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Derby, Samuel Carroll

educator, college president, was born in Dublin, N. H. In 1877 he received a professorship in Antioch college, which he held until 1887, when he became president of the college. He held the position until 1881, when heaccepted the position of professor of Latin language and literature in the Ohio state university.

DE ROALDES, ABEL, physician, was born June 10, 1804, in France. In 1850 he moved to New Orleans, where for thirty years he practiced his profession, numbering among his patients and friends a large number of the creole population.

He died Feb. 4, 1894, in New Orleans, La.

DE ROALDES, ARTHUR WASHING- TON, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 25, 1849, in St. Landry, La. He attained prominence as a successful surgeon of New Orleans. He is the author of Post Nasal Adenoid Growths and Their Treatment; Atresia of the Larynx; and other works.

DE RUSSY, GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, was born Nov. 3, 1818, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

He was mustered out of the volunteer service in 1866; promoted to be major in the regular army in 1866; lieutenant-colonel in 1879; colonel in 1882; and was retired by operation of law in 1882. He died May 29, 1891, in Detroit, Mich.

DE RUSSY, LOUIS G., soldier, state senator, was born in 1796 in New York.

From 1851 to 1853 he was a member of the Louisiana house of representatives, and from 1853 till 1855 of the senate. He was major-general of Louisiana militia from 1848 till 1861, when he entered the confederate army. He died Dec. 17, 1864, in Grand Ecore, Fla.

DE RUSSY, RENE EDWARD, soldier, was born Feb. 22, 1789, in Hayti, W. I. He was superintendent of the United States military academy from 1833 till 1838, and lieutenant-colonel of engineers from 1838 till 1863. In 1865 he was brevetted majorgeneral in the U. S. army for long and faithful service. He died Nov. 23, 1865, in San Francisco, Cal.

DE SAUSSURE, HENRY WILLIAM, jurist, author, was born Aug. 16, 1763, in Pocotaligo, S. C. He was a jurist of South Carolina, who was director of the United States mint in 1794, and published Reports of the Courts of Chancery and Equity in South Carolina from the Revolution to 1813. He died March 29, 1839, in Charleston, S. C.

DE SAUSSURE, WILLIAM F., lawyer, congressman, was born in 1792, in Charleston, S. C. He adopted the profession of the law; and was a senator in congress from his native state from 1852 to 1853.