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Rh eral assembly of Alabama territory in 1817, of the state legislature in 1819-'20 and 1834-'8, and of that of Mississippi in 1886. In 1831 he was one of a commission to locate a public road from Tusca- loosa through Pensacola to Blakely and Port Clai- borne, and, on the completion of his duty, was made brigadier-general by the Alabama legislature and given a life-pension. In 1831 he was ap- pointed by the secretary of war, together with Col. George S. Gaines, to remove the Choctaw Indians to their new home on the Arkansas and lied rivers. See "Life and Times of Gen. Sam. Dale," from notes of his own conversations, bv John F. H. Claiborne (New York. 1860).

DALE, Sir Thomas, colonial governor of Vir- ginia ; d. near Bantam, East Indies, early in 1030. He had been a soldier of distinction in the Low Countries, and had been knighted by King James in June, 1606. The London company, before the retu-ement of Lord Delaware, had sent him to Vir- ginia with supplies, and on his arrival in the Chesa- peake he assumed the government. He found the colony, then consisting of about 200 men, in great despondency over the departure of Delaware, and gave them new cause for sorrow by his administra- tion of the government, which he carried on under a code (chiefly compiled from the rules of war of the United Provinces) sent to Virginia, without the company's authority, by its treasurer, Thomas Smythe. Notwithstanding this introduction of martial law, Dale has received praise for his vigor and industry. Seeing the feeble state of the colony, lie wrote at once to England for aid ; and in Au- gust, 1611, a new fleet reached Jamestown under Sir Thomas (urates, who relieved Dale in the govei'n- ment. The latter continued, however, to be active in colonial aft'airs, founding the new settlement of Henrico, and conquering the Appomattox Indians. On Gates's return to England in March, 1014, the government was again left with Dale, and he ad- ministered it till 1616. when he sailed for home in the same vessel with Pocohontas and Jolni Rolfe, who had been married during his term of otflce. Dale was in Holland in February, 1617, and in January, 1619, made commander of the East In- dian fleet, participating in an engagement with the Dutch near Bantam. The climate at his post proved fatal to him. Dale deserves special praise for the important changes that he introduced in the colonial land-laws, under which, as established by him, the cultivator was given a chance of be- coming proprietor of the soil, which was an impos- sibility under the old system.

DALE, William Johnson, physician, b. \n Gloucester, Mass., 5 Sept., 1815. His grandfather, William Johnson, fought at Bunker Hill ; his pa- ternal grandfather, Ebenezer, at Lexington ; and his father, Ebenezer, was a surgeon in the war of 1813. He was graduated at Harvard in 1837, at its medical school in 1840, and began pi'actice in Bos- ton. In June, 1861, he was commissioned surgeon- general of Massachusetts, holding the rank of colo- nel, and in December of that year was appointed acting assistant surgeon of the U. S. army, which place he retained till the close of the war. He was on duty in Boston, Mass., during the civil war, and had general supervision of all matters connected with the medical staff and the care and treatment of the sick and wounded that were sent home. In October, 1863, he was raised to the rank of briga- dier-general, in connection with his appointment as surgeon-general of Massachusetts. In recog- nition of his services, the U. S. authorities gave his name to a general hospital established at Worces- ter, Mass., opened in September, 1865. He is a member of the Massachusetts medical society, and was its anniversary chairman.

DALHOUSIE, George Ramsay, Earl of, Scottish general, b. in 1770; d. at Dalhousie castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 March, 1838. He entered the British army as a cornet in the guards, raised a company, and was made captain. He was wounded at Martinique, and served in Ireland, during the rebellion of 1798, in the expedition to the Helder, at Belleisle and Minorca, and under Sir Ralph Abercromby in Egypt, attaining the rank of major- general in 1805. He subsequently fought at the Scheldt and at Flushing, and through the Peninsu- lar war, distinguishing himself at the battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees. In 1815 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ramsay. In 1816 he was sent to Nova Scotia as commander-in-chief of the forces, and after the death of the Duke of Rich- mond, in 1819, was appointed governor-general of British North America. During his administra- tion efforts to efl'eet a union of the provinces were continued, provoking the intense hostility of the French population, and ceaseless disputes took place between the executive and the assembly re- specting the civil list and the crown lands. He left Canada in September, 1838, and served in India as commander-in-chief, but returned to Scotland with broken health in 1833.

DALL, Charles Henry Appleton (dal), clergy- man, b. in Baltimore, Md., 13 Feb., 1816; d. in Calcutta, British India, 18 July, 1886. He was educated in the Boston public and Latin schools, and was graduated at Harvard in 1837, and at Harvard divinity-school in 1840. In November, 1841, he was ordained an evangelist of the Unita- rian church in St. Louis, after which he was settled in Baltimore, Md., Portsmouth, N. H., Needham, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. Failing health, from excessive pastoral duties, with a preference for missionary work, induced him to take up that oc- cupation as his life labor. He became the first for- eign missionary of the Unitarian church in America, and in February, 1855, sailed for Calcutta. There he instituted the first girls' school for natives, the first school for homeless and friendless children, and the first children's temperance society. Mr. Dall was elected a member of the American oriental society and the Asiatic society of Bengal, and a foreign associate of the Hungarian Unitarian consistory. He was the author of many tracts, educational and moral, for circulation in British India, a small work on the Suez canal, many hymns and devotional poems, and notes'of travel contributed to periodicals in the United States and India. The number of pam- phlets written by Mr. Dall in India exceeded one hundred, and many of them were several times re- jirinted in response to a demand from the natives for whose instruction they were intended.— His wife, Caroline Healey, daughter of Mark Healey, b, in Boston, Mass., 22 June, 1822, was educated by private tutors and governesses, after which she became a teacher, and in 1840 was made vice- principal of the celebrated " Miss English's school for young ladies," in Georgetown. D. C. In September, 1844, she married Mr. Dall, and, although occupied thenceforth with duties incidental to the life of a clergyman's wife, she continued her studies and literary activity. Her early work was especially devoted to reform topics, principally the opening of new fields of labor to women. Mrs. Dall's later labors have been chiefly literary and critical. In 1877 she received the degree of LL. D. from Alfred university. She has published many books, among which are " Essays and Sketches " (Boston, 1849); "Historical Pictures Retouched,