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medical department of the armies congregated there. He served afterward as medical inspector and acting medical inspector-general. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel and medical inspector in 1863, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865, and promoted to the rank of colonel in 1876. He died April

26, 1884, in

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Morristown, N.J.

Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1832, in Aurora, N.Y. Hp is one of the leading divines of America. In 1846 he graduated from the Princeton theological seminary. After filling pastorBurlington in ates and Trenton, N.J. and at the Market street in New York City, he became the pastor of the ^'^' large Lafayette avenue pi'€sl>y terian church of

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1890

at

the

close

of a successful pastorate of thirty years; and then was actively engaged in a ministory-at-large. He is the author of seventeen books on religious subjects, several of which have been translated into foreign languages.

He has

contributed about four thousand arleading religious newspapers in this country and in Great Britain. In fifty-four years he has never lost a Sunday by sickness. His principal works are Stray Arrows; The Empty Crib; God's Light on Dark Clouds; Heart -Life; Pointed Papers; From Nile to ITorway; Christianity in the Home; Thought-Lives; Beulah-Land; How to be a Pastor; Wayside Springs; Newly Enlisted; The Young Preacher; and a volume of sermons entitled Stirring the Eagle's Nest. ticles to

Dabney, Charles William, educator,

college,

president, author, was born June 19, 1855, in Hampden-Sydney, Va. In 1873 he gradu-

ated from the

Hamp-

den-Sydney college in 1877 graduated from the university of Virginia; studied in 1878SO in Berlin and Gottiiigen;

North Carolina. In 1887-1904 he was president of the university of Tennessee; and since 1904 has been president of the university of Cincinnati. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science; and in 1903-04 was president of the summer school of the south. He is the National author of Old College and New; Department of Science; A National University; Washington's Interests in Education; History of Agricultural Education and other works. Dabney, Charles William, diplomat, was born March 19, 1794, in Alexandria, Va. In 1826 he became United States consul to FayaL In the famines that visited the island from time to time during his residence, some of which were very severe, he furnished the inhabitants with food, assisted them to replant their fields, advised and suggested the culture of new and more varied crops. He died March 13, 1871, in the Azores.

and has

ceived the

re-

degrees of

Ph.D. and LL.D. He was professor of chemistry in the university of North Carolina; became state chemist of North Carolina; and later was director of the North Carolina agricultural experiment station at Raleigh. In 1884-85 he was chief of the department of government and states exhibits at the cotton centennial exposition in New Orleans, La. He was the first to discover the phosphate deposits in Eastern North Carolina; and the first to discover tin ore in Western

Dabney, Julia Parker, artist, author, was born Sept. 2, 1850, in the Azores. She is an eminent artist of Brookline, Mass. She is the author of Little Daughter of the Sun; Poor Chola; and Songs of Destiny. Dabney, Richard, educator, poet, was born in 1787 in Louisa county, Va. He was the author of Poems, Original and Translated,

which contain scholarly translations from classic poets. He died in November, 1825, in Louisa county, Va. Dabney, Richard Heath, educator, historian, author, was born March 29, 1860, In Memphis, Tenn. He has studied at the university of Virginia, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg; and has received the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. In 1881-83 he taught in the New York latin school; and in 1886-89 was professor of history at the Indiana university. Since 1889 he was first adjunct, then associate professor of history at the university of Virginia; and since 1897 has been professor historical of and economical science at the university of Virginia. He is the author of The Causes of the French Revolution and John Randolph, a character sketch. Dabney, Robert Lewis, educator, clergyman, author, was bom March 5, 1820, in Louisa county, Va. In 1882-98 he was professor of moral philosophy in the university of Texas. He was the author of Life of T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of Gen. Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defense of Virginia and the South; The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century; Course of

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Systematic and Polemic Theology; and The Christian Sabbath; and Collected Discussions. He died in 1898 in Texas. Dabney, Virginius, soldier, author, was born Feb. 15, 1835, in Gloucester county, Va. He was a staff officer in the confederate service during the civil war. He was the author of

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Miff, a

Symphony

of Life;

and