Degener, Edward
farmer, merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1809, in Germany. He was a member of the Texas constitutional convention in 1866, in which he favored universal suffrage; and was again a member of the constitutional convention in 1868. He was elected to the forty-first congress as a republican. DE GRAFF, JOHN I., congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829, and again from 1837 to 1839.
DE GROOT, ALBERT, seaman, was born in 1813 on Staten Island. He promoted the erection of the Vanderbilt bronzes, and presented to the printers of New York the statue of Benjamin Franklin, which stands in front of the Times and Tribune buildings. He died Sept. 17, 1887, in Richfield Springs, N. Y.
DE HAAS, MAURICE FREDERICK HENDRICK, artist, was born in 1832.
Among his numerous pictures are Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts Below New Orleans; and The Yacht Dauntless off Dover.
DE HAAS, WILLIAM FREDERICK, marine painter, was born in 1830 in Holland. He emigrated to New York in 1854, and devoted himself to painting coastscenery. He exhibited at the National academy, Sunrise on the Susquehanna, and Fishing-Boats Off Mt. Desert. He died July 16, 1880, in Fayal, Azores.
DE HART, WILLIAM CHETWOOD, soldier, author, was born in 1800 in New York state. He was an officer in the United States army who published Observations on Military Law and Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial. He died April 2, 1848, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
DE HART, WILLIAM HENRY, clergyman, was born March 21, 1837, in New Brunswick, N. J. He has been pastor of the reformed church in various cities; and has served as stated clerk of the general synod of the reformed church in America.
DE HAVEN, EDWIN J., arctic explorer, was born in 1819 in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in Wilkes' exploring expedition from 1839 till 1842, and commanded the first expedition fitted out, at the expense of Henry Grinnell, of New York, to search for Sir John Franklin. He died Oct. 2, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.
DE HAVEN, JOHN JEFFERSON, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born March 12, 1845, in St. Joseph, Mo. In 1849 he moved to California, received his education in the common schools of that state, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. In 1867 he was elected district attorney of Humboldt county; was elected a member of the state assembly in 1869; and a state senator in 1871 for the term of four years. For two years he was city attorney for Eureka; was republican candidate for congress in 1882; and in 1884 was elected judge of the superior court of Humboldt county for a term of six years. In 1888 he was elected to congress; and in 1890 was elected associate justice of the supreme court of the state of California for the term ending Jan. 5, 1895. He then resumed the practice of law in San Francisco; and since June 8, 1897, has been United States district judge for the northern district of California.