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Dezendorf, John F – Dickens, Samuel

Dezendorf, John F

surveyor,, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1834, in Lansingburg, N. Y. In 1863 he moved to Norfolk, Va. He was assistant assessor of internal revenue from 1869 to 1871; and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876. He was defeated for congress in 1878; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.

Dibble, Samuel

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1837, in Charleston, S. C. He served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1877. He was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.

Dibble, Sheldon

missionary, author, was born Jan. 23, 1809, in Skaneateles, N. Y. He was a missionary to the Sandwich Islands, who published History of the Sandwich Island Missions. He died Jan. 22, 1845, in the Hawaiian Islands.

Dibrell, George Gibbs

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born April 12, 1822, in White county, Tenn. In 1861 was elected to the legislature, but volunteered in the confederate service, and was made brigadier-general in 1864. He was elected president of the Southwestern railroad; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Tennessee to the fortyfourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.

Dichman, Ernest

naval officer, lawyer, banker, was born in 1845. He served in the South Atlantic squadron until the close of the civil war; rose, through the intermediate grades, to the rank of lieutenant-commander. He was United States minister to Columbia from 1878 to 1881.

Dick, James T

artist, was born in 1834, in New York city. He was one of the originators of the Brooklyn art school and a founder of the academy of design.

Among his best efforts are Cooling Off; Leap-Frog; and At Mischief. He died Jan. 19, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dick, John

jurist. He was a citizen of Louisiana, and in 1821 was appointed judge of the United States court for the District of Louisiana.

Dick, John

merchant, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a member of congress from that state in 1854 and 1855; and was re-elected to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.

Dick, Samuel

physician, congressman. He was a delegate to the continental congress from New Jersey in 1783 and 1784. He died in November, 1812, in New Jersey.

Dick, Samuel B

soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 26, 1836, in Meadville, Pa. He was a presidential elector in 1864; and was mayor of his native city in 1870. He commanded a brigade of Pennsylvania state militia in West Virginia in 1873; and was elected a representative from Pennsyıvania to the fortysixth congress.

Dick, Wallace Peter

educator, composer, was born Sept. 9, 1857, in Lowell, Mass. In 1891 he accepted the position of professor of languages in the state normal school at Westchester, Pa. He is a thorough musician, and has composed a number of instrumental pieces and several songs, among the most popular of which are Little Sunbeam; and Light of My Life.

Dickens, Samuel

congressman. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina during the years 1816 and 1817.