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Duval, John Pope – Dwight, John Sullivan
Duval, John Pope
soldier, lawyer, author, was born June 3, 1790, in Richmond, Va. He served as a first lieutenant in the war of 1812; and was promoted to captain in 1814. He served with the rank of brigadier-general in the Texan service. He then returned to Florida as secretary of the territory; and subsequently published a Digest of the Laws of Florida. He died about 1855 in Florida.
Duval, Thomas H
jurist, was born in Virginia. He emigrated to Texas, and settled at Austin; and in 1857 was appointed United States judge for the western district of Texas.
Duval, William P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1784 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1815; and in 1822 was appointed governor of Florida. He served as a captain of mounted volunteers in 1812; and in 1848 removed to Texas. He died March 19, 1854, in Washington, D. C. a
Duvall, Alvin
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born March 20, 1813, in Georgetown, Ky. In 1850 he was elected a member of the Kentucky legislature; two years later was appointed circuit judge; and in 1854 was elected judge of the court of appeals. He died Nov. 17, 1891, in Frankfort, Ky.
Dwight, Benjamin Woolsey
physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1780, in Northampton, Mass. He was treasurer of Hamilton college in 1831-50. He published the first article ever published in this country on Chronic Debility of the Stomach. He died May 18, 1850, in Clinton, N. Y.
Dwight, Edmund
merchant, author, was born Sept. 3, 1824, in Boston, Mass. In 1871 he went abroad to superintend the distribution of the fund raised by subscription in Boston for the relief of the suffering caused in France by the war with Germany, and on his return he published an interesting Report to the Executive Committee of the French Relief Fund.
Dwight, Edwin Welles
clergyman, author, was born in 1789 in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Richmond, Mass., whose only publication was a History of Berkshire County. He died in 1841.
Dwight, Henry Edwin
educator, author, was born April 19, 1797, in New Haven, Conn. He was an educator of New Haven who published Travels in the North of Germany. He died Aug. 11, 1832, in New Haven, Conn.
Dwight, Henry Otis
soldier, author, was born in 1843 in Turkey. He was a federal officer during the civil war, who was a correspondent of the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. He is the author of Turkish Life in War Times.
Dwight, Henry Williams
state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1788, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1818 and 1834; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1821 to 1831. He died Feb. 21, 1845, in New York.
Dwight, Jeremiah W
business man, state legislator, congressman, was born in Cincinnatus, N. Y. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1860 and 1861; and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1868. He was president of the Dwight Farm and Land company of Dakota; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died Nov. 26, 1885.
Dwight, John Sullivan
journalist, author, poet, was born May 13, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished musical critic of Boston, and the editor of Dwight's Journal of Music in 1852-81.
He was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the poem God Save the State. He died in 1893.