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Damon, Howard Franklin

physician, author, was born in 1833 in Scituate, Mass. He was a hospital physician of Boston; and the author of Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; and General Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. He died Sept. 17, 1884, in Boston, Mass.

Damon, John Adams

merchant, state legislator, was born June 4, 1850, in Madison, Ohio. He is a successful merchant of Weidman, Mich.; and during 1887-89 served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature.

Damrell, William S

congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1809, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-fourth and to the thirty-fifth congresses. He died May 17, 1860, in Boston, Mass.

Damrosch, Leopold

musician, was born Oct. 22, 1832, in Prussia. In 1871 he came to New York city, where he was director of a successful orchestra. He was prominent in the musical affairs of America. He died Feb. 15, 1885, in New York city.

Dana, Amasa

congressman. was a member of the New York assembly in 1828 and 1829; and a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845.

Dana, Charles Anderson

journalist, author, was born Aug. 8, 1819, in Hinsdale, N. H. He was a distinguished journalist of New York city. He was as-- sistant secretary of war in 1863-65, and from 1868 until his death was editor of the New York Sun. With J. G. Wilson he prepared a Life of Gen. Grant, and was coeditor with George Ripley of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. He died in 1897.

Dana, Charles Louis

neurologist, author, was born in 1852 in Vermont. He is a physician of note as a neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.

Dana, Daniel

fourth president of Dartmouth college. He was inaugurated president in 1820, and died Aug. 26, 1859.

He was an eminent clergyman, and an excellent theologian and scholar.

Dana, Edmund Trowbridge

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1818, in Cambridge, Mass. He devoted special attention to Roman civil law, and to history and philosophy in their bearings upon law. He died May 18, 1869, in Cambridge, Mass.

Dana, Edward Salisbury

educator, journalist, author, was born Nov. 16, 1849, in New Haven, Conn. He has been assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale university since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the Peabody museum there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of Silliman's Journal. He is the author of Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics; and Appendix II. and Appendix III. of Dana's System of Mineralogy.

Dana, Israel Thorndike

physician, author, was born June 6, 1827, in Marblehead, Mass. He was one of the founders of the Portland School of Medical Instruction. He became one of the foremost physicians of New England; and was the author of a number of medical works.

Dana, James

clergyman, author, was born May 11, 1735, in Cambridge, Mass.

He was a famous congregational clergyman of New Haven; who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the Will. He died Aug. 18, 1812, in New Haven, Conn.