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PINKERTON, John J .:
Lawyer: born in Chester County, Pa., in 1836. of ancestors who were active in the Revolutionary War. His father, Samuel Pinkerton, was the first Protho- notary of Chester County, being elected in 1939. Educated in the public schools
Mechanical engineer; born in Philadel- phia, June 21, 1570; educated in public and private schools. He had practical training in the Altoona motive power shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad; then studied mechanical engineering in He Science Department of the University of the Pennsylvania, graduating in 1891. was employed for a short time as an expert accountant, then for seven years served as engineer for Armstrong & Printzenhoff, making plans for most of the improvements along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers for large coal-hand- ling plants. warehouses. factories. etc. Since 1599 he has been President of the Pinkerton Construction Company of Phila- delphia. Member of the Sons of the Rev- olution, the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society, and the Athletic and Alumni Associations of the University of Penn- sylvania. Address, St. Davids, Delaware County, Pa.
PIPER, William H .:
Mining operator: born at Williamsburg. Pa .. Dec. 27, 1842: on leaving school he engaged in the coal mining and shipping business, of which he quickly attained a practical knowledge. Beginning in a min- ing office as a boy he was rapidly pro- mioted and for a time was a member of the firm of Dysart & Co ; subsequently he rose to be senior member of the firm of W. H. Piper & Co .. a position willich he has since heldl: few men surpass him in
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knowledge of this business. He is also interested in gold and silver mining opera- tions, principally in Mexico, and is active- ly connected with the Hercules Mining Company. He is President and principal owner of the Philadelphia Gold Mining Company of Telluride, Col. Address, 234 Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
PITCAIRN, Edward:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Ford City, Armstrong County, Pa.
PITCAIRN, Hugh:
United States Consul General; born in Scotland Aug. 16, 1845; emigrated to the United States in 1840; educated in the .common and high schools of Allegheny City and Altoona, Pa .; was connected with various railroads from 1860 to 1875; studied medicine and was graduated in 1SS0. and commenced practice at Harris- burg, Pa., the same year; spent two years in study at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna; is part owner of the Altoona Daily and Weekly Tribune. Appointed Consul at Hamburg July 28, 1897, and Consul General at the same place Feb. 12, 1903. Address, Hamburg, Germany.
PITCAIRN, Robert:
Railroad manager: born in Scotland, May 6, 1836; son of John and Agnes Pit- cairn; removed to Pittsburg in 1846; was an intimate friend of Andrew Carnegie when the latter was a telegraph mes- senger boy, and through him secured a similar position. From that time he rose to operator in the Pittsburg office of the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company; became. in 1853, telegraph operator in service of Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany; was promoted from time to time. finally becoming, in 1865, Superintendent of Pittsburg division, and in 1875 gen- eral agent of Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany; Superintendent of Pittsburg divi- sion. 1865; general agent of Pennsylva- nia Railroad Company. 1875, and Jan. 1, 1902, resident assistant to President lo- cated at Pittsburg. Is also Vice President of Westinghouse Air Brake Company. and has other large interests. Address, Pitts- burg, Pa.
PLACE, James N .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Monroe County; born in Middle Smithfield Township, Mon-
roe County, Pa., March 28, 1857; reared on a farm; educated in the public schools; was elected School Director a number of years; served as Assessor and delegate from Monroe County to State Convention in 1885; in March. 1SS4, was appointed Postmaster at Coolbaughs, Monroe Coun- ty, and served until April, 1890, when he resigned and removed to Chicago, IlI., where he was interested in real estate; in May, 1891, he returned to Monroe County and engaged in the hotel business at Canadensis, in which he continued un- til 1894, when he removed to
East Stroudsburg and entered into the hotel business there, in which he is still en- gaged; is a member of a number of secret societies; elected to the House of Repre- sentatives in November, 1902. Address, East Stroudsburg, Pa.
PLANK, D. Heber, M. D .:
Born in Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pa., Nov. 12, 1842. After re- ceiving a thorough common school edu- cation he entered the Pennsylvania State College and the Millersville State Normal Schools; then studied medicine and was graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania on March 14, 1867. After a year of travel he located in Morgantown, Pa., where he has since been in the active practice of his profession. He is a mem- ber of the Pathological Society of Berks County, and connected with various lo- cal enterprises. He was married in 1877 to Ida, eldest daughter of Horace Ber- tolet, deceased. He is a great-great- grandson of Dr. Jacob Plank, who, so far as is known, was the pioneer physician of Berks County, and whose medical educa- tion was acquired at the University of Basle, Switzerland, from 1696 to 1700. Address, Reading, Pa.
