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Rh DU BOSE, Dudley Mclver, lawyer, b. in Shelby county, Tenn., 28 Oct., 1834. He was edu- cated at the University of Mississippi, and studied and practised law. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the Confederate army and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. After the war he represented Georgia in congress, serving from 4 March, 1871, till 8 March, 1873.

'''DUBOST. Marie Louise,''' mother superior, b. in Paris, France, in 1793. She embraced the re- ligious life at the age of nineteen, and alter her novitiate as a Sister of Charity was sent to an asy- lum for foundlings at Versailles. Since that time she has worked in orphanages and hospitals in Brazil. She introduced the Sisters of Charity into Brazil in 1848, and has since made fifty voyages to France, her last being in 1866. She is visitor of the Sisters of Charity of Brazil.

DUBOURG, Louis Guillaume Valentin, B.C. bishop, b. in Cap Francois, Santo Domingo, in 17GG; d. in Besangon, France, 12 Dec., 1833. lie went to the seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, and was attending lectures at the Sorbonne when the Revolution l)egan, and he had to take shelter with his family at Bordeaux. Thence he escaped to Spain, and embarked for the United States in 1794. He entered the seminary of St. Sulpice, Baltimore, on his arrival, and was ordained a mem- ber of the order in the following year. He was ap- pointed president of Georgetown college m 1796, and spent the next three years in extending the interests of that institution. He was sent to Ha- vana in 1798 with the object of founding a Sulpi- tian college in Cuba. He was not successful in his immediate purpose, but many of the inhabitants intrusted him with the education of their children, and on his return to Baltimore he opened a college, which was soon crowded with students from the West Indies. In 1803, however, the Spanish gov- ernment sent a fi'igate to take back his pupils, be- ing alarmed at so many sons of Cuban planters being 'educated under republican influences. In 1806 he succeeded in having St. Mary's college, which he had founded, raised to the rank of a uni- versity by the Maryland legislature. Father Du- bourg had so much to do with the establishment of the Sisters of Cliarity in America that he is in a certain sense their founder. He persuaded Mrs. Seton to remain in the United States when she was about to join a religious order in Europe, in- vited her to Baltimore, assisted her in founding a home for her community, and was appointed ec- clesiastical superior of the Sisters by Archbishoja Carroll. When Mrs. Seton decided on removing to Emmettsburg, he purchased the land on which she built her convent. In 1812 he was appointed administrator apostolic of the diocese of New Or- leans. His efforts to animate the patriotism of the people of Louisiana on the advance of the British troops received the warm commendation of Gen. Jackson, and on the repuJse of the enemy he was intrusted with the task of reading an address wel- coming the victor to the city. In 1815 he went to Europe in order to lay the wants of his mission be- fore the pope, and on his arrival in Rome was con- secrated bishop. In France he persuaded several students and priests to volunteer for the American mission, and took a leading part in founding the Association for the propagation of the faith at Lyons. In 1817 a war-vessel was placed at his dis- posal by Louis XVIIL, and he embarked for America. He landed at Annapolis, and went to St. Louis, which he made his episcopal residence. He founded a college and an ecelesiast ical seminary at the Barrens, in Missouri, which were confided to the care of the Lazarist fathers, and sliortly afterward he opened a college in St. Louis. He next directed his attention to the Indians occupy- ing the southwestern territory, and created an establishment at Florissant, which supplied mis- sionaries for the Indians. He visited Washington in 1823, and procured the transfer of the Indian tribes in his diocese to the care of the Jesuits, ob- taining a sum of money from the government for this purpose. He founded several schools for the education of girls under the care of the Sisters of Loreto, and also introduced the ladies of the sacred heart from Paris, for whom he founded convents and schools in Florissant and in St. Louis. He also erected a new cathedral in St. Louis. In 1824 he took up his residence in New Orleans, but in 1826 went to Europe, and never returned, being transferred to the diocese of Montauban, in France. In 1833 he was elevated to the archbishopric of Besangon. Bishop Dubourg was the author of " The Sons of Saint Dominiek," and of a volume entitled " Saint Mary's Seminary and the Catholics at large Vindicated." besides other controversial writings.

DUBREUL, Joseph Paul, clergyman, b. in St.-Etienne, France, in 1814; d. in Baltimore, Md., in 1878. He was educated at Monistrol, Alix, and Lyons, entered the Society of St. Sulpice in 1836, and was ordained in 1841. He was the pio- neer of his order in the United States, and filled in succession the offices of master of novices, rector, consultor, and provincial.

DUBUC, Joseph, Canadian jurist, b. in St. Martine, Quebec, 26 Dec, 1840. lie was graduated as B. C. L. at McGill university in 1869, went to Red river in June, 1870, and was for a year a correspon- dent of " La Minerve " of Montreal. He was one of the two commissioners appointed to investigate the right to the hay privilege claimed by the set- tlers on Red and Assiniboine rivers. He has acted as counsel for the crown at criminal assizes since February, 1875, was president of the St. Jean Bap- tist society of Manitoba for 1875, and president of the Manitoba colonization society for 1877. He is a member of the council of Manitoba university, establislied in 1877. He was appointed superin- tendent of Roman Catholic schools, and secretary of the Roman Catholic section of the board of edu- cation for Manitoba in 1872, a member of the ex- ecutive council for the northwest territories in December, 1872, and a legal adviser of the said council in 1874. He was a member of the execu- tive council and attorney-general, in Mr. Girard's administration, from 8 July till 2 Dec, 1874, when the government resigned. He was elected speaker of the Manitoba legislature. 31 March, 1875, and represented Bale St. Paul from 1870 until 1874, when he was elected for St. Nobert, which seat he held until 1878, when he resigned, being elected by acclamation to the Dominion parliament. He was appointed a judge of the court of queen's bench, Manitoba, in Decembei', 1879.

DUBUIS, Claude Marie, R. C. bishop, b. in Veruaison, Prance in 1817; d. there, 21 May, 1895. He emigrated to Texas, and was stationed at Castroville in 1847. Here he lived in a wretched hut until, with the aid of a brother missionary, he was able to build a residence and a school-house with his own hands. In 1850 he was transferred to San Antonio, and had charge of the church of San Ferdinand. Here he established a convent and school of the Ursulines. In 1862 he was appointed bishop of Galveston. Bishop Dubuis was so successful in reorganizing his diocese after the civil war that in 1874 it contained 55 churches, 83 priests, and about 100,000 Catholics. He resigned his see in 1880,