Virginia Estelle Randolph (1874 - 1958)

Educator. She developed an approach to education that focused on community invovlement, industrial and academic training. The Jeanes teacher program was modeled after her successful experiences. She recieved her early education at the Bacon School and the City Normal School in Richmond. At the age of sixteen she was appointed to a teaching job in […]

William Clarke Quantrill (1837 - 1865)

Civil War Confederate Partisan Leader. The leader first of the Missouri Partisan Rangers, then the “Quantrill’s Raiders” guerillas during the Civil War, he won renown for possessing excellent leadership skills, horsemanship and exercised unique warfare tactics. Born in Canal Dover, Ohio (now simply Dover) the oldest of 8 children to a father who labored as […]

William Clarke Quantrill (1837 - 1865)

Civil War Confederate Partisan Leader. The leader first of the Missouri Partisan Rangers, then the “Quantrill’s Raiders” guerillas during the Civil War, he won renown for possessing excellent leadership skills, horsemanship and exercised unique warfare tactics. Born in Canal Dover, Ohio (now simply Dover) the oldest of 8 children to a father who labored as […]

Evan Pugh (1828 - 1864)

Educator. A chemistry professor who studied in Europe, he served as the First President of Penn State University. Today the highest honor the University can bestow on its faculty is title of “Evan Pugh Professor”. (bio by: Russ Dodge)  Family links:  Spouse:  Rebecca Valentine Pugh (1832 – 1921)

Joseph Prior (1970 - 1918)

Senior Fellow of Trinity College. (bio by: David Conway)

John Thomas Lewis Preston (1811 - 1890)

Educator. He was the founder of the Virginia Military Institute in 1839 and one of its first professors. The Preston library at VMI is named for him. His wife, Margaret Junkin Preston is the famed “Poetess of the Confederacy”. Her inspiration to write this poetry came at the expense of VMI being burned by Union […]

Eliza Chappell Porter (1801 - 1888)

Educator. Born November 5, 1807, in Geneseo, New York, she began teaching school at age 16 and had opened a school for mixed-race Indian children in Michigan in 1831. In 1835, she married Jeremiah Porter a Presbyterian clergyman and was the first school teacher in Chicago, Illinois. During the Civil War, she was an organizer […]

Richard Porson (1759 - 1808)

The greatest Classical scholar of his age. Unfortunately also a heavy drinker, which precipitated his early death. (bio by: David Conway) Cause of death: Heart attack

Edward Pococke (1970 - 1691)

Orientalist who became a master of the Arabic, Syrica, Samaritan, Ethiopic and Hebrew languages and whose purchases became the basis of the Bodleian Library’s oriental manuscript collection. Became Oxford’s first Professor of Arabic. Also wrote in 1659 a treatise on coffee. In 1637-1640 acompanied Sir Peter Wyche (q.v.) on his embassy to Constantinople. (bio by: […]

Humphrey Plantagenet (1390 - 1447)

English Royalty. Born the fifth son of Henry IV, King of England and Mary de Bohun. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter about 1400 and gained the titles of Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Pembroke in May 1414. He married Jacqueline von Bayern, Comtesse de Hollande, Zélande et Hainault in […]

Robert Phelps (1970 - 1890)

Master of Sidney Sussex College (bio by: David Conway)

Donald Gayton Phelps (1929 - 2003)

Educator, civil rights activist. He was the first black chancellor of the Seattle Community College and, in 1988, became chancellor of the nation’s largest and most diverse community-college district in Los Angeles. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, he was a commentator for KOMO 4 television and radio (Seattle) speaking regularly on race relations. […]

LTC Lemuel Penn (1915 - 1964)

John Mason Peck (1789 - 1858)

Pioneer Baptist missionary, statesman, author, educator & founder of Shurtleff College (now the Southern Illinois University at Alton Dental School). There is a memorial marker is located next to the Robert Wadlow statue on the grounds of Southern Illinois University Dental School, marking the original site of Shurtleff College.  Family links:  Spouse:  Sarah Paine Peck […]

John Pearson (1613 - 1686)

