Dunton, Larkin
educator, was born July 22, 1828, in Concord, Maine. He attended the town schools, Hallowell academy, and the Colby university. For two years he was principal of the Newcastle academy; for seven years principal of the Bath High school, Maine; for four years master of the Lawrence school of Boston, Mass.; and for the past quarter of a century has been head master of the Boston Normal school; and prominent in the educational affairs of New England.
DUPONCEAU, PIERRE ETIENNE, lawyer, author, was born in 1760 in France. He was a Frenchman who came to America as aid to Baron Steuben, settled in Philadelphia, and became eminent as a lawyer. He was president of the American Philosophical society, and his Memoir on the Indian Languages of North America attracted much attention among scholars. He died in 1844 in Philadelphia, Pa.
DU PONT, HENRY ALGERNON, soldier, railroad president, was born July 30, 1838, in Wilmington, Del. He served through the civil war, and received the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1879 he was elected president of the Wilmington and Northern Railroad company.