PLATT, Charles:
President insurance company; born in Philadelphia Feb. 26. 1829; entered the T'niversity of Pennsylvania at the age of thirteen and was graduated in 1846. He then went to China and was engaged as a. merchant in the city of Canton till 1850. In 1860 was made Secretary of the Insurance Company of North America, in 1872 was advanced to the position of Vice President, and was elected its Pres- ident in 1878. a position he still holds. He is also President of the National Board of Marine Underwriters, and of the Zoo- logical Society of Philadelphia, and Vice President of the Orthopedic and Chil-
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dren's Hospitals. Mr. Platt is a member of the International Law Association, the American Philosophical Society, the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania. and the Philadelphia Library Company, and is Vice President of the Rittenhouse Club. He married Laura Newbold in 1851, and has four children-three sons and one daughter. Address, 237 S. Eighteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PLATT, Charles, M. D .. Ph.D., F. C. S .:
Physician; born in Montclair, N. J., March 16, 1869, of an old American family of founders and patriots. dating from 1638; was graduated from Lehigh Univer- sity in 1890, and has pursued post-gradu- ate course at Ohio University. Johns Hop- kins University, University of Edinburgh . (medallist in anatomy). Homeopathic Hos- pital. London, Ecole de Medicine, Paris, and Hahnemann College of Philadelphia. Assistant chemist of Cambria Iron Com- pany. Johnstown, Pa .; chief chemist for Thomas A. Edison at Llewellyn Park lab- oratory. Since 1894 Professor of Chemis- try and Toxicology at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. Philadelphia: some- time lecturer at the Children's Homeo- pathic Hospital, Philadelphia. For some time associate editor of Science, New York. Author of text book of "Qualita- tive Analysis and Medical Chemistry," fourth edition, 1903. Contributor to the engineering, chemical and medical jour- nals. Fellow of the Chemical Society of London; honorary Fellow of the Society of Biological Chemistry. London; member of the American Chemical Society, the Société Chimique de Paris, the Medical Jurisprudence Society. the Medical and Surgical Society of Philadelphia, and of numerous other medical and social or- ganizations. Address, 3612 Baring St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PLAYFORD, William H .:
Lawyer; born in Brownville, Fayette County, Pa., Aug. 31, 1\33; was graduated in 1854 from Jefferson College at Canons- burg; taught for a year as principal of Waterproof Academy, in Texas Parish. La .; afterward studied law under Judge N. Ewing. Uniontown. Pa., and was ad- mitted to the Fayette County bar in 1857. In 1859 lie was elected District Attorney, and after the expiration of his term aided the Commonwealth in the prosecution of many important cases. He is learned in corporation law, and has long been at- torney for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company at Uniontown. In 1867 Mr. Playford was elected by the Democratic party to the Pennsylvania House of Rep- resentatives, and in 1872 was elected to the State Senate. In 1874 he was chosen, with Chief Justice Agnew and others, to prepare amendments to the State Con- stitution. He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1872, was Chairman of the Democratic State Convention of 1876, has frequently served as a delegate to State conventions, and in 1880 was a candidate for Presidential elector-at-large for Pennsylvania. Died in Uniontown Sept. 23, 1903.
