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Ducey, Thomas James

clergyman, was born Feb. 4, 1843, in Ireland. He purchased property, and for three years maintained the work to which he had devoted himself out of his own resources. In 1880 he founded the church of St. Leo at a cost of $200,000.

DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI, author, was born July 31, 1835, in France. He is a noted French traveler who has become a naturalized citizen of the United States, and is the author of Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life Under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; and Stories of the Gorilla Country.