Pack, Otto vo:n, the noted chancellor of duke George of Saxony, deserves our attention as the discov- erer of a plot made in 1527 to eradicate all traces of Protestantism in Germany by a united effort of the Romish princes of the country. A careful investiga- tion failed to reveal the necessary proof of such a plot, and Pack was obliged to leave his native country, and while seeking an asylum in Belgium is said to have suf- fered imprisonment and decapitation. At the time Pack was generalh' believed to have had no evidence for his revelations, but the subsequent favorable com- pacts of king Philip with the episcopal princes betray a more intimate alliance than was claimed. Probably the attack on Protestantism had been intended, but the revelation came before the plot was fully matured. See Keim, Schu-ab. Reformationsgesch, ; Hortleben, Von den Ursachen des deutschen Krieges, vol. i ; Neudecker, Ur- kunden aus der Reformationszeit ; Ranke. Deutsche Gesch, vol. iii. (J.H.W.)
Packard, Frederick Adolphus, LL.D., a prominent American educational writer and philan- thropist, was born in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Mass., Sept. 25, 1794. He graduated at Harvard College in 1814; read law at Northampton, IMass. ; then prac- ticed law at Springfield, Mass., from 1817 to 1829, where he also edited the Hampden Federalist for ten years. He was besides a member of the state legislature from
1828 to 1829. He removed to Philadelpliia in 1829, and assumed the editorial charge of the jiublications of the American Sunday-School Union, which position he retained until his death, Nov. 11, 1867. For nearly forty years he was engaged almost exclusively in Sun- day-school work in its various branches. Between
1829 and June, 1867, Dr. Packard edited more tlian two thousand different works issued by the American Sun- day-School Union in their regular series, more than forty of which he himself wrote or compiled ; edited the Sunday-School Magazine, the Sunday-School Jour- nal, and the Youth's Penny Gazette; prepared from 1829 to 1835 inclusive, and from 1838 to 1867, most of the society's annual reports; published tracts and oc- casional papers on Sunday-school subjects, and pamph- lets on educational and other subjects, including a Letter
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on Christian Union (1850) to bishop Potter, of Penn- sylvania. He also published, in 1850, A Replij to an A rticle in Forbes's Psychological Journal (London) on Diseases of the Mind. He edited eleven of the thirteen volumes of the Philadelphia Journal of Prison Disci- pline, and contributed to the other two volumes ; issued several pamphlets on the same subject; and wrote for the Princeton Review, the New-Emjlander, and other pe- riodicals. In July, 1849, he was elected president of Girard College in Philadelphia, but declined the ap- pointment. Packard was a man of untiring zeal and energy, estimable in all the relations of life, and in the highest sense of the phrase a national benefactor. Among the most important of his publications, all of which lack his own name, are, The Union Bible Dic- tionary (Phila. 1837) : — r^e Teacher Taught (1839), reprinted in London under tlie title of The Sunday-School Teacher'' s Handbook: — An Inquiry into the Alleged Tendency of the Separation of Convicts one from the other to Produce Disease and Derangement, by a Citizen of Pennsylvania (1849) -.—The Teacher Teaching (1861) : — The Rock (1861 ; Lond. 1862) : — Life of Robert Owen (Phila. 1866):— r^e Daily Public School of the United States (1866), a vigorous protest against the ineflSciencj^ of the system. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uthors, s. V. ; Drake, Diet, of Amer. Biog. s. v. ; Index to the Princeton Review, vol. ii, s. v.
Packard, Hezekiah, D.D., a Unitarian minister, was born at North Bridgewater, Mass., in 1761. He graduated at Harvard College in 1787; was minister at Chelmsford, Mass., from 1793 to 1802; at Wiscasset, Me., from 1802 to 1830 ; and at Middlesex Village, Mass., from 1830 to 1836. He died in 1849. He pub- lished single Sermons, etc. (1795-1816). See Sprague, A nnals, Unitarian, viii, 281 ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.
Packard, Theophilus, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born March 4, 1769, at North Bridgewa- ter, Mass. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1796, and was ordained pastor in Shelburne, Mass., Feb. 20, 1799, where he remained until his death, which oc- curred Sept. 17, 1855. He published Sermons in 1806, 1808, 1813, and 1815; and in 1820 the Life and Death oy (his son) Isaac T.Packard. See S]}x&gwe, Annals, ii, 408 ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
Packer, David, M.D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Newark, Vt., Feb. 20, 1808; was converted in Burke in 1823; received an ex- horter's license in 1832; and began preaching in the Vermont Conference in 1839, where he remained until 1864. His health failing, he attended a course of med- ical lectures in Philadelphia in 1865, where he gradu- ated as ]\I.D. In 1866 Packer took a superannuated relation in his conference, and entered upon the practice of his newly acquired profession at Lowell, Mass. ; but he was prostrated by sickness in 1867, and removed to Chelsea, hoping the change of climate might improve his health. A shock of apoplexy in 1873, however, and another in 1874, left him a physical wreck ; and, after a year's residence in Minnesota, he died in Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 1, 1875. He was successful both as a minister and a physician.