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ton. In his reply the commander-in-chief ac- knowledged the military judgment of the appel- lants, but declined to countermand the order. Colonel Poor was returned to the command of the 3d New Hampshire regiment, Nov. 8, 1776» and was promoted brigadier-general in the Con- tinental army, Feb. 21, 1777. At the battle of Stillwater his command bore the brunt of the British attack and the greater part of the Amer- ican loss, and at the battle of Saratoga he led the advance. He went to Pennsylvania after Bur- goyne's surrender, joined Washington in the Jersey campaign, and was with him at Valley Forge, from which place he appealed for aid to the New Hampshire legislature. In the pur- suit of the British across New Jersey he dis- tinguished himself at Monmouth, where he fought under Lafayette; commanded his brigade in Sullivan's expedition in New York in 1779, and in August, 1780, was appointed to the com- mand of a corps of light infantry. General Poor was a close personal friend of Generals Wash- ington and Lafayette, and was toasted by the latter at a banquet in New Hampshire in 1824. He died at Hackensack, N.J., Sept. 8, 1780.

POORE, Benjamin Perley, editor, was born in Newbuiyport, Mass., Nov. 2, 1820; son of Benja- min and Mary Perley (Dodge) Poore; grandson of Daniel Noyes and Lydia (Merrill) Poore, and of Allen and Mary (Burroughs) Dodge, and a descendant of Samuel Poore, who emigrated from England in the ship Bevis, with his brother Daniel and sister Alice in 1638, and settled at In- dian Hill, Newbury, Mass. Benjamin Per- ley Poore attended the iniblic schools and Dummer academj-; learned the printer's trade in Worcester, Mass. , and owned and edited the Southern WJiig at Athens, Ga., 1838-40. AVhile attache of the American legation at Brussels, 1841-44, he engaged as historical agent of Massachusetts in France, in gathering data of American colonial history from 1492 to 1780. He retui'ned to the United States in 1848, and was edi- tor of the Boston Bee and Siuiday Sentinel, 1848-54, and Washington correspondent of the Journal, 1854-74. He was married, June 12, 1849, to Vir- ginia, daughter of Francis and Mary (Thompson) Dodge of Georgetown, D.C. He was secretarj- of the U.S. Agricultural society and editor of its Journal; a clerk of various important congres-

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sional committees while in Washington, and in 1861 was appointed major of the 8th Massachusetts volunteers under the command of Col. B. F. But- ler, rendering important service in keeping the way open througii Maryland to Washington. In December, 1861, he returned to his journalistic work. He commanded the Ancient and Honor- able Artillery company of Boston in 1874, and was its historian. He edited the Congressional Directory, 1867-87; made valuable indices to the " Congressional Record," and compiled a de- scriptive catalogue of government publications from 1774 to 1881, including the several treaties made with foreign governments, under the direc- tion of the U.S. congress. He is the author of; Campaign Life of Gen. Zaeliary Taylor (1848); Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe (1848); Early Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1851); Agricultural History of Essex County, Mass. (1865); The Con- spiracy Trial for the Murder of Abraham Lincoln (1865); Federal and State Charters (2 vols., 1877); TJie Political Register and Congressional Direc- tory (1878); Life of Burnside (1882); Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Yeai's in the Natio7ial Metropolis (1886). He died in Washington, D.C, May 30, 1887.

POORE, Henry Rankin, artist, was born in Newark, N.J., March 21,1859; son of the Rev. Daniel Warren and Susan Helen (Ellis) Poor. He became a special student at the University of Pennsylvania, 1881, and received a certificate of proficiency in June, 1883. He studied art in the Pennsylvania academy; the National Academy of Design, and with Peter Moran, and in Paris four years under Lumenais and Bougereau. He opened a studio in Philadelphia, Pa.; was an in- structor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; a teacher in the Chautauqua Art school, and received a grand prize of §2,000 from the American Art association. New York, for " The Night of the Nativity " (l8S9), and also the Hal- garten prize from the National Academy of Design, New York, of which he was elected an associate in 1888. He received a bronze medal at the Pan Amei'ican exhibition, Buffalo, 1901. He was especially successful in combining figures and animals in his paintings. He was married, June 30, 1896, to Katherine, daughter of Charles and Caroline (Caldwell) Stevens of Worcester, Mass. Among his more important works are: Ulysses Feigning Madness (1884); Close of a City Day (1886); Ploia-horses Frightened by a Passing Train (1887); Ploicing of the Ephrata Brethren (1897); The Wounded Hound (1898); Backlog Reveries (1900); October Harvest (1901).

POPE, Franklin Leonard, electrician, was born in Great Barrington, Mass., Dec. 2, 1840; son of Ebenezer and Electa Leonard (Wain- wright) Pope; grandson of Ebenezer and Keziah