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Dempster, John

clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 2, 1794, in Florida, N. Y. He is a noted methodist preacher and educator, and one of the founders of the theological school of Boston university. He is the author of Lectures and Addresses, which was issued in 1864. He died Nov. 28, 1863, in Evanston, Ill.

DEMPSTER, WILLIAM RICHARD- SON, musician, was born in 1809 in Scotland. He set Tennyson's May Queen to music, which became popular, and afterward composed music for most of the songs introduced in Tennyson's longer poems, which were his favorites for his concerts. He died March 7, 1071, in London, England. DE NAVARRO, MRS. A. F., actress, was born July 28, 1859, in Sacramento, Cal. Her first appearance in New York was in 1877 at the Fifth Avenue theater, and again in 1878, at the close of which she made her first European tour. She abandoned the stage permanently in 1891.

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