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1861, and served as acting niastev on the U.S. frigate St. Lawrence of tiie North Atlantic blockading squadron, 1861-02; was promoted lieutenant, July 16, 1802: took part in the en- gagement with the privateer Petrel, and was present at the engagement of the U.S. fleet with the Confederate ram Merrimac and the Sewell's Point batteries. He served on shore duty at the U.S. Naval academy, and was assigned to the U.S. ironclad Xtxhant in 1864. He was com- missioned lieutenant-commander, July 25, 1866, and commanded the Swatara in European and West Indian waters, 1865-68; the flagship Colorado in the Asiatic squadron m 1872; served on ordnance duty at Washington and at Newport, 1873-75; was promoted commander, Jan. 25, 1875, and was a member of the lighthouse board, 1875-85. serving as secretary, 1881-82. He com- manded the U.S.S. Kearsarge, 1879-81, and the U.S.S. Michigan on the northwestern lakes, 1887-89. He was promoted captain, Aug. 4, 1889; was hydrographer of the U.S. navy, 1889- 90; was a member of the board of inspection and survey, and commanded the cruiser Charles- ton during a rebellion in Brazil, and the receiving

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ships Minnesota and Wabash. 1890-98. He was promoted commodore, Nov. 25, 1898; rear-ad- miral, March 3, 1899, and succeeded Admiral Howison as commandant of the Charlestown navy yard. He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 8, 1899.

PICKLER, John Alfred, representative, was born near Salem. Ind., Jan. 24, 1844. He removed with his father to Davis county, Iowa, in 1853, and .served in the Federal army, 1862-65, as captain in the 3d Iowa cavalry, and major of the 13Sth U.S. colored infantry. He was graduated from the Iowa State university, Ph.B., 1870, and from the University of Michigan, LL.B., 1872. He removed to JIuscatine, Iowa, in 1874; was presidential elector on the Garfield ticket in 1880, and a representative in the state legisla- ture in 1881. He removed to Faulkton, Dakota Territory, 1883; was a representative in the territorial legislature. 1884, and inspector in the public land service, 1889. He was a Republican representative at large from South Dakota in the 51st-.54th congresses, 1889-97.

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PICKNELL, William Lamb, painter, was born in Hinesburg, Vt., Oct. 23, 1854; son of the Rev. William and Ellen (Upliam) Picknell; grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Lamb) Picknell, and of Joshuah and Mary (Nichols) Upham, and a descendant of John Upham, who was born in England in 1597; came to New England in 1635, with his wife and three children; was one of the founders of Wey- mouth, Mass., and later aided in found- ing the town of Mai- den. William L. Picknell began the study of art under George Inness in Rome in 1872; was later, 1875-77, a pupil

of Gerome in Paris, and studied in Brittany under Robert Wylie, 1877-81. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, and at the Paris Salon, where he received honorable mention in 1880, and in 1882 opened a studio in Boston, Mass. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880, of the Society of British Artists in 1884, and an associate of the National Academy of Design in New York city in 1891. He received a silver medal in 1881, and a gold medal in 1884, at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Associa- tion Fair; a medal at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893; a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1895; the Lippincott prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1896; and a medal at the Atlanta, Ga., exposition in 1896. He was married, April 18, 1889. to Gertrude, daughter of John and Ann (Goodwin) Powers of Boston. His strength biy in landscape work, and prominent among the localities chosen for his subjects are Normandy and the South of France, the new forest in England, the Mexican frontier, Southern California, Florida and the New Eng- land coast. Among the more ini])ortant paint- ings are: Breton Peasant Girl Feeding Ducks (1877); The Fields of Kerren (1878); The Con- carneau Road, in the Corcoran art gallerj-, Washington (1880); On the Borders of the Marsh, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1880); A Stormy Day (1881); Coast of Ipsicich, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1882); Sun- shine and Drifting Sand (1883); A Sultry Day (1884); Wintry March, in the Walker art gallery, Liverpool (1885); Bleak Deomber, in the Metropol- itan Museum, New York (1886); After the Stortn (1886); November Solitude (1887); Edge of Winter (1891); Le Declin de .7our( 1894); A Toiler of the Sea,