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DALES, John Blakely. clergyman, b. in Kort- right, Dfliiware co., N. V., 6 Aug., 1815; d. in Chautauqim, 28 Aug.. 1893. lie was graduated at Union college in 1835, and at the Associate re- formed Pre.sbjrtcrian theological seminary. New- burg, N. Y., in 1839. and entered the ministrvof that chnrch. After 1840 he was pastor of the first As- sociate Reformed (now Second Cnited) Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Franklin college gave him the degree of D. D., in 1853. Dr. Dales was an editor of the "Christian Instructor" in 184tt-'79, professor of church history and pastoral theology in Newburg seminary in 1867-'76, and has held various offices in his denomination. He was the antfaor of " Roman Catholicism " (Philadelphia, 1842); "Introduction to Lectures on Odd Fellow- ship" (1851); "The Dangers and Duties of Young Men " (1857) ; " History of the Associate Reformed Church " in " The Church Memorial " (Xenia, 1859); and a "Church Manual" (1884).

DALLT, Abram, soldier, b. in New York city, 12 Aug., 1795 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 Feb., 1893. He enlisted in the 11th New York heavy artillery in 1812, and during the war with Great Britain wa.s on duty at Fort Gansevoort and at the Block- house, in what is now Central park. On the for- mation in 1850 of an association of veterans of the war of 1812 he became a member, and rose in it to the rank of brigadier-general. He was the last survivor of the war in the vicinity of New York, and was for many vears a familiar flgnre when on national holidays he hoiste<l the flag at the old Blockhouse in Central park and at the Battery.

DAME, Harriet Palienoe, nurse, h. in Barn- stead, N. II., 5 .Jan, 1815. Her parents moved to Bamstead about 1797, and in 1843 Miss Dame went to Concord, where she resided until the civil war. She joined the 2d New Hampshire regiment as hospital matron in June, 1861, and remaine<l with it until it was mustered out in December, 1865. Miss Dame was inside the trenches at Fair Oaks, where she pa-xsed a dark night alone in the thick woods, the only woman in the brigade, car- ing for the wounded of other regiments as well as her own. She was on duty as nurse near the old stone church at Centrcville while her regiment jjarticipated in the soc-ond battle of Bull Run. There she wa.s taken prisoner, but was soon relea.«e<l. Miss Dame wan appointed matron of the 181h army- corps hospital in SeptemlK-r, 1864. and hwl siitier- vision of the nurx's on duty. Of her services. Gen. Oilman Marstxin, who was long colonel of the 2d regiment, said : '" Wherever the regiment went she went, often going on foot, and sometimes camping on the field without tent. . . . She was truly an angel of mercy, the bravest woman I ever knew. I have seen her face a battery without flinching." In Augiist, 1867, she was ap|)ointeake Winnipiseogee. N. H. On the death of Dorothy L. Dix. iliss Dame succeeiled to the presidency of the e.x-iiriny nurses' association.

DANA, Alexander Hamilton, author, b. in Owego, N. Y.. 4 .luly. 1807; .1. in Montclair. N. J., 27 April, 1887. His father, Kleazar, was presiding ju<lge of the Owego district. The son was gradu- ated at Union college, studied law in New York, and afterward was the he«<l of the firm of Dana, Woodruff & Ijeonard till 1854. Subsequently he practised either by himself or with his son, Fran- cis E. Dana. Mr. Dana was the author of the legal articles in the "New AmcricanCyclopajdia" and works on "Knigmas of Life. Death, and the Future State " (1860) ; " Ethical and Physiological Inquiries" (New York, 182) ; and " Inductive In- quiries in Physiology. Ethics, and Ethnology" (1873).— His son, Malcolm McUregor, clergyman. h. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 June. 1838: d. there, 26 July, 1897, was graduated at Amherst in 18.59 and at t'nion theological seminary. New York, in 1862, and held Congregational pastorates in Norwich, Conn., in 18«4-'78, and then in St. Paul, Minn., till 1888, when he accepted a call to Lowell, Mass. He was an organizer of the Minnesota board of chari- ties and correction,. served as chaplain of the legis- lature of that state in 1885, and was identified with the educational development of the northwest. Middlebury gave him the degree of D. D. in 1877. He was the author of " Memorial of Norwich in the Rebellion " (Norwich. Conn., 1874) and " The Story of Carleton College" (St. Paul. Minn., 1880).

DANA, Edmund Lovell, soldier, b. in Wilkes- barre. Ph., 29 Jan., 1817: d. there. 25 April, 1889. He was grwliiated at Yale in 1838, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In December, 1846, when the government called for troops to aid in the war with Mexico, he was captain of the Wy- oming artillerists, and, tendering the services of his company, participated in all the battles of that war. In 1862 he wius major-general of Pennsyl- vania militia, and was appointed by the governor commandant of a camp of organization. On 18 Oct., 1862, he was elected colonel of the 143d Peim- svlvania regiment, and was in all the battles of the Annv of the Potomac from this time until the close of the civil war. The command of his brigade devolvetl upon him at the Imttle of Gettysburg, in which he met and refielled the last charge of Ix)ng- street's corps, his brigade losing more than half its entire strength. At Chancellorsville his horse was shot under him, and he was wounded and taken prisoner. In June, 18(}4, he was one of 50 oflicers that were placed under Are of the National guns at Charleston in retaliation for the bombardment of that city. In August, 1865, he was brcvetted brigmlier-general of volunteers. He resumed his law practice, and in 1867 was elected additional law judge of the 11th district of Pennsylvania for ten years. He was president of the Wyoming histor- ical and genealogical swiely and a member of va- rious societies, (ien. Dana published " Address delivered before the Mathelian Society, Kingston, Pa." (1845); "Address before the Socioties of Muh- lenhnrg College" (1881); and "Incidents in the Life of Cnpt. Samuel H. Walker" (1882).

DANFORTH, Eduard, educator, b. in Hills- borough county, N. H., 4 Dec, 1828; d. in Elmira, N. Y., 3 June,' 1888. He was educated at home, began to teach in New York state when he was sixteen years old. and afterward went to Grand Rai>ids, Mich., where in five years he built up a system of schools that attracted wide attention by their improved methmls. Mr. Danforth was then successively superintendent of schools in Troy, N. Y., deputy state superintendent for two terms, and superintendent of schools in Elmira, where he remained till his death. He was an active mem- ber of the Slate teachers' association after 1856, serving eighteen years as an officer and contrib- uting papers to its proceedings. He imblished