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 PASCHAL

PASCO

1841-47, and clerk of the U.S. district court, 1846- 56. He was county judge, 1848-50; register of the state land office, 1857-59; librarian and cur- ator of the Iowa State university, 1858-70; professor of natural history, 1860-70, and pro- fessor of political economy there, 1867-70. In 1844 he founded the Iowa Masonic library, and was its first librarian, the building being erected in 1884. He was secretary of the Iowa State Historical society, 1864-66; organizer of the Iowa State Teachers' association in 1854, and its president in 1867; president of the school board of Muscatine in 1855, and later of the school board of Iowa City. He was also a founder of the state library society in 1890, and its pre- sident, 1893-94, and a member of the Pioneer Law Makers' association. He was married, May 17, 1843, to Agnes, daughter of George and Nancy (Barton )McCully of Muscatine, Iowa. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Miami university in 1861, and that of LL.D. from the Iowa State university in 1894. He edited the Historical Annals of Iowa, the Annals of lotva Masonry, the Western Freemason (1859-60): the Evergreen (1871-72), and the Transactions of the Knights Templar (1871-86). He is the author of: Tlie Newspaper Press of loiva, 1836-46; History of lou-a (1877); History of Templary in the United States (1877); History of the Early Schools of Iowa, lS.10-59 (1889).

PASCHAL, George Washington, jurist, was born in Skull Shoals, Greene county, Ga., Nov. 23, 1812, probably of Hebrew origin. He was admitted to the bar in 1832, and practised in Wilkes county, Ga., 1832-36. He was a lieutenant in the volunteer service, engaged in the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Indian Territory, and served as aide-de-camp to General John E. Wool, 1834-35. He married Sarah, daughter of John Ridge, the Cherokee chief. She was a full-blooded Indian, descended from a long line of chiefs, was well educated, a famous beauty and a fine conversationalist. She was an aunt of Elias C. Boudinot (q.v.). They removed to Van Buren, Ark., in 1836-37, where he engaged in the practice of law and was joined bj' bis brother, who liad assumed the name of Brewer. They had an extensive practice as Paschal & Brewer. He was justice of the supreme court of Arkansas, 1842-44; was defeated for representative in congress, and in 1848 removed with his brother to Texas. It was largely through his influence that Sam Hous- ton was elected governor of Texas in 1859. In 1861 he opposed the doctrine of secession and publislied his opinions in the Southern Intelli- gencer, a paper which he had founded at Austin in 1856. He removed to Washington. D.C, in 1869 where he was prominent in founding the law department of Georgetown university and

was professor of jurisprudence at that institution for many years. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Georgetown university in 1875. He is the author of: Annotated Digest of the Laivs of Texas (1866, new ed. 1873); Anno- tated Constitution of the United States (1868, new ed., 1876); Decisions of the Supreme Court of Texas (5 vols., 1869-71); Digest of Decisions of the Supreme Court of Texas (1871-73); a sketch of the last years of Sam Houston in Harper's Mag- azine in 1866, and many contributions to maga- zines. He died in Washington, D.C, Feb. 16, 1878. PASCO, Samuel, senator, was born in London, England, June 28, 1834; son of John and Amelia (Nash) Pasco, and grandson of Samuel Pasco of Launceston and of Edward Nash of London. His father brought him to Prince Edward Island in 1842, and thence in 1844 to Charlestown, Mass. He was graduated at the Charlestown high school in 1854; at Harvard college, A.B., 1858, and was principal of the Waukcenah academy, Jefferson county, Fla., 1859-61. He enlisted in the Con- federate service, Aug. 10, 1861, as a private in the 3d Florida volunteers, which regiment in 1862 formed a part of Bragg's army in the Kentucky campaign, and was later in Breckinridge's divi- sion in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. At the battle of Missionarj' Ridge he was left on the field severely wounded and remained a prisoner until a few weeks before the war closed wlieu he returned to Florida. He was again principal of the Waukeenah academy, 1865-66; clerk of the circuit court, Monticello, 1866-68, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1868, forming a partnership with Col. William S. Dilworth, his preceptor, Avho died in 1869, leaving a large practice. He was married, Oct. 28, 1869, to Jessie, daughter of William and Elizabetli (Scott) Denliani. He was elected a mem-. ._ . -y^^^. , ,,—„-, -Y/

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ocratio state committee in 1872, was its chairman, 187C 88, and a Demo- cratic presiden- ^ tial elector in 1880. He rep- resented his state on the Democratic national committee, 1880-1900. and in the Democratic state convention of 1884 received for a time a plurality of votes as the nominee for governor, but with- drew liis name to prevent a deadlock, and upon his motion Edward A. Perry, his leading com- petitor, obtained the nomination. He was un- animously chosen president of the state constitu- tional convention in 1885, and was a representa- tive in the state legislature, 1886-87, being speaker of the house. He was elected U.S. senator in April,

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