Diller, Joseph Silas – Dinsmoor, Samuel
Diller, Joseph Silas
educator, geologist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1850, in Plainfield, Pa. In 1883 he became assistant geologist on the United States geological survey, and in that capacity has traveled extensively throughout the United States. He is the author of Notes on the Geology of the Troad; Diamonds in the United States; and Notes on the Geology of Northern California.
Dillingham, Fred Augustine
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1851, in Auburn, Maine. He is a distinguished clergyman of New England; fills a pastorate in Bridgeport, Conn.; and is the author of a work entitled Life of Jesus.
Dillingham, Paul
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born in August, 1800, in Shutesbury, Mass. He was justice of the peace eighteen years; was state's attorney for Washington county from 1835 to 1838; and was a member of the constitutional convention in 1836 and 1837. He was a representative to the general assembly six years; state senator in 1841 and 1842; and was elected a representative in congress from 1843 to 1847; and was elected governor of Vermont for the year 1866.
Dillman, Frederick
artist, was born Dec. 25, 1847, in Germany. He studied art in the Royal academy of Munich, and was secretary of the international board of jury for fine arts at the World's Columbian exposition.
Dillon, John Forrest
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1831, in Washington county, N. Y. He went to Iowa, and was elected prosecuting attorney; in 1858 judge of the seventh judicial district of Iowa; and re-elected in 1862 for a second term. In 1869 he was commissioned United States circuit judge for the eighth judicial circuit. Since 1879 he has resided in New York city. He is the author of United States Circuit Court Reports; Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts; Municipal Bonds; and Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America.
Dillon, Robert Mathew
clergyman, theologian, was born Oct. 29, 1859, in Madison, Ind. He attended Oberlin college in 1883-84; Hanover college in 1884-89; and McCormick Theological seminary of Chicago in 1889-92. He then entered the presbyterian ministry, and has filled pastorates in Greencastle, Ind., and Bowling Green, Ohio. He has contributed extensively to religious literature.
Dillon, Sidney
railroad president, was born May 7, 1812, in Northampton, N. Y. He was twice president, at intervals, of the Union Pacific railroad, and other railroad systems. He died June 9, 1892, in New York city.
Dillwyn, George
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 26, 1738, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of Dillwyn's Reflections. He died June 23, 1821.
Diman, Byron
manufacturer, state senator, governor, was born in 1795, in Bristol, R. I. He was for many years either a state senator or a member of the lower house, and was lieutenant-governor of the state for three years. In 1846 he was elected governor. He died Aug. 1, 1865, in Bristol, R. I.
Diman, Jeremiah Lewis
educator, clergyman, author, was born May 1, 1831, in Bristol, R. I. He was a congregational clergyman, who was professor of history and political economy in Brown university from 1864. He is the author of Orations and Essays; The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories. He died Feb. 3, 1881, in Providence, R. I.
Dimick, Justin
soldier, was born Aug. 5, 1800, in Hartford county, Conn.
He served with distinction during the civil war; and in 1865 received the brevet of brigadier-general in the United States army. From 1864 until his death he was governor of the Soldiers' home, near Washington, D. C. He died in October, 1871.
Dimitry, Alexander
educator, was born Feb. 7, 1805, in New Orleans, La. In 1842 he organized the free school system in Louisiana, and for three years was state superintendent of public instruction. Under the confederate government he was chief of the finance bureau in the postoffice department. He was afterward prominently identified with educational work, and in 1870 was elected professor of ancient languages in the Christian Brothers college of Mississippi. He died Jan. 30, 1883.
Dimitry, Charles Patton
soldier, journalist, author, was born July 31, 1837, in Washington, D. C. During the civil war he served in the confederate army as a private in the Louisiana Guards. Since the war he has been connected with the press of Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and New Orleans. He is the author of Guilty or Not Guilty; Angela's Christmas; The Alderly Tragedy; and The House in Balfour Street.
