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grandson of Stephen and Sarah (Simonds) Pepper. He was graduated at Williston seminary, East- hampton, Mass., in 1853, at Amherst college, A.B., 1857, and at Newton Theological institution in 1860. He was ordained to the ministry Sept. 6, 1860, and was married Nov. 39, to Annie, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Field) Grassie of Bolton, Mass. He was pastor of the Baptist church, Waterville, Me., 1860-65; professor of ecclesiastical history in Newton Theological in- stitution, 1865-67; of Christian theology at Crozer Theological seminary, Upland, Pa., 1867-82; president and professor of intellectual and moral philosopliy at Colby university, Waterville,

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Maine, 1883-89, and pastor at Saco, Maine, 1890-93. During his term of office at Colby, the Shannon observatory and the physical laboratory were erected and two professorships were added. He traveled and preached, 1889-93; was made pro- fessor of Biblical literature at Colby university in 1893 and served as acting president in 1895. He resigned his professorship in 1900 but con- tinued to reside in Waterville. He received the degree of D.D. from Colby in 1867 and from Amherst in 1883. that of LL.D. from the Uni- versity of Lewisburg in 1883, and from Colby in 1890. He wrote the monthly expositions of the " International Sunday -Scliool Lessons " for the Baptist Teacher (about 1870-71); published occasional sermons, addresses, reviews, and essays; and is the author of: Outlines of Syste- matic Theology (1873); Lecture IV in "Madison Avenue Lectures" (1867); and the chapter on Baptist Doctrine during the Century in the Cen- tennial volume of Baptists (1876).

PEPPER, George Seckel, philanthropist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 11, 1808; son of George and Mary (Seckel) Pepper. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1837, and was admitted to the bar in 1830, but did not practice. He was left a large estate by his father, and devoted himself to its manage- ment, and to philanthrophic work. He was interested in the principal financial concerns of Philadelphia, was president of the American Academy of Music, and of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His estate amounted to several millions of dollars of which he bequeathed

$150,000 for the erection of a public library in Philadelphia; $60,000 for the endowmen.of a professorship in the University of Pennsylvania, $50,000 each to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the hospital of the Protestant Episcopal church, the Pennsylvania hosjiital, and the hospital of Jefferson Medical college, as well as generous bequests to the numerous hospitals, charitable and religious institutions, scientific organizations, libraries, schools and colleges, the total bequests aggregating $1,03-1,000. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1890.

PEPPER, George Wharton, lawyer and educa- tor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 1867; son of George and Hitty Markoe (Wharton) Pepper; grandson of William and Sarah (Piatt) Pepper and of George Mifflin and Maria (Markoe) Wharton. He was graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, A.B. (valedictorian), 1887; LL.B. (law orator), 1889, and was admitted to the bar. While an undergraduate, he edited the Pennsylvanian and the University Magazine, was active in college athletics and took the principal role in the " Acharnians,"a Greek play performed in the original by the students of the University. He was a fellow of the law department, 1889-93. He was married, Nov. 35, 1890, to Charlotte Root, daughter of Prof. George Park Fisher (q. V. ). In 1893 he accepted the Algernon Sydney Biddle professorship of law in the University of Pennsylvania. He was active in the cause of the reform of methods of equal education, and his paper upon that subject read before the Pennsylvania Bar association in 1895 was the starting point for the imj^ortant changes which followed in that commonwealth. He became a member of the American Philosophical society, and the Pennsylvania society, Sons of the Revolu- tion. He edited The American Law Register and Revieiv. 1893-95; and is the author of: The Borderland of Federal and State Decisions (1899); Pleading at Common Law and imder the Codes (1891); Digest of the Laivs of Pennsylvania (1893- 97, jointly with Wm. Draper Lewis), and of the Digest of Decisions and Encyclopdceia of Penn- sylvania Laiv 1754-1898 (jointly with William Draper Lewis). Of this work the thirteenth volume appeared in 1903.

PEPPER, William, educator, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., Aug. 31, 1843; son of Dr. William and Sarah (Piatt) Pepper. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1862, M.D.. 1864, A.M., 1865; established himself in practice in Philadelphia, and attained high rank as a physician, both in private practice and as official physician to hospitals. He was lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania on morbid anatomy, 1868-70, on clinical medicine,