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In 1892-98 he was state senator. In 1899-1900 he was a representative to the fifty-sixth congress as a democrat. He died July 31, 1900, in Far Eockaway, N.Y. Dalzell, James, soldier. He was a companion of Israel Putnam in some of the most adventurous passages of that rough veteran's life; and afterward was an aidede-camp to General Jeffrey Amherst. He died July 30, 1763, near Detroit, Mich. Dalzell, John, lawyer, congressman, was bom April 19, 1845, in New York City. For years he was one of the attorneys for the Pennsylvania railroad company and for all its western lines. During the years 1887-1911 he was a representative to the fiftieth, fiftytrict court.

fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fiftyeighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sijcty-first

first,

fifty-fifth,

congresses as a republican. Dalzell, Robert M., inventor, was bom in 1793 near Belfast, Ireland. He was an ingenious millwright; and many of the flour mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the elevator system in handling and stowing .grain now in general use. He died Jan. 22, 1873, in Rochester, N.Y. Dame, Harriet Patience, nurse, was born Jan. 5, 1815, in Barnstead, N.H. She joined the second New Hampshire regiment as hospital matron in June, 1861, and remained with it until it was mustered out in December, 1865. In 1867 she was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury department; and was president of the army nurses' association. She died in 1900 in Concord, N.H. Damen, Arnold, clergyman, founder, was born about 1800 in Holland. In 1857 he erected a Jesuit establishment in Chicago, 111.; built the great church of the Holy trinity; and founded the college of St. Ignatius in the same city. He died in Chicago, 111. Damon, David, clergyman, founder, was bom Sept. 12, 1788, in East Sudbury, Mass. He was one of the founders of the Harvard lyceum at Cambridge in 1810-11. He occupied various parishes in New England until 1835; when he settled in East Cambridge, Mass. He died in 1843 in Reading, Mass. Damon, Howard Franklin, physician, author, was born in 1833 in Scituate, Mass. He was a hospital physician of Boston; and the author of Leucocythsemia; Neurosis of .the Skin; and General Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. He died Sept. 17, 1884, in Boston, Mass. Damon, William Emerson, naturalist, author, was born Nov. 15, 1838, in Windsor, Vt. He is superintendent of the credit department of Tiffany and company of New York City. He is well known as a naturalist. He is the author of Ocean Wonders. Damrell, WiUiam S., congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1809, in Portsmouth, N.H. In 1855-59 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-fourth and thirty-

fifth congresses.

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Damrosch, Frank Heino, musician, comwas born June 22, 1859, in Breslau, Germany. In 1897 he was appointed supervisor of music in the New York City pubUo schools. He is the author of Popular Method poser,

of Sight Singing. Dam.rosch, Leopold, musician, was bom Oct. 22, 1832, in Prussia. He was a violinist and director of a successful orchestra in New York City; and prominent in the musical affairs of America. He died Feb. 15, 1885, in New York City. Damrosch, Walter Johannes, musician, composer, was born Jan. 30, 1862, iu Prussia. He has devoted himself successfully to the production of the works of Wagner; and is in much demand as a lecturer on musical

themes. Dana, Alexander Hamilton, lawyer, author, was born July 4, 1807, in Owego, N.Y. He was a lawyer of New York state. He was the author of Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; and Enigmas of Life, Death and the Future State. He died April 27, 1887, in Montclair, N.J. Dana, Amasa, congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly in 182829; and in 1839-45 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth congresses. He died in New York. Dana, Charles Anderson, journalist, author, was born Aug. 8, 1819, in Hinsdale, N.H. assistant secretary of war in 186365; and from 1868 until his death was editor of the New York Sun. With J. G. Wilson he prepared a Life of General Grant; and was co-editor with George Ripley of the American Cyclopaedia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. He died Oct. 17, 1897, in Glen Cove, L.I. Dana, Charles Edmund, educator, author, was bom Jan. 18, 1843, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Since 1893 he has been professor of art at the university of Pennsylvania. He is president of the Philadelphia water color club; president of the fellowship of the academy of fine arts and vice-president of the Fairmount park art association of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Glimpses of English History. Dana, Charles Henshaw, musician, composer, was born Feb. 7, 1846, in West Newton, Mass. He was organist at St. Paul's, Worcester, and church of the Immaculate

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Conception in Boston, Mass. He composed music of church choirs and some songs. He died Feb. 5, 1883, in Worcester, Mass. Dana, Charles Loomis, physician, scientist, was born March 25, 1852, in Woodstock, Vt. He has been professor of nervous diseases in the Dartmouth medical college; and has been physician to Bellevue hospital. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the