PLUMB. Fayette R., Jr .:
Manufacturer of edge tools, hammers, railroad tools, etc .; works located at Frankford on New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad; born at Philadel- phia on June 18, 1877; prepared for col- lege in Philadelphia, and was graduated from Harvard in 1899 with degree of A. B. In 1899 Secretary-Treasurer of Fay- ette R. Plumb, Incorporated, which he still holds; following year elected a DI- rector; in 1902 appointed Superintendent. Republican in politics. Address, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
PLUMMER. Everett H .:
Philadelphia general agent of the Berk- shire Life Insurance Company; born in that city June 2, 1855. After graduating from the Philadelphia Central High School in 1873, he entered the office of the Berkshire Life in Philadelphia as an of- fice boy. In 1SSO he became general agent for Eastern Pennsylvania, position which he now holds. Mr. Plummer was the first Secretary of the National Asso- ciation of Life Underwriters, and after serving four consecutive years was elect- ed President in June, 1894. He was also the first Secretary of the Philadelphia Association of Life Underwriters, serving four consecutive years, when he was chosen President for two years, 1894 and 1895. Address, 512 Walnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
PLUMMER. J. Lee :
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Blair County; born at T'pper Tyrone Forge, Snyder Township, Blair County, Pa., Sept. 20. 1859; edu- cated in the public schools of Snyder Township and Tyrone Borough: after leaving school was engaged for a short time with his father in the insurance
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business; was afterward employed as clerk and passenger brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Ty- rone; elected Register of Wills and Re- corder of Deeds of Blair County in No- vember, 1889, and re-elected in November, 1892; was admitted to the Blair County bar in May, 1896, and subsequently to practice in the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania; since his admis- sion to the bar has continuously prac- ticed law in Hollidaysburg; was Secre- tary of the Republican County Commit- tee in 1SS4 and 1SS6, and was Chairman of said committee in 1SST and 1SSS; elect- ed to the House of Representatives in 1902. Address, Hollidaysburg, Pa.
PLUSH, Samuel Millard, M. D .:
Born at Gwynedd, Montgomery Coun- ty, Pa., about the middle of the last century; educated at public schools and the seminaries in the county, and taught in its public schools. During the War of the Rebellion he served with the 175th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, hold- ing a Lieutenant's commission, after which he became a student in medicine, and later received his degree. During his college life he acquired an especial fondness for chemistry and physics, and became well known as a physicist in Eu- rope and America. Among his inventions may be quoted: "A new method of in- sulating electrical cables whereby their electro-static capacity is greatly dimin- ished;" "a thermo-electrical apparatus for preventing fires in theatres and other public buildings;" "improvements in electro-magnetic printing instruments and their appurtenances, for promptly trans- mitting and recording the transactions of exchanges and the sales of stocks, bonds and other securities;" "an electro-mag- netic device for guarding buildings and those using electrical machinery from in- jury by lightning and other dangerous electrical currents," etc. Was for many years a Director and the General Manager of the Bell Telephone Company of Phila- delphia. Member of the Board of Exami- ners of the International Electrical Ex- hibition in 1854, the National Conference of the United States Electrical Commis- sion, created by Congress in 1SS4, and a life member of the American Geographical Society, the Masonic fraternity and the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, being a Past Eminent and Division Commander. Address, 319 South Tenth St .. Philadel- phia, Pa.
POELLOT, George W .:
President of the First National Bank of Bridgeville. Address, Bridgeville, Alle- gheny County, Pa.
POLEN, James L .:
President of the People's Savings Bank of Pittston. Address, Pittston, Luzerne County, Pa.
POLLOCK. A. W .:
President of the Dollar Savings Bank of Pittsburg. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
POLLOCK, James:
Carpet manufacturer; born in County Derry, Ireland, of a Scotch-Irish family. Aug. 28, 1846; his parents came to Amer- ica in 1851 and settled in Kensington, Philadelphia. He was educated in the public schools; entered the dry goods house of Riegle & Brother, remaining with them till 1877, when he and his father, James Pollock, Sr., began busi- ness as manufacturers of Venetian car- pets, under the firm name of James Pol- lock & Son; the father died four years later and the son continued the business. which has grown to be one of the largest in the country for its special grade of goods. He early developed literary tastes and became a member of several debating societies, while for ten years he was the Philadelphia correspondent of The Carpet Trade, the first journal to represent the carpet and upholstery interests of the country. Politically he is a Republican. was a candidate for Select Council from the Thirty-first Ward, and represented this ward for nine years (1878-1SST) on the Board of Public Education. The board had no more useful and progres- sive member. Earnest as an advocate of municipal reform, he became a member of the Committee of One Hundred, upon which he actively served; he attended several National Republicann Conventions. and in the Chicago convetion of Isss urged the Platform Committee to speak strongly in favor of the policy of protec- tion. In 1882 he organized the great trades display during the bi-centennial celebration of the landing of William Penn. He was one of the organizers of the Ninth National Bank, the Industrial Trust, Title & Savings Company, and the Manufacturers' Club, of which he has been a Director from the start; he has also been a Director of the Union League. and is a member of the Historical Society. the Hibernian and Albion Societies, the
