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assisted his father as an instructor in the in- stitute. He prepared a series of elementary books for deaf mutes, entitled Course of Instruc- tion for the Deaf and Diunb (1844-46); contributed articles on his specialty to the American Journal of Insanity, and to the Aiuerican Annals for the Deaf and Dumb, and is the author of: Scripture Lessons for the Deaf and Dumb (1846); Statistics of the Deaf and Dumb (1852); Report on Educa- tion of the Deaf and Dumb in Higher Branches (1852); Letters to Pupils on Leaving the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb {I85i); Legal Rights, etc.. of the Deaf and Dumb (1856), and History of the United States of America (1869). He died in New York city, Jan. 1, 1873.

PEET, Isaac Lewis, educator, was born in Hartford. Conn.. Dec. 4, 1824; son of Harvey Prindle (q.v.) and Margaret Maria (Lewis) Peet. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1845, A.M., 1849, and at Union Theological seminar}-, 1849, but was never ordained. He became instructor at the New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, conducted by his father, 1845; vice-principal in 1854; i>rin- cipal in 1867, when his father retired, and was retired as principal emeritus in 1892. He was married, June 27, 1854, to Mary, daughter of Alvah Toles of Forestville, N.Y. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia in 1872. Dr. Peet was president of the Medico- Legal society of New York, 1886, and author of: A Monograph on Decimal Fractions; Language Lessons for the Deaf and Dumb, and Manual of Vegetable Physiology, and revised and enlarged Dr. Dudley Peet's " Manual of Inorganic Cliemis- try." He died in New York city, Dec. 27, 1898.

PEET, Stephen Denison, archagologist, was born in Euclid, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1830; son of Stephen and Martha (Denison) Peet; grandson of Elijah and Betsey (Leavenworth) Peet and of Amos and Hannah (Williams) Denison, and a descendant from Capt. George Denison of the King Philip war, and from John (1597-1678) and Sarah (Os- borne) Peet. He was graduated from Beloit col- lege, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854, Ph.D. 1896; studied theology at the Yale Divinity school. 1851-53, and was graduated from Andover Theological semin- ary in 1854. He was ordained to the Congrega- tional ministry in February, 1855, and was pastor at Genessee, "Wis., 1855-57; New London, Wis., 1857-59; Fox Lake, Wis., 1800-63; Racine, Wis., 1864-65; Elkhorn, Wis., 1865-66; New Oregon, Iowa, 1866-68; Chatham. Ohio, 1869-72; Ashta- bula. Ohio, 1873-76; Clinton, Wis., 1879-88, and Mendon, 111., 1&88-92. He removed to Chicago 1897. He was elected a member of the American Oriental society; the American Antiquarian society; the Victoria Institute of Great Britain; the American Historical society; the American Numismatic society of New York, and a fellow of

the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He founded and edited the American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, 1879-1902; published the Oriental and Biblical Journal in 1881, and is the author of: The Ashtabida Disaster (1879); History of Ashtabida County, O/a'o (1879); History of Early Missions in Wisconsin (1886); Religious Belief of the Aborigines of North America (1886); Myths and Sijmbols (1887); Emblematic Mounds and Animal Effigies (1890); The Moiuid Builders; TJieir Works and Relics (1892); History of the E.r2)lorations in the Mis- sissippi Valley (1896); Cliff Dwellers and Pue- blos (1899); Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities (1902).

PEFFER, William Alfred, senator, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., Sept. 10. 1831; son of John and Elizabeth (Souder) Peffer, and a descendant of Philip Peffer, who emigrated from Holland about the middle of the 18th century and settled in central Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Cumberland county; taught in a country school, 1846-49; went to the California gold mines, 1850-52, and was married, Dec. 28, 1852, to Sarah Jane, daughter of William Barber of Papertown, Pa. He settled in St. Joseph county, Ind., in 1853, as a farmer, removed to Morgan county, Missouri, in 1859, and engaged in farming and teach- ing. He delivered a speech there on the de- fence of the Union, July 4, 1860, and, obliged to move North on account of liis Union sen- timents, settled in Warren county, 111., in March, 1862. He enlisted as a private in the 83d Illi- nois volunteer infantry in August, 1862; was promoted 2d lieutenant the following March, serving in various responsible positions by detail — regimental quartermaster, adjutant, post- adjutant, judge advocate of a military commis- sion, and concluding his service as depot quarter- master in the engineering department at Nash- ville, Tenn. He was honorably discharged, June 26, 1865. He began his law practice in Clarks- ville, Tenn., in August, 1865, and attempted the organization of a conversative Union party, em- bodying the right of free schools, free speech and free pre.ss. He removed to Kansas in 1870; settled on a claim in Wilson county; established a law practice, and began the publication of the Fredonia Journal. He was elected state senator

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