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given a commission as brigadier-general in the American army about 1777. DeBow, James Dunwoody Brownson, lawyer, journalist, founder, author, was born July 10, 1830, in Charleston, S.C. For three years he was at the head of the census bureau of Louisiana; and in 1853 was appointed superintendent of the United States census. He was one of the founders of the Louisiana historical society, now the Academy of science. He was the author of Encyclopedia of the Trade and Commerce of the United States; The Southern States, Their Agriculture, Commerce, etc.; Industrial Resources of the South-west; and Compendium of the Seventh United States Census. He died Feb. 27, 1867, in Elizabeth, N.J. Debs, Eugene Victor, lecturer, labor leader, was born Nov. 5, 1855, in Terre Haute, Ind. He commenced life as a locomotive fireman; became general secretary of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen and edited its periodical. He ultimately became president of the American railway union, which was

Freedom and Slavery in the Light of the New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; and Lectures at Charlestown. He died March 20, 1864, in New York City. Dechert, Henry Martyn, lawyer, financier, was born March 11, 1832, in Reading, Pa. He graduated from Yale college. He has attained distinction as a lawyer and financier

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into the social democracy of AmeriIn 1884 he was elected a member of the Indiana state legislature. His name has become known throughout the United States as the champion of the rights of labor. In 1900 he was the labor candidate for the presidency of the United States. De Butts, Henry, soldier, was born in Baltimore, Md. He served in the revolutionary war; and was wounded in the the battle with the Miami Indians. In 1793 he was commissioned lieutenant; and in 1797 resigned from the army. De Qamp, John, naval ofiicer, was born in ca.

1813, in New Jersey. He was promoted to the rank of commodore in 1866; commanded the storeship Potomac at the Pensacola navy-yard during 1866-67; "and the receiving-ship Potomac at Philadelphia during 1868-69. He retired in 1870 with the rank of rear-admiral. He died June 34, 1875, in Burlington, N.J. De Camp, Joseph, sculptor, artist, was bom Nov, 5, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He opened a studio ii^ Boston, Mass. He has received many prizes. Among them are a gold medal from the Louisiana purchase exposition. Decatur, Stephen, naval ofiicer, was bom in 1751, in Newport, R.I. He commanded a squadron of thirteen vessels on the Guadeloupe station in 1800. He died Nov. 14, 1808, near Philadelphia, Pa. Decatur, Stephen, naval officer, was born Jan. 5, 1779, in Sinneputent, Md. He entered the navy at the age of nineteen; and rose to the rank of commodore. In 1813 he was commander of the brigate United States, which fought near Canary Islands; and in 1815 commander of frigate President which fought off New Jersey. De Charles, Richard, clergyman, author, was bom Oct. 17, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa.

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yers and conveyancers only. He is also the president of the Pennsylvania state asylum for chronic insane; and has occupied positions of honor in his city, county and state. Dechert, Robert P., soldier, was born in 1842 in Reading, Pa. During 1861-65 he served in the civil war as lieutenant, lieutenantcolonel and brigadier-general. He died in May, 1894, in Philadelphia, Pa. De Costa, Benjamin Franklin, clergyman, lecturer, author was born July 10, 1831, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a noted episcopal clergyman of New Y'ork City; and in 1899 entered the church of Rome; and during the civil war was chaplain of the fifth and eighteenth Massachusetts infantry. He is president of the White Cross society, which he organized in 1884. He has been editor of Christian Times; and editor Magazine of American History. He is the author of The

Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, illusby translations from the Icelandic Sagas; The Northmen in Maine; -The Moa-

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Stone; Verrazano, the Explorer; The Rector of Roxburgh, a novel; and a number of historical monographs. De Coudres, Louis, manufacturer, brassfounder, was born in 1789. The first great fire-alarm bells put up in the City Hall park of New York City were cast by him. He died Dec. 16, 1872, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dederick, P. K., manufacturer, inventor, capitalist, was born Feb. 1, 1838, in Columbia county, N.Y. In 1860-1900 he was engaged in manufacturing at Albany, N.Y., He has invented brick machines, baling presses and many other machines. In 1871 he established branch works at Montreal, Chicago bite

and St. Louis; and is interested in large works in the principal European cities in manufacture under his foreign patents. Deemer, Elias, soldier, manufacturer, banker, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1838, in Bucks county. Pa. In 1861 he served in the

war as a private soldier. In 1888-90 he was president of the common council of Williamsport, Pa. He was engaged in the manufacture of lumber; and was president of the Williamsport national bank. In 190107 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses as a republican. Deemer, Horace Emerson, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 24, 1858, in Bourbon, Ind. In 1887-94 he was judge of the district court civil