PASCHAL
PASCO
1841-47, and clerk of the U.S. district court, 1846-
56. He was county judge, 1848-50; register of
the state land office, 1857-59; librarian and cur-
ator of the Iowa State university, 1858-70;
professor of natural history, 1860-70, and pro-
fessor of political economy there, 1867-70. In
1844 he founded the Iowa Masonic library, and
was its first librarian, the building being erected
in 1884. He was secretary of the Iowa State
Historical society, 1864-66; organizer of the
Iowa State Teachers' association in 1854, and
its president in 1867; president of the school
board of Muscatine in 1855, and later of the
school board of Iowa City. He was also a founder
of the state library society in 1890, and its pre-
sident, 1893-94, and a member of the Pioneer
Law Makers' association. He was married, May
17, 1843, to Agnes, daughter of George and
Nancy (Barton )McCully of Muscatine, Iowa. He
received the honorary degree of A.M. from Miami
university in 1861, and that of LL.D. from the
Iowa State university in 1894. He edited the
Historical Annals of Iowa, the Annals of lotva
Masonry, the Western Freemason (1859-60): the
Evergreen (1871-72), and the Transactions of the
Knights Templar (1871-86). He is the author of:
Tlie Newspaper Press of loiva, 1836-46; History of
lou-a (1877); History of Templary in the United
States (1877); History of the Early Schools of
Iowa, lS.10-59 (1889).
PASCHAL, George Washington, jurist, was born in Skull Shoals, Greene county, Ga., Nov. 23, 1812, probably of Hebrew origin. He was admitted to the bar in 1832, and practised in Wilkes county, Ga., 1832-36. He was a lieutenant in the volunteer service, engaged in the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Indian Territory, and served as aide-de-camp to General John E. Wool, 1834-35. He married Sarah, daughter of John Ridge, the Cherokee chief. She was a full-blooded Indian, descended from a long line of chiefs, was well educated, a famous beauty and a fine conversationalist. She was an aunt of Elias C. Boudinot (q.v.). They removed to Van Buren, Ark., in 1836-37, where he engaged in the practice of law and was joined bj' bis brother, who liad assumed the name of Brewer. They had an extensive practice as Paschal & Brewer. He was justice of the supreme court of Arkansas, 1842-44; was defeated for representative in congress, and in 1848 removed with his brother to Texas. It was largely through his influence that Sam Hous- ton was elected governor of Texas in 1859. In 1861 he opposed the doctrine of secession and publislied his opinions in the Southern Intelli- gencer, a paper which he had founded at Austin in 1856. He removed to Washington. D.C, in 1869 where he was prominent in founding the law department of Georgetown university and
was professor of jurisprudence at that institution
for many years. The honorary degree of LL.D.
was conferred on him by Georgetown university
in 1875. He is the author of: Annotated Digest of
the Laivs of Texas (1866, new ed. 1873); Anno-
tated Constitution of the United States (1868, new
ed., 1876); Decisions of the Supreme Court of
Texas (5 vols., 1869-71); Digest of Decisions of the
Supreme Court of Texas (1871-73); a sketch of
the last years of Sam Houston in Harper's Mag-
azine in 1866, and many contributions to maga-
zines. He died in Washington, D.C, Feb. 16, 1878.
PASCO, Samuel, senator, was born in London,
England, June 28, 1834; son of John and Amelia
(Nash) Pasco, and grandson of Samuel Pasco of
Launceston and of Edward Nash of London.
His father brought him to Prince Edward Island
in 1842, and thence in 1844 to Charlestown, Mass.
He was graduated at the Charlestown high school
in 1854; at Harvard college, A.B., 1858, and was
principal of the Waukcenah academy, Jefferson
county, Fla., 1859-61. He enlisted in the Con-
federate service, Aug. 10, 1861, as a private in the
3d Florida volunteers, which regiment in 1862
formed a part of Bragg's army in the Kentucky
campaign, and was later in Breckinridge's divi-
sion in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia. At
the battle of Missionarj' Ridge he was left on the
field severely wounded and remained a prisoner
until a few weeks before the war closed wlieu he
returned to Florida. He was again principal of
the Waukeenah academy, 1865-66; clerk of the
circuit court, Monticello, 1866-68, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1868, forming a partnership
with Col. William S. Dilworth, his preceptor,
Avho died in 1869, leaving a large practice. He
was married, Oct. 28, 1869, to Jessie, daughter of
William and Elizabetli (Scott) Denliani. He was
elected a mem- . ._ . -y^^^. , ,,—„-, -Y/
ber of the Dem- , ' - ■ - )
ocratio state committee in 1872, was its chairman, 187C 88, and a Demo- cratic presiden- ^ tial elector in 1880. He rep- resented his state on the Democratic national committee, 1880-1900. and in the Democratic state convention of 1884 received for a time a plurality of votes as the nominee for governor, but with- drew liis name to prevent a deadlock, and upon his motion Edward A. Perry, his leading com- petitor, obtained the nomination. He was un- animously chosen president of the state constitu- tional convention in 1885, and was a representa- tive in the state legislature, 1886-87, being speaker of the house. He was elected U.S. senator in April,
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