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Dunklin, Daniel – Dunn, Elias Bound

Dunklin, Daniel

governor, was born in 1790. He was governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He died Aug. 25, 1844, in Jefferson county, Miss.

Dunlap, Alexander

physician, was born Jan. 12, 1815, in Brown county, Ohio. He was one of the first surgeons in the country to perform the difficult operation of ovariotomy.

Dunlap, Henry M

farmer, legislator, was born Nov. 14, 1853, in Leyden, Ill. For two years he was president of the State Horticultural society, and secretary of that body during the world's fair. He has served as a state senator in the Illinois legislature from the thirtieth district.

Dunlap, John

printer, was born in 1747 in Ireland. He was appointed printer to congress, and first printed the Declaration of Independence. He died Nov. 27, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dunlap, John A

jurist, author, was born about 1793. He was a justice of the peace in New York city, and the author of Practice of the Superior Court of New York in Civil Actions; and Abridgment of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Books of Coke's Reports. He died in 1858.

Dunlap, Robert

hatter, was born Oct. 17, 1834, in New York city. His firm of R. Dunlap and Co. of New York city, of which he is sole partner, is now the leading hatters of New York city.

Dunlap, Samuel Fales

lawyer, author, was born in 1825 in Boston, Mass.

He is a lawyer of Boston, and the author of Origin of Ancient Names; and Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man.

Dunlap, William C

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837.

DUNLAP, WILLIAM FREDERICK, journalist, was born Dec. 28, 1859, in Ovid, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Times-Record of Valley City, N. D.

Dunlop, James

lawyer, jurist, was born March 28, 1793, in Georgetown, D. C.

In 1838 he was appointed judge of the United States circuit court, was made assistant judge in 1845, and chief justice in 1856, which position he occupied until 1863, when the court was abolished. He died May 6, 1872, in Georgetown, D. C.

Dunlop, James

lawyer, author, was born in 1795 in Pennsylvania. He was a Pittsburg lawyer, prominent as an opponent of slavery, and the author of Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853, and Digest of the General Laws of the United States.

He died April 9, 1856, in Baltimore, Md.

Dunn, Charles

jurist. He was an early emigrant to Wisconsin, residing at Elk Grove, and was appointed one of the judges of the United States for that territory.

Dunn, Elias Bound

meteorologist, was born March 23, 1855, in Brooklyn, N.

Y. In 1883 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, as chief weather observer; and in 1884 was made chief of the weather bureau under the United States department of agriculture in New York city.

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