PIGGOTT, MICHAEL, 1634 Vermont Street, Quincy, Ill.; a veteran of the Civil War. He was made second lieutenant of Company F, Western Sharpshooters., in 1861, while at Camp Benton, St. Louis, Mo.; was promoted first lieutenant, and while at Fort Donaldson, in the spring of 1862, was made captain; lost a leg at Resaca, Ga., in May, 1864; was subsequently connected with the U. S. revenue service; messenger in the national House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.; was made postmaster of Quincy, Ill., during President Grant’s first term, and held the position for over sixteen years; was appointed special Indian agent by President Harrison, and in that, as in every position held, displayed eminent ability. PIGOTT, WILLIAM, iron and steel, Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash. (Life member of the Society.) PLUNKETT, THOMAS, 326 Sixth Street, East Liverpool, O. POWER, REV. JAMES W., 47 East One Hundred Twenty-ninth Street, New York City. POWERS, JOHN F., 518 Hudson Avenue, Weehawken, N. J. POWERS, PATRICK H., President of the Emerson Piano Company, Danube Street, Roxbury, Mass. PRENDERGAST, WILLIAM A., 20 Nassau Street, New York City, Register of Kings County. QUIN, R. A., M. D., President of the Home Savings Bank of Vicksburg, P. O. Box 234, Vicksburg, Miss. Is Vice-President of the Society for Mississippi. QUINLAN, FRANCIS J., A. M., M. D., LL. D., eighth President-General of the American Irish Historical Society, was born in the City of New York, December 24th, 1853. Both his parents were Irish born, coming to these shores when the great exodus took place, about 1845. His early education was obtained at the Parochial School of St. Francis Xavier, under the guidance of the Christian Brothers. Later he attended Manhattan Academy, then at Thirty-second Street, and afterwards the College of St. Francis Xavier. While preparing for the study of medicine he taught school. In 1878 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia College, and soon after accepted an appointment at St. Vincent’s Hospital, which he shortly resigned to enter the United States Indian Service, serving on the frontier four years. In 1883 Doctor Quinlan returned to New York and devoted himself especially to diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Such was the skill he displayed that in a comparatively few years he was among the most prominent of his profession and today is a recognized authority in his specialty. Doctor Quinlan’s prominence in the medical field is attested by the number of important posts he holds. He is Professor of diseases of the nose and throat in the medical department of Fordham University and the New York Polyclinic; attending Laryngologist and Otologist to the New York City and the St. Vincent Hospitals; Consulting Throat and Nose Surgeon of the New York Foundling Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Yonkers, and Jamaica Hospital, N. Y., and