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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Platt, Orville Hitchcock

Edition of 1900. This text is updated from the 1891 edition.
​PLATT, Orville Hitchcock, senator, b. in Washington, Conn., 19 July, 1827. He was educated in the public schools, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and began practice in Meriden, Conn. He was clerk of the state senate in 1855-'6. secretary of state in 1857, state senator in 1861-'2, and a member of the legislature in 1864-'9, serving as speaker in the latter year. He was elected to the U.S. senate as a Republican in 1878, and has since been re-elected. His present term expires in March, 1903. Mr. Platt has been an earnest advocate of the abolition of secret executive sessions of the senate. Yale gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1887.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Pitts, John

Edition of 1900.
​PITTS, John, merchant, b. in England in 1668. His father, Baruth Pitts, was mayor of Lyme Regis, England. The son emigrated to Boston in 1694, became a merchant, and held several offices under the city. Smibert painted portraits of him and his wife. — His son,
James, b. in Boston in 1712; d. in 1776, was graduated at Harvard in 1731, and succeeded to his father's business and fortune. He married Elizabeth Bowdoin, sister of Gov. James Bowdoin, in 1732, and was a member of the king's council from 1766 till 1775. On the death of Gov. Bowdoin, Mr. Pitts became his executor. He and his wife and their six sons took an active part in the Revolution. His house, which stood on the spot that is now occupied by the Howard athenæum, was a resort of the Adamses and other patriots. In 1770, with Royal Tyler and Samuel Dexter, he was instrumental in persuading Gov. Hutchinson to comply with the popular demand for the removal of the troops from Boston. He was for many years treasurer of the Society for ​propagating Christian knowledge among the Indians. Blackburn painted portraits of both James and his wife. — James's eldest son, John, b. in Boston in 1738; d. in Tyngsboro in 1815, was graduated at Harvard in 1757, was selectman of Boston from 1773 till 1778, represented the city in several provincial congresses, was speaker of the house in 1778, and afterward state senator. — Another son, Lendall, b. in Boston in 1737; d. in 1787, was a patriot, and principal leader of the Boston “ tea party.” — James's grandson, Thomas, soldier, b. in Boston in 1779; d. in 1835, was commissioned lieutenant of light artillery in 1808, and captain in 1809, and served through the war of 1812.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Platt, Franklin

Edition of 1900.
​PLATT, Franklin, geologist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Nov., 1844. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, but left in 1862, before graduation, and in 1863 served in the 32d Pennsylvania Gray reserve regiment. In 1864 he was appointed to the U. S. coast survey, and assigned to surveying work with the North Atlantic squadron during that year. He then was appointed on the staff of Gen. Orlando M. Poe, chief engineer of the military division of the Mississippi, and was engaged in this duty until the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army in April, 1865. Subsequently, in July, 1874, he was appointed assistant geologist of Pennsylvania, which post he held until May, 1881, after which he became president of the Rochester and Pittsburg coal and iron company. Mr. Platt is a member of scientific societies, to whose transactions he has contributed frequent papers on geology and kindred subjects. He prepared nine volumes of the reports of the geological survey of Pennsylvania. Those that were his exclusive work are “On Clearfield and Jefferson Counties” (Harrisburg, 1875); “Coke Manufacture” (1876); “On Blair County” (1880); and “The Causes, Kinds, and Amount of Waste in Mining Anthracite” (1881).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Platt, Thomas Collier

Edition of 1900. This text is updated from the 1891 edition.
​PLATT, Thomas Collier, senator, b. in Owego, N. Y., 15 July, 1833. He left Yale in his sophomore year in 1853 on account of failing health, but received the honorary degree of M. A. in 1876 from that college. He entered mercantile life, became president of the Tioga, N. Y., National bank, and engaged in the lumber business in Michigan. He was elected to congress as a Republican in 1872, re-elected in 1874, and on 18 Jan., 1881, was chosen U.S. senator to succeed Francis Kernan, but resigned, 16 May of the same year, with his colleague, Roscoe Conkling (q. v.) on account of a disagreement with the executive regarding New York appointments. He returned home, was a candidate for re-election, and after an exciting canvass was defeated. He became secretary and a director of the United States express company in 1879, and since 1880 has been ​its president. He was appointed commissioner of quarantine of New York city in 1880, became president of the hoard, and held office till 14 Jan., 1888, when he was removed by proceedings instituted on account of his alleged non-residence in New York city. He was a member of the National Republican conventions in 1876. 1880-'4, and 1892-'6, and for several years of the Republican national committee. He was again elected to the senate for the term ending March, 1903.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Pitzer, Alexander White

