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Geographical society, the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, the American Philolog- ical society and other organizations. He is the author of : Mene, Mene Tekel Upharsin ; An Historical Study of the Fifth Chapter of Daniel ; loith Translation of the Cyrus Cylinder and Annals of Xabonidus (1893); ^4. Critical Com- mentary on the Book of Da) del (Leij^zig, 1899), and contributions to various scientific periodicals. PRINCE, LeBaron Bradford, governor of New Mexico, was born at Flushing, N.Y., July 3, 1840 ; son of William Robert (q.v.) and Charlotte Goodwin (Collins) Prince, and a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth colony. He was graduated from Columbia. LL.B. 1866, winning the $200 prize in political science. He was a delegate to all the Republican New York state conven- tions, 1866-79 ; to the Republican national conventions of 1868 and 1876, and a mem- ber of the New York assembh' five terms, 1871-75, serving as chairman of the ju- dicial committee, 1872-74, and conduct- ing the investigation in 1872 which resulted in the impeaclunent of Judges Barnard, Cardoza and McCunn. He served in the state senate, 1876-77, and declined the appointment as territorial governor of Idaho in 1878. accepting that of chief- justice of New Mexico, serving as such, 1878-82, and as governor of New Mexico, 1889-93. He was twice marrieu : first, Dec. 1, 1879. to Hattie Estelle. daughter of Dr. S. Russell Childs of New York ; she died Feb. 26,1880, and secondly. Nov. 17, 1881, to Mary Catherine, daughter of Col. Samuel R. Beardsley of Oswego, N.Y. He was elected president of the University of New Mexico, 1882 ; was pres- ident of the Trans -Mississippi congress, 1892, 1893 ; of the International Mining congress, 1897-98 and 1901 ; of the New Mexico Historical society, Santa Fe, for over twenty years, of the New Mexico Horticultural society, and of the board of regents of the New Mexico Agricul- tural college. He was a member of all the Protestant Episcopal general conventions. 1877- 1901, and in 1880 founded the American Church Building fund. He was also a member of various patriotic organizations. He received the degree LL.D. from Kenyon college and from Colorado college in 1894. He is the author of books and monographs on archaeology government, law

and history. He became an enthusiastic archae- ologist, and made a unique collection of ancient American stone idols.

PRINCE, Oliver Hillhouse, senator, was born in New London, Conn., in 1782 ; son of William and Mary (Hillhouse) Prince ; grandson of Wil- liam and Mary (Holland) Prince and of Judge William and Sarah (Griswold) Hillhouse. and a descendant of Robert and Sarah (Warren) Prince of Salem Mass. He removed to Georgia with his parents in boyhood ; was admitted to the bar in 1806, and practised in Macon, 1806-19. being one of the five commissioners that laid out the town. He was married, Aug. 15, 1817, to Mary Rose Norman, daughter of George Norman and Sarah (Grace) Holt of Lincoln county, Ga. ; re- sided in Washington, Ga., 1819-22 ; in Bibb county, 1822-31 ; in Milledgeville, 1831-35, and in Athens, 1835-37. He was a state senator from Bibb county in 1828, when he was elected to the U.S. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Cobb, completing his term, March 3, 1829. He is the author of several humorous sketches, including an account of a Georgia militia muster, which was translated into several languages. He was also a joint author of Georgia Scenes ; and compiled Digest of the Laws of Georgia to December, IS JO (1822). He was lost in the wreck of the packet ship Home, near Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., Oct. 9, 1837.

PRINCE, Thomas, clergyman, was born in Sandwich, Mass., May 15, 1687 ; son of Samuel and Mercy (Hincklej') Prince ; grandson of John Prince and of Gov. Thomas Hinckley, both of Massachusetts colony, and great-grandson of tlie Rev. John Prince, a student at Oxford, and rector at East Shefford, Berkshire, England, who immigrated to America in 1633 ; settled first in Watertown ; secondly in Hingham in 1635, and then in Hull, Mass. Thomas Prince was graduated at Harvard, A.B.. 1707, A.M., 1710, probably studied theology there, 1707-09, and in 1709 sailed for England by way of the West Indies, landing at London. After two months he sailed for the Island of Madeira, thence pro- ceeded to Barbadoes and thence again to Lon- don, reaching that port, Aug. 17, 1710. He attended lectures at Gresham college on law, medicine and theology : lived chiefly at Coombs in Suffolk, where he preached occasionally, as he did in other towns in England, and returned to Boston on the packet Martha and Hannah, arriving, July 21, 1717. On July 28 he preached his first sermon in New England in the Old North church ; was ordained, Oct. 1, 1718, and became colleague of Dr. Joseph Sewall, pastor of the Old South church in Boston, where he continued until his death. He was married, Oct. 30, 1719, to Deborah Denny, who came in