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Denholm, Robert M

journalist, was born July 20, 1852, in Scotland. He has established several papers in the west, and is now the editor and owner of The Western Disciple of De Soto, Mo.

Denio, Hiram

jurist, author, was born May 21, 1799, in Rome, N. Y. He was a Utica jurist who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court; and The Court for Correction of Errors. He died in 1871.

Denise, David D

horticulturist, was born Sept. 23, 1840, in Freehold, N. Y.

He is treasurer of the state board of agriculture, and a member of the executive committee.

Denison, Andrew Woods

soldier, was born Dec. 15, 1831, in Baltimore, Md.

He served in the civil war and attained for gallant and meritorious services the rank of brigadier-general. In 1869 he was appointed postmaster of Baltimore, Md., which he held until his death. He died Feb. 24, 1877, in Baltimore, Md.

Denison, Charles

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1818, in Wyoming Valley, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He died June 27, 1867, in Wilkesbarre.

Denison, Daniel

soldier, author, was born in 1613, in England. He was a famous colonial soldier of Massachusetts, and the author of Irenicon, or Salve for New England's Sore. He died Sept. 20, 1682, in Ipswich, Mass.

Denison, Dudley Chase

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1819, in Royalton, Ind. He was a state senator in 1853 and 1854; state's attorney from 1858 to 1860; and a member of the state house of representatives in 1861, 1862, and 1863. He was United States district attorney for the district of Vermont; and was elected a representative from Vermont to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Denison, Frederic

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1819, in Stoning, Conn. He is a baptist clergyman of Rhode Island, and the author of The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and Its Witnesses, 1627- 1876; and Picturesque Narragansett and Picturesque Rhode Island.

Denison, John Henry

clergyman, author, was born in 1841, in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman retired from active service, but at one time college pastor at Williamstown, Mass. He is the author of Christ's Idea of the Supernatural.

Dennett, John Richard

journalist, was born in 1837, in Chatham, N. B.

Besides writing frequently for the Nation, he was assistant professor of rhetoric at Harvard. He died Nov. 26, 1874, in Westborough, Mass.

Dennie, Joseph

journalist, author, was born Aug. 30, 1768, in Boston, Mass.

He was a journalist and essayist of Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his deserts, and the author of The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers. He died Jan. 7, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dennis, Graham

BARCLAY, financier, was born June 1, 1855, in England. From 1875-77 he was city editor of The Daily Journal of Dayton, Ohio; and in 1885 organized the Muscovite Mica Mining company, of which he is still manager. He has been president of the Dominion Mining and Concentrating company of Spokane, Wash.; and is still president of the Idler Mining company; and the Summit Mining company.