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Dearborn, Nathaniel

engraver, author, was born in 1786. He was one of the earliest engravers on wood in Boston, and published The American Text-Book for Making Letters; Boston Notions; An Account of That Village from 1630 to 1847; Reminiscences of Boston, and Guide through the City and Environs; and Guide through Mount Auburn. He died Nov. 7, 1852, in South Reading, Mass.

DE ARMON, DAVID A., jurist, state senator, congressman, was born March 18, 1844, in Blair county, Pa. He was presidential elector in 1884; was state senator, circuit judge, and Missouri supreme court commissioner; and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

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