Drew, Franklin Mellen – Dubbs, Joseph Henry
Drew, Franklin Mellen
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born July 19, 1837, in Turner, Maine. In 1858 he graduated from Bowdoin college. He was a union soldier for over three years during the civil war, and was promoted to major and brevet colonel. During 1868-71 he was secretary of the state of Maine. In 1889 he was elected department commander, department of Maine, of the Grand Army of the Republic. Since 1889 he has served with distinction as judge of probate. He is one of the foremost lawyers of his native state, and has a law office in Lewiston, Maine.
Drew, George F
statesman. He was governor of Florida from 1877 to 1881.
Drew, John
comedian, was born Nov. 13, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has created more than forty parts in comedy, personating all with skill and care, and many with brilliant success. Petruchio, in Taming the Shrew, is his favorite character.
Drew, Thomas S
statesman. He was governor of Arkansas from 1844 to 1848.
Drexel, Anthony Joseph
banker, philanthropist, was born in 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is president of the banking establishment of the New York Drexel, Morgan and Co.; and founded and heavily endowed the Drexel institute, which has achieved a wide reputation.
Drexel, Joseph Wilhelm
banker, was born Jan. 24, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. After his father's death he returned to Philadelphia, and in 1871, with Junius S. Morgan of London, established in New York city the banking house of Drexel, Morgan and Co., becoming its head. He died March 25, 1888, in New York city.
Driggs, John F
congressman, was born March 8, 1813, in Kinderhook, N. Y.
In 1844 he was appointed superintendent of the New York penitentiary; and in 1850 settled in East Saginaw, Mich. He was president of that village in 1858; and during the two succeeding years was a member of the Michigan legislature.
He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-eighth, thirtyninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died Dec. 17, 1877.
Drinker, Mrs. Anna
author, poet, was born Dec. 3, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for Children; and Katy's Story.
Driscol, Michael
clergyman, was born in 1805 in Ireland. He was superior of the theological seminary at Fordham, and afterward president of St. Francis Xavier college, New York. He erected the church of St. Michael in Troy, N. Y.
He died in 1880 in Troy, N. Y. was
Drisler, Henry
educator, author, was born Dec. 27, 1818, on Staten Island, N. Y. He is a classical scholar of distinction, professor at Columbia college since 1843, whose Greek and English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.
Dromgoole, George C
lawyer, congressman, born in Virginia.
He served for many years in the two houses of the state legislature, and was president of the senate. He was a member of the second constitutional convention of Virginia; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1835 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1847. He died April 27, 1847.
Drone, Eaton Sylvester
journalist, author, was born Jan. 25, 1842, in Zanesville, Ohio. He is a legal writer on the staff of the New York Herald; and the author of The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright.
Drum, Augustus
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Drummond, Josiah Hayden
lawyer, author, was born in 1827. He is a lawyer who was attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of Lodges; and History of Masonic Jurisprudence.
Drummond, Thomas
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1809, in Bristol, Maine. He removed to Galena, Ill., in 1835; was elected to the house of representatives of Illinois in 1840; was appointed judge of the district court of the United States for Illinois in 1850. He removed to Chicago in 1854; became judge of the aistrict court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. In 1868 he moved to Winfield, where he died in 1897.
Drummond, William W
jurist. He was a resident of Illinois; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Drury, Augustus Waldo
clergyman, author, was born in 1851. He is a clergyman of the sect of united brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the founder of the sect.
Drury, John Benjamin
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 15, 1838, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He attended the Rhinebeck academy, Rutgers college, and the New Brunswick Theological seminary; and has received the degree of D. D. He has been president of the general synod of the reformed church of America; was Vedder lecturer in 1883; and since 1887 has been editor of the Christian Intelligencer of New York city. He is the author of Trutns and Untruths of Evolution; and various other works.
Drury, Marion Richardson
journalist, author, was born Dec. 27, 1849, in Pendleton, Ind. In 1889 he was appointed editor of The Religious Telescope of Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of The Pastor's Pocket Book; Handbook for Workers; and At Hand.
Drury, William Henry
lawyer, inventor, was born Jan. 12, 1842, in Worcester, Mass. In 1865 he graduated from Yale college, and since 1873 has been a successful lawyer in Boston, Mass. He is the inventor of the system of spinning yarn, by which numerous strands of twisted and completed yarn are made directly from the ring-doffers of a carding machine without any subsequent process or spinning.
Dryden, John Fairfield
president of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, was born Aug. 7, 1839, in Farmington, Maine.
In 1875 the real birth of industrial insurance in America. took place. On that day was formed what is now The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Into it were merged all the rights, titles, interests and obligations of The Friendly society, and Mr. Dryden accepted the nominally modest but all important office of secretary. From the first he has been the chief guide and motive power of the institution.
Drysdale, Thomas Murray
physician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1862 he delivered a course of lectures on the microscope in the Franklin institute. He was a delegate to the international medical congress in 1876, and one of the founders of the American gynecological society.
Duane, James
jurist, statesman, was born Feb. 6, 1733, in New York city. He was a member of the continental congress from 1774 to 1784, and signed the articles of confederation. He attended the Indian treaty at Albany in August, 1775; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1776 and 1777, and on the committee which drafted it. He was a member of the committee of safety; in 1783 returned to New York city on its evacuation by the British, and became a member of the council. He was state senator in 1783 and 1784; first mayor of New York in 1784; member of the convention to adopt the federal constitution in 1788; United States district judge from 1789 to 1794. He died Feb. 1, 1797, in Duanesburg, N. Y.
Duane, James Chatham
general, author, was born June 30, 1824, in Schenectady, N. Y. He is a retired brigadiergeneral of the United States army; and the author of A Manual for Engineer Troops.
Duane, Russell
lawyer, was born June 15, 1866, in Gloucester county, N. J.
In 1892 he was appointed junior counsel for the government in the Behring sea arbitration proceedings.
Duane, William
journalist, author, was born in 1760 near Lake Champlain, N. Y. He was a prominent journalist and politician of Philadelphia; and the author of Military Dictionary: The Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen; and Handbook for Infantry. He died Nov. 24, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Duane, William
author, was born in 1807 in Pennsylvania. He is a Philadelphia writer who published Relation of Landlord to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law of Roads in Pennsylvania; Canada and the Continental Congress; and Ligan, a collection of tales and essays.
Duane, William John
lawyer, author, was born in 1780 in Ireland. He was an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia who was secretary of the treasury in 1833, and was dismissed from office by President Jackson for declining to order the deposits removed from the bank of the United States. He was the author of The Law of Nations Investigated; Letters on Internal Improvement; and Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of the Deposits, 1838. He died Sept. 27, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Dubbs, Joseph Henry
clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 5, 1838, in Allentown, Pa. He is a German reformed clergyman, and has been professor of history in Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa., since 1875. He is the author of Otterbein and the Reformed Church; Historic Manual of the Reformed Church; Home Ballads and Metrical Versions; and Why Am I Reformed? He is also the author of a number of poems. •