Sunday, September 16, 2018

Pomeroy, John Norton : 1866-1924

Name : John Norton Pomeroy
Occupation : Lawyer and professor of law
Born : May 7, 1866
Died : June 1, 1924

See Vol. IX for bio (1916-1917)

~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 2581.  (Necrology Page 164: Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America)

You can visit the memorial page for John Norton Pomeroy.

Plumley, Frank : 1844 - 1924

Name : Frank Plumley
Occupation : ex-congressman
Born : Eden, Vermont, Dec. 17, 1844
Died : May 1, 1924
Parents : Son of William and Eliza Plumley.

Education : Academic education; law student University of Michigan, 1867-1868; (honorary Master of Arts, Norwich University, 1892, Doctor of Laws, 1905; Doctor of Laws, University of Vermont, 1909)
Married : Lavinia L. Fletcher of Eden, Vermont on Aug 9, 1871

Admitted to bar, 1869, and since in practice at Northfield, Vermont.  State’s attorney, Washington County, 1876-1880; member Vermont House of Representatives, 1882, Senate, 1894 (pro tempore [for the time being]); United States District Attorney, 1889-1894; judge, Court of Claims, Vermont, 1902-1908 (chief judge 1904-1908); member 61st to 63rd Congresses (1909-1915), Second Vermont District Umpire of mixed commissions, Great Britain and Venezuela and Holland and Venezuela, Caracas, 1903; umpire French-Venezuela mixed commissions, Northfield, 1905; delegate Interparliamentary Convention, Geneva, Switzerland, 1912.

Lecturer of international law, Norwich University (trustee, vice president), Chairman Republican State Convention, 1886; delegate at-large Republican National Convention, 1888, President Northfield Savings Bank.

Politics : Republican

Home : Northfield, Vermont.

~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 2575 (Necrology Page 164: Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America)

You can visit the memorial page for Frank Plumley.

Perkins, Robert Patterson : 1861-1924

Name : Robert Patterson Perkins
Occupation : Carpet manufacturer
Born : New York City, Dec. 3, 1861
Died : April 28, 1924
Parents : Son of Charles Lawrence and Elizabeth West [Nevins] Perkins.

Education : Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1884, Master of Arts, 1921
Married : unmarried

Clerk at the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, 1884-1886; salesman at P. Lorillard & Company, 1886-1888; New York agent at H. C. Thaacher & Company, 1888-1892; secretary at E. S. Higgins Carpet Company, 1892-1899, president from 1899-1901; elected president 1901, Hartford Carpet Corporation which absorbed E. S. Higgins Carpet Company, and president of its successor, The Bigelow Hartford Carpet Company since 1914.

Lt. Col. American Red Cross, 1917; commissioner in Italy, taking over relief work there, 1917.

Clubs :  Harvard (president 1919), Knickerbocker, Union, The Brook, Racquet and Tennis, National Golf Links, Garden City Golf, Piping Rock, New York Yacht.

Home Address : Centerport, Long Island, New York
Office Address : 385 Madison Avenue, New York, New York.

~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 2539 (Necrology Page 164: Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America)

You can visit the memorial page for Robert Patterson Perkins.

Pepper, George Hubbard : 1873-1924

Name : George Hubbard Pepper
Occupation : Anthropologist
Born : Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, Feb. 2, 1873
Died : May, 13, 1924
Parents : Son of David J. and Alice S. [Hubbard] Pepper

Education : High school education; student American Museum of Natural History, 1892; student anthropology, Harvard, 1895-1896.
Married : Jessie J. Crellin, of Walworth, New York, Oct. 24, 1901.

Engaged in archaeological work, Staten Island, 1895; exploration work, Hyde Southwestern expedition for American Museum of Natural History, 1896-1909; assistant in department of anthropology, same, in charge of division of the Southwest, 1896-1909; exploration work in Mexico, 1904, and in Ecuador, with the George G. Heye expedition, 1907; assistant curator American archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Jan.  1909-1910, acting curator 1910-1914; acting curator Heye Museum, 1914-1916, Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation), New York City, 1917-1923.

Has published papers and gives lectures on American archaeology and ethnology.

Home Address : 3681 Broadway, New York, New York.

~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 2535 (Necrology Page 164: Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America)

You can visit the memorial page for George Hubbard Pepper.