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Dudley, Pemberton – Duhring, Julia

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Dudley, Pemberton

educator, physician, was born Oct. 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is professor of institutes of medicine and hygiene in Hahnemann college. He was editor of the Hahnemannian Monthly for eight years, and has written and published numerous articles in the journals of his school of medicine.

Dudley, Sarah Marie

artist, business woman, was born in 1849, in Carlton, Mich. She has attained success as an artist; and has a studio in Detroit, Mich.

She is also an inventor, but it is as an architect, designer and builder she has won her greatest success. She bought land in what proved to be one of the best locations in Detroit, and designed and built graceful group of residences, a among which is one of the most palatial stone mansions in the city. She took all the responsibility of the planning and building, and receives a large income from the rentals. was

Dudley, Thomas

governor, born in 1576 in England. In 1630 he came to Massachusetts with the commission of deputy governor, which office he held from 1634 till 1640, and again from 1645 till 1650. He died July 31, 1652, in Roxbury, Mass.

Dudley, Thomas Underwood

bishop, author, was born Sept. 26, 1837, in Richmond, Va. He is the second protestant episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He served in the confederate army as a colonel, and afterwards entered the ministry. He is the author of A Wise Discrimination the Church's Need; and A Sunday- School Question Book.

Dudley, William Henry

physician, was born Oct. 7, 1811, in Ireland.

In 1851 he was elected curator of the New York Medical college, holding the office for several years. He died Oct. 9, 1886, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dudley, William Lofland

chemist, was born April 16, 1859, in Covington, Ky. In 1886 he became professor of chemistry in Vanderbilt university, Nashville. The electro-metallurgy of iridium has been principally developed through his work. He has published scientific papers in various journals, and wrote the article Iridium, in Mineral Resources of the United States, 1883-84 (Washington).

Dudley, William Russell

educator, author, was born March 1, 1849, in "Guilford, Conn. He is a professor of botany at Cornell university, who has published The Cayuga Flora.

Dudley, William Wade

soldier, miller, financier, was born Aug. 7, 1842, in Weathersfield, Vt. In 1860 he removed to Richmond, Ind., and engaged in the business of milling. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain, and served with gallantry throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. In 1879 he was appointed United States marshal for Indiana; and in 1881 was appointed commissioner of the pension bureau, at Washington.

Duell, Robert Holland

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1823, in Warren, N. Y. He was district attorney for Cortland county in 1850-56; and in 1856 was elected county judge for said county. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh, forty-second and fortythird congresses.

Duer, Edward Louis

physician, author, was born Jan. 19, 1836, in Crosswicks, N. J. He is a physician of Philadelphia, and the author of Post-Mortem Discoveries; and Treatment of Diphtheria.

Duer, John

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1782, in Albany, N. Y.

He was a once prominent New York jurist whose specialty was insurance law, and was the author of Duer's Reports; and Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance.

He died Aug. 8, 1858, on Staten Island.

Duer, William

jurist, congressman, was born March 18, 1747, in England. He was appointed colonel of militia; and judge of the county courts. He was a member of the provincial congress, and of the committee of safety; and also a member of the committee to draft the state constitution in the convention of 1777. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1777 to 1778; secretary of the treasury board until the organization of the department in 1789; a member of the state legislature, and assistant secretary of the treasury under Hamilton, until 1790. He died May 7, 1799, in New York city.

Duer, William

lawyer, congressman, was born May 25, 1805, in New York city.

He served in the legislature of New York on two occasions; was district attorney for Oswego county, and was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1851.

Duer, William Alexander

jurist, college president, author, was born Sept. 8, 1780, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was president of Columbia college in 1829-42; and the author of Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States. He died May 30, 1858, in New York.

Duff, Peter

educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 1802, in Canada. He was an educator of Pittsburg, where he founded Duff's Mercantile college, one of the earliest institutions of the kind. The North American Accountant was his only publication of note. He died Sept. 13, 1869, in Pittsburg, Pa.

Duffel, Mary Gordon

author, was born in 1840 in Alabama. She is a resident of Alabama, and has published A History of Alabama; and Guide to the Mammoth Cave.

Duffield, Divie Bethune

lawyer, poet, was born Aug. 29, 1821, in Carlisle, Pa. He has been a member of the board of education of Detroit for thirteen years, and is active in all educational interests throughout the state.

Duffield, George

jurist. He was appointed in 1805 United States judge for the territory of Orleans.

Duffield, George

clergyman, was born Oct. 7, 1732, in Lancaster county, Pa.

His only published works are An Account of a Missionary Tour Through Western Pennsylvania in 1766, by order of the synod; and a Thanksgiving Sermon on Peace. He died Feb. 2, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Duffield, George

clergyman, was born July 4, 1794, in Strasburg, Pa. In 1838 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Detroit, which he retained until his death. In 1844-52 he was regent for the Michigan State university.

A full review of his life would embrace a large share of the history of the Presbyterian church for thirty years. He died June 26, 1868, in Detroit, Mich.

Duffield, George

clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 12, 1816, in Carlisle, Pa.

He held important pastorates in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and in Michigan, where he resided after 1861. He died June 6, 1888, in Bloomfield, N. J.

Duffield, Henry Martin

soldier, lawyer, orator, was born May 15, 1842, in Detroit, Mich. He was assistant provostmarshal-general of the army of the Cumberland on General Thomas's staff. He has been corporation counsel for Detroit since 1876, and is also president of the state military board of Michigan.

Duffield, John Thomas

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1823, in McConnellsburg, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergyman who was professor of mathematics in Princeton college for many years, and published The Princeton Pulpit and many religious monographs.

Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby

clergyman, author, was born in 1843, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, N. J., and the author of English Hymns, their Authors and History; Latin Hymn- Writers and their Hymns; and Warp and Woof, a Book of Verse. He died May 12, 1887, in Bloomfield, N. J.

Duffield, William Ward

soldier, civil engineer, author, was born Nov. 19, 1823, in Carlisle, Pa. He is an engineer of Kentucky who was a brigadier-general in the federal army during the civil war, and is the author of School of the Brigade and Evolutions of the Line.

Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey

journalist, author, poet, was born in 1823 in Boston, Mass. He was a journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the civil war he served in the federal army, and was for some time captive in southern prisons.

Among his writings are Prison Life in the South; Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy; Home Poems; and Parnassus in Pillory, a satire. He died Oct. 20, 1884, in New York. a

Dugdale, Richard L

sociologist, author, was born in 1841 in France. He was a writer on sociology, and the author of The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; and Further Studies of Criminals. He died July 23, 1883, in New York city.

Duggan, James

Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1825 in Ireland. He was consecrated coadjutor archbishop in 1857, with the title of Bishop of Antigone, and was afterward nominated bishop of Chicago.

Dugro, Philip Henry

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1855, in New York city. In 1878 he was elected to the New York assembly from the fourteenth district as a democrat, and declined a renomination. In 1886 he was elected judge of the superior court. He is the owner of the Hotel Savoy on the Plaza at the entrance to Central park.

Duhamel, William

physician, author, was born in 1827 in Maryland. He served as chief physician for ten years to the United States prisons in the District of Columbia. He wrote a treatise on the National Hotel Disease. He died Aug. 15, 1883, in Washington, D. C.

Duhring, Julia

essayist, author, was born Feb. 23, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa She is an essayist who has published Phil osophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in Society; and Mental Life and Culture.

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