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Daly, Augustin – Damen, Arnold

Daly, Augustin

dramatist, theatrical manager, was born July 20, 1838, in Plymouth, N. C. He has opened to the American stage the rich field of German farcical comedy. His productions of Taming the Shrew and As You Like It have been accepted in England as the finest of this generation.

Daly, Charles Patrick

jurist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1816, in New York city. He is a prominent jurist of New York city, and the author of Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York; First Settlement of Jews in North America; and What we Knew of Maps and Map Drawing before Mercator.

Daly, John Augustin

dramatist, author, was born in 1838 in North Carolina. He is a dramatist and theatrical manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays from the German and French, has written Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under the Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffiington, a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.

Daly, John J

mine owner, was born Oct. 18, 1853, in Morris, Ill. He is president and principal owner of the Daly West Mining company, which operates one of the greatest mines of the state.

He is also president of the First National bank of Park City, Utah.

Daly, Joseph F

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 3, 1840, in Plymouth. In 1870 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas of New York city, and was reelected again in 1884. He was chosen by his associates chief judge of the court in 1890, to serve until 1899.

Daly, William H

journalist, was born June 28, 1870, in Tonawanda, N. Y.

He graduated from the Wesleyan university of Lincoln, Neb.; and is now the editor and owner of The Graphic of Lemley, Neb.

Dalzell, James

soldier. He was a companion of Israel Putnam in some of the most adventurous passages of that rough veteran's life, and afterward an aide-de-camp to Gen. Jeffrey Amherst. He died July 30, 1763, near Detroit, Mich.

Dalzell, John

lawyer, congressman, was born April 19, 1845, in New York city.

For years he was one of the attorneys for the Pennsylvania Railroad company and for all its western lines; and was also attorney for many corporations in Allegheny county. He never held any office until he was elected to the fiftieth con-- gress; and was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican.

Dalzell, Robert M

inventor, was born in 1793, near Belfast, Ireland. He was a millwright, unusually skilful and ingenious, and many of the flour mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the elevator system in handling and stowing grain, which is now in general use. He died Jan. 22, 1873, in Rochester, N. Y.

Dame, Mrs. Abbie H

poet, was born July 10, 1847, in Lowell, Mass. She is the author of many poems, one of the public exercises of New Hampshire day at the New Orleans exposition, and ma many others for reunions.

Dame, Harriet Patience

nurse, was born Jan. 5, 1815, in Barnstead, N. H.

She joined the second New Hampshire regiment as hospital matron in June, 1861, and remained with it until it was mustered out in December, 1865. In August, 1867, she was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury department, where she still remains.

Damen, Arnold

clergyman, was born about 1800 in Holland. In 1857 he erected a Jesuit establishment in Chicago; he also built the great church of the Holy Trinity, and founded the college of St.

Ignatius in the same city.