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bed through the medium of numerous gephyreans and holothurians which he collected, and by specimens accumulated by different hydrographic expeditions, publishing the result of his study in Peterman's Miitlieilungen. He was assigned to the field and office work of the tidal department of the coast survey in 1854, and thus was the pioneer and chief director of deep-sea dredging on both coasts of the United States, 1854-73. In 1873 he became assistant at the Museum of Com- parative Zoology, Harvard university, and suc- ceeded Louis Agassiz in December, 1873, as its keeper, until relieved in 1875 by Alexander Agassiz. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and of other scientific societies, and received the honorary degree A.M. from Harvard in 1880. His valuable collections of marine zoological specimens were placed in the Agassiz museum at Cambridge, and thence distributed to specialists in the United States and Europe, which resulted in special reports upon the different forms of deep-sea life by the most eminent investigators. The Pourtalesia, a genus of sea-urchins, were named in his honor. He contributed to the Proceedings of scientific societies, and published reports under the direc- tion of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died at Beverly Farms, Mass., July 17, 1880.

POWDERLY, Terence Vincent, knight of labor, was born in Carbondale, Pa., Jan. 22, 1849; son of Terence and Margery (Welsh) Povvderly, who emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1826, and settled in the Lacka- wanna Valley, Pa. He was educated in the public schools until 1862; was switch tender for the Delaware and Hudson railroad, 1862-64; car inspector in 1864, and a brakeman in 1865. He served an apprenticeship in the machine shops of the Delaware and Hudson company, 1866-69; removed to Scranton, Pa., in 1869, where he was employed in the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad shops, 1869-73, and in the Dick- son Locomotive works, 1873-77. He was married, Sept. 19, 1872, to Hannah, daughter of John and Anne Dever of Scranton, Pa. He joined the Machinists' and Blacksmitiis' union in 1870, re- moved to Oil City during the panic of 1873, and joined Assembly No. 88, Knights of Labor, in 1874. He was a delegate to the Machinists' and Black- smiths' union convention at Louisville, Kj-., in 1874, where he succeeded in inducing the union to join the Knights of Labor as Assembly No. 222, and was general master. In 1877 he formed a district assembly in Lackawanna county, of which he was secretary, 1877-86. In the strike of 1877 he persuaded 5.000 discharged Knights of Labor to emigrate to various points in the west, where they formed new assemblies. He directed the first general assemblj' of the order held in

Reading, Pa., in 1878, and in St. Louis in 1879, when he was elected Grand Worthy Foreman. At their third general assembly at Chicago in 1879, he became General Master- Workman, and served, by re-election, 1879-93. He was mayor of Scran- ton, 1878-84; studied law in the office of Judge P. P. Smith at Scranton, 1893-94; was admitted to the bar in September, 1894; settled in practice in Scranton, and in the same year canvassed the state for Governor Hastings. He was prominent in the presidential campaigns of 1896 and 1900, speaking for McKiuley and Hobart, and for Mc- Kinley and Roosevelt. He was U.S. commis- sioner-general of immigration by appointment of President McKinley, 1897-1902. He was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States in 1901. He is the author of: Tliirty Years of Labor, a History of the Organization of Labor since 1S60 (1891); History of Labor Day; con- tributions on economics to the Journal of United Labor, and to the leading general magazines.

POWELL, Aaron Macy, reformer, was born in Clinton, N.Y., March 26, 1832; son of Town- send and Catharine (Macy) Powell; grandson of James and Martlia (Townsend) Powell and of Abraham and Elizabeth (Coleman) Macy, and a descendant of Thomas Powell of Westbury, Long Island, whose will is dated Imo 3rd, 1719. On his mother's side the first ancestor in this country is John Howland of the Mayflower, 1620. His parents were members of the Society of Friends and active abolitionists. He attended the New York State Normal school, but did not graduate, as he was ui-ged to accept the position of lec- turer for the American Anti-Slavery society, and served as such, 1852-65, and as secretary of the society, 1866-70. He edited the Xational Anti- Slavery Standard, 1865-72; the National Temper- ance Advocate, 1872-99, and the Philanthropist, 1886-99. He was assistant secretary of the National Temperance society, 1873-94; and was president of the National Purity alliance. He was a delegate to the International Prison con- gress in London in 1872, and to the congress for the abolition of the state regulation of vice, in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1877, the Hague in 1883, and in London in 1886. He is the author of: State Regulation of Vice (1878); The Beer Ques- tion (1881); The Xational Government and the Liquor Traffic (1882), and Personal Reynitiiscences of Anti-Slavery and Other Reforins (1900). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 13, 1899.

POWELL, Edward Payson, clergyman and author, was born in Clinton, N.Y., in 1833; son of John and Mary (Jolmson) Powell, and de- scended from the Powells of Washington, Conn., and from the Johnsons of Windsor, Vt. He was graduated from Hamilton college in 1853, and from Union Theological seminary, 1858, having