Dalton, John Call – Dana, James
Dalton, John Call
educator, physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1825, in Chelmsford, Mass. He was a physician of note who was a professor in various medical colleges. He was the author of Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The Experimental Method in Medical Science; Doctrines of the Circulation; Topographical Anatomy of the Brain; History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city; Treatise on Human Physiology; and Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene. He died in 1889.
Dalton, Tristam
state legislator, United States senator, was born in May, 1743, in Newbury, Mass. He was a representative, speaker of the house of representatives, and a senator in the legislature of Massachusetts; and became a senator of the United States in the first congress after the adoption of the federal constitution. He died May 30, 1817, in Boston, Mass.
Daly, Augustin
dramatist, theatrical manager, was born July 20, 1838, in Plymouth, N. C. He has opened to the American stage the rich field of German farcical comedy. His productions of Taming the Shrew and As You Like It have been accepted in England as the finest of this generation.
Daly, Charles Patrick
jurist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1816, in New York city. He is a prominent jurist of New York city, and the author of Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York; First Settlement of Jews in North America; and What we Knew of Maps and Map Drawing before Mercator.
Daly, Isaac Shaw
lawyer, musician, composer, was born Feb. 6, 1848, in Livermore, Maine. He attended the public schools of Maine, and was admitted to the bar in 1878 at Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of an ode entitled All Hail Our Home, America; and several songs and military music that is largely played by the United States army bands. In 1895 he was awarded diploma by the Caa nadian northwest territorial exhibition for music to the song, When You Come Back Again. He is a successful lawyer of Idaho.
Daly, John Augustin
dramatist, author, was born in 1838 in North Carolina. He is a dramatist and theatrical manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays from the German and French, has written Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under the Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffiington, a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.
Daly, John J
mine owner, was born Oct. 18, 1853, in Morris, Ill. He is president and principal owner of the Daly West Mining company, which operates one of the greatest mines of the state.
He is also president of the First National bank of Park City, Utah.
Daly, Joseph F
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 3, 1840, in Plymouth. In 1870 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas of New York city, and was reelected again in 1884. He was chosen by his associates chief judge of the court in 1890, to serve until 1899.
Daly, William H
journalist, was born June 28, 1870, in Tonawanda, N. Y.
He graduated from the Wesleyan university of Lincoln, Neb.; and is now the editor and owner of The Graphic of Lemley, Neb.
Dalzell, James
soldier. He was a companion of Israel Putnam in some of the most adventurous passages of that rough veteran's life, and afterward an aide-de-camp to Gen. Jeffrey Amherst. He died July 30, 1763, near Detroit, Mich.
Dalzell, John
lawyer, congressman, was born April 19, 1845, in New York city.
For years he was one of the attorneys for the Pennsylvania Railroad company and for all its western lines; and was also attorney for many corporations in Allegheny county. He never held any office until he was elected to the fiftieth con-- gress; and was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican.
Dalzell, Robert M
inventor, was born in 1793, near Belfast, Ireland. He was a millwright, unusually skilful and ingenious, and many of the flour mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the elevator system in handling and stowing grain, which is now in general use. He died Jan. 22, 1873, in Rochester, N. Y.
Dame, Mrs. Abbie H
poet, was born July 10, 1847, in Lowell, Mass. She is the author of many poems, one of the public exercises of New Hampshire day at the New Orleans exposition, and ma many others for reunions.
Dame, Harriet Patience
nurse, was born Jan. 5, 1815, in Barnstead, N. H.
She joined the second New Hampshire regiment as hospital matron in June, 1861, and remained with it until it was mustered out in December, 1865. In August, 1867, she was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury department, where she still remains.
Damen, Arnold
clergyman, was born about 1800 in Holland. In 1857 he erected a Jesuit establishment in Chicago; he also built the great church of the Holy Trinity, and founded the college of St.
Ignatius in the same city.
Damon, Howard Franklin
physician, author, was born in 1833 in Scituate, Mass. He was a hospital physician of Boston; and the author of Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; and General Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. He died Sept. 17, 1884, in Boston, Mass.
Damon, John Adams
merchant, state legislator, was born June 4, 1850, in Madison, Ohio. He is a successful merchant of Weidman, Mich.; and during 1887-89 served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature.
Damrell, William S
congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1809, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-fourth and to the thirty-fifth congresses. He died May 17, 1860, in Boston, Mass.
Damrosch, Leopold
musician, was born Oct. 22, 1832, in Prussia. In 1871 he came to New York city, where he was director of a successful orchestra. He was prominent in the musical affairs of America. He died Feb. 15, 1885, in New York city.
Damrosch, Walter J
musician, was born Jan. 30, 1862, in Prussia. He has attained a national reputation as a musician; has devoted himself successfully to the production of the works of Wagner; and is in much demand as a lecturer on musical themes.
Dana, Alexander Hamilton
lawyer, author, was born in 1807 in England. He was a lawyer of New York state; and the author of Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; and Enigmas of Life, Death and the Future State. He died in 1887.
He
Dana, Amasa
congressman. was a member of the New York assembly in 1828 and 1829; and a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845.
Dana, Charles Anderson
journalist, author, was born Aug. 8, 1819, in Hinsdale, N. H. He was a distinguished journalist of New York city. He was as-- sistant secretary of war in 1863-65, and from 1868 until his death was editor of the New York Sun. With J. G. Wilson he prepared a Life of Gen. Grant, and was coeditor with George Ripley of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. He died in 1897.
Dana, Charles Louis
neurologist, author, was born in 1852 in Vermont. He is a physician of note as a neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.
Dana, Daniel
fourth president of Dartmouth college. He was inaugurated president in 1820, and died Aug. 26, 1859.
He was an eminent clergyman, and an excellent theologian and scholar.
Dana, Edmund Trowbridge
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1818, in Cambridge, Mass. He devoted special attention to Roman civil law, and to history and philosophy in their bearings upon law. He died May 18, 1869, in Cambridge, Mass.
Dana, Edward Salisbury
educator, journalist, author, was born Nov. 16, 1849, in New Haven, Conn. He has been assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale university since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the Peabody museum there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of Silliman's Journal. He is the author of Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics; and Appendix II. and Appendix III. of Dana's System of Mineralogy.
Dana, Francis
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 13, 1743, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the continental congress from 1776 to 1779 and in 1784; signed the articles of confederation; was secretary of legation at Paris under John Adams; and was appointed minister to Russia, but not officially received. He was chief justice of the state from 1792 to 1806, when he resigned. In 1797 he was appointed minister to France. His father was Richard A. Dana, the poet. He died April 25, 1811, in Cambridge, Mass.
Dana, Israel Thorndike
physician, author, was born June 6, 1827, in Marblehead, Mass. He was one of the founders of the Portland School of Medical Instruction. He became one of the foremost physicians of New England; and was the author of a number of medical works.
Dana, James
clergyman, author, was born May 11, 1735, in Cambridge, Mass.
He was a famous congregational clergyman of New Haven; who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the Will. He died Aug. 18, 1812, in New Haven, Conn.