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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. four years each in 1883-89 in the Minnesota state legislature and in the state senate. He then settled in Riverside, Cal. In 190305 he was a representative from California to the fifty-eighth congress as a republican. Daniels, Thurston, journalist, lieutenantgovernor, was born June 10, 1858, in Yamproprietor of the hill county. Ore. He is Voncouver Register, which he established in 1881. He has served as lieutenant governor of the state of Washington. Daniels, W. B., governor. He was governor of Idaho. He died April 31, 1894, in

Tacoma, Wash. Daniels, William Haven, clergyman, author,, was born May 18, 1836, in Franklin, Mass. He is a methodist clergyman; and prominent as an evangelist. He is the author of D. L. Moody and his Work; That Boy, Who Shall Have Him The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers; Moody, His Words, Work, and Workers; Illustrated History of Methodism in the United States; Graduated With Honor; Memorials of Gilbert Haven; and Short History of the

People called Methodists.

Winthrop More,

educator, auSept. 30, 1867, in Dayton, Ohio. Since 1893 he has been professor of political economy in Princeton university. He is the author of Elements of Public Finance. Danielson, Timothy, state senator, jurist, was born in 1733 in Brimfield, Mass. He served several years in the Massachusetts state legislature. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1779; and afterward of the state senate and executive council. He was chief justice of Hampshire county. He died Sept. 19, 1791, in Brimfield, Mass. Danks, Hart Pease, musician, composer, author, was bom on April 6, 1834, in New Haven. In 1856 his first song, The Old Lane, was published in Chicago, 111.; since which time he has issued several hundred. Two of them are Silver Threads among the Gold and Don't be Angry with Me, Darling. Dannat, William Turner, painter, artist, was bom July 9, 1853, in Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. He was educated at the Polytechnic institute of Hanover; at Stuttgart, Germany; and at the Royal academy of Munich. In 1883 he received a medal at the Paris salon; in 1889 became chevalier of Daniels,

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the legion of honor; and in 1897 became a commander of the legion of honor, the only American artist who has attained to this grade. In 190O he was an exhibitor at the Paris exposition; and has been president of the Paris society of American painters. He is represented in the Luxembourg museum by two pictures, the Woman in Red, and the Aragonese Smuggler; in the Metropolitan museum of New York by two Portraits; in the Chicago art institute by three pictures; and in the Philadelphia art club by a picture of Spanish Women and Smuggler. He makes his home in Paris. Prance.

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Dannelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Otis, artist, poet, 13, 1838, in Montioello, Ga. In 1855 she graduated from the Madison Female college, and subsequently spent a year in New York City receiving instruction in oil painting. She was the widow of F. 0. Dannelly, at one time a surgeon in the United States army. She was the author of Cactus, or Thorns and Blossom; and Wayside Flowers. She died in 1896 in Texas. Dannemiller, Augustus F., soldier. He is second lieutenant United States army. Danner, Joel B., congressman. In 1849-51 he was a representative from Pensylvania to the thirty-first congress. He died in Penn-

was born June

sylvania.

Dannreuther, Edward, musician, composer, author, was born Nov. 4, 1844, in Strassburg. He was an active promoter of the Wagner festival in 1877. He is the author

Wagner, His Tendencies and and Musical Ornamentation. Dannreuther, Gustav, musician, composer, was born July 21, 1§53, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a thorough education in the musical schools and seminaries of America and Europe. In 1882of

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parts of the United States. He is the author of a set of Chord and Scale Studies for

and has written numerous compositions that have received favorable mention in the musical world. Dapper, Emil A., soldier, lawyer, was born Feb. 21, 1844, in New York City. In 1861 he enlisted in company B, fifty-ninth regi-

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and was honorably discharged in 1865 as captain of company B of the same regiment. As the private;

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regiment present for duty, he commanded the regiment at the time of Lee's surrender. Since 1871 he prac-

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Ponte, Lorenzo, dramatist, author, was

born March 10, 1749, in Venice, Italy. He was an Italian dramatist; and furnished libretti for Mozart's operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came to America in 1805; and after 1828 was professor of Italian in Columbia college. He published his