- adelphia in 1886, and administered the office with very general satisfaction till 1800. He also served in the Philadelphia Common Council, 1877-1881 and 1892-1883. when he resigned. In 199 he was the Democratie candidate for City Treasurer,
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and again in 1882, and for City Controller in 1SS3. In 1891 he was one of the com- mission appointed by the Governor to in- vestigate the accounts of John Bardsley, derelict City Treasurer, with the Key- stone National Bank. In 1893, under com- mission by the Governor he delivered an address on Pennsylvania before the Bank- ers' Convention at Columbian Exposition. Mr. Page is a Director of the Quaker City National Bank, and was its President in 1890 and 1891. He has been a Director of the Merchants' Trust Company since its incorporation. He is a member of the Historical Societies of Pennsylvania and Virginia, of the Sons of the Revolution, of the Colonial Wars and Colonial Socie- ty. Address, 281 S. Fourth St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
PAINTER, Herbert Brown:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Elected Nov. 2, 1898. Eligibility of membership derived from William Painter, Captain and Assistant Quarter- master United States Volunteers, Oct. 31, 1861; resigned and honorably discharged, Sept. 14, 1864. Address, $004 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
PAINTER, Howard I .:
County Superintendent of schools; born Feb. 6, 1869, near West Sunbury, Butler County, Pa .; was graduated from West Sunbury Academy in 1890; taught school for thirteen consecutive years; Superin- tendent of - the Butler County Schools since 1899; read law in the office of Judges McJunkin and Galbreath; admitted to the Butler County bar in 1894. Married Ella R. Robb, of Sonora, in 1894. Republican in politics. Address, Butler, Pa.
PAINTER, John W .:
President of the Mckeesport Title and Trust Company. Address, Mckeesport, Allegheny County, Pa.
PALEN, Gilbert E .:
Physician and manufacturer; born in Palenville, N. Y., May 3, 1832, of Quaker ancestry; educated in Brown University and the Albany Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1885. His father, Rufus Palen, was a tanner and leather dealer, and the son in 1856 en- gaged in the same business in partnership with his uncle. G. W. Northrop, building .an oak tannery at Canadenses, Pa., and
afterward, with his two brothers, another one at Tunkhannock, Pa. After some years' successful effort- in the tanning business Dr. Palen withdrew from it. In 1860 he married Elizabeth Gould of Rox- bury, N. Y., and soon after became active- ly engaged in the advancement of the temperance cause. In 1876 he took up the practice of his profession, engaging with Dr. Starkey in the compound oxygen method of cure, he supplying the capital and business ability, and Dr. Starkey the method. The firm of Starkey & Palen has since then been prominent in Philadelphia and other cities. Dr. Palen's business en- terprise has led him into various indus- trial concerns. He is President of the Ni- agara Mining and Smelting Company of Utah, President of the Fowden Printing Telegraph Company, and Treasurer of an electric railway, a water, an electric light, and a sewer company; he is Treasurer of the Ocean City Association (N. J.), which city by the sea he has done much to de- velop and in which he has large real es- tate interests. Address, 127 Harvey St., Germantown, Pa.
PALMER, Charles:
Attorney at law, Chester, Delaware County, Pa .; born in Concord Township, Delaware County, Pa., July 9, 1863; was graduated from Swarthmore College with class of 1SS2, and received second degree, A. M. from the same college in 1885; taught school for five years; removed to Chester in 1887; studied law with Edmund Jones, and was admitted to the bar in 1890, and to the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania in 1899. Has been a Notary Pub- lic since 1890. Was candidate on the Prohibition State ticket in 1894 for Au- ditor General, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition Party in Delaware County. From July, 1896. to June. 1898, published the Issue, Prohibition organ of Delaware County. Has been Secretary of the Pennsylvania Savings Loan and Building Association of Chester from its organization in 1889, and a Director of the Farmers' Market Company of Chester since 1993. Is a member of the Religious Society of Friends ( Hicksite), and has been clerk of Chester Monthly Meeting since 1934; is also a member of the Philanthropic Com- mitico of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and of the Central Committee of Friends General Conference, representing the sev- en yearly meetings of the society; is a
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charter member of the Delaware County Historical Society, organized in 1895. Married, June 24. 1897, Arletta Cutler, of Ontario, descended from Pennsylvania ancestors. Address, 12 East Fifth St., Chester, Pa.
