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Rh '''PELLETIER. Charles Alphonse Pentaleon''', Canadian senator, b. in Rivere Ouelle, Queljec, 22 Jan., 18;^7. He was educated at St. Anne's col- lege and at Laval university, where he was gradu- ated in law in 1858. He was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1800, appointed Queen's coun- sel in 1879, and has been syndic of the Quebec bar. He was for several years major of the Volti- geurs de Quebec, and was in command of that bat- talion during the Fenian raid of 1866. He was elected to the Dominion parliament for Kamou- raska in 1869, re-elected in 1872, and again by acclamation in 1874. He represented Quebec East in the Quebec assembly from February, 1878, till January, 1874, when, in consequence of the dual representation act, he resigned from the Quebec assembly to retain his seat in the parliament of Canada, in which he represented Kamouraska till 1877. He was a member of the privy counsel as minister of agriculture from January, 1877, till October, 1878, when he resigned with his colleagues in office. He was called to the senate in 1877. Mr. Pelletier was president of the Canadian commis- sion for the Paris universal exhibition of 1878, and for his services was created a companion of the order of St. Michael and St. George. In July, 1896. he became president of the senate.

PELLICER, Anthony Dominic, R. C. bishop, b. in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1825 ; d. in San An- tonio. Tex., 14 April, 1880. He studied for the priesthood in Spring Hill college, near Mobile, Ala., was ordained priest in 1850, and appointed pastor 'Of St. Peter's church, Montgomery, Ala., having at the same time several distant stations under his charge. He built a church in Camden in 1850, and afterward organized a congregation in Selma. He was attached to the cathedral of Mobile in 1865, appointed a member of the bishop's council, and vicar-general in 1807. During the civil war he was a chaplain in the Confederate army, and was noted for the devotion with which he attended the sick and wounded on both sides. In 1875 he was elected bishop of the newly created diocese of San Anto- nio, embracing that part of Texas between Colo- rado and Nueces rivers. He began his administra- tion by visiting every parish in his diocese, travel- ling over the pi'airies on horseback, and sometimes sleeping in the open air. He built churches and schools where they were most needed, but exposure and excessive labor affected his health.

PELOTAS, Patricio Jose Correa da Camara (pay-lo'-tas). Viscount of, Brazilian soldier, b. at sea about 1740; d. in Rio Pardo, 28 May, 1827. He was brought up in Portugal, enlisted in an in- fantry regiment, and during the earthquake at Lisbon in 1755 was on duty at the royal treasury. He served for some time in Indian garrisons, but was afterward sent to Rio Janeiro. On his arrival he was appointed to superintend the conversion of the Jesuit college into a military hospital, but when the war against the Spaniards in the south began in 1774 the governor-general, the Marquis of Lavradio {q. v.), sent him to the field, where he assisted at the taking of Fort S. Tecla. In 1801 hostilities were renewed, and Correa participated in the five months' campaign that followed, retak- ing Fort St. Tecla and the town of Batohy. and checking the invasion of Rio Grande by the army of the Marquis of Sobremonte. In 1812 and 1816-'18 he served again with the rank of general.

PELOUBET, Francis Nathan, clergyman, b. in New York city, 2 Dec, 1831. He was gradu- ated at Williams in 1853, and at the Congrega- tional theological seminary in Bangor, Me., in 1857. Since the latter year he has been pastor of churches in Massachusetts. The University of East Tennessee gave him the degree of D. D. in 1884. He has published " International Question- Books" (15 annual issues, Boston. 1874- '88) and other books, and edited William Smith's " Bible Dictionary " (Philadelphia, 1884).

PELOUZE, Louis Henry, soldier, b. in Penn- sylvania, 30 May. 1841 ; d. in" Washington, D. C.. 1 June, 1878. He was graduated at the U. S. mili- tary academy in 1853, assigned to the artillerv, and promoted 2d lieutenant on 11 Nov. In 1857-'8 he was on duty in Kansas during the anti-slavery disturbances, and accompanied the second column of the Utah expedition as acting assistant adju- tant-general. He was commissioned as captain on 14 May, 1861, and served during the civil war, first on the staff of Gen. John A. Dix. then in the Port Royal expedition, in Georgia when Fort Pu- laski was captured, with Gen. James Shields at Port Republic, and as major on the staff with the 2d corps of the Army of Virginia in the Shenan- doah campaign until he was severely wounded at Cedar Mountain, 9 Aug., 1862. After his recoveiy he served till the close of hostilities as assistant adjutant-general of volunteers with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, being on special duty in the defences of Washington in the autumn of 1862, then with the troops of the Department of Vir- ginia till August, 1863. and in the adjutant-gen- eral's department at Washington till May, 1864, and afterward in charge of the records of colored troops in the war department till 14 June, 1868. For his gallantry at Cedar Mountain he was bre- vetted lieutenant-colonel, and on 13 March, 1865, he received the brevets of colonel and brigadier- general for valuable services in the field and in the adjutant-general's department. He was adjutant- general of the Department of the Lakes in 1869-'73, and afterward till his death assistant in the ofiice of the adjutant-general of the army.

PEMBERTON, Ehenezer, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., in January, 1071 ; d. there, 13 Feb., 1717. His father, James, was one of the founders of the Old South church, Boston. Ebenezer was graduated at Harvard in 1691, was tutor and fel- low in that college, and from his ordination in 1700 till his death was pastor of the Old South church. He published a large number of occa- sional discourses, which, with three prefatoiy epis- tles, were printed collectively (Boston, 1727). — His son, Ebenezer, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass.. in 1704; d. there, 9 Sept., 1779, was graduated at Harvard in 1721, was chaplain at Fort William in 1722-'6, and in the latter year was ordained pas- tor of the 1st Presbyterian church in New York city, in which he continued for twenty-six years. He" then took charge of the Brick church in Bos- ton till 1775. His known friendship for Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, who was a member of his congregation, caused him to be accused of loyalty to the crown, which diminished his popularity and usefulness. In 1771 he was the only minister in Boston who read the governor's proclamation from the pulpit, for the annual thanksgiving, the Whigs " walking out of the meeting in great indig- nation." In 1775 his church was closed, and he probably did not preach again after the evacua- tion. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1770, the first that the college ever conferred. He was an eloquent preacher, and is described as a " man of polite breeding, pure morals, and warm devotion." During his residence in New York he was president of the board of correspondents com- missioned by the Society in Scotland for propar gating Christian knowledge among the Indians.