Edition of 1900.
​PITZER, Alexander White, clergyman, b. in Salem, Roanoke co., Va., 14 Sept., 1834. He was graduated at Hampden Sidney in 1854, and at Danville theological seminary, Ky., in 1857, after which he was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Leavenworth, Kan., Sparta, Ga., and Liberty, Va., and in 1808 organized in Washington, D. C., the Central Presbyterian church, of which he is now (1898) pastor. Since 1875 he has been also professor of biblical history and literature in Howard university in that city. He was a member of the Prophetic convention in New York city in 1878, and assisted in drafting and reported the doctrinal testimony adopted by the conference. He has taken an active part in promoting the union of the northern and southern divisions of his church. He received the degree of D. D. from Arkansas college in 1876. In addition to numerous contributions to denominational literature, he is the author of “Ecce Deus Homo,” published anonymously (Philadelphia, 1867); “Christ, Teacher of Men” (1877); and “The New Life not the Higher Life” (1878).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Plaisted, Harris Merrill

Edition of 1900.
​PLAISTED, Harris Merrill, soldier, b. in Jefferson, N. H., 2 Nov., 1828; d. in Bangor, Me., 30 Jan., 1898. He worked on a farm and taught, and was graduated at Waterville college (now Colby university) in 1853, and at Albany law-school in 1855. He was then admitted to the bar and began practice in Bangor, Me., in 1856. He entered the National volunteer service in 1861 as lieutenant-colonel, was commissioned colonel in 1862, participated in McClellan's peninsular campaign, commanded a brigade before Charleston, and served with Grant before Richmond. He received the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers in February, 1865, and that of major-general of volunteers in March of the same year. He resumed his profession after the peace, was a delegate to the National Republican convention in 1868, and attorney-general of Maine in 1873-'5. He went to congress as a Republican in 1874 to fill a vacancy, served one term, declined re-election, and was governor of Maine in 1881-'3. After 1884 he had edited and published “The New Age,” in Augusta, Me.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Plater, George

Edition of 1900.
​PLATER, George, statesman, b. in St. Mary's county, Md., in 1736; d. in Annapolis, Md., 10 Feb., 1792. He was graduated at William and Mary in 1753, studied law, and won reputation at the bar of Maryland. When the troubles with the mother country began he took an early and active part in resisting the encroachments of the British government upon the rights of the colonies. He was chosen a member of the Maryland convention that assembled at Annapolis, 8 May, 1776, and one of whose first public acts was the election of a committee, on 24 May, for the purpose of inviting Robert Eden, the royal governor, to vacate. On 26 May Plater was appointed one of the council of safety, a body created for the express purpose of preparing the state for the conflict that was every day growing more imminent. He represented St. Mary's county in the Maryland convention at Annapolis, 14 Aug., 1776, and on the 17th of the same month was chosen one of the committee “to prepare a declaration and charter of rights and a form of government” for the state of Maryland. From 1778 till 1781 he was a member of the Continental congress from Maryland, and he was president of the Maryland convention that, on 28 April, 1788, ratified the constitution of the United States. In 1791 he was elected governor of Maryland.
# The Evidence of the Film

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A 1913 American one-reel film. In 2001, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Cast and Crew :
| Cast ||
| Role | Actor |
| | William Garwood |
| | Marie Eline |
| | Florence La Badie |
| Crew ||
| Production company | Thanhouser Company |
| Distributor | Mutual Film |
| Director | Lawrence Marston (d. 1939), Edwin Thanhouser (d. 1956) |
| Producer | Edwin Thanhouser |
| Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1956, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 67 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States. ||
The dishonest broker plots to outwit his client.
Mr Henry Watson, Sir:— Unless you return my $20,000 in bonds by to morrow, I will begin criminal proceedings. Very truly, (Mrs.) Caroline Livingston.
The moving picture company at work.
THe "dummy" package is given to the messenger boy.
The broker has witnesses to prove his innocence.
Some days later.
The evidence of the film.
The detectives see the picture.
The innocent is freed.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:
* The principal director
* The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue
* The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound)
* The cinematographer
* By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot
The longest-living of these authors died in 1956, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 67 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Parris, Samuel

