Du Bignon, Fleming G – Dudley, Paul
Du Bignon, Fleming G
lawyer, state senator, was born July 25, 1853, in Milledgeville, Ga. He was county judge of Baldwin county, Ga.; state senator and chairman of the judiciary committee in 1882; solicitor-general in 1884; and state senator and president of the senate in 1888.
Du Bois, Augustus Jay
educator, author, was born April 25, 1849, in Newton Falls, Ohio. He has been a professor of engineering at Yale university since 1877; and is the author of Elements of Graphical Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed Structures; and Mechanics.
Dubois, Charles Edward
artist, was born Oct. 19, 1847, in Hoboken, N. J.
At the Philadelphia exhibition he exhibited Willows at East Hampton and The Palisades of the Hudson; at the Paris exposition of 1878, Morning in Venice, View on the Hudson, and Autumn. He died March 6, 1885, in Italy.
Dubois, Fred T
congressman, United States senator, was born May 29, 1851, in Crawford county, Ill. He was United States marshal of Idaho from 1882 till 1886, and was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican delegate, being the last delegate from the territory. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican for term of 1891-97.
Du Bois, Henry K
physician, was born Aug. 31, 1847, in New Berlin, Wis.
During 1870-76 he was connected with the hospitals in New York city; since 1889 he has been a member of the board of medical examiners for Florida; and in 1895 became president of the Florida State Medical association.
Dubois, John
Roman catholic bishop, was born Aug. 24, 1764, in Paris, France.
He was the founder of Mount St. Mary's college of Emmittsburg, Va., and also its president. He was appointed bishop of New York in 1826, and at his instance the sisters of charity from Emmittsburg founded the first female academy in the city of New York in 1829. He died Dec. 20, 1842, in New York city.
Du Bois, William Edward Burg- Hardt
educator, author, was born in 1868. He is an educator of African descent, assistant professor of sociology in the university of Pennsylvania, and the author of The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States, 1638- 1810.
Du Bois, William Ewing
numismatist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1810, in Doylestown, Pa. He was a Philadelphia numismatist, assayer at the mint, and the author of Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations; and Pledges of History, an account of the Antique Coins in the United States Mint. He died July 14, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Du Bois, William H
legislator, banker, financier, was born March 24, 1835, in Randolph, Vt. In 1875 he organized the Randolph National bank, and has been its president since. In 1876 he was a member of the Vermont general assembly from Randolph, and of the senate from Orange county in 1892. In 1882 he was elected state treasurer, and held the office eight years consecutively.
Duboise, Dudley M
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1834, in Shelby county, Tenn. He served as a general in the confederate army, and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-second congress. He died March 2, 1883.
Du Bose, Mrs. Catherine Anne
(RICHARDS), author, poet, was born Sept. 19, 1826, in England. She is a Georgia writer who published The Pastor's Household, or Lessons on the Eleventh Commandment, a juvenile tale.
DU BOSE, DUDLEY McIVER
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1834, in Shelby county, Tenn. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the confederate army and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. After the war he represented Georgia in the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Du Bose, Horace Mellard
clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 7, 1858, near Mobile, Ala. He has been the chief editor of the Pacific Methodist Advocate, the leading religious newspaper on the Pacific coast. He is the author of a volume entitled Rupert Wise, a poetic romance in eight cantos; and Psyche, a symbolic poem.
Dubourg, Louis Guillaume Val- Entin
bishop, was born Feb. 14, 1766.
In 1815 he was appointed the first Roman catholic bishop of New Orleans. He died Feb. 12, 1833, in France.
Dubuis, Claude Marie
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1817, in France. In 1862 he was appointed bishop of Galveston, Texas.
Ducachet, Henry William
clergyman, was born Feb. 17, 1796, in Charleston, S. C. He filled the office of rector of the Burd Orphan asylum, an institution which owes its origin to his exertions.
