Devens, Charles
lawyer, soldier, state senator, was born April 4, 1820, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of the state senate in 1848-49; and for several years was attorney-general of the United States. He served with distinction through the civil war; and was made a brigadier-general in 1862. He died Jan. 7, 1891, in Boston, Mass.
DE VERE, MARY AINGE, known as Madeline Bridges, author, poet, was born in New York. She is a successful writer of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and the author of Love Songs and Other Poems; and a second volume entitled Poems. DE VERE, MAXIMILIAN SCHELE, philologist, author, was born in 1820 in Sweden. He is a philologist of note who came from Sweden to the United States in 1843, and since 1844 has been a professor in the university of Virginia. He is the author of Outlines of Comparative Philology; Studies in English; Ameriisms; Wonders of the Deep; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; and Romance of American History.