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war he bought an interest in the Peoria house, one of the leading hotels of that city. He sunk an artesian well which furnishes the parks and public places of Peoria with flowing water.

Dean, Sidney, manufacturer, clergyman, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1818, in Glastonbury, Conn. He served the state legislature of Connecticut; and in 1855-59 he was a representative from Connecticut to

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the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died Oct. 29, 1901, in Warren R.I. Dean, Walter Lofthouse, painter, artist, was born in 1854 in Lowell, Mass. He received a thorough education in the public schools; and studied art in Paris. His principal paintings are The Dutch Pishing Fleet; Summer Day on the

Deane, Gardner Andrus Armstrong, solwas born June 21, 1840, in Franklin, Mass. He served through the civil war; and became lieutenant-colonel. In 1891 he accepted the position of land commissioner of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern and Little Rock and Fort Smith railroads at Frankfort, Kan. Deane, James, missionary, was born Aug. 20, 1748, in Groton, Conn. During the revolutionary war he was commissioned as a major; and served as an Indian agent and interpreter at Fort Stanwix. He was taken prisoner by the Indians, and would have been killed but for the pleadings of their women. At the close of the war the Oneidas granted him a tract of land two miles square, near Rome, Oneida county, which he afterward exchanged for a tract in Westmoreland, whither he removed in 1786. He was for a long time a judge in Oneida county,

Dutch Shore; and he exhibited at the great

World's Columbian exposition a large marine painting entitled Peace, which attracted favorable notice. He has exhibited at the principal expositions in America and Europe, and has received numerous medals from leading art expositions.

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Dean, William, missionary, author, was born June 21, 1807, in Eaton, N.Y. In 1833 he went to Siam to engage in missionary work with the Chinese living at Bangkok. He was the author of Revision of the Pentateuch; Commentary on Matthew; Commentary on Genesis; Commentary on Mark; Commentarj' on Exodus; and Stow's Daily Manna. He died Aug. 13, 1895, in San Diego,

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Deansville and held other ofKces of trust. in his honor. He wrote an essay on Indian mythology, which is lost. He died Sept. 10, 1823, in Westmoreland, N.Y. Deane, James, physician, naturalist, auth-

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was born Feb. 24, 1801, in Coleraine, Mass. In 1835 he made public his discovery of the fossil footprints in the red sandstone of the Connecticut valley; and at the time of his death was engaged in piiblishing an illustrated work upon the subject, the result of twenty-four years' investigation and laor,

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Deane, Charles, author, was born Nov. 10, 1813, in Biddeford, Maine. He was the author of Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation; and John Smith's True Relation of Virginia. He died Nov. 13, 1880, in Cambridge, Mass. Deane, Charles H., soldier, jurist, was bom Aug. 14, 1827, in Taunton, Msss. He was educated in the common schools of his na-

Mass. Deane, John Hall, soldier, lawyer, philanthropist, was bom in Canada. He has been

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and he continued the same until 1861. He entered the civil war as first lieutenant of the eighty-sixth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; and was mustered out in 1866 with the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel. He erected an observatory for the benefit of the public at Point Lookout, 111. After the

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1858, in Greenfield,

especially distinguished for his gifts to benevolent institutions under the icontrol of baptists. To Rochester university he has given one hundred thousand dollars, besides considerable sums to the Rochester theological seminary and to Vassar college. Deane, Samuel, clergyman, author, was born March 30, 1784, in Mansfield, Mass. In 1810-34 he was pastor of the second church at Scituate, Mass. He was the author of The Populous Village, a poem; History of Scituate. He died Aug. 9, 1834, in Scituate, Mass. Deane, Silas, congressman, diplomat, author, was born Dec. 24, 1737, in Groton, Conn. In 1774-76 he was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress, and with Franklin and Lee, negotiated a, treaty of peace and amity between France and the United States. He was the author of Letters to Robert Morgan; and Paris Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane's Late Intercepted Letters to His Brother and Other Friends. He died Aug. 23, 1789, in England. Deane, Walter, botanist, ornithologist, author, was born April 23, 1848, in Boston, Mass. Since 1897 he "has been assistant in