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Rh company in November, 1875, and has remained in that capacity since that time. His work has been important and has consisted of chemical researches into the quality of the materials used by the corporation. His investigation on the composition of steel rails is one of the best contributions to the literature of the subject. Dr. Dudley is a member of scientific societies, and has twice been vice- president of the American institute of mining- engineers, in whose transactions he has published papers of technical value.

DUDLEY, Charles Edward, senator, b. in Johnson Hall, Staffordshire, England, 33 Mav, 1780 : d. in Albany, N. Y., 23 Jan., 1841. In 1794 he came with his mother to Newport, R. L, where his father, Charles Dudley, who had died in London in 1790, had been the king's collector of customs. The son first became a clerk in a counting-room, but soon entered into trade, and went to the East Indies as supercargo. Subsequently he removed to New York, and then to Albany, where he became a prominent merchant. He was a member of the state senate from 1820 till 1825, and mayor of Albany from 1821 till 1828. He was elected to the U. S. senate as a democrat in 1829 to fill the va- cancy caused by the resignation of Martin Van Buren, and served till 1833. He was particularly fond of astronomical science. — His wife, Blandiiia, b. in New York in 1783 ; d. in Albany in Jainiary, 1863, was the daughter of Rutgers Bleecker. In her later years she was lavish in the expenditure of her wealth, and contributed largely to scientific as well as benevolent and religious objects. In 1856 she gave $75,000 toward the endowment and erec- tion of Dudley observatory in Albany, in memory of her husband. At the time of lier death she had given more than $100,000 toward its completion.

DUDLEY, Dean, antiquarian, b. in Kingsfield, Me., 23 May, 1833. He is descended from Thomas Dudley, one of the first colonial governors of Mas- sachusetts. He studied at Watervalle liberal insti- tute, Me., Greenleaf school in Bradford, Mass., and at Atkinson academy. New Haven, Conn., but was mostly self-tauglit. He then studied law, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1854, and practised for several years in Boston. During this time he procured the enactment of several important state laws. He afterward abandoned the law, on account of failing health, and devoted his attention to the publication of city, town, and county directories, of which he has compiled one hundre<l. In 1849 he visited England, and spent a year in making antiquarian and genealogical researches. During this time he wrote for the Boston newspapers letters afterward published with the title *' Pictures of Life in England and America " (Boston, 1851). His other publications are " The Dudley Genealo- gies " (Cambridge, 1848) ; " Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent " (1862) ; " History of the First Council of Nice " (Boston, 1860) ; " Officers of our Union Army and Navy " (Boston, 1862) ; and " History of the Dudley Family " (Wakefield, Mass., 1886). He compiled a " History and Genealogy of the Swift Family," which has not been printed. From 1863 till 1874 he compiled the census of school-children in Bos- ton, and has made large collections of historical and genealogical subjects in England and America, which are still in manuscript.

DUDLEY, Edward Bishop, governor of North Carolina, b. in Onslow county, N. C, 15 Dec, 1787 ; d. in Wilmington, N. C, 30 Oct., 1855. He was the son of a wealthy planter, who represented Onslow county in the state senate for several years Mr. Dudley grew up on his father's estate and succeeded to its ownership. From 1811 till 1813 he was a member of the North Carolina house of commons, and in 1614 of the state senate. From 1816 till 1817, and again in 1834, he represented Wilmington in the legislature. He was chosen a member of the 31st congress as a Jackson Demo- crat, serving from 7 Dec, 1839, till 3 March, 1831, but declined are-election. In 1836 he was the first governor of the state elected by the people under the amended constitution of 1835, the governors having previously been chosen by the legislature. He was also the first pi'esident of the Wilmington and Raleigh (now Wilmington and Delaware) rail- way. He was one of the most public-spirited and benevolent citizens of his state.

DUDLEY, Thomas, colonial governor of Massachusetts, b. in Northampton, England, in 1576 ; d. in Roxbury, Mass., 31 July, 1653. He was an officer in the service of Holland before joining the Puritans, and afterward retrieved the fortunes of the Earl of Lincoln by the faithful stewardship of his estates. In 1630 he came to Massachusetts with the commission of deputy governor, which office he held from 1634 till 1640,"and again from 1645 till 1650. After residing in Cambridge, Ipswich, and Boston, he finally settled in Roxbury, where his estate was long possessed by his descendants. In 1644 he was apiJointed major-general. He was a man of talent and integrity, was bold and energetic, but intolerant and narrow in his religious views, and was even more unforbearing and arrogant than Winthrop, with whom he was closely associated.— His son, Joseph, colonial governor of Massachusetts, b. in Roxbury, Mass., 23 Sept., 1647; d. there, 2 April, 1730, was graduated at Harvard in 1665 and studied theology, but, preferring a political career, became a representative in the general court and a magistrate in his native town in 1673. From 1677 till 1681 he was one of the commissioners for the united colonies of New England. He was in the battle with the Narragansetts in 1675, and was one of the commissioners that negotiated the treaty with that tribe. In 1682 he went to England as agent for the colony, and, being unable to obtain a confirmation of the old charter, served himself, and became a candidate for the chief magistracy. He was appointed president of New England by James II. in 1685, and made chief justice of the supreme court in 1687. He was arrested as one of the friends of Andros, with whom he was sent to England, where he was received with favor. He was chief justice of New York from 1690 till 1693, and in the latter year again visited Eng- land, became deputy governor of the Isle of Wight, and was elected to parliament from Newtown in 1701. In the following year he returned to this country, and was made captain-general and governor of Massachusetts, serving until 1715. In that year he retired to his rural home in Roxbury, Mass., where he remained till his death. He carried the doctrine of submis-