Dayton, Alston Gordon – Deane, Charles
Dayton, Alston Gordon
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1857, in Philippi, W. Va. In 1879 he was appointed to fill out an unexpired term as prosecuting attorney of Upshur county, W. Va., and was elected and served as prosecuting attorney of Barbour county for a four-years' term beginning Jan. 1, 1884. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Dayton, Amos Cooper
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1813, in Plainfield, N. J. He was a baptist clergyman and physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith, was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel's Daughter, a novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book; Children Brought to Christ; and Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion. He died June 11, 1865, in Perry, Ga.
Dayton, Elias
soldier, congressman, was born in 1735, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
He was a major-general of militia, and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1787 to 1788. He died in July, 1807, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Dayton, Jonathan
statesman, was born Oct. 16, 1760, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
He was a member of the convention, in 1787, which formed the constitution, and signed that instrument. He was a representative in congress from 1791 to 1799; speaker of the house of representatives from 1795 to 1797, and was a senator of the United States from New Jersey from 1799 to 1805. He died Oct. 9, 1824, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Dayton, William Lewis
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Baskingridge, N. J. He was a member of the state senate of New Jersey in 1837; was appointed one of the justices of the superior court of the state in 1838, and resigned in 1841. He senator in congress from 1842 to 1851; and in 1856 was the republican candidate for vicewas a president on the ticket with J. C. Fremont.
In 1857 he was appointed attorney-general of New Jersey, which office he held until 1861, when he was appointed a minister to France. He died Dec. 2, 1864, in Paris, France.
Dayton, William Lewis
was born April 13, 1839, in Trenton, N. J. He was secretary to the governor of New Jersey from 1865 to 1868. He was president of the common council of Trenton from 1876 to 1879; city solicitor from 1879 to 1881; and in 1882 was appointed United States minister resident at The Hague, Netherlands, serving until 1885. In 1896 he was appointed a judge of the court of errors and appeals, and his term will expire in 1902.
Deady, Matthew P
educator, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born May 12, 1824, near Easton, Md. In 1850 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature of Oregon and in 1851 to the upper house, serving as president. In 1853 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the territory, serving until the state was established, when he was appointed judge of the United States district court for Oregon. In 1857 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention which formed the state constitution, and was president of that body. In 1862 and 1864, by authority of the legislature, he prepared the Codes of Criminal and Civil Procedure, and the Penal Code of the State; and in 1865 published the General Laws of the State, and assisted in the same work in 1874.
De Ahna, Edward Manfred
journalist, was born in Washington, D. C.
He is the son of Col. H. C. De Ahna, professor of chemistry and civil engineer. He is the publisher and manager of The Anchor of Sequin, Texas.
Dealy, Patrick F
clergyman, college president, lecturer, was born April 7, 1827, in Ireland. He has been president of St. John's college of Fordham, N. Y. In 1882 he founded the Fordham College Monthly. He died Dec. 22, 1891, in New York city.
Dean, Amos
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 16, 1803, in Barnaru, Vt. He was a jurist of Albany, and the author of Lectures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law; and History of Civilization. He died in 1868.
Dean, Benjamin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1824, in England. He moved to Boston, was a member of the state senate in 1862, 1863 and 1869, and successfully contested the seat of Walbridge A. Field as a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyfifth congress, and took his seat in 1878.
Dean, Ezra
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1845.
Dean, Gilbert
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. He was elected a representative in congress from New York from 1851 to 1853.
He was reelected for a second term but resigned, in 1855, to accept the office of judge of the supreme court of the state, and in 1862 was elected to the assembly. He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Dean, Henry Munson
physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 1836, in Canaan, Conn. He was a surgeon in the United States army during the civil war. He has been president of the Iowa and Illinois Central Medical association; and of the Muscatine Academy of Medicine.
Dean, James
educator, was born Nov. 26, 1776, in Windsor, Vt. He was professor in the university of Vermont, holding that office from 1821 till 1824. He published a Gazetteer of Vermont; and an address delivered on his induction as professor. He died Jan. 20, 1849, in Burlington, Vt.
Dean, John
physician, author, was born in 1831, in Massachusetts. He was a physician who published Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; and Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata. He died in 1888.
Dean, John Ward
journalist, author, was born March 13, 1815, in Wiscaset, Maine. He was vice-president of the American Statistical association, and its recording secretary during 1860-72. He was one of the founders of the Prince society in 1858, and for ten years was its president. He is now the librarian of the New England Historic-Genealogical society of Boston, Mass.; has been the sole editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register since 1876; the editor of The New England Bibliopolist since 1880. He is the author of Memoir of Nathaniel Ward; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth; Life of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin; and The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.
Dean, Josiah
state senator, congressman, was born March 16, 1748, in Baynham, Mass. He was a presidential elector in 1805; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 1809. From 1804 to 1807 he was a state senator; and in 1810 and 1811 was a member of the state legislature. He died Oct. 14, 1818.
Dean, Julia
actress, was born July 22, 1830, in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. She appeared first as Lady Ellen in The Lady of the Lake, during 1845, in Louisville, Ky.
She died March 6, 1868, in New York city.
Dean, Oliver Hayes
lawyer, was born in 1845, in Washingtonville, Pa. He is a member of the law firm of Warner, Dean and Hageman, Kansas City, Mo.; and is one of the leading members of his profession in his state.
Dean, Paul
clergyman, author, was born in 1789 in Barnard, Vt. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor in Boston, in 1813-40, and the author of Lectures on Final Restoration. He died Oct. 1, 1860, in Framingham, Mass.
Dean, Richard E
journalist, poet, was born Jan. 18, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the public schools of his native city and Iowa, and took a course in journalism in a college at Detroit. He has written extensively both prose and verse for the periodical press, and is well known as an Iowa poet.
Dean, Sidney
manufacturer, clergyman, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1818, in Glastonbury, Conn. He served one year in the legislature of Connecticut; and was elected a representative in congress from that state in 1855, and re-elected in 1857. a
Dean, Walter L
artist, was born in 1854 in Lowell, Mass. His principal paintings are: The Dutch Fishing Creek; Summer Day on the Dutch Shore; and he exhibited at the World's Columbian exposition a large marine painting entitled Peace, which attracted favorable notice. He has exhibited at the principal expositions in America and Europe, and has received numerous medals from the leading art expositions.
Dean, William
missionary, author, was born June 21, 1807, in Eaton, N. Y.
He is the author of Revision of the Pentateuch; Commentary on Matthew; Commentary on Genesis; Commentary on Mark; Commentary on Exodus; Stow's Daily Manna; and smaller tracts.
Deane, Charles
author, was born Nov. 10, 1813, in Biddeford, Maine. He was an antiquarian writer of Cambridge, who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation; John Smith's True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens of early American literature. He died Nov. 13, 1889, in Cambridge, Mass.