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the 51st congress in 1888 and took his seat which was successfully contested by George W. Atkin- son, who succeeded him on Feb. 27, 1890. He was re-elected to the 52d and 53d congresses, serving, 1891-95.

PENDLETON, John Strother, representative, was born in Culpeper county, Va., March 1, 1802 ; son of William and Ann (Strother) Pendleton ; grandson of James and Mary (Bowie) Pendleton ; great-grandson of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Pendleton, and a descendant of Philip Pendleton of Norwich, England, who immigrated to Amei'ica in 1674 and married Isabella Hurt. He was a leading lawyer of Culpeper county ; mem- ber of the Virginia legislature for several years prior to 1840 ; charge d'affaires to the republic of Chili, 1841-44 ; representative from tlie Culpeper district in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1845-49, and U. S. minister resident to the Argentine Con- federation, 1852-54. In conjunction with Gen. R. C. Schenck of Ohio, who was at the time U. S. Minister to Brazil, he negotiated a treaty with Paraguay and Uruguay. He died in Culpeper county, Va., Nov. 19, 1868.

PENDLETON, Louis (Beauregard), author and journalist, was born at Tebeauville (now Waycross), Ga., April 21, 1861; son of Philip .Coleman and Catharine (Tebeau) Pendleton ; grandson of Coleman Pendleton, a Virginian, who settled in Georgia, and married Martha, daughter of Benjamin Gilbert, a captain in the Revolution, and great-grandson of Capt. Philip Pendleton also an officer of the Revolution. His father was editor (1840-45) of The Magnolia, the first maga- zine ever published south of Richmond, Va. Louis attended the Valdosta, Ga., high school. Later he was a student for two years at the College of the New Jerusalem Church, Phila- delphia, also taking a course in modern languages at the Berlitz school. In 1899 he became a mem- ber of the editorial staff of the Macon, Ga., Tele- graph. He is the author of : Bewitched (1888) ; la the Wire-Grass (1889) ; King Tom and the Riinawarjs (1890) ; The Wedding Garment (1894) ; The Sons of Ham (1895) ; In the Okefinokee (1895) ; Corona of the Nantahalas (1895) ; Carita (1898) ; A Forest Drama (1902) ; Little Tiger Tail (1902), and short stories contributed to iieriodicals.

PENDLETON, Nathaniel, jurist, was born in Culpeper county, Va., in 1756. He joined the Rev- olutionary army, 1775 ; was promoted brevet- major, serving as aide-de-camp to Gen. Nathanael Greene, and received the thanks of congress for his gallantry at Eutaw Springs, S.C, Sept. 8, 1781. On the close of the war he studied law in Georgia and was subsequently appointed U. S. district judge. He was proposed to President Washing- ton as a candidate for the office of secretary of state, but was objected to by Alexander Hamil-

ton, who afterward became his friend and for whom Pendleton acted as second in his duel with Aaron Burr. He was a delegate to the Federal constitutional convention in 1787, but was not present when the constitution of the United States was signed. He was a member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. In 1796 he settled in practice in New York city, where he married his second wife, Susan, daughter of Dr. John Bard (q.v.). He became judge of Duchess county, residing on a farm at Hyde Park, N.Y., where he died, Oct. 20, 1821.

PENDLETON, Nathaniel Greene, representa- tive, was born in Savannah, Ga., in August, 1793 ; son of Nathaniel Pendleton, jurist (q.v.) He was graduated at Columbia college in 1813, and was married to a Miss Hunt. He was aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, U.S.A., 1813-15; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1818, where he practised law, was a member of the state senate, 1825-27, and a representative from the first district in the 27th congress, 1841- 43. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16, 1861.

PENDLETON, William Kimbrough, educator, was born in Louisa county, Va., Sept. 3, 1817; son of Edmund and Unity Yancey (Kimbrough) Pendleton, and great-grandson of John Pendleton, who was a brother of Judge Edmund Pendleton (q.v.). He was graduated in an elective course of classical, scientific and philosophical studies, and from the law department of the University of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. In the same year he was married to Lavinia Macgregor ; secondly, in 1847, to Clarinda, both daughters of Alexander and Margaret (Brown) Campbell, and thirdly, in 1855, to Catharine Hunt- ington, daughter of Judge Leicester King of Warren, Ohio. In 1840 he removed to Bethany, Va., to take part in the founding of Bethany college, in which institution he was professor and vice-president until 1866, when he succeeded Mr. Campbell as president. From 1846 till its discon- tinuance in 1870, he was co-editor of the Millennial Harbinger, and from then until his death was on the staff of The Christian Standard. He was senatorial representative in the West Virginia state constitutional convention of 1877, and a member of the committee on finance and educa- tion. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1873. He was state superintendent of public schools in 1873, during this term practically framing the school law, which stood without material change for twenty years, and subsequently served in the same office four years. He died at Bethany, W. Va.. Sept. 1. 1899.

PENDLETON,William Nelson, clergyman and soldier, was born in Richmond, Va., Dec. 26, 1809 ; son of Edmund, Jr., of Caroline County ,Va.,