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Columbian Club, etc. Address, 140S Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
POLLOCK, Otis Wheeler:
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Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Army; born in Erie, Pa., Aug. 7, 1833; son of Charles Pol- lock, of Erie; grandson of Adam Pollock, of Erie County; great-grandson of Chas. Pollock. of White Deer Township, North- umberland County, Pa., who emigrated from Coleraine, Ireland, about 1750; edu- cated at the Erie Academy; appointed in the Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Lieutenant in October, 1861; was Ad- jutant of the regiment until promoted to a Captaincy in June, 1862; participated in the battles and engagements in which the regiment was involved among which were Island No. 10, New Madrid, Iuka, Corinth, Resaca, Atlanta, and engagements during the Atlanta campaign, Savannah, etc .; was with Sherman on the march to the sea; in command of the regiment during the campaign from Pocotaligo, S. C., to Goldsborough, N. C. Thence to Washing- ton as a member of the staff of Gen. Frank P. Blair, who was in command of the Seventeenth Army Corps, and partici- pated in the Grand Review. Accompanied the Army of the Tennessee to Louisville, Ky .; was mustered out at Camp Dennison, Ohio, July S, 1865. Commissioned a Sec- ond Lieutenant in the Fourteenth Infan- try, United States Army, on Feb. 23, 1866; promoted.to First Lieutenant same day; Captain in the Twenty-third Infantry Jan. 22, 1873, and Major of the Twenty- fourth Infantry Aug. 27, 1896, and placed upon the retired list by operation of law, Ang. 7, 1897. He is a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. a member of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Scotch-Irish Society of America .. Ad- dress, 1827 Kalorama Ave., Washington, D. C.
POMEROY. A. Nevin:
Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding of the State of Pennsylvania. and editor of the Franklin Repository, Cham- bersburg, Pa .; born in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 27. 1859; educated at Pomeroy, Pa. In 1874 he removed with his parents to Chambersburg and pursued his studies. In 1576 entered the office of the Franklin Repository as local editor: in 1563 became one of the owners with his brother. John H. Pomeroy; in 1990 became the sole editor and proprietor, in which position he has ever since continued. He was
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Chairman of the Republican Party in Franklin County for four years, and was Assistant Chief Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania from 1SS6 to 1890. He served as a member of the State Legislature in the sessions of 1395-1896, and again in 1901-1902; was ap- pointed Superintendent of Public Print- ing and Binding for Pennsylvania by Governor Pennypacker in March, 1903, for a term of four years; is Vice President of the Pennsylvania Editorial Association. Home address, Chambersburg, Pa.
POMEROY, Robert P .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Lawrence County; born in Neshannock Township, Mercer County, Pa., Dec. 27, 1843; raised on the farm; educated in the public schools; en- listed in Company D, 134th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served for the time of enlistment; after returning from the war he entered Westminster College, but after one year. his father being ill, he returned to the farm; has always taken an interest in agricultural pursuits and stock rais- ing; served three years as County Com- missioner; was Assistant Sergeant-at- Arms in the House of Representatives. at Harrisburg, session of 1891, and was Post- master of the House in 1897; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, New Castle, Pa.
POMEROY, W. C .:
President of the First National Bank of New Bloomfield. Address, Port Royal, Pa.
POND. George Gilbert:
Chemist; Professor of Chemistry, Penn- sylvania State College: born in Holliston, Mass., March 29, 1861; was graduated from Amherst College in 1881, receiving the degrees of A. M., 1884, and Ph. D., 1SS9; took a special course in chemistry, Universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Mu- nich. Married in Amherst, Mass., 1SSS, Helen Palmer. Member of American Chemical Society, German Chemical So- ciety, Society of Chemical Industry, etc. Contributor to scientific publications on chemical subjects. Address, State Col- lege, Pa.
POOLE. Eugene Alonzo:
Artist; portrait and landscape painter; born in Poolesville, Md., Feb. 16. 1811: educated at the Rockville Academy, Md., and took a course in art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and studied in
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Paris France, with Léon Bonnat. Mar- ried, Jan. 7. 1880, Ella Towles. For years had studio in Washington; was member of Art Society of that city; now member of Art Association of Pittsburg, Pa. Ad- dress, Bellevue, Pa.
