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and from the College of Medicine and Surgery, Cincinnati, M.D., 1877, and began practice in New York city in 1883. He was married. Oct. 24, 1878. to Mary S., daughter of Burr Kellogg, M.D., of Ashland, O. He is the autlior of: A Matter of Taste (1884); A Mission Flower (188G); Old Boniface (188^); Madame Noel (1900), and contributions to ]»eriodicals.

PICK, Bernard, clergyman and author, was bom in Komiien, Prussia, Dec. 19, 1842. He attended sciiool in Breslau and Berlin, and was graduated from the Union Theological seminary. New York, in 1868. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, April 8, 1868, and was pastor in New York city, 1868-69; in North Buffalo. N.Y., 1869-70; Syracuse, N.Y., 1870-74; Rocliester,N.Y., 1874-78; Allegheny, Pa., 1881-95, and in 1895 was appointed pastor of the German Lutheran church at Albany, N. Y. He was elected a member of the German Oriental society of Leipzig in 1877, and of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1881. The honorary degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by New York university in 1876, and that of D.D. by Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1893. He published Lutlier's " Eine Feste Burg" in twenty-one languages (1883); Luther's " Hymn of the Reformation " in the English language (1897), and is the author of: Luther as a Hymnist (1875); Juedisclies volksleben zur Zeit Jesn (1880); Index to Lange's Commentary on the Old Testament (1882) ; Life of Jesus According to Extra Canonical Sources ( 1887) ; Tlie Jews Since the Destruction of Jerusa- h'.m (1887); The Talmud : What it is and Wltat it Knows about Jesus and His Followers (1890); General Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers (1887) ; Historical Sketch of the Jews Since their Retxirn from Babylon (1897); Vade Mectim Homileticum, Vol. I. ; The Old Testament (1899), and many contributions to various religious cyclopedias.

PICKARD, Josiah Little, educator, was born in Rowley, Mass., Marcii 17, 1824 ; son of Samuel and Sarah (Coffin) Pickard ; grandson of Jeremiah and Hannah (Harvey) Pickard, and of Joseph and Judith (Tappan) Coffin, and a descendant of John Pickard of Rowley, England, who came to Rowley, Massachusetts, with the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers in 16.38, and wlio married Jane Crosby, 1644. He was graduated from Bowdoin college, A.B., 1844. A.M., 1847; was principal of the Platteville, Wis., academy, 1846-60 ; state super- intendent of public instruction of Wisconsin, 1860-64; superintendent of public schools, Chicago, 111., 1864-77; president of the State University of Iowa, and professor of political science, 1878-87, and lecturer on political science and pedagogy, 1877-79. He was j)resi(lent of the Iowa Historical society, 1880-1900. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Beloit in

1870 ; from the University of Chicago in 1870, and from Bowdoin in 1894. His published writ- ings, chiefly educational, are as follows : School Eejiorts of Wisconsin (1861-65); School Reports of Chicago {ISG'i-lS); School Supervisiun (1890); Brief Political History of United States (1892); History of State Unireisity of loiva (1900).

PICKARD, Samuel Thomas, autiior, was born in Rowley, Mass., March 1, 1828 ; son of Sanmel and Sarah (Coffin) Pickard ; grandson of Jeremiah and Mehitable (Dresser) Pickard and of Joseph and Judith (Tappan) Coffin, and a descendant of Tristram Coffin. John Pickard, the first of his name in America, settled in Rowley. Samuel T. Pickard attended Lewiston Falls, Maine, academy, and later removed with B. P. Shillaber (" Mrs. Partington '') to Boston, where they con- ducted a humorous paper, the Carpet Bag. In 18-52 he sold his interest to Charles G. Halpine ("Miles O'Reilly") and returned to Portland, Maine, where he became connected with the Transcript, and for forty-two years was one of the proprietors and editors. On April 19, 1876, he married Elizabeth H. Wliittier of Amesbury, Mass., who died in Boston, April 9, 1902. She. was a niece of the poet Whittier, whose literary executor Mr. Pickard became. He was elected a trustee of the Portland public library and a mem- ber of the Maine Historical society. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1894. He is the author of : Whittier's Life and Letters (2 vols., 1894); Hawthorne's First Diary (1897); Portland in "Historic Towns of New England " (1898); \Miittier as a Politician (1901), and many contributions to periodicals.

PICKENS, Andrew, soldier, was born in Paxton, Bucks county. Pa., Sept. 13, 1732; son of Andrew Pickens, and a descendant of Andre Pickon, a Huguenot refugee, who escaped from France with his family in 1598, went to Scotland, and thence to Ireland, from where Andrew and his brother, Robert Pike Pickens, emigrated to Pennsylvania. Andrew removed to Augusta county, Va., about 1740, and in 1752 to the Wax- haw settlement in South Carolina. In April, 1761, Andrew, Jr., served as a volunteer in Grant's expedition against the Cherokee Indians. At the outbreak of the Revolution he removed to Long Cane settlement, raised a militia company and was appointed to its command by Col. James Grant, being the j'oungest officer in tiie field. He was married in 1765 to Rebecca (17-15-1810), daughter of James Calhoun, and aunt of John C. Calhoun. He commanded in the battle of Eastatoe, and as a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Hopewell in 1776, effected the sur- render of the whole country as far as the Chatooga river, including Pickens, Greenville and Ander- son districts, to the state of South Carolina.