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220 '''POWDERLY. Terence Vincent''', b. in Carbon- dale, Pa., 22 .Jan.. 1849, of Irish Catholic parents, who came to the United States in 1820. His father was a day laborer, and Terence was the eleventh cliild. He attended the public schools from his seventh to his tliirteenth year. Then he began keeping a switch for the Delaware and Hudson canal company, and in 1866 he was employed as an apprentice in the machine-shops of that com- Eany. In 1869 he went to Scranton, Pa., which as since been his home. There he obtained work in the shops of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western railroad company, and at night studied drawing and mechanical engineering. In 1871 he joined the Machinists' and blacksmiths' union, of which he soon became president. His interest in industrial alTairs has been the guiding principle of his life. In 1874 Mr. Powderly was initiated into the Knights of labor (an order founded in 1869 in Philadelphia by Uriah S. Stevens, of Cape May county, N. J.) and became a member of as- sembly No. 88. During the panic of 1878 he lost his work at Scranton, and went to Oil City, Pa., whence he went, in 1874, as a delegate to the Na- tional convention of the Machinists' and black- smiths' union in Louisville. This was his first national appearance as an advocate of organized labor. He finally succeeded in getting this union to disband and join the Knights of labor as assem- bly No. 232. In 1877 he assisted in organizing in Lackawanna county, Pa., a district assembly of Knights of labor, of which he became and was district secretary until 1886. In the great strikes of 1877 about 5,000 laborers, mostly of the Knights of labor of that district, were discharged, and emi- grated to various parts of the west. In their new homes they established new assemblies of the Knights of labor, and to this Mr. Powderly largely attributes the spread and growth of the order. He and other leaders held the first general assembly of the order at Reading, Pa., in 1878, and at the next session, held in St. Louis in 1879, he was elected to the second office, grand worthy foreman. At the third convention, held in Chicago, in Sep- tember, 1879, he was elected general master-work- man. In April, 1878, by the labor vote, he was elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and he was several times re-elected as a Democrat to that oflice. He helped to establish the "Lalior Advocate " at Scran- ton in 1877. When the Irish land league move- ment was organized in this country he was made its second vice-president. He went as chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Irish land league convention of 1888. and called that conven- tion to order. He is the author of " Thirty Years of Labor : A History of the Organization of Labor since 1860" (Columbus, Ohio, 1891). Mr. Powderly writes regularly for the organ of the Knights of labor, the " Journal of United Labor," and has written on "The Army of the Unemployed" and many other kindred topics for periodicals.

POWER, Thomas Charles, senator, b. near Dubuque, Iowa, 22 May, 1889. He studied in the common schools, and took a three years' course in civil engineering at Sinsiniwa college, Wisconsin; for several years he taught school during the win- ter, following his profession during the sunnner. In 1860 he went on an exploring expedition to Dakota, and then became engaged in mercantile business on the Missouri river. In 1867 he took up liis residence at Fort Benton, the head of navi- gation, where he became interested in cattle, min- ing, and stcamboating, serving as president of a line of steamers. In 1878 he removed to Helena. He was elected a member of the first constitu- tional convention of Montana in 1883 ; was a dele- gate to the Republican national convention in 1888, and was an unsuccessful candidate for gov- ernor in 1889. In 1890 he was elected to the U. S. senate for the term ending 8 March, 1895.

PRENDERGAST, Edmond Frauds, R. C. bishop, b. at Clonmel, Ireland, 3 May, 184-3. In 1859 he came to this country and commenced his theological studies at the ecclesiastical college of St. Charles liorromeo, Philadelphia, and was or- dained a priest by Bishop Wood of Philadelphia in the cathedral of that city in 186.5. His first mis- sionary work was as assistant jiastor of St. Paul's church, and next as assist ant pastor of the church at Susquehanna Depot. He was then appointed rec- tor of St. Mark's church, at Bristol, where he built the present church on the destruction of the former church by fire. After four years' service there he was appointed rector of the church at Allentown, where he served until 1874. when he became rector of St. JIalachy's church, in Phila- delphia. He was appointed one of the board of consulters of Archbishop Kyan of Philadelphia, and in 1895 was made vicar-general of the arch- diocese. In 1897 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia, and he w as consecrated in the cathedral by Archbisliop Ryan in February.

PRICE, Evan John, Canadian senator, b. at Woltesfield. near Quebec, 8 May, 1840. He is the fourth son of the late William Price, an extensive lumber merchant of Quebec and the Saguenay and Chicoutind districts. He was educated at a private school in England. Mr. Price is the sole surviving member of the opulent firm of Price Brothers, is vice-president of the Union bank, and a director of many large commercial corporations. He was called to the senate of Canada in 1888, and continues to be a member of that body. He received the de- gree of D. C. L. from Bishops College university.

PRICE, John Charles, educator, b. in Eliza- beth City, N. C, 10 Feb.. 1854. He is of African descent, and his father was a slave. He was grad- uated at Lincoln university, Chester county. Pa., in 1879 and at its theological department in 1881, and entered the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. In 1882 he became presi- dent of Livingstone college, N. C. Lincoln uni- versity gave him the degree of D. D. in 1887. Dr. Price was a delegate to the Methodist cecunienical council in London in 1881, and in 1888 President Cleveland appointed him ndnister to Liberia, but he declined, continuing his college duties.

'''PRINCE. Edward Ernest''', Canadian commissioner of fisheries, b. at Leeds, England. 24 May, 1858. He was educated at the Univereity of St. Andrews, where he won honors in the arts, philosophy, and science, and continued his studies at the University of Edinburgh and at Cambridge. Prof. Prince is devoted to scientific pursuits, especially zoology and embryology. He was senior assistant in the natural history department of the Uinversity of Edinburgh ; secretary of the Scottish fishery bait commission ; naturalist at the marine laboratory, St. Andrews; zoologist on firet Irish deep-sea fishery investigations, 1890: professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at St. Mungo's college; and has been commissioner of fisheries for the Dominion of Canada since 1898. Prof. Prince is a fellow of the Linnean society of London, and was formerly president of the Naturalist's society of Andersonian university, Glasgow, and vice-president of the Glasgow natural history society. Besides being the autlior of about fifty scientific papers, chiefly treating of fisheries and the life-history of fishes, contributed to the