Edition of 1900.
​PARRIS, Samuel, clergyman, b. in London, England, in 1653; d. in Sudbury, Mass., 27 Feb., 1720. He studied at Harvard, but was not graduated, and after engaging in mercantile business in Boston was ordained, and became the first minister of Danvers, then a part of Salem, Mass. He held this charge from 19 Nov., 1689, till June, 1696. The Salem witchcraft delusion originated in his family in 1692. His daughter and his niece, Abigail Williams, girls about twelve years of age, accused Tituba, a South American slave, living in the house as a servant, of bewitching them. Mr. Parris beat Tituba until she was forced to confess herself a witch, and John, her husband, became, through fear, the accuser of others. The delusion spread, many were apprehended, most of whom were imprisoned, and others accused, among the latter being the wife of Gov. William Phips. During the sixteen months' prevalence of the delusion at Salem nineteen persons were hanged, and one, Gyles Cary, pressed to death. As Mr. Parris had been an active prosecutor in the witchcraft cases, his church, in April, 1693, brought charges against him. He confessed his error, and in 1696 was dismissed and left the place. After preaching two or three years at Stow, he removed to Concord, and he also preached six months in Dunstable in 1711. See “Life and Character of Rev. Samuel Parris, of Salem Village, and his Connection with the Witchcraft Delusion of 1692,” a sketch read before the Essex institute by Samuel Page Fowler (1857).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Patterson, Robert (pioneer)

Edition of 1900.
​PATTERSON, Robert, pioneer, b. in Bedford county, Pa., 15 March, 1753; d. in Dayton, Ohio, 5 Aug., 1827. He emigrated to Kentucky in 1775, joined the settlement at Royal Spring (now Georgetown), and assisted in building the fort which he subsequently defended. In October, 1776, he was one of seven men that set out for Fort Pitt to procure powder and ammunition, making the journey through the wilderness on foot and up the river in canoes. All the party were either killed or wounded by the Indians, Patterson received a blow from a ​tomahawk that confined him to a bed for a year. He was on Col. Clark's expedition in 1778, and with Capt. John Bowman in his raid on old Chillicothe in 1779. On 1 April of the latter year he built the first house on the present city of Lexington, and bought a large part of the surrounding property. He was a captain of a company in Col. Clark's expedition against the Shawnees in August, 1780, and was second in command to Daniel Boone at the battle of Lower Blue Licks. Being overcome with fatigue in the retreat, he fell by the way, but was rescued by Aaron Reynolds, who dismounted and gave him a horse, with the remark: “You saved my soul; I will save your life.” Patterson had rebuked him for profanity in a previous campaign. He was colonel of Clark's second expedition into the Miami country in 1782, and in Gen. Benjamin Logan's expedition against the Shawnees in 1786, in which he received severe wounds. He was one-third owner of Cincinnati when the town was laid out, and in 1804 built the first settlement at Dayton, Ohio, residing on a farm in its vicinity until his death.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Parkinson, Richard

Edition of 1900.
​PARKINSON, Richard, English agriculturist, b. in Lincolnshire, England, in 1748; d. in Osgarby, England, 23 Feb., 1815. He became a farmer, was interested in improved methods, and was encouraged by Sir John Sinclair, president of the Board of agriculture, who recommended him to George Washington. He left England 3 Sept., 1798, and was for some time in the employ of Washington as an agriculturist at Mount Vernon, and resided at Orange Hill, near Baltimore. “Parkinson,” says Prof. John Donaldson, “has always been reckoned one of the best practical writers on agriculture to the time in which he lived, and, our opinion thinks, very justly.” He published “The Experienced Farmer” (2 vols., London, 1798; enlarged ed., with an autobiography, 1807); “A Tour in America, 1798-1800,” containing reminiscences of Gen. Washington (2 vols., 1805); “The English Practice of Farming” (1806); “Gypsum as a Manure” (1808); “Breeding and Management of Live-Stock,” a standard work (2 vols., 1809); “Survey of Rutlandshire” (1809); and “Survey of Huntingdonshire” (1811).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Passaconaway

