Dustin, William G – Dwight, Henry Otis
Dustin, William G
journalist, was born June 7, 1850, in Corinth, Vt. He is the editor and owner of the Star and Herald of Dwight, Ill.; is prominent in republican politics; and was a delegate to the state conventions of 1892 and 1896.
In 1896 he was elected commander of the Illinois division Sons of Veterans; and has filled numerous positions of honor in his county and state.
Dutcher, Addison Porter
physician, author, was born Oct. 11, 1818, in Durham, N. Y. He was a physician of Cleveland; and the author of Selections from My Portfolio, essays on Popular and Scientific Subjects; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Sparks from the Forge of a Rough Thinker; and Two Voyages to Europe.
He died Jan. 30, 1884, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dutcher, Jacob C
clergyman, author, was born about 1820. He is a Dutch reformed clergyman of New York; and the author of Requisites of National Greatness; The Prodigal Son; Our Fallen Heroes; The Old Home by the River; and Frank Lyttleton, or Winning His Way.
Dutcher, John Bowdish
capitalist, legislator, was born Feb. 13, 1830, in Dover, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1861 and 1862; and of the state senate in 1864 and 1865. He is president of the Union Stock Yard and Market Co. of New York; president of the National bank of Pawling; and president of the village of Pawling and the New York State Agricultural society.
Dutcher, Silas B
banker, was born July 12, 1829, in Springfield, Ohio. In 1884 he was elected president of the Union Dime Savings institution of New York; and in 1891 became president of the Hamilton's Trust company of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dutton, Clarence Edward
soldier, surveyor, author, was born May 15, 1841, in Wallingford, Conn. He is an officer in the United States army associated with the geological survey. He is the author of Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah; Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District; Hawaiian Volcanoes; Mount Taylor and the Zuni Plateau; and The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.
Dutton, Everell Fletcher
soldier, banker, was born Jan. 4, 1838, in Charlestown, N. H. During the civil war he served as first lieutenant and captain of the thirteenth Illinois volunteers; was major and colonel in the one hundred and fifth Illinois infantry; and brevet brigadier-general United States volunteers. He is president of the National bank of Sycamore, Ill.
Dutton, George Washington
soldier, physician, author, was born Dec. 18, 1826, in Sheldon, Vt. He enlisted in 1846 in an Ohio regiment of volunteers, and served during the Mexican war in the commissary and medical departments.
Among his contributions to medical literature is a paper on Treatment of Fracture of the Femur, printed in the Transactions of the California Medical society for 1874.
Dutton, Henry
educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, author, was born Feb. 12, 1796, in Plymouth, Conn.
He was attorney for the state, professor of law in Yale college; and served five years in the legislature and one year in the state senate. He was elected governor of Connecticut in 1854; from 1861 to 1866 was judge of the superior court, and of the supreme court of errors. He died April 12, 1869, in New Haven, Conn.
Dutton, Henry Worthington
journalist, was born April 17, 1796, in Lebanon, Conn. For twenty-five years the firm of Dutton and Wentworth in Boston, Mass., had been state printers, the contract terminating in 1852. He died April 15, 1875, in Boston, Mass.
Dutton, Samuel William South- Mayd
clergyman, author, was born March 14, 1814, in Guilford, Conn. In 1843 upon the establishment of the New Englander, he became one of the associate editors. He published various addresses, and a History of the North Church during the Last Century. He died Jan. 26, 1866, in Milbury, Mass.
Duval, Gabriel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1752, in Prince George county, Md. He served as a clerk to the first legislature of Maryland, before the declaration of independence; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1794 to 1796. He was a presidential elector in 1796 and 1800; comptroller of the United States treasury in 1802; and in 1811 was appointed a judge of the supreme court of the United States, which office he held for twenty-five years.
He died March 6, 1844, in Prince George county, Md.
Duval, Henry Reman
railroad president, was born Oct. 17, 1842, in Baltimore, Md. He was receiver of the Florida Railway Navigation Co. from 1885 to 1889 when the property of that company passed to the Florida Central and Peninsular R.