PALMER, Charles G .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Schuylkill County; born in Somersetshire, England. June 22, 1839; when nine years of age began work in the mines in Beaufort, Wales, and has been engaged in mining in this and other States for the past forty-three years; located in Shenandoah in 1870; served on the Borough Council; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1879. and later Borough Tax Collector; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Ad- dress, Shenandoah, Pa.
PALMER, Henry Wilber:
Congressman (Republican) of Wilkes- barre: educated at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa .; Fort Edward Institute, Fort Edward. N. Y., and the National Law School of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., grad- uating from the latter institution in 1860; admitted to the bar at Peekskill, N. Y .. in 1860, and at Wilkesbarre in 1561; served in the pay department of the Union Army in the Civil War at New Orleans in 1862- 1863; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania in 1872-1873, and Attorney General of the State from 1879 to 1883. Married Ellen M. Webster at Plattsburg, N. Y., Sept. 12. 1861; elect- ed to the Fifty-seventh Congress and re- elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Ad- dress, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
PALMER, John Moore:
Minister of the African Methodist Epis- copal Church; born in Lewistown, Mifflin County. Pa., April 15. 1854: educated in the public schools of his native town. the Bellefonte Academy, Allegheny College. Meadville, Pa .. and the Philadelphia Di- vinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Pastor of St. John's Church, Brooklyn. N. Y., for two years. He has served as presiding elder over most of the State of Pennsylvania, and as a member of two sucessive General Conferences. At present he holds a pastorate in German- town. Philadelphia. Address. Eighty- eighth St., Elmwood. Philadelphia. or office. Bethel Church, Germantown, Phil- adelphia, Pa.
PALMER, Walter S .:
.Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Mercer County; born in Orangeville, Ohio, in 1559; entered the public school of his native town while very young; spent two years in Hiram College: took a business and electrical course at Hillsdale College, Michigan; was telegraph operator for the Erie Railroad for some time; in 1880 he moved to Sharon, Pa., and entered'the music and jewelry store of Mr. Hannah as book- keeper; was elected Supreme Accountant of the Protected Home Circle in 1887; in 1895 was elected Supreme Secretary and Accountant by the same organization, which position he still holds; has distin- guished himself as an expert accountant among the fraternalists of the country; is interested in general public enterprises, fraternal insurance societies and in the education of young people preparing for the ministry; elected to the House of Representatives in November. 1902. Ad- dress, Sharon, Pa.
PATTEN, Simon N .:
Political economist; born in Sandwich, Ill., May 1, 1852; educated in Jennings's Seminary, Aurora, Ill., the Northwestern University, and at the University of Halle, Germany, where he was graduated with the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. in 1878. He engaged in teaching political economy on his return to the United States, and in 1888 was called to the University of Penn- sylvania as Professor of Political Econ- omy, which position he still ably holds. Professor Patten is at the head of a school of economic thought. which has many followers both in America and in Europe. His system has been expounded in a number of thoughtful works. em- bracing "Premises of Political Economy," "The Economic Basis of Protection," "Theory of Dynamic Economics." "The- ory of Social Forces," and the "Develop- ment of English Thought." He was one of the founders of the Academy of Polit- ical and Social Science, and is an active member of the American Economic As- sociation. Address, 202 S. Forty-first St .. Philadelphia, Pa.
PANCOAST, Henry Spackman:
Author. teacher; born in Germantown. Philadelphia. Aug. 24. 1858; son of Chas. Stacey Pancoast, a lawyer of Philadel- phia, and Mary A. Pancoast: educated at Germantown Academy and by private
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tutors; admitted to the bar in 18$2, but retired from practice in 1887 to engage in teaching and literary work. One of the founders of Indian Rights Association. and a member of its Executive Commit- tee from its organization in 1882. Mar- ried, in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 2. 1597. Dorothea Napier. Author of "Represen- tative English Literature," 1892; "In- troduction to English Literature." 1895; "Introduction to American Literature." 1898. Editor of
"Standard English Poems," 1900; "Standard English Prose." 1902; also monographs on Indian ques- tion, contributions to magazines, etc. Member of American Philosophical So- ciety, Modern Language Association. etc. Independent Republican in politics. Ad- dress, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
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