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Dromgoole, George C – Duane, William

Dromgoole, George C

lawyer, congressman, born in Virginia.

He served for many years in the two houses of the state legislature, and was president of the senate. He was a member of the second constitutional convention of Virginia; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1835 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1847. He died April 27, 1847.

Drone, Eaton Sylvester

journalist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1842, in Zanesville, Ohio. He is a legal writer on the staff of the New York Herald; and the author of The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright.

Drum, Augustus

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.

Drummond, Josiah Hayden

lawyer, author, was born in 1827. He is a lawyer who was attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of Lodges; and History of Masonic Jurisprudence.

Drummond, Thomas

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1809, in Bristol, Maine. He removed to Galena, Ill., in 1835; was elected to the house of representatives of Illinois in 1840; was appointed judge of the district court of the United States for Illinois in 1850. He removed to Chicago in 1854; became judge of the aistrict court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. In 1868 he moved to Winfield, where he died in 1897.

Drummond, William W

jurist. He was a resident of Illinois; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.

Drury, Augustus Waldo

clergyman, author, was born in 1851. He is a clergyman of the sect of united brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the founder of the sect.

Drury, William Henry

lawyer, inventor, was born Jan. 12, 1842, in Worcester, Mass. In 1865 he graduated from Yale college, and since 1873 has been a successful lawyer in Boston, Mass. He is the inventor of the system of spinning yarn, by which numerous strands of twisted and completed yarn are made directly from the ring-doffers of a carding machine without any subsequent process or spinning.

Drysdale, Thomas Murray

physician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he delivered a course of lectures on the microscope in the Franklin institute. He was a delegate to the international medical congress in 1876, and one of the founders of the American gynecological society.

Duane, James Chatham

general, author, was born June 30, 1824, in Schenectady, N. Y. He is a retired brigadiergeneral of the United States army; and the author of A Manual for Engineer Troops.

Duane, Russell

lawyer, was born June 15, 1866, in Gloucester county, N. J.

In 1892 he was appointed junior counsel for the government in the Behring sea arbitration proceedings.

Duane, William

journalist, author, was born in 1760 near Lake Champlain, N. Y. He was a prominent journalist and politician of Philadelphia; and the author of Military Dictionary: The Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen; and Handbook for Infantry. He died Nov. 24, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa.