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 PUTNAM

PYNCHON

officer of the Continental army. His manuscript diary was placed in the lil)rary of Marietta col- lege, Ohio. A tablet placed on his house at Rutland, Mass., by the Society of Sons of the Revolution, was un%'eiled, Sept. 17, 1898. " Rufus Putnam, Fovmder and Father of Ohio." Gen- eral Rufus Putnam died in Marietta, Ohio, May 4, 1824.

PUTNAM, Sallie A. (Brock), author, was born in Madison Court House, Va., in 1845. She was educated by private tutors, and early showed a talent for literature, writing at first under the pen name of Virginia Madison. She was the author of Richmond During the War (1867), and Kenneth, My King (1873): and she edited The Southern Amaranth, a collections of poems writ- ten in the seceding States at the time of the civil war. She married the Rev. Richard Putnam, of New York, in 1883.

PUTNAM, Samuel, jurist, was born in Dan- vers, Mass., April 13, 1768. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1787, studied law, and settled in Salem, where he obtained a large and famous practice. He represented his county in the state senate in 1808 and 1814, and was a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1812. From 1814 till 1842 he was a justice of the supreme court of the state. He died in Somerville, Mass., July 4, 1853.

PUTNAM, William LeBaron, jurist, was born in Bath. Maine, Maj' 26, 1835; son of Dr. Israel and Sarah Emery (Frost) Putnam; grandson of Israel Putnam of Sutton, Mass., and of William Frost of Topsham, Maine, and a descendant of John Putnam of Salem, Mass., of Dr. Francis LeBaron of Plymouth, Mass. , of Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass., and afterward of Kittery, Maine, and of George Soule of Plymouth, Mass. He was graduated from Bowdoin, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858; was admitted to the bar in Decem- ber, 1857, settled in practice at Portland as the copartner of George Evans (q.v.), and continued to practise in Portland until he was appointed U.S. circuit judge, building up an extensive pro- fessional business. He was mayor of Portland, 1869-70. He twice declined appointment as jus- tice of the supreme judicial court of Maine. In September, 1887, he was appointed by President Cleveland, with Thomas F. Bayard and James B. Angell, plenipotentiary to negotiate with Great Britain in the settlement of the rights of Ameri- can fishermen in the territorial waters of Canada and Newfoundland. He was also the represen- tative selected by the President to sit on the Bering Sea Claims commission under the treaty with Great Britain of Feb. 8, 1896, and served. 1896-98. As Democratic candidate for governor of Maine in 1888 he received the largest vote ever given in that state to a gubernatorial candi-

date strictly of that party. Although a Demo- crat, he was appointed by President Harrison judge of the U.S. circuit court for the first cir- cuit, his commission issuing, March 17, 1892. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bow- doin college in 1884, and from Brown university in 1893.

PYLE, Howard, artist, was born in Wilming- ton, Del., March 5, 1853; son of William and Margaret Churchman (Painter) Pyle; grandson of Isaac Pyle and of William and Phoibe (Church- man) Painter. His progenitors upon both sides were members of the Societj' of Friends, who early settled in the province of Pennsylvania under the proprietary government of William Penn. Robert Pj'le, his ancestor in direct descent, came from Hornton in the parish of Bishop Can- ning, Wiltshire, where he married Ann, daughter of William Globy of Hilperton. This colonist emigrated in 1683-84 to America, where he held considerable grants of land in eastern Pennsyl- vania, and where he was for several years a member of the Provincial assembly, besides being more or less identified with public affairs of the early days of the province. Howard Pyle studied art under Franz Van der Wielen (a gold medalist of the School of Antwerp), in Philadel- phia, Pa., 1869-72, and subsequently (1876-77) was associated to some extent with the Art Students' league of New York city. His early illustra- tions, short stories and poems appeared in the leading New York periodicals in 1876-79. He was married in 1881, to Anne, daughter of J. Morton and Ann (Suplee) Poole of Wilmington, Del. He devoted his art work almost entirely to the production of illustrations which appeared in periodicals and books. He is the author of the following works, which he himself illustrated: Tlie Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Notting- hamshire (1883); Within the Capes (1885. uuillus- trated); Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk {1SS7); The Rose of Paradise (1887); The Wonder Clock, or Four and Twenty Marvello2(S Tales (1888); Otto of the Silver Hand (1888); A Modern Aladdin (1891): 3Ien of Iron, a Romance of Chivalry (1892); Jack Ballisters Fortune (1894); Twilight Land (1895); The Garden Behind the Moon (1895).

PYNCHON, John, colonist, was born in Spring- field, Essex county, England, in 1621; son of Col. William (q.v.) and Anna (Andrew) Pynchon, He was married, Oct. 30, 1644, to Amy, daughter of Gov. George Wyllys of Hartford, Conn., and when his father returned to England in 1652, succeeded him as governor of the settlement at Springfield, Mass., acquired by him by purchase, which included the greater part of the Connec- ticut river valley. He built the first brick house in the Connecticut valley in 1660, which served