Dunlap, John – Dunroy, W. Reed
Dunlap, John
printer, was born in 1747 in Ireland. He was appointed printer to congress, and first printed the Declaration of Independence. He died Nov. 27, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Dunlap, John A
jurist, author, was born about 1793. He was a justice of the peace in New York city, and the author of Practice of the Superior Court of New York in Civil Actions; and Abridgment of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Books of Coke's Reports. He died in 1858.
Dunlap, Robert
hatter, was born Oct. 17, 1834, in New York city. His firm of R. Dunlap and Co. of New York city, of which he is sole partner, is now the leading hatters of New York city.
Dunlap, Robert Pinckney
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 15, 1796, in Brunswick, Maine. He was a member of the state legislature; in 1823 was elected a state senator, serving nine years, and presided over that body four years. In 1833 he years. was a member of the executive council of Maine; in 1834 was elected governor of Maine, and served four years; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1847. During the years 1848 and 1849 he was collector of customs at Portland, and from 1853 to 1857 postmaster of Brunswick. He died Oct. 20, 1859, in Brunswick, Maine.
Dunlap, Samuel Fales
lawyer, author, was born in 1825 in Boston, Mass.
He is a lawyer of Boston, and the author of Origin of Ancient Names; and Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man.
Dunlap, William
dramatist, artist, author, was born in 1766 in Perth Amboy, N. J. He was a prominent artist, dramatist, and theatrical manager of New York city. He is the author of Life of George Frederick Cooke; Life of Charles Brockden Brown; The American Theater; History of New York; History, Rise, and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States; Thirty Years Ago, a novel; New Netherlands, Province of New York; The Father, a comedy; and Leicester, a tragedy. He died Sept. 28, 1839, in New York city.
Dunlap, William C
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837.
Dunlap, William Frederick
journalist, was born Dec. 28, 1859, in Ovid, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Times-Record of Valley City, N. D.
Dunlop, James
lawyer, jurist, was born March 28, 1793, in Georgetown, D. C.
In 1838 he was appointed judge of the United States circuit court, was made assistant judge in 1845, and chief justice in 1856, which position he occupied until 1863, when the court was abolished. He died May 6, 1872, in Georgetown, D. C.
Dunlop, James
lawyer, author, was born in 1795 in Pennsylvania. He was a Pittsburg lawyer, prominent as an opponent of slavery, and the author of Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853, and Digest of the General Laws of the United States.
He died April 9, 1856, in Baltimore, Md.
Dunn, Charles
jurist. He was an early emigrant to Wisconsin, residing at Elk Grove, and was appointed one of the judges of the United States for that territory.
Dunn, Elias Bound
meteorologist, was born March 23, 1855, in Brooklyn, N.
Y. In 1883 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, as chief weather observer; and in 1884 was made chief of the weather bureau under the United States department of agriculture in New York city.
Dunn, George G
lawyer, congressman, orator, was born in 1813. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1847 to 1849. He died in September, 1857.
Dunn, George H
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839.
Dunn, Jacob Piatt
state librarian, author. He is the state librarian of Indiana, and the author of History of Indiana; and Massacres of the Mountains, a History of Indian Wars in the Far West.
Dunn, James H
physician, surgeon, was born May 29, 1853, in Fort Wayne, Ind. After graduating in 1871 from the medical department of the university of New York city, he took a two years' post-graduate study at Heidelberg and Vienna. He has been professor of clinical surgery in the medical department of the university of Minnesota; surgeon to St. Mary's hospital of Minneapolis; to the city hospital; the Asbury Methodist hospital, and consulting surgeon to the Great Northern Railroad company. He is an ex-president of the Minnesota State Medical association; and has filled many positions of honor in various other medical bodies.
Dunn, John F
banker, state senator, was born in 1844 in South Carolina. In 1887 he was president of the Merchant's National bank of Ocala, Fla.; became president of the Heather Island Orange company, and has served in the Florida state senate.
Dunn, John V
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1838. He was elected alder. man of Elizabeth, N. J., in 1878, and was four times elected to the legislature of New Jersey; was speaker of the house in 1882; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Dunn, Lewis Romaine
clergyman, author, was born in 1822 in New Jersey.
He was a methodist divine of New Jersey, and the author of Lizzie Hagar, the Orphan Girl; The Mission of the Spirit; Angels of God; and Sermons on the Higher Life. He died in 1876.
Dunn, Poindexter
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1834, in Wake county, N. C. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1858; served in the confederate army, and commenced the practice of law in 1867. He was a presidential elector in 1872 and 1876, and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Dunn, William Mckee
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1814, in Hanover, Ind. He was elected to the Indiana legislature in 1848, and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirtysixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He became assistant judge advocate in the army; was also a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866, and in 1875 was appointed judge advocate-general.
Dunne, Edmund Francis
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in 1835 in Little Falls, N. Y. He removed to Nevada in 1863; was a delegate to the constitutional convention of that state, and was elected a district judge. In 1874 he was appointed chief justice of the United States court for Arizona.
Dunnell, Mark Hill
soldier, educator, state senator, congressman, was born July 2, 1823, in Buxton, Maine. In 1854 he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1855 to the state senate. During the years 1855-59 he was state superintendent of common schools, and in 1856 was a delegate to the national convention at Philadelphia. In 1861 he entered the union army as colonel of infantry. In 1862 he was United States consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico. In 1865 he went to Minnesota; was a member of the legislature of that state in 1867; was state superintendent of public instruction from 1867 to 1870; and was elected to the forty-second, forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Dunning, Albert Elijah
clergyman, journalist, author, was born in 1844 in Connecticut. He is a congregational clergyman of Boston, editor of the Congregationalist; and the author of The Sunday-School Library; Bible Studies; and Congregationalists in America.
Dunning, Mrs. Annie Ketchum
author, was born Nov. 2, 1831, in New York city. She is a prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, mainly for the presbyterian board of publication. Among them are Clementina's Mirror; A Story of Four Lives; Broken Pitchers; and Contradictions.
Dunning, Frances
author, poet, was born Oct. 13, 1841, in Kenosha, Wis.
She is the author of a volume of poems which was published in 1877. She is also a prose writer of Madison, Wis., and her contributions for the past ten years have made her name well known in the literary world.
Dunning, Homer N
clergyman, author, poet, was born July 17, 1827, in Brookfield, Conn. For thirteen years he was pastor of the First Congregational church of Gloversville, N. Y., and from 1866-83 was pastor of his church at South Norwalk, Conn. His poems have appeared in the secular and religious press, and in several standard works, such as Edwards' Fifth Reader, and Foster's Cyclopedia.
Dunning, Kate W
educator, poet, was born March 31, 1871, in Chicago, Ill.
In 1878 she moved with her parents to Nebraska, where she is now engaged in educational work at Anselmo. She is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Dunning, Paris C
governor. He was governor of Indiana in 1848 and 1849 to fill a vacancy.
DUNNINGTON, FRANCIS PERRY, educator, chemist, author, was born March 3, 1851, in Baltimore, Md. He is the author of numerous chemical investigations, accounts of which have appeared in the Chemical News, American Chemical Journal, the transactions of various societies and elsewhere.
Dunphy, Edward J
lawyer, congressman, was born May 12, 1856, in New York city. He was elected to the fiftyfirst, fifty-second and fifty-third gresses as a Tammany democrat. con-
Dunroy, W. Reed
journalist, poet, was born Oct. 1, 1869, in Galesburg, Ill.
He began his literary work as reporter on a daily newspaper, and has contributed numerous meritorious poems to current literature.