Dimitry, John Bull Smith
journalist, author, was born Dec. 27, 1835, in Washington, D. C. He served as a confederate soldier during the civil war. For seven years he was the dramatic and literary critic of the New Orleans Times; and during 1881-89 was editorially connected with the New York Mail and Express. He is the author of History and Geography of Louisiana from Its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Civil War.
Dimm, Jonathan Rose
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 28, 1830, in Hughesville, Pa. He was principal of the Missionary institute of Selins Grove, Pa., for twelve years, up to 1894, when he became president of that institution, which developed into the Susquehanna university.
Dimmick, Francis Marion
clergyman, was born Jan. 23, 1827, in Uniondale, Pa. For a while he taught school; and graduated in 1860 from the Lane Theological seminary of Cincinnati, Ohio.
He then went to Omaha, Neb., where he organized the First Presbyterian church, of which he was pastor for twelve years.
In 1872 he moved to Santa Rosa, Cal., and in 1884 to Los Angeles, where he established the Grand View Presbyterian church, of which he is still pastor.
Dimmick, Milo M
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853. He died Nov. 21, 1872, in Mauch Chunk, Pa.
Dimmick, William H
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1815, in Milford, Pa. He was prosecuting attorney for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Wayne county in 1836 and 1837; and was a member of the state senate in 1845, 1846 and 1847. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died Aug. 2, 1861, in Honesdale, Pa.
Dimmock, George
zoologist, author, was born May 17, 1852, in Springfield, Mass. He received his education at Harvard college and the universities of Paris and Leipzic. He has written considerably on biological subjects, especially on insects. For a number of years he was editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology.
He is the author of Anatomy of Mouth Parts of Some Insects of the Order of Diptera. He is also the author of a genealogical work on the Dimmock family.
Dimock, Davis
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1842. He died Jan. 13, 1842.
Dimon, Nathan H
soldier, educator, clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 18, 1846, in Bridge Hampton, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted and served for three years as a private in company G, eighty-first regiment New York infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va. For many years he was engaged in educational work, and since 1873 nas been a baptist. clergyman.
Dimond, Francis M
governor. He was governor of Rhode Island for one year, beginning in 1853.
Dingee, William Jackson
capitalist, philanthropist, was born July 22, 1853, near Philadelphia, Pa. He was organizer of the Piedmont Water company in 1891, and was its president until 1894.
Dingley, E. N
journalist, politician, was born Aug. 21, 1862, in Auburn, Maine.
Since 1888 he has been the editor and part. owner of the Daily Telegraph of Kalamazoo, Mich. In 1897 he was elected president of the Michigan republican league, and takes an active part in political affairs.
Dingley, Nelson
lawyer, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 15, 1832, in Durham, Maine. In 1856 he became the proprietor and editor of the Lewiston Journal.
Between the years 1862 and 1873 he was six times elected to the state legislature, serving as speaker in 1863 and 1864. In 1873 and also in 1874 he was elected governor of Maine. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876; and was elected a representative from Maine to the fortyseventh congress, to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Dinnies, Mrs. Anna Peyre Shackelford
poet, was born in 1816 in Georgetown, S. C. She was a poet of New Orleans who published The Floral Year, a collection of one hundred poems.
She died Aug. 8, 1886, in New Orleans, La.
Dinsmoor, Robert
poet, author, was born Oct. 7, 1757, in Windham, N. H.
He was known as The Rustic Bard, and published Incidental Poems, strongly imitative of Burns. He died in 1836.
Dinsmoor, Samuel
soldier, jurist, congressman, governor, author, was born July 1, 1766, in Londonderry, N. H. He was for many years a major-general of militia; a presidential elector in 1821; and a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1811 to 1813. He was a judge of probate; and served as governor of his native state during the years 1831-1833. He died March 15, 1835, at Keene, N. H.
Dinsmoor, Samuel
lawyer, governor, was born May 8, 1799, in Keene, N. H. He was governor of New Hampshire from 1849 to 1853. He died Feb. 24, 1869, in Keene, N. H.