POPHAM, Richard Morris:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Tenth New Jersey Infan- try, May 7, 1862: Corporal, June 12. 1862; Sergeant, 1863; Regimental Commissary Sergeant, Jan. 7, 1865; discharged for promotion, March 16, 1865. First Lieuten- ant Tenth New Jersey Infantry, March 16, 1865; First Lieutenant and Adjutant, July 1. 1865; honorably mustered out July 1, 1865. Elected April 5, 1871. Ad- dress, 221 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PORTER, Augustus Drum:
Special Agent General Freight Depart- ment Long Island Railroad Company; born in Saltsburg, Indiana County, Pa., Sept. 20. 1865; son of Richard Wilson and Agnes Drum Porter. Enlisted as private in First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, Nov. 19. 1890; commissioned Second Lieutenant and Bat- talion Adjutant, March 12, 1896; promoted to Captain and Aide-de-Camp, First Bri- gade Staff, National Guard of Pennsyl- vania, May 22, 1899; reappointed May 21, 1904; volunteered with First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in war with Spain, and on May 11. 1895, was mustered in as Second Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant First Regiment Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, serv- ing with regiment until it was mustered out at Philadelphia, Oct. 26. 1898; during this time he also served as Acting Com- missary of Subsistence of this regiment. Member of Society of Colonial Wars in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, Society of the War.of 1812 and Society of Foreign Wars. Address, 263 Fifth Ave., New York City.
PORTER. Charles:
President of the Eighth National Bank of Philadelphia. Address, Girard Ave. and Second St., Philadelphia, Pa.
PORTER, Henry Kirke:
Congressman (Republican) of Pitts- burg; born in Concord, N. H., Nov. 24, 1840; educated in public and private schools, and fitted for college at the New London Academy, New London, N. H .;
entered Brown University, Providence, R. I .. in 1856, and was graduated in 1860; purused professional studies at New- ton Theological Seminary, Newton Center, Mass., and at Rochester Theological Sem- inary, Rochester, N. Y., between the years 1861 and 1866; enlisted in the Forty- fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1862, and was mustered out of service in July, 1863. Began business in Pittsburg in May. 1866, and has remained contin- uously in the same business from that time. with some change of firm name; on Jan. 1, 1899, incorporated the business as H. K. Porter Company, and became its President. The exclusive specialty of this company is the manufacture of light locomotives, and its product is known throughout the United States, and has been scattered very largely during the last twenty-five years throughout the world; President of Y. M. C. A., Pittsburg, 1868-1887; member of International Com- mittee of Y. M. C. A. since 1875; Presi- dent of American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1895. 1896. 1897; President of American Baptist Missionary Union, 1901- 1904. Trustee of Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burg. since 1890; member of Board of Trustees of Crozer Theological Seminary since 1871; member of Board of Fellows, Brown University, since 1899; member Board of Trustees of George Washington University, 1904; Vice President of Pitts- burg Chamber of Commerce since 1892: member of Board of Trustees of Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind since 1887. Married. Nov. 23, 1875, Mrs. Annie DeCamp Hegeman, at Trinity Chapel, New York City; he was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress as a Republican. on the Citizens' ticket, which nomination was also indorsed by the Democratic Party. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
PORTER, James Madison. Il .:
Educator and consulting engineer; born in Easton, Pa., May 10, 1864; educated in Easton public schools and Hacketts- town and Blairstown Academies; was graduated from Lafayette College, 1886; married, 1SS8. Mary V. Drake. Professor of Civil Engineering, Lafayette College and member of the International Asso- ciation Testing Materials, American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, American Institute Mining Engineers. American Society of Civil Engineers. Member of
the University. Pomfret. Markham, Automobile, and Engineers' Clubs. Address, Easton, Pa.
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PORTER, Jasper W .:
President of the United States National Bank of Pittsburg. Address, Pittsburg; Pa.
PORTER, John Biddle:
Major United States Army: born in France; appointed from Pennsylvania; Colonel Second Pennsylvania Infantry April 28, 1896; honorably mustered out Nov. 13, 1898; Major United States Vol- unteer Infantry, July 5. 1899, to June 19, 1901; Major Judge Advocate, United States Army May 27. 1901. Address. Judge Ad- Vocate General's Office, Washington, D. C.
PORTER. J. H .:
President of the New Wilmington Bank. Address, New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pa.
PORTER, John Richard:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Captain of Forty-eighth Penn- sylvania Infantry Oct. 1. 1861; resigned and honorably discharged Dec. 30, 1862. Captain Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania (Mili- tia) Infantry July 3. 1863; honorably mus- tered out Aug. 2, 1863. Elected Oct. 23, 1901. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
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