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Rh PARTRIDGE, George, member of the Con- tinental congress, b. ia Duxbury, Mass., 8 Feb., 1740 ; d. there. 7 July, 1828. He was graduated at Harvard in 1762, and studied theology, but, instead of entering the ministry, bec;ame a teacher at Kings- ton, Mass. He was a delegate to the Provincial congress in 1774-'5, and then a member of the state house of representatives till 1779, when he was chosen a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental congress. Except at the congress at Princeton in 1783, he was a member of that body continuously till 1785. He was elected a member of the 1st congress of the United States, and took his seat on the opening day, but resigned in 1790. He left a large part of his estate for religious and charitable purposes.

PARTRIDGE, Oliver, member of the Colonial congress, b. in Hatfield, Mass., 13 June, 1712 : d. in Hadley. Mass.. 21 July, 1792. He was graduated at Yale in 1730, studied law, and became a success- ful practitioner at Hatfield. He was a delegate to the congress that was called by the British govern- ment to meet in Albany, N. Y., in June, 1754. In 1765 he was a delegate from IMassachusetts to the congress that assembled in New York city to take action with regard to the stamp-act, and voted for the petition to the king, the memorial to parlia- ment, and the bill of rights. In 1769-74 he was judge of common pleas for Hampshire county. When hostilities with the mother country were im- pending he was at first opposed to revolution, but soon he embraced the American cause.

PARVIN, Theodore Sutton, educator, b. in Cedarville, Cumberland co., N. J., 15 Jan.. 1817. He was tak.en by his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1829, graduated at Woodward college in 1833, and studied law with Timothy Walker and at Cincin- nati law-school, where he was graduated in 1837. In 1838 he went to Iowa as private secretary to the governor of the territory, Robert Lucas. He was also secretary of the legislative council in 1840-'l, and for two years district attorney at Muscatine, resigning on his election as probate judge in 1841. In 1846-'56 he was clerk of the U. S. district court, and in 1857-'8 register of the state land-office, which post he resigned on his election as curator and librarian of Iowa state university. From 1859 till 1867 he was professor of natural history. He filled other chairs in the university, the last being that of political economy, which was abolished in 1870. He was a founder of the State historical society in 1857, and in 1863-"5 its corresponding secretary and editor of the " Historical Annals of Iowa." He has edited the " Annals of Iowa Ma- sonry " since 1844, and was editor of the '• Western Freemason " in 1859-'60, of the " Masonic Maga- zine " in 1860-72, of the " Evergreen " in 1871-2, and from 1871 till 1886 of " Transactions of the Knights Templar." He is the author of a "History of Iowa " (Chicago, 1877) and of '* History of Tem- plary in America" (Cincinnati, 1887).

PARVIN, Theophilus, physician, b. in Buenos Ayres. Argentine Republic, 9 Jan., 1829 ; d. 29 Jan., 1898. He was graduated at the University of Indiana, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1852. establishing himself in practice in Indianapolis, Ind. He was professor in the Medical college of Ohio from 1864 till 1869, then in the medical department of the University of Louisville till 1872, and afterward he filled the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in Indiana medical college. After 1883 he was a professor in Jefferson medical col- lege. Philadelphia. Dr. Parvin was president of the Indiana state medical society in 1861, and of the American medical association in 1879. He had published " The Science and Art of Obstetrics " (Philadelphia, 1886), and edited " Winchel on Dis- eases of Women " (1887).

PASCALIS-OUVIERE, Felix, physician, b. in Provence, France, about 1750 ; d. in New York city in 1840. He studied medicine in Montpellier, and after obtaining his degree went to Santo Domingo, where he practised with success and acquired an extensive knowledge of botany and other departments of natural history. The revolt of the negroes forced him to leave the island in 1793, and he took refuge in the United States, where he quickly acquired reputation in the prac- tice of his profession. He lived at first in Phila- delphia, but subsequently removed to New York, where he resided for more than thirty years. At the time of the epidemic in Cadiz in 1805 he went to that city, and afterward to Gibraltar to study the nature of the disease. His observations con- vinced him that it was not contagious, and he gave expression to his views in his writings, although he had long held a different opinion. He was the founder of the LinucPan society of New York, and member of several academies and learned societies. He wrote " Description of the Contagious and Epidemic Yellow Fever that reigned in Philadel- phia in 1797" (Philadelphia, 1798); a translation of the work of Vicc^-d'Azyr on " Interments," with original notes and observations (New York, 1823); and " Eulogy on Hon. S. L. Mitchill, M. D.. before the New York City and County Medical Society, 1831 " (1831). He also published many reports and memoirs on yellow fever, on the black color of the African races, and other subjects.

PASCHAL, George Washington, jurist, b. at Skull Shoals, Greene co., Ga., 23 Nov., 1812; d. in Washington, D. C, 16 Feb., 1878. He was edu- cated at Mercer institute, where he supported him- self by teaching minor classes, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Wilkes county. Ga., in 1832. As a lieutenant of Georgia volunteers he served as aide-de-camp to Gen. John E. Wool when that officer was charged with the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to Indian territory in 1834-'5. He married Sarah, the only daughter of the Cherokee chief, John Ridge, and removed to Arkansas in 1836. He soon attained reputation at the bar of the new state, and in 1841 was elected a justice of the supreme court, serving two years. In 1847 he settled in Texas. He was earnestly attached to union principles, and during the period preceding the civil war he presented his views in the " South- ern Intelligencer," a newspaper that he established at Austin, Tex., in 1856. His friend, Samuel Houston, was elected governor in 1859 largely through his efforts. He removed to Washington in 1869, and was instrumental in founding the law department of Georgetown university, which made him its first professor of jurisprudence, and con- ferred on him the degree of LL. D. in 1875. Judge Paschall published an " Annotated Digest of the Laws of Texas" (New York, 1866; new ed., 1873); '• Annotated Constitution of the United States " (Washington, 1868 ; new ed., 1876) ; " Decisions of the Supreme Court of Texas " (5 vols., 1869-71) ; and " Digest of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Texas" (1871-3); also many pamphlets, articles, and addresses on constitutional law and political questions, and a "Sketch of the Last Years of Samuel Houston" in " Harper's Magazine" (1866).

PASCHALL, Edwin, journalist, b. in Mecklenburgh county. Va., in 1799; d. near Nolensville, Tenn., 5 June, 1869. He was educated as a lawyer, removed to Tennessee in 1833, was a teacher in