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Dundy, Elmer S – Dunham, William Russell

Dundy, Elmer S

lawyer, jurist, was born March 5, 1830, in Trumbull county, Ohio. He was elected a member of the upper house of the territorial legislature of Nebraska, in which capacity he served four years. In 1863 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Nebraska territory; held the office until the territory became a state, in 1867, and in 1868 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Nebraska.

Dungan, Irvine

soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in Canonsburg, Pa. He was elected mayor of Jackson in 1869; was elected state senator from the seventh senatorial district in 1877; and was the author of the first law in Ohio against the truck system. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Dunglison, Richard James

physician, author, was born Nov. 13, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He is a physician of Philadelphia who has issued Practitioner's Reference Book; and Elementary Physiology.

Dunham, Carroll

physician, author, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in New York city. He was a once prominent homeopathic physician of New York, and the author of Homœopathy the Science of Therapeutics; and Lectures in Materia Medica. He died Feb. 18, 1877, in Irvington-on- Hudson, N. Y.

Dunham, Cyrus L

lawyer, congressman, was born in New York. He was elected to the legislature of Indiana in 1846 and 1847; was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1855, and served again in the legislature at a subsequent period.

Dunham, Emma B. S

poet, was born in 1826, in Auburn, Maine. She has composed a number of cantatas, and is the author of a work entitled The Home Opera Margaret.

Dunham, Harrison M

lawyer, jurist, was born April 25, 1857, in Highland, Mich. He was judge of his county court for eight years; judge of police court, of Cadillac, Mich., for three terms; and justice of the peace for thirteen years.

Dunham, John

pioneer, clergyman, was born Aug. 7, 1827, in Chesterfield, N.

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In 1852 he was ordained a clergyman and spent fifteen years in pioneer work in Indiana along the Wabash river and its branches. He next preached to the Miami Indians, which resulted in the formation of a mission school and several baptist churches. He has attained prominence as a. gospel singer, and now resides in Cass City, Mich.

Dunham, Lewis B

lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1806, in Mansfield, Conn. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. He subsequently moved to Iowa, where he served in the legislature of that state, and died Jan. 1, 1892, in Maquoketa.

Dunham, Ransom W

merchant, congressman, was born March 21, 1838, in Savoy, Mass. He was president of the Chicago board of trade in 1882, and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Dunham, Warren Jerome

clergyman, was born July 25, 1872, in Ripley, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware; has attained distinction as a successful clergy-- man of the methodist church, and now fills. a pastorate at Cleves, Ohio.

Dunham, William Russell

physician, author, was born Dec. 15, 1833, in Chesterfield, N. H. He is a physician of Keene, N. H., who has published Theory of Medical Science.