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Dudley, Dean
lawyer, author, was born May 23, 1823, in Kingfield, Maine. He is a Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes; and the author of Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; and History of the Dudley Family.
Dudley, Edward B
congressman, governor. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina, from 1829 to 1831; and in 1836 was elected the first governor of North Carolina under the amended constitution of that state. He was subsequently appointed president of the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad company. He died Oct. 30, 1855, in Wilmington, N. C.
Dudley, Joseph
colonial governor of Massachusetts, was born Sept. 23, 1647, in Roxbury, Mass. From 1677 to 1681 he was one of the commissioners for the united colonies. In 1687 he was appointed chief justice of the superior court, and was made chief justice of New York in 1690. From 1702 to 1715 he was captaingeneral and governor-in-chief of Massachusetts Bay. He died April 2, 1720, in Roxbury, Mass.
Dudley, Paul
jurist, was born Sept. 3, 1675. In 1745 he became chief justice of Massachusetts. He represented Roxbury for several years in the legislature. He died January, 1751, in Roxbury, Mass.
Dudley, Pemberton
educator, physician, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is professor of institutes of medicine and hygiene in Hahnemann college. He was editor of the Hahnemannian Monthly for eight years, and has written and published numerous articles in the journals of his school of medicine.
Dudley, William Henry
physician, was born Oct. 7, 1811, in Ireland.
In 1851 he was elected curator of the New York Medical college, holding the office for several years. He died Oct. 9, 1886, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dudley, William Lofland
chemist, was born April 16, 1859, in Covington, Ky. In 1886 he became professor of chemistry in Vanderbilt university, Nashville. The electro-metallurgy of iridium has been principally developed through his work. He has published scientific papers in various journals, and wrote the article Iridium, in Mineral Resources of the United States, 1883-84 (Washington).
Dudley, William Russell
educator, author, was born March 1, 1849, in "Guilford, Conn. He is a professor of botany at Cornell university, who has published The Cayuga Flora.
Dudley, William Wade
soldier, miller, financier, was born Aug. 7, 1842, in Weathersfield, Vt. In 1860 he removed to Richmond, Ind., and engaged in the business of milling. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain, and served with gallantry throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. In 1879 he was appointed United States marshal for Indiana; and in 1881 was appointed commissioner of the pension bureau, at Washington.
Duell, Robert Holland
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1823, in Warren, N. Y. He was district attorney for Cortland county in 1850-56; and in 1856 was elected county judge for said county. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh, forty-second and fortythird congresses.
Duer, Edward Louis
physician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1836, in Crosswicks, N. J. He is a physician of Philadelphia, and the author of Post-Mortem Discoveries; and Treatment of Diphtheria.
Duer, John
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1782, in Albany, N. Y.
He was a once prominent New York jurist whose specialty was insurance law, and was the author of Duer's Reports; and Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance.
He died Aug. 8, 1858, on Staten Island.