Dickinson, Hester A – Dillaye, Stephen Devalson
Dickinson, Hester A
journalist, poet, was born in Ohio. She is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Vesta; and Fagots. She is engaged in newspaper work, and president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press association.
Dickinson, John
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Nov. 13, 1732, in Maryland. In 1764 he was a member of the assembly, and in 1765 of the general congress. He was a delegate to the continental from 1774 to 1776.
From 1776 to 1777 he was a delegate to congress from Delaware, and again from 1779 to 1780, and signed the articles of confederation as well as the constitution. In 1781 he was president of that state; and in 1782 was chosen president of Pennsylvania, and filled that office until 1785. He was a political writer of great influence during the period of the revolution. Dickinson college, which he helped to found, was named in his honor.
He wrote vigorously against the stamp act, and his various state papers display both eloquence and dignity. His works are Petition to the King; Second Petition to the King; Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer; Letters of Fabius. He died Feb. 14, 1808, in Wilmington.
Dickinson, John D
congressman, was born in 1767, in Middlesex county, Conn. He was a member of congress from New York from 1819 to 1823, and again from 1827 to 1831. He died Jan. 28, 1841, in Troy, N. Y.
Dickinson, Jonathan
jurist, author, was born in England. He was a chief justice of Pennsylvania, who came to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled God's Protecting Providence Man's Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative of personal adventure, and has been several times reprinted since its first appearance in 1699. He died in 1722.
Dickinson, Jonathan
clergyman, college president, author, was born April 22, 1688, in Hatfield, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Elizabethtown, N. J., who was one of the chief American theologians of his day, and the first president of the college of New Jersey, now Princeton college. He was the author of Familiar Letters Upon Important Subjects in Religion; Reasonableness of Christianity; and True Scripture Doctrine. He died Oct. 17, 1747, in Elizabethtown, N. J.
Dickinson, Julian G
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 20, 1843, in Erie county, N. Y. He received his education in the union schools of Jonesville and Jackson, Mich.; and in 1856 graduated from the university of Michigan. He served as a union soldier during the civil war; served three years in the army of the Cumberland; was promoted to adjutant of the fourth regiment Michigan cavalry, and brevetted captain United States volunteers for meritorious service in the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865. Since 1867 he has practiced law in Detroit, Mich., and has attained eminent success in his profession.
Dickinson, Marquis Fayette
educator, business man, lawyer, was born Jan. 16, 1840, in Amherst, Mass. He is descended from Nathaniel Dickinson, one of the Winthrop colony of 1630, who settled Weathersfield, Conn., and in 1658 was one of the adventurers who founded the town of Hadley, Mass. The subject of this sketch received a thorough education, and graduated from the Williston seminary in 1858; from Amherst college in 1862; and studied law at the Harvard law school. He was a teacher of classics in the Williston seminary during 1862-65; was a trustee of that institution; and was a member of the board of overseers of charity fund of Amherst collège. He has been president of the Nashawannuck Manufacturing company, and a director of the Williston mills, both of Easthampton, Mass.; and president of the Whitcomb Envelope company. He is now a noted lawyer of Boston, Mass; was president of the Boston common council in 1872; and has filled numerous public positions of honor in his native state. He is the author of Legislation on the Hours of Labor; and Amherst Centennial Address.
Dickinson, Philemon
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born April 5, 1739, in Dover, Del. He commanded the Jersey militia at the battle of Monmouth; and was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1782 to 1783. After the organization of the national government in its present form, he was appointed a senator in congress from 1790 to 1793. He died Feb. 4, 1809, in Trenton, N. J.
Dickinson, Richard William
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21, 1804, in New York city. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and the author of Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of John Howard; and The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically Viewed. He died Aug. 16, 1874, in Fordham, N. Y.
Dickinson, Rodolphus
clergyclergyman, author, was born in 1787, in Deerfield, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman in Deerfield, Mass., who published a much criticised New and Corrected Version of the New Testament; and Geographical and Statistical View of Massachusetts. He died in 1863, in Deerfield, Mass.
Dickinson, Rudolphus
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. Having removed to Ohio, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849. He died in August, 1849.
Dickson, Andrew Flinn
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Alabama, and the author of Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; and The Light, is It Waning?
He died in 1879, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Dickson, Cyrus
clergyman, was born Dec. 20, 1816, in Erie county, Pa.
He was chosen permanent clerk of the general assembly, and soon afterward secretary of the board of home missions, also representing the board at the panpresbyterian council in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877. He died Sept. 11, 1881, in Baltimore, Md.
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Dickson, David
congressman. was a member of congress from Mississippi in 1835 and 1836. He died July 31, 1836, in Little Rock, Ark.
Dickson, John
lawyer, congressman, author, was born in 1783, in Keene, N. H. He was a New York congressman, early prominent in opposition to slavery, and served in congress during 1831-35.
He is the author of Remarks on the Presentation of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. He died Feb. 22, 1852, in West Bloomfield, N. Y.
Dickson, John J
soldier, farmer, poet, was born Sept. 8, 1826, in Scott county, Ind. During the civil war he was with Sherman's army on its famous march to the sea. He is a successful farmer of West Grove, Iowa; has gained a reputation as a poet; and some of his productions appear in Poets of America and other standard works.
Dickson, Samuel
physician, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York during the thirty-fourth congress.
Dickson, Samuel Henry
educator, physician, author, was born Sept. 20, 1798, in Charleston, S. C. He was a physician of eminence in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where, from 1858 to 1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical college. He was the author of Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain and Death; On the Correlation of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; and Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics. He died March 31, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. congressman.
Dickson, William
He was representative in congress from Tennessee from 1801 to 1807.
Didier, Eugene Lemoine
journalist, author, was born Dec. 22, 1838, in Baltimore, Md. He is the author of Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; and The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine.
Didier, Franklin James
physician, author, was born in 1794, in Baltimore, Md. He was a Baltimore physician who was the autnor of Didier's Letters from Paris; and Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk. He died in 1840, in Baltimore, Md.
Diekema, Gerrit J
lawyer, state legislator, was born March 27, 1859, in Holland, Mich. He is a successful lawyer of Holland; served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature during 1885-92; and was speaker of the house in 1889.
Dielman, Frederick
artist, was born Dec. 25, 1847, in Germany. He served as a topographer and draughtsman of United States engineers in Fortress Monroe and Baltimore, and in the survey of canal routes over the Alleghanies of Virginia.
Dieterich, Louis Philip
artist, was born April 8, 1842, in Germany. He studied in the best schools of Baltimore, Md., and has attained prominence as a portrait painter.
Dietz, Ella
poet. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled The Triumph of Time.
Dill, James Heron Horton
clergyman, was born Jan. 1, 1821, in Plymouth, Mass. He filled a pastorate in Spencerport, N. Y., for eight years, then moved to Chicago, where he became pastor of the South Congregational church. He died Jan. 14, 1863.
Dillard, William
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 23, 1846, in Amherst county, Va. He received his education at the Virginia Military institute and at the university of Virginia. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of his native state; and since 1880 has served with distinction as judge of Amherst county court, Va.
Dillaye, Stephen Devalson
author, was born in 1820, in New York. He was the author of The Money and Finances of the French Revolution in 1789. He died in 1884.