Edition of 1900.
​PASSACONAWAY, Indian chief, b. in southern New Hampshire about 1580; d. near Litchfield, N. H., between 1665 and 1669. He was a Merrimack sachem, and the sagamore of Pamunkog, or Pennacook, holding control over the tribes of southern New Hampshire and part of Massachusetts. When the whites first settled the country he was at the head of a powerful confederacy, and is said by some authorities to have conveyed to John Wheelwright and his associates at Squamscut (now Exeter), 17 May, 1629, a tract of land that extended from Piscataqua to Merrimack rivers westward, and from the line of Massachusetts, thirty miles north; but this deed was subsequently pronounced a forgery. In 1662, in answer to a petition from Passaconaway, the general court of Massachusetts granted him a tract of several hundred acres near Litchfield, N. H. He invited the Indian apostle John Eliot to take up his abode near his tribe, so that they might be taught Christianity, and avowed his own belief in God. He was sagacious, and had a great reputation as a sorcerer. He made a feast for his people about 1660, delivered a farewell speech, and exhorted them to live in peace with the English, since he had used his arts as a “pow-wow” against them in vain.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Pastorius, Francis Daniel

Edition of 1900.
​PASTORIUS, Francis Daniel, colonist, b. in Sommerhausen, Franconia, Germany, 26 Sept., 1651; d. in Germantown, Pa., 27 Sept., 1719. He was the son of a judge of Windsheim, educated in the classical and modern languages, and all the science of his age, and had entered upon the practice of law, when, having joined the sect of Pietists, he concerted with some of his co-religionists a plan for emigrating to Pennsylvania. They purchased 25,000 acres, but abandoned the intention of colonizing the land themselves. Pastorius, their agent, had formed the acquaintance of William Penn in England, and became a convert to the Quaker doctrines. He was engaged by his associates, who in 1686 organized as the Frankfort land-company, and by some merchants of Crefeld, who had secured 15,000 acres, to conduct a colony of German and Dutch Mennonites and Quakers to Pennsylvania. He arrived on 20 June, 1683, and on 24 Oct. began to lay out Germantown. He was until his death a man of influence among the colonists, was its first bailiff, and devised the town-seal, which consisted of a clover on one of whose leaves was a vine, another a stalk of flax, and the third a weaver's spool with the motto “Vinum, Linum, et Textrium.” In 1687 he was elected a member of the assembly. In 1688 he was one of the signers of a protest to the Friends' yearly meeting at Burlington against buying and selling slaves, or holding men in slavery, which was declared to be “an act irreconcilable with the precepts of the Christian religion.” ​This protest began the struggle against that institution in this country, and is the subject of John G. Whittier's poem, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim.” For many years he taught in Germantown and Philadelphia, and many of the deeds and letters required by the German settlers were written by him. He published a pamphlet, consisting in part of letters to his father, and containing a description of the commonwealth and its government, and advice to emigrants, entitled “Umständige geographische Beschreibung der allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pennsylvaniæ” (Frankfort-on-Main, 1700). Several volumes were left by him in manuscript, containing philosophical reflections, poems, and notes on theological, medical, and legal subjects. His Latin prologue to the Germantown book of records has been translated by Whittier in the ode beginning “Hail to Posterity.”
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Paullin, William

Edition of 1900.
​PAULLIN, William, aëronaut, b. in Philadelphia, 3 April, 1812; d. there, 1 Dec., 1871. At the age of twenty-one he began the construction of his first balloon, and in August, 1833, he made a trial-trip from Philadelphia, inflating with hydrogen gas, followed by numerous ascents, and on 26 July, 1837, made a private effort from the Philadelphia gas-works with the view of testing the practicability of using coal-gas for balloon purposes. He succeeded, and was thus the first, in this country at least, to use illuminating gas for balloon purposes. In September, 1841, he sailed for Valparaiso, Chili, and he made numerous ascensions during his stay in South America. On one occasion he rose from St. Jago and crossed the volcano, being compelled to ascend to such a height as to distress him severely. The heat was so great as to endanger the balloon, while the fumes that arose threatened the aeronaut with suffocation. Mr. Paullin made ascensions also in Cuba, Hayti, Porto Rico, and Mexico. After an absence of six years he returned to the United States, and made many ascents from the western states, and some in the east. During the civil war he was connected with the National army, making his last ascension under Gen. Joseph Hooker. He then resigned, and became a photographer. His intellect was affected for some time before his death.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Parkhurst, Charles Henry

