Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard – Dahlgren, Madeline Vinton
Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1822, in Aurora, N. Y. He is one of the leading divines of America, and for nearly forty years has been pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbychurch of Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1846 he graduated from the Princeton Theological seminary, and has filled pastorates in Burlington and Trenton, N.J.; New York city; and in Brooklyn since 1860. He is author of dozen books on religious subjects; and one of his temperance tracts, entitled Somebody's Son, has had a circulation of nearly a million copies.
His force in preaching lies in picturesque description and the weaving in of scenes and illustrations from scripture and from daily life. His principal works are: Stray Arrows; Cedar Christian; The Empty Crib; Wayside Springs; Right to the Point; Thought Hives; God's Light on Dark Clouds; Pointed Papers; Heart Life; From the Nile to Norway; Newly Enlisted, or Talks to Young Converts; The Young Preacher; Stirring the Eagle's Nest; How to Be a Pastor; and Christianity in the Home. a
Dabney, Charles William
diplomat, was born March 19, 1794, in Alexandria, Va. In 1826 he became United States consul to Fayal. In the famines that visited the island from time to time during his residence, some of which were very severe, he furnished the inhabitants with food, assisted them to replant their fields, advised and suggested the culture of new and more varied crops. He died March 12, 1871, in the Azores.
Dabney, Charles William
educator, chemist, author, was born June 19, 1855, in Hampden Sidney College, Va. He received his education at the Hampden Sidney college, university of Virginia and the universities of Germany. He has been state chemist and director of the North Carolina agricultural experiment station; and director of the Tennessee agricultural experiment station. He has been president of the university of Tennessee, and is the author of a number of scientific works.
Dabney, Richard
educator, poet, was born in 1787 in Louisa county, Va.
He was a noted instructor in Richmond, Va., whose Poems, Original and Translated, contain scholarly translations from Euripides, Alcæus, and other classic poets. He died in November, 1825, in Louisa county, Va.
Dabney, Richard Heath
author, was born in 1859 in Virginia. He is the author of The Causes of the French Revolution.
Dabney, Robert Lewis
educator, clergyman, author, was born March 5, 1820, in Louisa county, Va. He is a presbyterian clergyman; and since 1882 professor of moral philosophy in the university of Texas. He is the author of Life of T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defense of Virginia and the South; The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century; A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; and Collected Discussions.
Dabney, Virginius
soldier, author, was born Feb. 15, 1835, in Gloucester county, Va. He was a staff officer in the confederate service during the civil war, who published Don Miff, a Symphony of Life; and Gold That Did Not Glitter.
Daboll, Celadon Leeds
merchant, inventor, was born July 18, 1818, in Centre Groton, Conn. He conceived the idea of applying the principle of the clarionet to a large trumpet, to serve as a fog signal for mariners. He died Oct. 13, 1866, in Groton, Conn.
Daboll, David Austin
journalist, state legislator, state senator, was born in 1813 in Groton, Conn. He sat continuously in the state house of representatives from 1846 till 1871, and then served a term in the senate. He assisted his father in the preparation of the New Arithmetic, and since his father's death has continued the publication of the New England Almanac.
Daboll, Nathan
educator, author, was born about 1750. He published a treatise on arithmetic, entitled the Schoolmaster's Assistant; and also the Practical Navigator. In 1773 he began the annual publication of the Connecticut Almanac.
He died March 9, 1818, in Groton, Conn.
Daboll, Nathan
jurist, state legislator, author, was born in 1782 in Groton, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1832- 33, of the senate in 1835-36, and judge of probate in 1843-45. He was joint author of Daboll's New Arithmetic, and compiled the New England Almanac from his father's death in 1818 until his own death. He died in 1863 in Groton, Conn.
Daboll, Sherman
soldier, lecturer, jurist, was born May 18, 1844, in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He served in the civil war in the one hundred and seventeenth New York volunteers. In 1887 he was appointed quartermaster-general of Michigan, receiving the reappointment two years later; and in 1889 he was elected as judge of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit of Michigan.
