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Durbin, John Price

clergyman, author, was born in 1800 in Bourbon county, Ky. He was a methodist clergyman noted for his eloquence, who was missionary secretary of the methodist episcopal church, in 1850-72. He was the author of Observations in Europe; and Observations in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor.

He died in 1876.

DURBOROW, ALLAN CATHCART, merchant, congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. After two years' residence in Indianapolis he moved to Chicago, where he has since been engaged in business. He has always been active in local politics; and was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.

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