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charge of the ornithological museum of William Brewster of Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of Flora of the Blue Hills.

Dearborn, Ned, ornithologist, author, was born Nov. 24, 1865, in Alton, N.H. Since 1901 he has been assistant curator of birds

Deane, William Reed, antiquarian, genealwas born Aug. 21, 1809, in Mansfield, Mass. He was the author of genealogies of the families of Deane, Leonard

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ogist, author,

and Watson. He died June field,

16, 1871, in

Mans-

Mass.

De Angelis, P. C. J., lawyer, jurist. In 1907 he was elected justice of the supreme court of New York for the term ending in 1920.

Benjamin, educator, inventor, in 1755 in Portsmouth, N.H. He opened an academy for girls; and in 1790 removed his school to Boston. He was the inventor of the spring balance. He died Feb. 22, 1838, in Boston, Mass. Dearborn,

was born

Dearborn, Henry, soldier, physician, congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1751, in Northampton, N.H. In 1789 Washington appointed him marshal of the district of Maine. In 1793-97 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the third and fourth congresses. In 1801-09 he was secretary of war; and was then appointed to the office of collector of Boston. In 1812 he received a commission as senior major-general in the army of the United States; and in 1813 commanded at Fort Dodge, Canada. He died June 6, 1829, in Roxbury, Mass. Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell, soldier, congressman, author, was bom March In 1812 he was 3j 1783, in Exeter, N.H. brigadier of militia and had the command of the troops in Boston harbor. In 1821 he was a member of the convention for revising the constitution of Massachusetts; and in 1829 was a representative in the state legislature from Roxbury; and the following year a state senator. In 1831-33 he was a representative to the twenty-second congress, and was soon appointed adjutant-general of Massachusetts, and continued in that office till 1843. In 1847-51 he was mayor of Roxbury. He died July 29, 1851, in Portland, Maine. Dearborn, Henry Martin, physician, was born Nov. 19, 1846, in Epsom, ISLH. In 186973 he practiced medicine in Hopkinton, N.H. and during that period was superintendent of public schools. In 1883 he was appointed state examiner in lunacy; and assisted in organizing the first medical staff of the Laura Franklin free hospital for children.

He

died Feb. 16, 1904, in

New York

City.

Dearborn, Nathaniel, engraver, author, was bom in 1786. He was one of the earliest engravers on wood in Boston. He was the author of The American Textbook for Making Letters; Boston Notions; An Account of That Village from 1630 to 1847; Reminiscences of Boston, and Guide through the City and Environs; and Guide through Mount Auburn. He died Nov. 7, 1852, in South Reading, Mass.

museum of natural history He is the author of Birds

at of

Belknap; and Merrimac county, N.H.; and joint author of Birds in Their Relation to Man; and author of Birds of Durham and Vicinity; and Birds of Northfield, N.H. Dearborn, William Lee, civil engineer, was born June 13, 1813, at Salem, Mass. He began his career as engineer at an early age on the Boston and Providence railroad. He was chief engineer of the state of Maine; and surveyed for a railroad from Portland to Lake Champlain. He built the breakwater at Richmond Island; and was for several years connected with the lighthouse board.

He

died

March

15, 1875, in

New York

City.

Dearing, Frank R., lawyer, jurist. In 1899 of the twenty-first circuit court of Missouri at Hillsboro. Dearing, James, soldier, was born April 25, 1840, in Campbell county, Va. and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general for gallantry at the battle of Plymouth. On the retreat of the confederate forces from Petersburg to Appomattox Court-House, he was mortally wounded near Farmville in a singular encounter with Brigadier-General Theodore Read of the national army. The two generals met, at the head of their forces, on opposite sides of the Appomattox, at High Bridge; and a duel with pistols ensued. General Read was shot dead, but General Dearing lingered until a few days after the surrender of Lee. He died in April, 1865, in Lynchburg, Va.

he was judge



De Armond, David

A., jurist, state senator,

congressman, was born March 18, 1844, in Blair county, Pa. He was presidential elector in 1884; was state senator, circuit judge, and Missouri supreme commissioner; and in 1891-1903 he was a representative from Missouri to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. Dearth, Elmer H., journalist, insurance commissioner, was born June 6, 1859, in Sangerville, Maine. He began an active career in the newspaper profession with The

Bangor Daily Whig and Courier; and in 1883 became connected with the Pioneer Press Paul, of St. Minn. For two years he was editor and business manager of

The Independent of Henderson and for

four

years

prior

to

was the editor and proprietor of The LeSueur News. In 1889-92 he was deputy insurance commis1890