He died Dec. 13, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ducatel, Julius Timoleon
chemist, educator, author, was born June 6, 1796, in Baltimore, Md. He was a chemist of Baltimore, professor in the university of Maryland and author of a Manual of Toxicology. He died in 1849.
Ducey, Thomas James
clergyman, was born Feb. 4, 1843, in Ireland. He purchased property, and for three years maintained the work to which he had devoted himself out of his own resources. In 1880 he founded the church of St. Leo at a cost of $200,000.
Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni
author, was born July 31, 1835, in France.
He is a noted French traveler who has become a naturalized citizen of the United States, and is the author of Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life Under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; and Stories of the Gorilla Country.
Duche, Jacob
clergyman, was born in 1737 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of several works. He died Jan. 3, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Duchesne, Leon C
journalist, statesman, was born Feb. 7, 1840, in Caldwell parish, La. He is now proprietor and publisher of The Republican of Natchez, Miss.; and publisher of The Baptist Signal. He was nominated for the fifty-first congress by the republicans of the sixth Mississippi district.
Duchesne, Philippa Rose
was born in 1769 in France. She was the foundress of the first houses of the Society of the Sacred Heart in America. She died in 1852 in St. Charles, La.
Duckett, Allen B
jurist, was born in Maryland. In 1806 he was appointed judge of the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Dudley, Augustus P
physician, surgeon, author, was born July 4, 1853, in Phippsburg, Maine. In 1887 he was appointed instructor at the Post-Graduate Medical school, and for eighteen years was surgeon in the Women's hospital of New York city. He is the author of Surgical Treatment, and other articles.
Dudley, Mrs. Blandina
philan-- thropist, was born in 1783 in New York.
In 1856 she gave seventy-five thousand dollars toward the endowment and erection of Dudley observatory in Albany, in memory of her husband. At the time of her death she had given more than one hundred thousand dollars toward its completion. She died in January, 1863, in Albany, N. Y.
Dudley, Charles Benjamin
chemist, was born July 14, 1842, in Oxford, N. Y. In 1874 he became instructor of physics in the university of Pennsylvania, but resigned at the end of the year. He became chemist to the Pennsylvania Railroad company.
Dudley, Charles Edward
merchant, United States senator, was born May 23, 1780, in England. He was state senator from 1820 to 1825; mayor of Albany, N. Y., from 1821 to 1828, and United States senator from 1829 to 1833. He died Jan. 23, 1841, in Albany, N. Y.
Dudley, Dean
lawyer, author, was born May 23, 1823, in Kingfield, Maine. He is a Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes; and the author of Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; and History of the Dudley Family.
Dudley, Edward B
congressman, governor. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina, from 1829 to 1831; and in 1836 was elected the first governor of North Carolina under the amended constitution of that state. He was subsequently appointed president of the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad company. He died Oct. 30, 1855, in Wilmington, N. C.
Dudley, James G
lawyer, politician, orator, was born April 8, 1848, in Hannibal, Mo. He was educated at the public schools at St. Louis, Mo. He has attained distinction as a profound lawyer and a successful advocate; and has been counsel in the leading civil and criminal cases in Texas, in which state he has a law office in Paris. He has filled all the political offices of honor in the democratic party of his state; and as a platform speaker and orator has gained a national reputation.
Dudley, Joseph
colonial governor of Massachusetts, was born Sept. 23, 1647, in Roxbury, Mass. From 1677 to 1681 he was one of the commissioners for the united colonies. In 1687 he was appointed chief justice of the superior court, and was made chief justice of New York in 1690. From 1702 to 1715 he was captaingeneral and governor-in-chief of Massachusetts Bay. He died April 2, 1720, in Roxbury, Mass.
Dudley, Paul
jurist, was born Sept. 3, 1675. In 1745 he became chief justice of Massachusetts. He represented Roxbury for several years in the legislature. He died January, 1751, in Roxbury, Mass.