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sioner of the state. He resigned this office at the end of three years to accept a position with the Equitable life assurance society of New York City, N.Y. In 1897 he received from Governor Clough the appointment of insurance commissioner of Minnesota. In 1898 he was elected to the presidency of the National association of insurance commis-

eral Digests of Vermont Laws; and has a large patent and pension office practice at Montpelier, Vt.

sioners.

played in the principal cities of the United States. He died Aug. 14, 1877, in St. Louis, Mo. Deberry, Edmund, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1787, in Mount Gilead, N.C. In 1806 he was a member of the state legislature, and continued to serve there, with occasional intermissions, until 1828. In 1829-31 and 1833-45 and 1849-51 he was a representative from North Carolina to the twenty-first, twenty-third to the twenty-eighth and the thirty-first congress.

Dearth, Henry Golden, painter, artist, was born in 1863 in Bristol, R.I. Among his medals are those received in 1900 in Paris; one received in 1902 in Charleston, W.Va. In 1902 he became an associate national academician; and in 1906 became a national academician. Deas, Charles, painter, artist, was born in 1818 in Philadelphia, Pa. Among his more important pictures that have become widely known through engravings are The Turkey Shoot; Walking the Chalk; Long Jake; The Wounded Pawnee; Indian Guide; A Group of Sioux; Hunters on the Prairie; and The Last Shot. He died while insane. Deas, Edmund Hercules, planter, public officiai. was born June 10, 1855, in Georgetown, S.C. He was educated in the common schools of Charleston and Florence, S.C. In 1876-77 he was deputy sheriff of his county in 1883-85 was examiner in the pension office at Washington, D.C. and since 1884 has held the office of deputy collector of internal revenue for his division in the South Carolina district, with the exception of two years during President Cleveland's administration. He has also been supervisor, deputymarshal and deputy-treasurer of his county. By reason of being chairman of the republican state executive committee, in 1907 he resigned the deputy ooUectorship. He has been several times voted for as presidential elector; and three or four times was a candidate for congress, elected and counted out; and has been a member of the last five na;

actor, was born Nov. 1812, in London, England. In 1842 he became stage-manager for Hamblin at the

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Bowery;

in

theatre of

He

1849 purchased the Chatham City; and afterward

New York

died Dec. 12, 1859, in

Mount

Gilead, N.C.

Alcibiades, lawyer, jurist. In 1877-80 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana.

De

Blanc,

De Blois, Austin Kennedy, educator, college president, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 17, 1866, in Nova Scotia. He engaged in educational work, and in 1894-99 was president of Shurtleff college at Upper Alton, 111. In 1899 he became pastor of First baptist church at Elgin, 111. He is the author Pioof The Teaching of the Bible; and

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neer School.

Deboe, William Joseph, physician, lawyer. United States senator, was bom June 30, 1849, in Crittenden county,

cated

Ky. He was eduin

the

public

and academic schools of his native state ; at-

tended Ewing college; and graduated with the degree of M.D.

tional conventions.

from the university of

Deaver, John B., surgeon, author. He is surgeon to the Children's hospital of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Surgical Anatomy, in three volumes. Deavitt, Thomas Jefferson, lawyer, financier, was born Feb. 17, 1840, in Richmond, Vt. He was a member of the Vermont constitutional convention He has been superintendent of schools justice of the peace; and president of the Capitol savings bank

Louisville.

trust company since its organization in 1891. He is the

and

manager and treasurer of the Watchman publishing company; and a director in several other corporations. He has given considerable attention to commercial law; and has made and edited sev-

He

practic-

ed medicine a few years; and then began the practice of

law in

Marion, Ky. He was superintendent of the schools of Crittenden county; and for twelve years was a member of the republican state central committee. In 1893-96 he was a member of the state senate. In 1888 and 1896 he was a delegate to the national republican conventions. In 1897-1903 he was a member of the United States senate.

De Bolt, Regin A., soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1828, in Fairfield county, Ohio. He entered the volunteer army from Missouri as a captain; and reentered the army in 1864 as a major. He was elected circuit judge; and in 1875-77 he was a representative from Missouri to the fortyfourth congress as a democrat. He died Oct. 29, 1891 in Trenton, Mo.