Deming, Philander
lawyer, author, was born in 1829, in Carlisle, N. Y. He succeeded in introducing the use of shorthand into the supreme courts of New York in 1886. He is the author of several volumes of stories-Adirondack Stories; and Tompkins and Other Folks, being the best known or his works.
DE MORSE, CHARLES, soldier, journalist, was born Jan. 31, 1816, in Leicester, Mass. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of colonel. He edited the first daily paper in Texas in 1842, and established The Clarksville Standard in 1842. He was reporter of the house of congress in 1841-42. He died in 1887.
DE MOTT, JOHN, Congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1833; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
DE MOTTE, HARVEY CLELLAND, soldier, educator, college president, was born July 17, 1838, near Carrollton, Ill.
He served as a lieutenant in the union army during the civil war, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. For twentythree years he was professor of mathematics in the Illinois Wesleyan university; for three years was president of Chaddock college; and for six years was superintendent of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' home of Normal, Ill. He is president of the Central Union Building and Loan association at Bloomington, Ill.
DE MOTTE, MARK L., soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1832, in Rockville, Ind. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1856; and served as a captain in the union army during the war of the rebellion. He was editor and proprietor of the Lexington Register of Missouri for eight years; was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in 1872 and 1876; and in the latter year was a delegate to the republican national convention. He returned to Valparaiso, Ind., in 1877, and was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.