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Dewing, Thomas Wilmer
artist, was born May 4, 1852, in Boston, Mass.
His more important paintings are Young Sorcerer; Morning; Prelude; A Garden; The Days, which gained the Clarke prize; and Tobias and the Angel.
DE WITT, ALEXANDER, manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born April 2, 1797, in Worcester, Mass. He was a bank president; was a state senator in 1842, 1844, 1850, and 1851; a member of the constitutional convention of 1853; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1857.
DE WITT, BENJAMIN, physician, scientist, author, was born in 1774. He was a New York physician and scientist who published Oxygen; and Minerals in New York. He died in 1819, in New York city.
DE WITT, CHARLES, congressman, was born in 1728. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1783 to 1785. He died Sept., 1787, in Kingston, N. Y.
DE WITT, CHARLES G., congressman, He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831; and was appointed charge d'affaires for Central America in 1833. He died April 13, 1839, in Newburg, N. Y.
DE WITT, DAVID MILLER, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1837, in Paterson, N. J. He was elected district attorney of Ulster county in 1862, and reelected in 1865. He was elected to the forty-third congress as a democrat.
DE WITT, FRANCIS B., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 11, 1849, in Jackson county, Ind. He enlisted in the forty-sixth Ohio regiment at the age of twelve, and served at the battle of Shiloh and during the Corinth campaign.
He was elected on the republican ticket in 1891 to represent Paulding county in the Ohio legislature, and re-elected in 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
DE WITT, JACOB H., congressman, was born in 1784, in Ulster county, N. Y.
He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821; and a member of the New York assembly in 1839 and in 1847. He died Jan. 30, 1857, in Kingston, N. Y.
DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, educator, was born August, 1789, in Catskill, N. Y.
In 1825 he assumed the professorship of belles-lettres, criticism and logic in Rutgers college. He died Oct. 11, 1831, in New Brunswick, N. J.
DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1821, in Albany, N. Y.
He is a reformed Dutch clergyman, and professor in the Theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1863-92. He is the author of The Sure Foundation and How to Build on It; The Psalms, a New Translation; and What is Inspiration?
DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, author, was born in 1842, in Pennsylvania. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton Theological seminary since 1892, and the author of Sermons on the Christian Life.
DE WITT, JOHN, clergyman, was born Dec. 23, 1867, in Harrisburg, Pa. He is an eminent clergyman of Cincinnati, Ohio.
DE WITT, SIMEON, surveyor, author, was born Dec. 25, 1756, in Ulster county, N. Y. He was a famous surveyor who is commonly held responsible for the classical nomenclature of places in central and western New York. He published Elements of Perspective. He died Dec. 3, 1834, in Ithaca, N. Y.
DE WITT, SUSAN LINN, author, poet, was born in 1778. She wrote Justinea, a novel; and The Pleasures of Religion, a poem. She died in 1824.
DE WOLF, AUSTIN, lawyer, author, was born April 29, 1838, in Deerfield, Mass. He is the author of The Town Meeting, a manual of Massachusetts law.
DE WOLF, EDWARD P., merchant, was born Jan. 12, 1848, in Chicago, Ill.
He attended the public and high schools. of his native city, and for many years was there engaged in business. His father, William F. De Wolf, was once city treasurer and a prominent lawyer of Chicago. In 1882 he moved to Waukegan, and in time became prominent as a public citizen. In 1895 was elected mayor, and his administration has been eminently satisfactory. He is a director in the Lake County Agricultural society, and has held various other positions of honor.
DE WOLFE, JAMES, United States senator, was born in 1763, in Bristol, R. I.
He was a senator of the United States from Rhode Island from 1821 to 1825, when he resigned. He died Dec. 21, 1837, in New York city.
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