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 PEIRCE

PELOUBET

PEIRCE, Melusina Fay, author and organizer, was born iu Burlington, Vt.. Feb. 24, 1836; daughter of the Rev. Ur. Charles and Emily (Hopkins) Fay; granddaughter of Judge Samuel Phillips Prescott and Harriet (Howard) Fay and of the Rt.-Rev. John Henry and Melusina (Miilh-r) Hopkins, and lineally descended from John Fay, colonist, 1656, from Mistress Anne Hutchinson (q.T.), and from the Rev. Peter Bulkeley (q.v.). She attended the Young Ladies' School of Prof. Louis Agassiz at Cambridge, Mass., and was married to Charles Sanders Peirce (q.v.) in 18G-2. Originating the theory that cooperative housekeeping by housekeepers, and cooperative farming by farmers are the only possible cure for modern poverty, she organized the Cambridge Cooperative Housekeeping Association, 1870; also the Boston Woman's Education association, 1871, and the Cambridge Woman's union, 1877. She contributed essays and reviews to the Atlantic Monthly, 1868-77, and was music critic on the Boston Post, 1877-78, and on the Chicago Evening Journal, 1882-84. She proposed and started the New York Women's World Fair committee, 1876 ; the New York women's movement for cheap summer-night concerts, 1895 ; the New York movement to save the Poe cottage, 1896, and Fraunces Tavern, 1897. Slie proposed and organiz- ed the street cleaning committee of the Ladies' Health Protective Association of New Y'ork, 1887- 88 ; the Women's Philharmonic Society of New York, 1898-99, and the Women's Auxiliary to the American Scenic and Historic Preservation society. New York, 1900-01. She is the author of : Cooperative Housekeeping : How not to do it, and How to do it (1884); Cooperative Housekeeping (1889), and edited Amy Fay's " Music-Study in Germany " (1881 ; 19th ed., 1900).

PEIRCE, 'William Foster, educator, was born at Cliicopee Falls, Mass., Feb. 3, 1868; son of Levi Merriam and Mary Hobbs (Foster) Peirce ; grandson of Levi and Polly (Merriam) Peirce of West Boylston, Mass., and of William and Calista (Ward) Foster of Norway, Maine, and a descendant of John Peirce, Watertown, Mass., 1637. He was graduated at Amherst college, A.B., 1888, A.M., 1892, and was a graduate student at Cornell university in philo- .sophy and economics, 1889-90. He was a teacher in a boys' boarding school at Mount Hermon, Mass., 1890-92, and substitute professor of psycho- logy and pedagogy in Ohio university at Athens in the spring of 1892. He was elected Spt-ncer and Wolfe professor of moral and mental philo- sophy at Kenyon college, Gambler, Ohio, in Sep- tember, 1892, acting also as professor of history, l«92-96. In 1896 he was elected president of Kenyon college to succeed D. Theodore Sterling. In the same year Hobart college conferred unon

him the honorary degree of L.H.D. In 1894 he was ordained to the diaconate in the Episcopal church, and was advanced to the priesthood in 1901. He was secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Society for Psychological and Pedagogical Inquiry and a member of the Knox County and Ohio State Teachers' associations, and of the Ohio College association. He was married, June 18, 1891, to Louise Stephens, daughter of Ansel Fagan of Hackettstown, N.J., a graduate of Vassar col- lege, 1888.

PELLICIER, Anthony Domenec Ambrose, R. C. bishop, was born in St. Augustine, Fla., Dec. 7, 1824. He attended St. Joseph's college, Ala., and was ordained priest, Oct. 15, 1850, by- Bishop Portier of Mobile. He was j^astor of St. Peter's church, Montgomery, Ala., and founded churches in Camden and Selma, Ala. He was transferred to the cathedral at Mobile in 1865, and was appointed a member of the bishop's council and vicar-general in 1867. He served as chaplain in the Confederate army during the civil war. He was consecrated bishop of the diocese of San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 8, 1874, at the cathedral at Mobile by Archbishop Perche of New Orleans, assisted by Bishops Fitzgerald of Little Rock, and Gibbons of Richmond. During his administration he visited every parish in his diocese, on horseback, built several churches and schools, and the exposure undermined his health. He died at San Antonio, Texas, April 14, 1880.

PELOUBET, Francis Nathan, clergyman and author, was born in New York city, Dec. 2, 1831 ; son of Chabrier and Harriet (Hanks) Peloubet ; grandson of Alexander Joseph and Elizabeth (Al- cott) de Chabrier de Peloubet and of Joseph and Anna(Frary)Hanks. His grandfather, Alexander Joseph de Chabrier de Peloubet, was born at the Chateau de Peloubet, an estate near Luzon, Lot- et-Garonne, France, and arrived in New York iu October, 1803. The family received their patent of nobility in 1603. Francis N. Peloubet was graduated from Williams in 1853, and from the Bangor (Maine) Theological seminary in 1857, and was ordained to the Congregational minis- try. He was married, April 28, 1859, to Mary Abby, daughter of Sidnej' and Sophronia (Chase) Thaxter of Bangor, Maine. He was pastor of the Lanesville (Gloucester) Congregational church, 1857-60 ; pastor at Oakham, 1861-66 ; Attleboro, 1867-71 ; Natick, 1872-83, all of Massachusetts. In 1884 he gave up the active ministry for author- siiip, and after 1889 made his home at Auburndale, Mass. He became widelj' known as the author of lesson books, etc., for Sundaj'-schools, his Select Notes on the International Sunday-School Lessons (28 vols., 187.5-1902), reaching a sale of more than a million copies. The Universitv of Tennessee conferred upon him the honorarj-