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tlie enemy's country. He was assistant in the commissary-general's office, Washington, D.C., 1848-49, and resigned from the army, June 30, 1850. He engaged in farming at Sacket Harbor, N.Y., 1850-59 ; was president of the Sacket Har- bor and EUisburg railroad, 1853-54 ; general superintendent of the New York State Agricul- tural society, 1856-61, and president of the New York State Agricultural college, Ovid, N.Y., 1859-61. He was brigadier-general of staff and inspector-general of New York state volunteers, 1861 ; a member of the staff of General McClel- lan, 1863 ; was promoted brigadier-general of U. S. volunteers, March 17, 1862, and commanded a brigade in the defence of Washington, D.C., March-May, 1862. He was military commandant of Fredericksburg ; took part in McDowell's pur- suit of Jackson, May 7-Aug. 9, 1862 ; in the Northern Virginia campaign in command of the 3d brigade, 1st division, 3d army corps, Aug.-Sept., 1862, and was present at the second battle of Bull Run and in the 1st army corps in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He was provost-marshal-general of the Army of the Potomac, 1863-65, and of the armies opera- ting against Richmond, 1864-65. He was bre- vetted major-general, U.S. volunteers, March 13, 1865, for " faithful and meritorious services dur- ing the rebellion," and was provost-marshal-gen- eral of the department of Vii-ginia. commanding the district of Henrico, Va., May 25-June 9, 1865. He resigned, June 12, 1865, and resided at Geneva, N.Y. He was president of the New York State Agricultural society, 1867-68 ; commissioner for New York state, 1868-69 and 1879-80 ; removed to Dayton, Ohio, and was governor of the cen- tral branch of the National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers in Ohio, 1880-88. He died in Dayton, Ohio, July 27, 1888.

PATRICK, Mary Mills, educator, was born in Canterbury, N.H., March 10, 1850; daughter of John and Harriet (Wliite) Patrick ; granddaugh- ter of William and Mary fGorrish) Patrick, and John and Mary (May) White, and great-grand- daughter of John Patrick, her first ancestor in America, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Warren, Mass. She attended Franklin and Boscawen academies. New Hamp- shire ; Lyons college, Iowa ; studied privately at Heidelberg and in the universities of Zurich, 1893-94. Leipzig, 1894, Berlin, 1895, and Berne, 1896-97. She received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of Iowa, 1890, and the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berne, 1897. She made special language study in ancient and modern Armenian, ancient and mod- ern Greek, French, German and Turkish, and studied in several libraries in Europe, making research on the subject of Pyrrhonism. Slie was

elected president of the American College for Women, in Constantinople, Turkey, 1890, and member of the psychological congresses, Munich, 1896, Paris, 1900, and Philosophical congress, Paris, 1900. She is the author of : Armenian Trans- lation of Text Book on Physiology (1876); Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism (1899), and popu- lar articles, including : Education of Women in Turkey (Forum, June, 1896); Women's Struggle for Liberty in Germany {Popular Science Monthly, January, 1900); Ethics of the Koran {International Journal of Ethics, April, 1901.)

PATTEE, Fred Lewis, educator, was born in Bristol, N.H., March 22, 1863 ; son of Lewis and Mary P. (Ingalls) Pattee ; grandson of Moses Pattee, and a descendant of Peter Pattee, who settled in Haverhill, Mass., about 1640. He was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1891. He was principal of Coe's Northwood academy, New Hampshire, 1890-94, and in 1894 became professor of English language and literature at the Pennsylvania State college. He was married, March 9, 1889, to Anna L., daughter of Charles L. and. Louisa P. (Simons) Plumer of Bristol, N.H. He is the author of : Tl\e Wine of May and other Lyrics (1893); Pasquaney, a Study (1894); A His- tory of American Literature (1896); Reading Courses in American Literature (1897) ; TJie Foun- dations of English Literature (1900); Mary Gar- vin: The Story of a New Hampshire Summer (1902); Tlie Poems of Philip Freneau (2 vols., 1902). He also edited Macbeth and contributed frequently to periodicals.

PATTEE, William Sullivan, jurist, was born in Jackson, Maine, Sept. 19, 1846 ; son of Daniel and Mary Ann (Bixby) Pattee ; grandson of Daniel and Ann (Putnam) Pattee and of Willard and Ab- bie (Ferguson) Bixby of Monroe, Maine. He was graduated from Bovvdoin, A.B., 1871 ; A.M. 1874 ; was married Nov. 30, 1871, to Julia E., daughter of Jacob and Hannah Tuttle of Plymouth, Maine ; taught school and studied law, 1871-78 ; was pro- fessor of natural science at Lake Forest university, 111., 1872-73 ; was admitted to the bar June 28, 1878, at Faribault, Minn., and practiced in Northfield, Minn., for ten years. He was a Republican representative in the Minnesota legislature in 1885, and became dean of the college and pro- fessor of the law of contracts and equity jurisprudence at the University of Minnesota, in 1888. Iowa college conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1891. He is the author of : Pattee's Illustrative Cases in Con- tracts, in Realty, in Equity, in Personalty, and author of the Elements of Contracts, and the Elements of Equity.

PATTEN, John, delegate, was born in Kent county, Del., in 1746. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the Delaware regiment, Jan.