The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . University, Lebanon, joined the Confederatearmy in 1861, was woundedMay 31, 1864, and then placedon the retired list. He spentsome time on a farm in Mis-sissippi, taught sc
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . University, Lebanon, joined the Confederatearmy in 1861, was woundedMay 31, 1864, and then placedon the retired list. He spentsome time on a farm in Mis-sissippi, taught school in Ala-bama, and afterward was aMethodist Episcopal circuitrider in Georgia, where herented a horse with one eyeat $25 per annum, having totake rain and sunshine alike,as the animal would not permit him to carry an um-brella. He was blessed in his work, receiving 200members the first year, but his health failed, andafter spending some time in Kansas, he entered theProtestant Episcopal ministry. His first rectoratewas at Kewanee, 111., his second at Fort Dodge, la.,his third at Elizabeth City, N. C, and his fourth atMarion, Ala. He located finally at St. Athanasiuschurch, Burlington, N. C, where he is laboring in afield in which his experience, energy and untiringzeal have resulted in building up a flourishing is prominent in the councils of the diocese, ablysupporting the work of Bishop 330 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA FEPFEBBELL, Sir William, soldier, wasbom June 37, 1696, at Kitteiy, Me., the son of Pepperrell and Margery Bray, both nativesof England. William Pepperrell, Sr., was born inTavistock, near Exeter, in Cornwall, of humble par-entage, and was apprenticed when quite young tothe owner of a fishing vessel employed on the coastof New England. At the age of twenty-two he em-igrated to America and settled on the Isles of Shoals,where he became interested in the fishing businesswith a Mr. Gibbons. They soon afterward removed toKittery Point,
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