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234 promoted to captain on 14 May, 1861, major on 3 Aug., 1861, and lieutenant-colonel on 17 July, 1862. On 24 Sept., 1864, he was brevetted colonel, and on 13 March, 1865, brigadier-general for services during the war. He continued in the adjutant-general's department, was stationed in 1866-'8 at Phila- delphia, in 1868-9 at Atlanta, the headquarters of the Department of the South, receiving promotion as colonel on 22 Feb., 1869, and on 15 June, 1880, succeeded Gen. Townsend, on the latter's retire- ment, as adjutant-general of the army, with the rank of brigadier-general. — His elder brother, Simon Henry, soldier, b. in Greensburg, West- moreland CO., Pa., in June, 1807; killed in action at the storming of the city of Mexico, 13 Sept., 1847, was graduated at the tJ. S. military academy in 1830. He was assistant instructor of infantry tactics there in 1830-'2, was engaged in the Florida war and the Canada border disturbances, and as captain of artillery in the occupation of Texas in 1846. served through the Mexican war, distin- guished himself at Contreras, where he recaptured two field-pieces taken from his regiment at Buena Vista, and fell at the assault on the city of Mexico after he had entered the Belen gate while directing the fire of a gun he had captured.

DRUMGOOLE, John C., clergyman, b, in County Longford. Ireland, in 1828; d. in New Yoi-k city, 28 March, 1888. He studied in the United States, and, after being ordained priest, offered himself to Archbishop McCloskey to estab- lish a mission for homeless and houseless chil- dren. His first effort was to take charge of "St. Vincent's lodging-liouse " in Warren street, which was transferred to his care l)y the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in 1871. He changed the title to that of " St. Vincent's home for the protec- tion of homeless and destitute boys." Here he opened evening-schools, and lodged homeless boys at a nominal price, with a free dinner on Sun- days to encourage them to come for religious in- struction. The extraordinary efforts the boys made to throw off bad habits encouraged him to greater enterprises. As there was not room enough in the building in Warren street for the children who applied for admission. Father Drumgoole was forced to build a larger house. To obtain funds he established the Mission of the immaculate virgin and St. Joseph's union, and made arrangements for publishing an illustrated annual, entitled " The Homeless Child and Messenger of St. Joseph's Union." The fund accumulated from the sub- scriptions to this paper enabled Father Drum- goole to purchase the property on the corner of Lafayette place and Great Jones street, and to erect there, at a cost of over $400,000, the first house of the " Mission of the immaculate virgin," in which more than 500 boys are boarded and edu- cated. Shortly afterward he purchased a farm of over 600 acres on Staten Island, gave it the name of Mount Loretto farm, and erected on it large buildings in which nearly 700 children are com- fortably housed. The expense of carrying on these establishments has come almost entirely from the subscriptions to Father Drumgoole's paper. From 1871 he provided for 15,730 children. But the benefits of his mission have not been confined to children. During the same period 6,264 destitute adults have been clothed, thousands of outside poor have been fed every year, and the number who receive their breakfasts gratuitously every day exceeds 200.

DRUMMOND, Sir Gordon, British soldier, b. in Quol)ec in 1771 ; d. in London, P]ngland, 10 Oct., 1854. His father, a member of a Perthshire (Scotland) family of distinction, was paymaster- general of the forces at Quebec. The son entered the array, as ensign in the 1st royals, in 1789. In 1794 he had attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, with the command of the 8th or king's regiments He served in the campaign in Holland in 1794-'5, and especially distinguished himself at the siege of Nimeguen in 1795; was at Minorca in 1800, and took part in all the battles in Egypt until the sur- render of Cairo and Alexandria. He afterward served as a staff-officer at Jamaica for a few years, and in Canada in 1808-'ll, being promoted lieu- tenant-general in the latter year. In August, 1813, he went to Canada again as second in com- mand to Sir George Prevost. In December he stormed Fort Niagara, captured a large amount of naval and military stores, and planned the attack on Black Rock and Buffalo, which was successfully executed, 31 Dec, 1813, by a small force under Sir P. Riall. In May, 1814, the military force under Lieut.-Gen. Drummond, and the fleet under Sir James Yeo, attacked and took Oswego, and de- stroyed a sixty-four-gun ship which had just been completed, together with barracks, works, and stores. He commanded at the obstinately con- tested battle of Lundy's Lane, 25 July, 1814, and next invested Fort Erie, assaulting the outer works so vigorously that an entrance was effected by Col. William Drumraond. But at the momeni; when the assailants were confident of victory a large quantity of ammunition which had been placed under the platform ignited from the firing of the guns in the rear, the result being that the greater part of the British forces which had en- tered the fort was blown into the air. This dis- aster compelled Gen. Drummond to relinquish the project of capturing Fort Erie. Soon afterward he succeeded Gen. Prevost in command of the forces in Canada, and as administrator of the gov- ernment, and was eminently successful. He re- turned to Great Britain in June, 1816, and in 1817 received the grand cross of the Bath.

DRUMMOND, Thomas, jurist, b. in Bristol Mills, Me., 16 Oct., 1809: d. in Wheaton, 111., 15 May, 1800. He was graduated at Bowdoin. studied law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar where. He removed to Galena, 111., in 1835. and in 1840-'l was a member of the Illinois legislature. He was appointed U. S. judge for the district of Illinois in February, 1850, and in 1854 removed to Chicago. In 1855 the state was divided into two judicial districts, and he became judge of the northern one. In December, 1869, he was made judge of the U. S. circuit court for the 7th dis- trict, including the states of Illinois. Indiana, and Wisconsin, but resigned in July, 1884. and after- ward lived' in retirement at Wheaton, 111.

DRUMMOND, William, colonial governor, b. in Scotland; d. in Virginia, 20 Jan., 1677. In 1663, when a charter to the territory extending from the 36th degree of latitude to the St. John's river in Florida was granted by Charles II. to the Duke of Albemarle, Lord Clarendon, Lord Ashley Cooper, Lord Berkeley, and his brother. Sir William, the settlement on the Chowan, near Edenton, N. C., established ten years before by Roger Green, was organized as the Albemarle County Colony, with Drummond for governor. He received his appointment from Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia and joint proprietary of Carolina, who, according to instructions from his associates, instituted a simple form of government and an easy tenure of lands. In order to encourage settlement, dissenters were tolerated in the new colony. Drummond himself being a Presbyterian. He