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Dreher, Julius Daniel – Drisler, Henry

Dreher, Julius Daniel

educator, college president, was born Oct. 28, 1846, in Lexington county, S. C. He graduated with honors from the Roanoke college of Salem, Va.; of which institution he has been president since 1878; and for seven years prior to that time was professor in the same college.

Dresser, Horace

lawyer, author.

He wrote much on constitutional questions, and published The Battle Record of the American Rebellion; and Internal Revenue Laws as Amended to July, 1866.

He died Jan. 27, 1877.

Drew, Daniel

capitalist, was born in 1788, in Carmel, N. Y. In 1866 he was treasurer of the Erie Railroad company, to which he lent the sum of $3,500,000, receiving as security $3,000,000 of shares of unused stock and $3,000,000 of bonds convertible into stock. In 1866 he gave $250,- 000 to found the Drew Theological seminary of Madison, N. J., and increased this sum by successive donations to nearly $1,000,000. He died Sept. 19, 1879, in New York city.

Drew, George F

statesman. He was governor of Florida from 1877 to 1881.

Drew, John

comedian, was born Nov. 13, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has created more than forty parts in comedy, personating all with skill and care, and many with brilliant success. Petruchio, in Taming the Shrew, is his favorite character.

Drew, Thomas S

statesman. He was governor of Arkansas from 1844 to 1848.

Drexel, Anthony Joseph

banker, philanthropist, was born in 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is president of the banking establishment of the New York Drexel, Morgan and Co.; and founded and heavily endowed the Drexel institute, which has achieved a wide reputation.

Drexel, Joseph Wilhelm

banker, was born Jan. 24, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. After his father's death he returned to Philadelphia, and in 1871, with Junius S. Morgan of London, established in New York city the banking house of Drexel, Morgan and Co., becoming its head. He died March 25, 1888, in New York city.

Driggs, John F

congressman, was born March 8, 1813, in Kinderhook, N. Y.

In 1844 he was appointed superintendent of the New York penitentiary; and in 1850 settled in East Saginaw, Mich. He was president of that village in 1858; and during the two succeeding years was a member of the Michigan legislature.

He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-eighth, thirtyninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died Dec. 17, 1877.

Drinker, Mrs. Anna

author, poet, was born Dec. 3, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for Children; and Katy's Story.

Driscol, Michael

clergyman, was born in 1805 in Ireland. He was superior of the theological seminary at Fordham, and afterward president of St. Francis Xavier college, New York. He erected the church of St. Michael in Troy, N. Y.

He died in 1880 in Troy, N. Y. was

Drisler, Henry

educator, author, was born Dec. 27, 1818, on Staten Island, N. Y. He is a classical scholar of distinction, professor at Columbia college since 1843, whose Greek and English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.