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twice married, first, July 6, 1871, to Anna, iliiugliter of George W. and Nancy A. Johnson of Hackettstown ; she died Nov. 14, 1891, leav- ing one cliild, Charles J. Post, artist, of New York; and secondly, at Orange. N.J., Dec. 2, 1893, to Alice, daughter of Thomas and Kath- erine (Worcester) Thacher of New York city. He is the autlior of : an explanation, with dia- grams, of The Single Tax (1894-99), and a history of The George-Hewitt Mayoralty Campaign of isst; (issT).

POST, Philip Sidney, representative, was born in Florida, Orange county. N.Y., March 19, 1833; son of Gen. Peter Scliuyler and Mary D. (Coe) Post ; grandson of Col. Garret and Martinche (Bertolf) Post, and of John D. Coe. He was graduated at Union college in 1855, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1856. He first practised in Galesburg, and in 1857 in Wyandotte, Kan., where he also published and edited the Argus. On the outbreak of the civil war he was made 2d lieutenant in the 59th Illinois volun- teers ; was promoted adjutant, July 21, 1861; major, Jan. 1, 1862 ; colonel, March 19, 1862, and was wounded at Pea Ridge, Ark., March 7, 1862. He subsequently commanded the 1st brigade, 1st division, 20th corps, the Army of the Cumber- land, participating in the battle of Stone's River, and in tlie capture of Leetown ; was transferred to the 2d brigade, 3d division, 4th army corps, commanding the division at Love- joy's Station, Ga., and was seriously .wounded in the hip at Nashville, Dec. 16, 1864, being brevet- ted brigadier-general of volunteers on the same day for gallant services. He commanded the western district of Texas, with headquarters at San Antonio, 1865-66. He was married. May 24, 1866, to Cornelia Almira, daughter of William Townsend Post. He was at Vienna, 1866-74, as U.S. consul, and as U.S. consul-general, 1874-79. He was a member-at-large of the Illinois Repub- lican state central committee, 1882-86, and a representative from the tenth Illinois district in til.! 50th, 51st, 52d and .53d congresses. 1887-95. He <Vu"\ in Wasliington, D.C., Jan. 6. 189.5.

POST, Wright, was born at North Hempstead, N.Y.. Feb. 19, 1766; son of Jotham and Winifred (Wright) Post and a do.srendant of Richard Post. He w.is privately educated ; studied medicine under Dr. Richard Bailey (q.v.)., and in London under Dr. John .Slieldon ; began i)ractice in New York city in 1786, and in 1787 lectured on anritom}' in the New York hospital. He was married in 1790, to a daugliter of Dr. Bailey; was associat- ed with the latter in practice ; and wasai>i>ointed profassor of surgery in the medical department of Columbia college in 1792. Under the auspices of the college he continued his mpdical stmlies abroad, made an exceptionally valuable collec-

tion of anatomical specimens, and on his return in 1793 became professor of anatomy. In 1813, when tlie medical department of Columbia was merged in the College of Physicians and Surgeons as the Medical School of New York, he became pfofessor of anatomy and physiology, serving until 1826, when he also resigned the presidency of the college, to which he had been appointed in 1821. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from the University of the State of New \"ork in 1814 ; visited Europe a third time in 1815, and was a trustee of Columbia college, 1816-28. He was surgeon or consulting surgeon to the New York hospital for many years, a member of the Literary and Philosophical society^ and an officer in the New York County Medical society. He performed many remarkably successful sur- gical operations, and contributed to periodicals. He died at Throg's Neck, N.Y\, Juno 14, 1828.

POTTER, Alonzo, third bishop of Pennsylvania and 48th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Beekman, Duchess county, N.Y., July 6, 1800 ; son of Joseph Potter, a member of the state assembly soon after the Revolution, and of Quaker descent. He attended the Po'keepsie academy, was graduated from Union, Schenectady, N.Y"., in 1818; was a tutor there, 1819-22, and professor of math- ematics and natural philosophy, 1822-26. He studied theology under the Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Turner, and was ordained deacon. May 1, 1822, and priest, Sept. 16, 1824. He was rector

of St. Paul's church, Boston, Mass., 1826-31 ; professor of rhetoric and natural philosopliy at Union college, 1831-45 : vice-president of the college, 1838-45; honorary vice-president, 1841- 65, and a trustee, 1847-63. He declined the pro- fessorship of ecclesiastical history in the Genernl Theological seminary, New York city, in 1835, and was chosen bishop of the diocese of Pennsj'lvania, May 23, 1845. He was consecrated, Sept. 23, 1845, in Christ church, Philadelphia, by Bishops Phil- ander Chase, Brownell, and Hopkins, assisted by Bishops Doane, McCoskry, Whittingham. Al- fred Lee and Freeman. During his episci)ate, the Episcopal hosi)ital was founded, and endow- ed with nearly half a million dollars: the Epis- copal academy was re-established ; the Philadel- phia Divinity school was founded ; thirty-five new churches were built in the city of Philadel-

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