Dingley, Nelson
lawyer, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 15, 1832, in Durham, Maine. In 1856 he became the proprietor and editor of the Lewiston Journal.
Between the years 1862 and 1873 he was six times elected to the state legislature, serving as speaker in 1863 and 1864. In 1873 and also in 1874 he was elected governor of Maine. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876; and was elected a representative from Maine to the fortyseventh congress, to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. DINNIES, MRS. ANNA PEYRE SHACKELFORD, poet, was born in 1816 in Georgetown, S. C. She was a poet of New Orleans who published The Floral Year, a collection of one hundred poems.
She died Aug. 8, 1886, in New Orleans, La.