Duncan, Shelby Patterson – Dunlap, Henry M
Duncan, Shelby Patterson
lawyer, jurist, was born March 2, 1856, in Fayette county, Ky. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar, and has served as city attorney of Fairview, Ill. / For many years he taught school; in 1884 moved to Kansas, and since 1888 has practiced his profession at Coldwater. He has been police judge of his city; four years United States circuit court commissioner for district of Kansas; and judge of probate of his county. He has also served two years as prosecuting attorney, and filled various other positions in his county and state.
Duncan, Thomas E
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Nov. 21, 1837, in Holmes county, Ohio. He is an eminent lawyer and jurist of Mt. Gilead, Ohio; has been representative in the general assembly of Ohio, and judge of the court of common pleas.
Duncan, William A
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1836, in Adams county, Pa. He was elected district attorney in 1862, and again in 1868, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress.
Duncan, William Cecil
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 24, 1824, in New York city. He was a baptist clergy-. man of New Orleans, and the author of Life of John the Baptist; History of the Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era; The Years of Jesus; and Brief History of the Baptists. He died May 1, 1864, in New Orleans, La.
Duncan, William Stevens
physician, author, was born May 24, 1834, in Brownsville, Pa. He is a physician of Brownsville, Pa., and the author of Medical Delusions; and Physiology of Death.
Duncan, William Wallace
educator, bishop, was born Dec. 20, 1839, in Boydton, Va. He is an eminent clergyman; was a member of the Virginia conference, and has been a college professor and bishop in the methodist episcopal church south at Spartanburg, S. C.
Duncanson, Henry Bruce
biologist, author, was born Feb. 4, 1860, in Scotland county, Mo. He has been professor of biology in the Nebraska State Normal school for several years, and is the author of Suggestive Lessons in Elementary Zoölogy.
Duncombe, John Francis
lawyer, legislator, lecturer, was born Oct. 22, 1831, in Erie county, Pa. He received his education at the Alleghany college, Pennsylvania, from which institution he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; received the degree of A. M. from the Center college, Ky.; and the degree of LL. D. *from Griswold college, Iowa. He has served as a representative and senator in the Iowa legislature for seven terms, general and special sessions. For eighteen years he was regent of the Iowa State university, and for twelve years lectured on Law of Railroads in that institution.
For twenty-four years he was curator of the State Historical society of Iowa. During the Spirit Lake Indian war he served as captain of company B. He has been general attorney of the Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad company, and was the organizer of that company, and for thirty years he has been district attorney of the Central Railroad company, which position he still holds.
Dundas, James
banker, was born in 1788 in Alexandria, Va. He early settled in Philadelphia, where he became a banker, and was president of the Pennsylvania bank. He died July 4, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. senator, was born in 1845, in Aurora, Ill.
Dundas, John H
journalist, state He is the editor and owner of The Granger of Auburn, Neb., which he founded in 1884. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Nebraska state senate.
Dundy, Elmer S
lawyer, jurist, was born March 5, 1830, in Trumbull county, Ohio. He was elected a member of the upper house of the territorial legislature of Nebraska, in which capacity he served four years. In 1863 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Nebraska territory; held the office until the territory became a state, in 1867, and in 1868 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Nebraska.
Dungan, Irvine
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in Canonsburg, Pa. He was elected mayor of Jackson in 1869; was elected state senator from the seventh senatorial district in 1877; and was the author of the first law in Ohio against the truck system. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Dunglison, Richard James
physician, author, was born Nov. 13, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He is a physician of Philadelphia who has issued Practitioner's Reference Book; and Elementary Physiology.
Dunglison, Robley
physician, author, was born Jan. 4, 1798, in England. He was an eminent Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical college from 1836, and one of the most learned men of his profession. His most important work is his Medical Dictionary, which has a very wide reputation. works are, Human Physiology; Elements of Hygiene; General Therapeutics; The Medical Student; The Practice of Medicine; and Commentaries on Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels in Children. He died April 1, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Dunham, Carroll
physician, author, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in New York city. He was a once prominent homeopathic physician of New York, and the author of Homœopathy the Science of Therapeutics; and Lectures in Materia Medica. He died Feb. 18, 1877, in Irvington-on- Hudson, N. Y.
Dunham, Cyrus L
lawyer, congressman, was born in New York. He was elected to the legislature of Indiana in 1846 and 1847; was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1855, and served again in the legislature at a subsequent period.
Dunham, Emma B. S
poet, was born in 1826, in Auburn, Maine. She has composed a number of cantatas, and is the author of a work entitled The Home Opera Margaret.
Dunham, Harrison M
lawyer, jurist, was born April 25, 1857, in Highland, Mich. He was judge of his county court for eight years; judge of police court, of Cadillac, Mich., for three terms; and justice of the peace for thirteen years.
Dunham, John
pioneer, clergyman, was born Aug. 7, 1827, in Chesterfield, N.
H.
In 1852 he was ordained a clergyman and spent fifteen years in pioneer work in Indiana along the Wabash river and its branches. He next preached to the Miami Indians, which resulted in the formation of a mission school and several baptist churches. He has attained prominence as a. gospel singer, and now resides in Cass City, Mich.
Dunham, Lewis B
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1806, in Mansfield, Conn. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. He subsequently moved to Iowa, where he served in the legislature of that state, and died Jan. 1, 1892, in Maquoketa.
Dunham, Ransom W
merchant, congressman, was born March 21, 1838, in Savoy, Mass. He was president of the Chicago board of trade in 1882, and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Dunham, Warren Jerome
clergyman, was born July 25, 1872, in Ripley, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware; has attained distinction as a successful clergy-- man of the methodist church, and now fills. a pastorate at Cleves, Ohio.
Dunham, William Russell
physician, author, was born Dec. 15, 1833, in Chesterfield, N. H. He is a physician of Keene, N. H., who has published Theory of Medical Science.
Duniway, Abigail Scott
journalist, author, was born Oct. 22, 1834, in Groveland, Ill. She is the editor of The a Pacific Empire, weekly journal devoted to the interests of women, and for nearly twenty years was editor and owner of The New Northwest. She is the state president. of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage association, vice-president of the Oregon Woman's National Press association, and of various other reform clubs and associations. She is the author of Captain Gray's Company, a pioneer novel; David and Anna Watson, and Other Poems; and numerous serial stories, sketches and poems, which have appeared in her own publications and in the leading newspapers and magazines in America.
Dunklin, Daniel
governor, was born in 1790. He was governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He died Aug. 25, 1844, in Jefferson county, Miss.
Dunlap, Alexander
physician, was born Jan. 12, 1815, in Brown county, Ohio. He was one of the first surgeons in the country to perform the difficult operation of ovariotomy.
Dunlap, Andrew
lawyer, author, United States district attorney for Maswas born in 1794 in Salem, Mass. He was sachusetts from 1829 till just before his death. He published Admiralty Practice in Civil Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction, which was pronounced by competent judges to be learned, accurate, and well digested. He died in 1835 in Boston, Mass.
Dunlap, George Washington
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1813, in Fayette county, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature, also of the border state convention, held in 1861. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1864 he was a presidential elector. He died June 6, 1880, in Lancaster, Ky.
Dunlap, Henry M
farmer, legislator, was born Nov. 14, 1853, in Leyden, Ill. For two years he was president of the State Horticultural society, and secretary of that body during the world's fair. He has served as a state senator in the Illinois legislature from the thirtieth district.