Edition of 1900.
​PARKHURST, Charles Henry, clergyman, b. in Framingham, Mass., 17 April, 1842. He was graduated at Amherst in 1866, studied theology at Halle in 1869, and at Leipsic in 1872-'3, and was principal of the high-school in Amherst in 1867, and professor in Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass., in 1870-'1. He was pastor of the Congregational church at Lenox, Mass., from 1874 till 1880, when he was called to the Madison Square Presbyterian church, New York city. He has written for various magazines, and is the author of “The Forms of the Latin Verb, Illustrated by Sanscrit” (Boston, 1870); “The Blind Man's Creed, and other Sermons” (New York, 1883); and “Pattern in the Mount, and other Sermons” (1885).
# Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes/Beverages/Hot Chocolate

HOT CHOCOLATE
One and one-half squares of Baker's Chocolate, Four teaspoonsful of sugar, Pinch of salt, One cup of boiling water, Three cups of milk, One-half teaspoonful of vanilla.
Melt the chocolate over hot water. Add the sugar, salt and boiling water. When smooth, add the heated milk and cook twenty minutes in double boiler. Then beat with egg beater and flavor. More sugar may be added if desired. An excellent substitute for whipped cream to serve with hot chocolate is marshmallows. Drop one in each cup of the hot liquid.
# Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes/Beverages/Uncle Remus Mint Julep

UNCLE REMUS MINT JULEP
¾ cup sugar, Juice 3 lemons, 1 cup of water, 4 sprigs of mints, 1 pint ginger ale, or “Any flavoring desired.”
Boil sugar and water ten minutes, and cool; add strained lemon juice, mint leaves bruised, and ginger ale; half fill glasses with crushed ice, and julep, and garnish with a sprig of mint.
# Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes/Beverages/Egg Nog–Maryland Style

EGG NOG–MARYLAND STYLE
Beat the yolk of one egg, add a teaspoonful of sugar, and a small pinch of salt, then pour in slowly stirring all the while a cup of milk. Pour in a glass and put spoonful of whipped cream on top and any quantity of “flavoring desired.”
# Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes/Beverages/Iced Tea

ICED TEA
Use one scant teaspoonful of tea to one cup of boiling water. Pour boiling water over tea leaves and let stand until milk warm. Then strain and sweeten to taste while tea is still warm, as it requires less sugar. Serve with crushed ice, green mint leaves, and sliced lemon and orange.
# Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes/Beverages/Swanee Fruit Punch

SWANEE FRUIT PUNCH
Two cups of sugar, One cup of water, One cup of tea, One pint of strawberry syrup, Juice of ten lemons, Juice of six oranges, Two cans of grated pineapple, One large bottle of Maraschino cherries.
Make syrup by boiling sugar and water together for ten minutes. Add the tea, fruit juices, pineapple, and strawberry syrup. Let stand thirty minutes, strain and add enough iced water to make one or one and one-half gallons of liquid. Turn into large punch bowl over a piece of ice and lastly add cherries. This quantity will serve about ten people.
# Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes/Breads/Aunt Caroline’s Corn Bread

AUNT CAROLINE’S CORN BREAD
¾ cup corn meal, ¾ cup flour, 3 teaspoonsful baking powder, 1 tablespoon sugar, ⅓ teaspoon salt, 1 beaten egg, ¾ cup milk and water mixed, 2 tablespoons melted bacon fat.
Mix in order given, beat well, and bake in a well-greased shallow pan in a hot oven about twenty minutes. Half of the egg will make a very good corn bread. Left-over pieces may be split, lightly buttered, and browned in the oven.