R. Co., of which he became president.
Duval, Isaac H
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1824, in Wellsburg, Va. He entered the volunteer army from Virginia in 1861 as a major; and was brevetted a major-general. He subsequently served two years in the state senate of West Virginia; also two years as adjutant-general of the state; and in 1868 was elected a representative from West Virginia to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Duval, John Pope
soldier, lawyer, author, was born June 3, 1790, in Richmond, Va. He served as a first lieutenant in the war of 1812; and was promoted to captain in 1814. He served with the rank of brigadier-general in the Texan service. He then returned to Florida as secretary of the territory; and subsequently published a Digest of the Laws of Florida. He died about 1855 in Florida.
Duval, Thomas H
jurist, was born in Virginia. He emigrated to Texas, and settled at Austin; and in 1857 was appointed United States judge for the western district of Texas.
Duval, William P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1784 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1815; and in 1822 was appointed governor of Florida. He served as a captain of mounted volunteers in 1812; and in 1848 removed to Texas. He died March 19, 1854, in Washington, D. C. a
Duvall, Alvin
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born March 20, 1813, in Georgetown, Ky. In 1850 he was elected a member of the Kentucky legislature; two years later was appointed circuit judge; and in 1854 was elected judge of the court of appeals. He died Nov. 17, 1891, in Frankfort, Ky.
Duveneck, Frank
artist, was born about 1845 in Covington, Ky. He sent five portraits to the Boston Art club in 1875; and has since attained high rank as a successful artist.
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus
author, was born Nov. 23, 1816, in New York city. He was a literary critic of New York city, who with his brother George, was the author of an Encyclopædia of American Literature, first issued in 1855. Other works by the elder Duyckinck are History of the War for the Union; and Biography of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America. He died in 1878.
Duyckinck, George Long
author, was born Oct. 17, 1823, in New York city.
He was a writer of New York city who, beside his share in The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of Lives of George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; and Bishop Latimer. He died in 1863.
Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge
educator, author, was born April 5, 1816, in New Haven, Conn. He was an educator of New York city; and the author of The Higher Christian Education; Mod- Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman's Higher Culture; The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the Dwight Family in America; and History of the Strong Family. He died in 1889. ern
Dwight, Benjamin Woolsey
physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1780, in Northampton, Mass. He was treasurer of Hamilton college in 1831-50. He published the first article ever published in this country on Chronic Debility of the Stomach. He died May 18, 1850, in Clinton, N. Y.
Dwight, Edmund
merchant, author, was born Sept. 3, 1824, in Boston, Mass. In 1871 he went abroad to superintend the distribution of the fund raised by subscription in Boston for the relief of the suffering caused in France by the war with Germany, and on his return he published an interesting Report to the Executive Committee of the French Relief Fund.
Dwight, Edwin Welles
clergyman, author, was born in 1789 in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Richmond, Mass., whose only publication was a History of Berkshire County. He died in 1841.
Dwight, Francis
lawyer, educator, journalist, was born March 14, 1808, in Springfield, Mass. In 1840 he established in Albany The District School Journal, under state patronage, which he conducted until his death. He was active in devising and establishing the present code of public instruction in the state of New York. He died Dec. 15, 1845, in Albany, N. Y.
Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis
missionary, author, was born in 1803 in Massachusetts. He was a congregational missionary to Armenia; and the author of Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia; Christianity Revived in the East; and Catalogue of Armenian Literature in the Middle Ages. He was killed in a railroad accident Jan. 25, 1862.
Dwight, Henry Edwin
educator, author, was born April 19, 1797, in New Haven, Conn. He was an educator of New Haven who published Travels in the North of Germany. He died Aug. 11, 1832, in New Haven, Conn.
Dwight, Henry Otis
soldier, author, was born in 1843 in Turkey. He was a federal officer during the civil war, who was a correspondent of the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. He is the author of Turkish Life in War Times.