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bury, Mass., wliere he settled. George Partridge was prepared for college under the Rev. Charles Turner, was graduated at Harvard A.B.. 1762, A. M., 1765, and engaged in teaching school in Kings- ton, Mass. He fitted for the ministry, but abandoned it, and returned to teaching school in 1770 ; was a delegate to the Provincial congress, 1774-75 ; a representative in the general court, 1775-79, and sheriff of Plymouth county as suc- cessor to Gen. Joseph Warren, 1777-1813. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1 779- 83, and 17S3-S5 ; a I'epresentative in the Mas- sachusetts legislature in 1788, and a represent- ative in the first and second sessions of the 1st congress, 1789-90, resigning his seat, August 14, 1790. He endowed Partridge seminary at Duxbury, Mass., and left a large part of his estate to reli- gious and charitable purposes. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Duxbury, Mass., July 7, 1838.

PARTRIDGE, Sidney Catlin, first missionary bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and the 195th in succes- sion in the American episcopate, was born in New York city, Sept. 1, 1857 ; son of George Sidney, Jr., and Helen Derby (Catlin) Partridge ; grandson of George Sidney and Mary (Tew) Partridge, and a descendant of George Partridge of Ply- mouth, 1631. He was graduated at Yale in 1880, and at Bei'keley Divinity school in 1884. He was admitted to the diaconate by Bishop Williams, June 4, 1884, and went as missionary to Shanghai, China, where Bishop Boone assigned liim to St. Jolm's college as teacher and to St. Mary's hall as cliaplain. He was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Boone in 1885, and in 1887 became rector of Boone school. Wu-chang, and missionary in charge of neighborhood work. At a special meet- ing of the House of Bishops in 1899, he was elected bishop of the newly created see of Kyoto, Japan, and was consecrated at the catliedral in Tokyo, Feb. 3, 1900, by Bishops McKim, Graves and Schereschewsky of the American missions, assisted by Bishops Foss, Evington, Tyson and Awdry of the Anglican church. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Berkeley Divinity school in 1900.

PARTRIDGE, William Ordway, sculptor, was born in Paris, France, April 11, 1861 ; brother of Sidney C. Partridge. He returned to the United States with his parents in 1868, and was a student at Cheshire Military academy, Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Columbia college successive- ly. In 1883 he was sent to Europe, where he studied sculpture in Naples, Florence, Rome and Paris until 1885, when he returned to the United States. He appeared at Wallack's theatre. New York, as "Steerforth" in David Copperfield, devoting his leisure to modeling in clay and to the study of Greek art with Thomas Davidson, and subse-

quently gave his entire attention to sculpture. He was married in 1887 to Mrs. Augusta Merriam of Milton, Mass. They went to Rome, where Mr. Partridge entered the studio of Pi.o W^elonski. Upon his return to the United States in 1889 he became professor of fine arts in Columbian univer- sity, Washington, D.C., and a lecturer before the National Social Science association, the Concord School of Philosophy and the Brooklyn institute. He had studios in Paris and in Anvers, Belgium, 1893-94, and in 1894 set- tled in Milton, Mass. He held membership in the Sous of the American Revolution, in the Au- thors, Cosmos and Press clubs and exhibited fre- qiiently at the Paris Salon and at the Royal acade- mies of London and Ber- statue of lin. He is the author of: aue:xa>np£K HAMUTOM Art for America; TJie Song Life of a Sculptor ; The Technique of Sculpture The Angel of Clay (1900) and Nathan Hale (1993.) His sculpture includes : heroic statues of Shakespeare in Lin- coln Park, Chicago, 111. (1879). and of Alexander Hamilton, Brooklyn, N.Y. (1880) ; Kauffmann memorial, Wusliington, D.C. ; bust of Edward Everett Hale, Union League club, Chicago, 111. ; bust of Whittier in Boston Public library (1896); colossal equestrian statue of Grant for Union League club, Brooklyn, N.Y. ; marble Madonna ; an heroic figure of Christ ; heroic statue of John Reese (1897) ; heroic equestrian statue of Fight- ing Joe Hooker (1897) ; and a second ideal head of Christ (1901).

PARVIN, Theodore Sutton, educator, was born in Cedarville, N.J., Jan. 15, 1817; son of Josiah and Lydia (Harris) Parvin. Josiah Parvin served as an aide to General Odgen in the war of 1813, and his father was a Revolutionary soldier, Theodore Parvin removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, with his parents in 1839, was graduated at Wood- ward college in 1836, and at the Cincinnati Law school in 1837. He began practice in Burlington, Iowa, in 1838, and was private secretary to Gov. Robert Lucas and territorial librarian, purchas- ing the first books that formed the nucleus of tlie Iowa state library with an appropriation of $5,000 made by congress. He was district attorney for the middle district of Iowa, 1839-41. He removed to Muscatine in 1840 ; was secretary of the legislative council, 1840-41 ; probate judge