Da Costa, Jacob Mandes
physician, author, was born Feb. 7, 1833, in the West Indies. He is a Philadelphia physician connected with Jefferson Medical college since 1864, and a specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs. He is the author of Epithelial Tumors and Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The Physicians of the Last Century; Serous Apoplexy; Medical Diagnosis; Inhalation in Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages; Strain and Over-Action of the Heart; and Harvey and his Discovery.
Dadd, George H
surgeon, author, was born in 1813 in England. He is a veterinary surgeon who has published The Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterinary Science; Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse; and The American Cattle Doctor.
Dade, Francis Langhorn
soldier, was born in Virginia. He was appointed third lieutenant in the twelfth infantry in 1813; became first lieutenant in 1816, captain in 1818, and brevet major in 1828.
He was killed by the Indians Dec. 28, 1835, near Fort King, Fla.
Dagg, John Leadley
clergyman, college president, author, was born Feb. 13, 1794, in Middleburg, Va. He was a baptist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1833, and was president of Mercer university, Ga., in 1844-56. He was the author of Manual of Theology; Elements of Moral Science; Evidences of Christianity; and English Grammar. He died June 11, 1884, in Haynesville, Ala.
Daggett, Aaron S
soldier, was born June 14, 1839, in Greene Corner, Maine.
He served through the civil war, and received the rank of major and lieutenantcolonel.
Daggett, David
educator, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 31, 1764, in Attleborough, Mass. He was state's attorney and mayor of New Haven, and frequently a member of the legislature and member of the council. He served as a presidential elector on several occasions; and from 1813 to 1819 was a senator in congress from Connecticut.
From 1826 to 1832 he was a judge of the supreme court of the state; and was chief judge from 1832 to 1834. He died April 12, 1851, in New Haven, Conn.
Daggett, Naphtali
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1727, in Attleborough, Mass. In 1756 he became professor of divinity at Yale, which post he retained until his death. He published several sermons and an account of the famous dark day in New England. He died Nov. 25, 1780, in New Haven, Conn. was
Daggett, Oliver Ellsworth
educator, clergyman, author, poet, born Jan. 14, 1810, in New Haven, Conn.
He assisted in compiling a book of psalms and hymns, and left a small volume of poems, printed posthumously. He died Sept. 1, 1880, in Hartford, Conn.
Daggett, Rollin M
journalist, congressman, was born in 1831, in Richville, N. Y. In 1862 he removed to Virginia City, Nev.; was elected to the territorial council in 1863; was a presidential elector in 1876; and was elected a representative from Nevada to the forty-sixth congress. In 1882 he was appointed United States minister to the Hawaiian Islands.
Dahlgren, Charles B
engineer, was born Oct. 16, 1839, in Philadelphia.
After the civil war he was engaged in engineering; wrote several papers, and a standard technical works on the Historic Mines of Mexico. He was also a captain of the United States navy.
Dahlgren, John Adolph
naval officer, inventor, author, was born Nov. 13, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a famous United States naval officer, made admiral in 1863, who invented the cannon bearing his name, and conducted the siege of Charleston during the civil He was the author of Thirty-Two Pounder Practice for Rangers; System of Boat Armament in the United States Navy; Naval Percussion Locks and Primers; Ordnance Memoranda; Shells and Shell Guns; Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren; and Notes on Maritime International Law.
He died in 1870. war.
Dahlgren, Madeline Vinton
author, poet, was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. She is the widow of Admiral John A. Dahlgren, of the United States navy, who died in 1870. She accompanied her husband on his cruise in the South Pacific ocean, where he was stationed during the war between Chili and Peru, as commander of the United States squadron in those waters. She is the author of Idealities; Thoughts on Female Suffrage; South Sea Sketches; Etiquette of Social Life in Washington; Memoir of Admiral Dahlgren; South Mountain Magic, a Narrative; A Washington Winter, a Society Novel; The Lost Name; Divorced; and Lights and Shadows of a Life.