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Dell, John C – Dengler, Frank

Dell, John C

railroad president, was born May 31, 1841, near Bascom, Ga. In 1888 he became president of the Sylvania railroad.

Dellet, James

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1788 in Ireland. He moved to Alabama in 1818, where he was appointed a judge of the circuit court, and frequently represented his county in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845.

He died Dec. 21, 1848, in Claibourne, Ala.

Demand, Herman D

educator, was born March 10, 1856, in Smithton, Mo.

He received his education in the public schools and at Central Wesleyan college; and has attained prominence as a successful educator. He has taught schools in Illinois; has been school commissioner of La Fayette county, Mo.; and for the past twelve years has been superintendent of public schools of Lexington, Mo.

Demarest, David D

clergyman, theologian, author, was born July 30, 1819, in Oradell, N. J. Since 1865 he has been professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric in the Theological seminary and also a clergyman of New Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church; Practical Catechetics; and The Huguenots on the Hackensack.

Demarest, James

clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1832, in Williamsburg, L. I. He has held pastorates in Hackensack and Newark, N. J., Chicago, Ill., and Kingston and Fort Plain, N. Y., and has published numerous sermons, including Duty of the Reformed Church in the Future as Foreshown by Its Course in the Past.

Demarest, John Terhune

clergyman, author, was born in 1813 in New Jersey. He is a Dutch reformed clergyman, and the author of Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration; Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; and Christocracy.

DEMAREST, MRS. MARY AUGUSTA, poet, was born June 26, 1838, in New York city. She was the author of My Ain Countree and Other Poems. She died in 1888.

Deming, Benjamin F

congressman, was born at Danville, Vt. He was clerk of the court in his native county for sixteen years; and was elected a representative in congress from Vermont for the term from 1833 to 1835. He died July 11, 1834, in Saratoga Springs.

Dempsey, John B

lawyer, legislator, was born April 29, 1861, in St.

Louis, Mo. He is a successful lawyer of his native city, and principally engaged as an advocate in labor cases. In 1889 he was a member of the revising session of the Missouri state legislature; and in 1886-89 was secretary for the state of Missouri of the state and district assemblies of the Knights of Labor.

Denby, Charles

soldier, journalist, lawyer, diplomatist, was born June 16, 1830, in Mount Joy, Va.. In 1853 he went to Evansville, Ind., and became assistant editor of the Evansville Enquirer. In 1856 he was elected a representative in the Indiana legislature. In 1861 he was prominent in raising volunteers for the union army and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of an Indiana regiment; served until 1863, and was promoted colonel for gallant conduct. In 1885 he was appointed United States minister to China.

Dengler, Frank

sculptor, was born in 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was for a short time an instructor in modelling in the Boston museum art school. Among his works are Azzo and Melda; an ideal head of America, and several portrait busts.

DENHARD, CHARLES EDWARD, physician, was born July 15, 1849, in Germany. He helped to found the German poliklinik of New York city, of which he is an attending physician.