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Hampshire, Massachusetts and American Anti- slavery societies. He delivered anti-slavery lec- tures in England. 1853-55 ; and was editor of the Herald of Freedom at Concord, N.H., in 1840 and 1845-46, and of the National Anti-Slavery Stand- ard, New York city, in 186G, After the legal abolishment of slavery, he devoted himself to the woman suffrage cause and with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, edited The Revolu- tion in New York city. He later became a pi'eacher to free religious societies in Ohio, Michigan, and other western states. He was mar- ried to Sarah H., daughter of Dr, John L. and Sallie (Wilkins) Sargent, Slie died March 8, 1898, leaving one daughter. He is the author of Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles (1883) and many pamphlets on reform subjects. He died in Con- cord, N.H,, July 7, 1898,

PINCHBACK, Pinckney Benton Stewart, politician, was born in Macon, Ga., May 10, 1837 ; son of William and Eliza Pinchback. His father was white and his mother a mulatto. He re- moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, with his parents, and his father dying when he was eleven years old, he found employment on a river steamboat. He was married in 1860 to Nina, daughter of Ann Hothorn, a native of New Orleans, La. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he was within the Confederate lines, ran the blockade in 1862, at Yazoo City, and enlisted in the 1st Louisiana volunteers at New Orleans. He was appointed captain in the 2d Louisiana native guards in 1863, and resigned on account of the existing prejudice against colored officers. General Banks, however, authorized him to recruit a company of cavalry from his own race, but re- fused to commission him in it on account of his color. He was a delegate to the reconstruc- tion convention of 1867 ; state senator in 1868 ; a delegate to the Republican national conven- tion of 1868 and in April, 1869, was appointed register of the land office at New Orleans. He established the New Orleans Louisianian Dec. 25, 1870, and organized a company to establish a steamboat line on the Mississippi river. He was elected president pro-tempore of the state senate, became lieutenant-governor on the death of Lieut.-Gov. Oscar Dunn, Dec. 6, 1871, and acting governor during the impeachment trial of Governor Warmoth, December and January, 1872-73. He was nominated for governor by the Republican party in 1872, but withdrew in the interest of harmony, and was nominated and elected representative to congress from the state at large in November, 1872. He was chosen U.S. senator by the Republican legislature in 1873, but his seat was refused him by the senate, and was vacant, 1873-77, although he received the pay due a senator from Louisiana for the time

he was before the senate. He was commissioner from Louisiana to the "Vienna exposition in 1873 ; a member of the state board of education, 1877- 80 ; a delegate to the state constitutional conven- tion in 1879, and surveyor of customs of New Orleans in 1882. He was graduated from the law department of Straiglit university. New Orleans, La., in 1886; was admitted to the bar the same year, and practised in New Orleans, where be was a trustee of Southern university, 1883-86, and afterward in Wasliington, D.C. He was a delegate to every Republican national convention from 1868 to 1900.

PINCHOT, Gifford, forester, was born in Simsbury, Conn., Aug. 11, 1865; son of James Wallace and Mary (Eno) Pinchot ; and grandson of Cyril Constantine Desire and Eliza (Cross) Pinchot, and of Amos Richards and Lucy (Phelps) Eno. He graduated from Yale in 1889, and studied the science of forestry in France, Ger- many, Switzerland and Austria. He inaugu- rated the first piece of regular forest manage- ment in America on the estate of George W. Vanderbilt at Biltmore, near Asheville, N.C., in January, 1892, and later opened an office as consulting forester in New York city. In 1895 he became a member of a committee of the National Academy of Sciences, appointed to re- commend a forest policy for the United States. In 1897 he made for the secretary of the interior an examination and a i-eport upon the national forest reserves. He became forester of the U.S. department of agriculture July 1, 1898, and on July 1, 1901, the division of forestry of that department was raised to a bureau, of which he became the first chief. In collaboration with Prof. Henry S. Graves, director of the Yale Forest school, he is the author of : Tlie White Pine (1896) and The Adirondack Spruce (1898), Independently, he is the author of a Primer of Forestry, issued by the U.S. Department of Agri- culture, and of numerous minor publications.

PINCKNEY, Charles, senator, was born in Charleston, S.C, March 9, 1758; son of Charles Pinckney and grandson of William Pinckney, His father was president of the South Carolina convention in 1775 ; president of the senate in 1779, and of the council in 1782. Charles Pinck- ney, jr., was admitted to the bar in 1780, and was a representative in the provincial legislature of South Carolina. When Charleston fell into the hands of the British he was taken prisoner and held at St. Augustine, Fla., until the close of the war. He established himself in the prac- tice of law in Charleston ; was elected to the Provincial congress in 1785 and in 1787 was a dele- gate to the convention that framed the United States constitution. He submitted the draft of a proposed instrument, which was accepted