De Lano, Milton – De Motte, Harvey Clelland
De Lano, Milton
merchant, manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1844, in Wampsville, N. Y. He was twice elected sheriff of Madison county, N. Y. He was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1884; and was elected to the fiftueth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Delaplaine, Isaac Clason
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1817, in New York city. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirtyseventh congress. He died July 17, 1866, in New York city.
Delaplaine, Joseph
publisher, was born Dec. 20, 1777, in Philadelphia, Pa.
In 1813 he began the serial publication of his Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, a series of engravings with biographical notices. He died May 31, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa.
De Large, Robert C
congressman, was born March 15, 1842, in Aiken, S. C.
He was a member of the state legislature from 1868 to 1870; and was one of the state commissioners of the sinking fund.
He was elected in 1870 state land commissioner; and was elected to the fortysecond congress.
Delavan, Edward Cornelius
merchant, author, was born in 1793 in Schenectady county, N. Y. He was a retired wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer; and the author of Adulterations of Liquors; and Temperance in Wine Countries. He died Jan. 15, 1871, in Schenectady, N. Y.
De La Vergne, John C
manufacturer, inventor, was born Sept. 6, 1840, in Schoharie county, N. Y. In 1880 he commenced business as manufacturer of refrigerating and ice-making plants in New York city, making improvements, and expanding the business until his machines are used in all parts of the world.
De Leon, Edwin
journalist, author, was born in 1828 in South Carolina. He was a Washington journalist who was an European diplomatic agent of the confederacy during the civil war period. He was the author of Thirty Years of My Life on Three Continents; The Khedive's Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Captain, a novel; and Under the Star and Under the Crescent. He died in 1891.
De Lestry, Louis Edmund
journalist, author, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Louisiana. He received his education in Europe, passing through the Royal Military academy of Frankfurt, Germany, and graduating in 1887 from Heidelberg university in the classical course with the degree of A. M. His first journalistic engagement was during the Russo-Turkish war. In 1878 he returned from Europe and entered journalism, principally in the northwest. In 1890 he published a History of Helena, Mont.; and in 1897 he compiled an elaborate historical work of St. Paul, Minn., for the Pioneer Press of that city. is also the author of Leaves From a Notebook, a collection of his short stories. In 1897 he established De Lestry's Western Magazine of St. Paul, Minn.
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Dell, John C
railroad president, was born May 31, 1841, near Bascom, Ga. In 1888 he became president of the Sylvania railroad.
Dellet, James
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1788 in Ireland. He moved to Alabama in 1818, where he was appointed a judge of the circuit court, and frequently represented his county in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1843 to 1845.
He died Dec. 21, 1848, in Claibourne, Ala.
Delmar, Alexander
journalist, author, was born Aug. 9, 1836, in New York city. He was editor of the Social Science Review in 1864; and in 1866 was appointed director of the bureau of statistics, which he assisted in organizing, holding the office until it was abolished. He was the author of Gold Money and Paper Money; Essays on Political Economy; The Great Paper Bubble; What Is Free Trade?; Resources, Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt; Why Should the Chinese Go?; History of the Precious Metals; History of Money in China; History of Money in Various Countries; The Science of Money; Money and Civilization; Statistical Handbook; and The National Banking System.
Delmar, John
jurist, financier, was born Sept. 6, 1838, in Ireland. In 1867 ne became a justice of the peace; and was one of the organizers of The Citizen in 1886, but did not assume the presidency until 1887. He is a director in the City Savings bank and of the Fifth Avenue bank of Brooklyn, N. Y.
De Long, Arthur H
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born March 23, 1862, in Napoleon, Ohio. He graduated from the Northwestern university and the Garrett Biblical institute, and has attained eminence as a successful clergyman in the Northwestern Indiana conference of the methodist episcopal church. He is also a brilliant lecturer, and the author of several works.
De Long, George Washington
naval officer, explorer, author, was born Aug. 22, 1844, in New York city. He was an Arctic explorer who was a lieutenantcommander in the United States navy, from 1869 to 1881. The Voyage of the Jeannette, including his journals of his latest expedition, edited by his wife, appeared in 1884. He died Oct. 30, 1881, in Siberia.
Demand, Herman D
educator, was born March 10, 1856, in Smithton, Mo.
He received his education in the public schools and at Central Wesleyan college; and has attained prominence as a successful educator. He has taught schools in Illinois; has been school commissioner of La Fayette county, Mo.; and for the past twelve years has been superintendent of public schools of Lexington, Mo.
Demarest, David D
clergyman, theologian, author, was born July 30, 1819, in Oradell, N. J. Since 1865 he has been professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric in the Theological seminary and also a clergyman of New Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church; Practical Catechetics; and The Huguenots on the Hackensack.
Demarest, James
clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1832, in Williamsburg, L. I. He has held pastorates in Hackensack and Newark, N. J., Chicago, Ill., and Kingston and Fort Plain, N. Y., and has published numerous sermons, including Duty of the Reformed Church in the Future as Foreshown by Its Course in the Past.
Demarest, John Terhune
clergyman, author, was born in 1813 in New Jersey. He is a Dutch reformed clergyman, and the author of Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration; Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; and Christocracy.
Demarest, Mrs. Mary Augusta
poet, was born June 26, 1838, in New York city. She was the author of My Ain Countree and Other Poems. She died in 1888.
Demby, Edward Thomas
educator, lecturer, clergyman, was born in 1869 in Wilmington, Del. He received the rudiments of his education in the city schools of Wilmington, and subsequently attended the Lincoln university of Pennsylvania, the Howard university of Washington, D. C., and the Wilberforce university of Ohio. He has been a successful professor of Hebrew, Greek and French; has been dean of a theological college; and is at present head master of St. Paul's academy of Mason, Tenn. He has traveled extensively; is a well-known lecturer, and the author of several works.
Deming, Benjamin F
congressman, was born at Danville, Vt. He was clerk of the court in his native county for sixteen years; and was elected a representative in congress from Vermont for the term from 1833 to 1835. He died July 11, 1834, in Saratoga Springs.
Deming, Henry Champion
lawyer, soldier, congressman, author, was born in 1815 in Middle Haddam, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1849 and 1850, and also from 1859 to 1861, serving as speaker during the latter year; and in 1851 was a member of the state senate. He subsequently presided over the city of Hartford as mayor for six years. In 1861, as colonel of the twelfth regiment of Connecticut volunteers, he went to New Orleans and participated in the capture of that city. In 1862 he was appointed mayor of New Orleans. He was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-eighth and thirtyninth congresses. He published a Life of General Grant. He died Oct. 9, 1872, in Hartford, Conn.
Deming, Philander
lawyer, author, was born in 1829, in Carlisle, N. Y. He succeeded in introducing the use of shorthand into the supreme courts of New York in 1886. He is the author of several volumes of stories-Adirondack Stories; and Tompkins and Other Folks, being the best known or his works.
De Morse, Charles
soldier, journalist, was born Jan. 31, 1816, in Leicester, Mass. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of colonel. He edited the first daily paper in Texas in 1842, and established The Clarksville Standard in 1842. He was reporter of the house of congress in 1841-42. He died in 1887.
De Mott, John
Congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1833; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
De Motte, Harvey Clelland
soldier, educator, college president, was born July 17, 1838, near Carrollton, Ill.
He served as a lieutenant in the union army during the civil war, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. For twentythree years he was professor of mathematics in the Illinois Wesleyan university; for three years was president of Chaddock college; and for six years was superintendent of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' home of Normal, Ill. He is president of the Central Union Building and Loan association at Bloomington, Ill.