Bishop of Chester 1672/1686. English prelate and scholar. He was a royalist chaplain (1645) in the civil war, but during CromwellÕs regime he lived quietly in London. His Exposition of the Creed (1659), based on sermons he delivered at St. ClementÕs, Eastcheap, reveals PearsonÕs remarkable knowledge, especially of the Church Fathers; with many notes, it […]

Patrick Henry Pearse (1879 - 1916)

Irish Nationalist Revolutionary. A teacher, writer and emotional orator, he was a signatory to the Proclamation of the Republic. The military Commander-in-Chief during the Easter 1916 rising, he gave the unconditional surrender after one week, and was one of fourteen leaders of the uprising to be court-marshaled and executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail […]

Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)

Educator, Reverend, mentor of prominent persons.  Born into a prominent New England family, Peabody was educated in England at Cambridge University. He returned to the United States and studied theology at an Episcopal seminary in Cambridge, MA. In 1882, he made a brief move to Arizona Territory, where he organized what is now the oldest […]

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804 - 1894)

Transcendentalist, philosopher, educator. Founder of the Kindergarten movement in the United States.  Family links:  Parents:  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1778 – 1853)  Siblings:  Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804 – 1894)  Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (1807 – 1887)*  Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne (1809 – 1871)*  Nathaniel Cranch Peabody (1811 – 1881)*  George Francis Peabody (1813 – 1839)*  Wellington […]

Dr Frederick Douglas Patterson (1901 - 1988)

Third president of Tuskegee University. Founder of the United Negro College Fund.  Family links:  Spouse:  Catherine Moton Patterson (1909 – 1999)* *Calculated relationship

Milman Parry (1902 - 1935)

U.S. scholar noted for his studies of Homer.

Anthony Panizzi (1797 - 1879)

Educator. Anglo-Italian administrator remembered as the Chief Librarian of the British Museum. Born in Brescello, which was then part of the Duchy of Modena, he was the son of a lawyer and studied law himself, at the University of Parma. Upon his graduation, he was made the Inspector of Schools by the Duke of Parma, […]

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718 - 1783)

Statesman and tutor of Tsar Paul I.

Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (1855 - 1902)

Educator. She served as President of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, becoming the first woman to head a nationally known college in the United States.  Family links:  Parents:  James Warren Freeman (1828 – 1909)  Elizabeth Josephine Higley Freeman (1837 – 1910)  Spouse:  George Herbert Palmer (1842 – 1933)  Siblings:  Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer (1855 – […]

George Page (1935 - 2006)

Journalist, Broadcaster. Creator and Host of the PBS series “Nature”. His professional career lasted 50 years.  Page covered the civil rights movement of the 1960s as a TV newsman in Atlanta, Georgia,  and also worked for a short time with NBC News. He began his 26-year career at Channel Thirteen/WNET in New York in 1972. […]

Richard Owen (1810 - 1890)

First President of Purdue University (1872-1874), and State Geologist of Indiana succeeding his brother David Dale Owen. He was the first geologist to explore the northern shore of Lake Superior. He came to America to help his father and older brothers establish a utopian society in New Harmony, Indiana. The venture failed after just a […]

Kozo Ota (1970 - 1970)

KOZO OTA Educator. Served as the first president and chairperson of Asia University, founded in 1954. He defined the university’s guiding principles as self-help and cooperation. He envisioned a place of learning that would prepare people to contribute to the development of Japan and Asia. Mr. Ota’s successors have continued to carry out his mission. […]

Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin (1763 - 1843)

First director of St. Petersburg Public Library.  Family links:  Spouse:  Yelizaveta Markovna Poltoratsky Olenina (1768 – 1838)*  Children:  Anna Alexeevna Olenina Andrault (1808 – 1888)* *Calculated relationship

Takato Oki (1832 - 1899)

Educator. Contributed to the modernization of Japan’s educational system. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Hyoe Ohuchi (1888 - 1980)

Ōuchi was born on August 29, 1888, in what is now Minaminawaji, Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from schools in Hyogo and Kumamoto, and earned a degree from Tokyo Imperial University. Ōuchi briefly worked for the Ministry of Finance, then became a professor in the university’s newly created economics department, where he was a member of a Marxist study group. Ōuchi became […]

Naozumi Ochiai (1970 - 1970)

Classical Japanese scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)