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Dale, Alpheus

contractor, state legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1844, in Union county, Pa. In 1853 he moved to Illinois; and in 1865 settled in Minnesota at North Minneapolis as a carpenter and contractor. He has served as a member of the Minnesota house of representatives for two terms, in 1895 and in 1897. He has taken an active part in debates in the state legislature and done much toward the carrying out of all progressive measures.

Dale, James Wilkinson

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Odessa, Del. He was a clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania; and the author of The Cup and the Cross, or the Baptism of Calvary; Classic Baptism; Judaic Baptism; Johannic Baptism; and Christic and Patristic Baptism.

Dale, Samuel

pioneer, was born in 1772 in Rockbridge county, Va. In 1816 he was a member of the convention to divide the Mississippi territory, and served several terms in the Alabama legislature.

He died May 23, 1841, in Lauderdale county, Miss.

Dale, William Johnson

soldier, physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 5, 1815, in Gloucester, Mass. In 1863 he was raised to the rank of brigadier-general, in connection with his appointment as surgeongeneral of Massachusetts.

Dales, John Blakely

clergyman, author, was born in 1815 in New York. He is a united presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, whose principal writings include Roman Catholicism; Dangers and Duties of Young Men; and The Gospel Minister.

Daley, Andrew J

lawyer, was born May 25, 1857, in Iowa county, Wis. He attended the Monona academy and Theological seminary of Madison, Wis.; and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Luverne, Minn.

Dallas, Robert Frank

artist, was born June 6, 1855, in Camillus, N. Y. In 1886 he was made instructor in oil painting and modeling in the College of Fine Arts, and was in 1893 elected professor of these classes.

DALLINGER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, politician, author, was born in 1871 in Massachusetts. He is a politician of Cambridge; and the author of Nominations for Elective Office in the United States.

Dalsheimer, Alice

educator, author, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1845, in New Orleans, La. Her writings consist of numerous sketches, short stories and poems, principally the latter, all of which appeared in the daily papers of New Orleans under the pseudonym of Salvia Dale. She died Jan. 15, 1880, in New Orleans, La. on

Dalton, Edward Barry

physician, author, was born Sept. 21, 1834, in Lowell, Mass. In 1869 he originated the present city ambulance system for the transportation of the sick and injured.

He published papers on The Disorder known as Bronzed Skin, or Disease of the Supra-renal Capsules; The Metropolitan Board of Health (1868); and Reports of the Sanitary Superintendent of the Metropolitan Board of Health from 1866 to 1869. He died May 13, 1872, in Santa Barbara, Cal.

Dalton, John Call

educator, physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1825, in Chelmsford, Mass. He was a physician of note who was a professor in various medical colleges. He was the author of Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The Experimental Method in Medical Science; Doctrines of the Circulation; Topographical Anatomy of the Brain; History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city; Treatise on Human Physiology; and Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene. He died in 1889.

Dalton, Tristam

state legislator, United States senator, was born in May, 1743, in Newbury, Mass. He was a representative, speaker of the house of representatives, and a senator in the legislature of Massachusetts; and became a senator of the United States in the first congress after the adoption of the federal constitution. He died May 30, 1817, in Boston, Mass.