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Disosway, Gabriel Poillon – Dix, John Homer

Disosway, Gabriel Poillon

antiquarian, author, was born Dec. 6, 1799, in New York city. He was an antiquary of New York city, and the author of The Children's Book of Sermons; and The Earliest Churches of New York and its Vicinity. He died July 9, 1868, in Staten Island, N. Y.

Disston, Henry

manufacturer, inventor, was born May 21, 1819, in England. He invented more than twenty improvements in saw manufacture, among them the movable or inserted teeth. He was the inventor and manufacturer of the Disston saw. He died March 16, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ditson, Charles Healy

publisher, was born Aug. 11, 1845. He is treasurer of the now incorporated firm of The Oliver Ditson company of Boston, which owns the branch house in Philadelphia, and is part owner of Lyon and Healy of Chicago.

Ditson, George Leighton

journalist, author, was born Aug. 5, 1812, in Westford, Mass. He is a noted traveler who published Circassia, or a Tour to the Caucasus; Crimora; The Para Papers, or France, Egypt, and Ethiopia; The Crescent and the French Crusaders; and The Fedariti of Italy, a Romance of Circassian Captivity.

Ditson, Oliver

music publisher, was born Oct. 20, 1811, in Boston, Mass.

He established the publishing firm of Oliver Ditson and Co., which has become known throughout the United States. For twenty-five years he was president of the Continental bank of his city. He died Dec. 21, 1888, in Boston, Mass.

Dittenhoefer, Abram J

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1836, in Charleston, S.

C. In 1862 he was appointed judge of the city court of Columbia, and in 1864 was judge of the district court of South Carolina.

Diven, Alexander S

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1809, in Catharine, N. Y. He was a senator in the New York legislature in 1858; and was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress.

Divol, Ira

educator, was born in October, 1820, in Topham, Vt. He was elected state superintendent of public schools in Missouri. He laid the foundation of the public school library, which afterward became the public library in St. Louis.

He died June 22, 1871, in Baraboo, Wis.

Dix, Augustus J

educator, was born April 13, 1831, in Albany, N. Y. He moved to Elizabeth, N. J., and was one of the incorporators, and for three years president of the city hospital. Since 1880 he has been superintendent of public instruction of the city of Elizabeth. was

Dix, Charles Temple

artist, was born Feb. 25, 1838, in Albany, N. Y. His Sunset in Capri is a spirited study of sea and shore. He died March 11, 1873, in Rome, Italy.

Dix, Dorothea Lynde

philanthropist, author, was born about 1794 in Worcester, Mass. She was a famous Massachusetts philanthropist the greater part of whose life was spent in efforts to improve the condition of the insane. Her writings, except Prisons and Prison Discipline, are intended for children, and include The Garland of Flora; Conversations about Common Things; Alice and Ruth; and Evening Hours. She died July 19, 1887, in Trenton, N. J.

Dix, John Homer

oculist, aurist, author, was born about 1810. He was an oculist and aurist of Boston who published Changes of the Blood, a translation from the French of Gibert; Treatise on Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the Retina; and The Ophthalmoscope and its Uses. He died in 1884.