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Rh the first territorial legislature of Wisconsin, hold in Burlington (Iowa, and Minnesota being then parts of the territory). In 1847 he was again a member of the territorial legislature, and in 1848 was elected to the first state legislature of Wisconsin. He was elected as a Free-soiler to congress, serving from 6 Dec, 1849, till 3 March, 1858, and was the first distinctive anti-slaveiy man in congress from the northwest. In 1855 he was chosen as a Republican to be U. S. senator from Wisconsin, succeeding Isaac P. Walker. He was a member of the peace con- gress in 18G1, and was appointed governor of Utah in 1805, holding that office until failing health compelled him to resign.

DURKEE, John, soldier, b. in Windham, Conn., in 1728 ; d. in Norwich, 29 May, 1782. He served in the French and Indian war, becoming a major of militia, and, from the place of his residence, was known as the "bold bean-hiller." In 1766, at the time of the passage of the stamp-act, the county of New London appointed him to cor- respond with the Sons of Liberty in the adjoining provinces. He was among those who settled in Wyoming valley under the name of the Susque- hanna company in 1769, and was the leader of the Connecticut forces, commanding the fort that bore his name. Subsequently he was captured by the force sent out by Gov. John Penn, and taken to Philadelphia, where for a time he was closely con- fined. In 1770 he was released, and again took command, but afterward returned to Connecticut. At the beginning of the Revolutionary war he raised "one hundred choice men," who were annexed to Putnam's brigade, of which he was major. He distinguished himself at Bunker Hill, and commanded a regiment in the battles of Long Island, Germantown, Harlem, White Plains, Tren- ton, and Monmouth, and was in Gen. John Sulli- van's expedition against the Six Nations in 1779. A year later he resigned from the army.

DUROCHER, Laurent, lawyer, b. in the Mission of St. Genevieve, Mo., in 1786 ; d. in Monroe, Mich., 21 Sept., 1861. His father was a French-Canadian. ' Laurent was educated in Montreal, and settled at Prenchtown, on the river Raisin, in 1805. At the beginning of the war of 1812 he joined Gen. Hull's army, and rendered important services to the gov- ernment after his surrender. He was clerk of ' Monroe county from its organization in 1818 till about 1838, for six years was in the territorial council, and in 1835 a member of the convention that framed the first constitution of Michigan. He also served in the state legislature, and was justice of the peace and probate judge at Monroe. He was the great legal authority among the French population on the river Raisin.

DURRETT, Reuben Thomas, lawyer, b. in Henry county, Ky., 24 Jan., 1824. After studying at Georgetown college, Ky., he was graduated at Brown in 1849, and at the law department of the University of Louisville in 1850, and practised his profession in Louisville until 1880. From 1857 till 1859 he was editor and half owner of the Louis- ville " Courier." He was the founder of the public library of Kentucky, of the Louisville Abstract and loan association, and of the Filson club of Louis- ville, and has collected one of the most complete and valuable private libraries in the southwest. He is president of the associations that he has formed, and a member of various historical societies, and has travelled extensively. He is the author of " The Life and Writings of John Filson, the First Historian of Kentucky " (pi;blished by the Filson club, 1884), and has assisted in the preparation of many historical works, and contributed to various periodicals. A series of articles on the " Kentucky Resolutions of 1798-'9 " appeared in the " Southern Bivouac " in 1886. Many of his arguments and ad- dresses, both legal and literary, have been published.

DURRIE, Daniel Steele, antiquarian, b. in Albany, N. Y., 2 Jan., 1819; d. in Madison, Wis., 31 Aug., 1892. He was educated in South tJadley, Mass., and became a bookseller at Albany in 1843, removed to the west in 1850, resumed that business at Madison, Wis., in 1852, and followed it till 1857. In 1858 he became librarian of the State historical society of Wisconsin. He has been superintendent of public schools at Roxbury, and secretary of the Madison board of education. Among his publica- tions are genealogical histories of the Steele and Holt families (Albany, 1862 and 1864) ; " Biblio- graphica Genealogica Americana, or Index to American Pedigrees " (3d ed., 1886) ; " History of Madison, Wis., and the Four-Lake Country " (Madi- son, 1874); with W. B. Davis, "History of Mis- souri " (St. Louis, 1875) ; and " Wisconsin Bio- graphical Dictionary."

DURTHALER, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Ste. Marie-au-Migne, Alsace, in 1819 ; d. in New York in 1885. He was educated at the Lyceum of Stras- bourg, and took his degree at the University of France, tie studied theology in the Seminary of Strasbourg, and became a Jesuit in 1844. He was then employed in teaching, and was noted for the number of artistic and literary celebrities that had been his pupils. During the Revolution of 1848 he came to the United States, at his own request was sent on the Indian mission, and in 1850 arrived at Walpole island. Here he was stricken with typhoid fever, and on his recovery was sent to teach in St. Mary's college, Monti'eal. He was next trans- ferred to St. Francis Xavier's college, New York, of which he may be considered the founder. He built the new college, made it legally a collegiate institu- tion, extended the course of science, strengthened its classical curriculum, and began its fine minera- logical, botanical, and conchological collections. In 1863 he resigned the presidency of St. Francis Xavier's and went to Buffalo, where he built a large church for the Germans, and founded the classical school that was afterward developed into Canisius's college. In 1871 he returned to St. Francis Xavier's college, but after a short stay went to Hoboken, where he organized a German parish. In 1875 he was named rector of St. Joseph's church, New York, and during the succeeding ten years built a church and school-houses, and founded a convent and school of the Sisters of Notre Dame.

DURYÉE, Abram, soldier, b. in New York city, 29 April, 1815 ; d. there, 27 Sept., 1890, His grandfather served in the Revolutionary war, being at one time a prisoner in the old sugarhouse on Liberty street. His father and two of his uncles served as officers in the war of 1812. Young Duryee was graduated at the Crosby street high-school, and trained to mercantile life, accumulating a fortune as a mahogany merchant in New York. He entered the New York state militia in 1833, and served in the 142d regiment. Five years later he joined the 27th regiment (now the 7th) as a private, and rose gradually until lift became its colonel in 1849, holding that office for fourteen years. During the Astor place riots he commanded his regiment and was twice wounded, and he also participated in the subsequent police, city hall, sixth ward, and " dead-rabbit " riots with the 7th. In April, 1861, he raised in less than a week the 5th New York volunteers, a regiment best known as "Duryee's zouaves." His command was engaged at Big Bethel, the first battle of the