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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Deeiing, John William, sea captain, merchant, manufacturer, was born Aug. 7, 1833, in Saco, Maine. Since 1867 he has been engaged in the southern pine lumber business and in building vessels. In 1883-85 he was democratic mayor of Portland, Maine; and in 1894 was candidate for representative in congress against Thomas B. Reed. He was collector of the Port for four years. Deeiing, Nathaniel, dramatist, author, was born June 35, 1791, in Maine. He was the author of Carabasset, a tragedy; The Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both in Portland and Boston; and Bozzaris, a tragedy. He died in 1881 in Portland, Maine. Deering, Nathaniel C, legislator, congress2, 1827, in Denmark, Maine. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1855-56. In 1857 he removed to Osage, Iowa; was a clerk in the United States senate for several years; and then a special agent of the postoffice department until 1869. He was a national bank examiner 1872-77; and in 1877-83 he was a representative from Iowa to the forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died Dec. 8, 1887, in Osage, Iowa.

man, was born Sept.

Deering,

Robert Wallei, educator, dean,

was born June 27, 1865, in Hogansville, Ga. He was adjunct professor of Germani languages at Vanderbilt university; and since 1893 has been dean of the undergraduate faculty at the Western reserve university. Deering, Williain, manufacturer, financier, philanthropist, was born April 25, 1826, in Paris, Oxford county, Maine. He was educated at Readfield seminary. Early in life he was engaged as a

woolen in

manufacturer

Maine and

later in

the dry goods business.

He became a member wholesale and commission dry goods house of Deering, Milof the

liken

and company of

Portland, Maine; and also of the commission house of the same name of New York City. In 1873 he established himself in the harvester business at Piano, 111.; and in 1880 removed to Chicago and built a larger plant for the manufacture of grain, grass and corn harvesting machinery. In 1894 the old firm of William Deering and company took out a charter as the Deering harvester company, which was conducted by himself and his two sons and a son-inlaw, and of which corporation he was president; but he has now retired from active business. For over thirty years he pioneered most of the recent improvements in automatic grain harvesting machinery; and the Deering harvester company is now wellknown throughout the civilized world.

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Defendorf, Allen Ross, physician, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 21, 1871, in Savannah, N.Y. Since 1896 he has practiced medicine; and is now I'ecturer in psychiatry at Yale university. He is the author of Clinical Psychiatry.

De Fontaine,

Felix, journalist, author,

born in 1832 in Massachusetts.

was

He was a

journalist of Charlestpn during the civil war; and for the greater part of his career was on the staff of the New York Herald. He was the author of Gleanings from a Confederate Army Notebook; Army Letters of Personne, 1861-1865; and News from the Front. He died in 1896 in New York City. De Forest, Henry Pelouze, physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 29, 1864, in Fulton, N.Y. Since 1903 he has been professor of obstetrics at the New York post graduate medical school; and since 1902 has been police surgeon. De Forest, Henry W., railroad president, was born Oct. 29, 1855, in New York City. In 1889 he became president of the New

Jersey and

New York

railroad.

Forest, Jesse, was born about 1575 in France. He was prominent in the early Dutch colonization of New Amsterdam, now New York City. He died about 1626 in New York

De

City.

De Forest, John William, soldier, author, was born March 31, 1826, in Seymour, Conn. He was a federal ofi&cer in the civil war.

He

is the author of History of the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Oriental Acquaint-

ances; Witching Times; The Lauson Tragedy; Seacliff, Miss Ravenal's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty; Overland; Kate

Beaumont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody Chasm; The Wetherel Affair; Honest John Vane; Justine's Lovers; Irene the Missionary; Playing tlie Mischief; and A Lover's Revolt.

De Forest born Aug.

Lee,

mechanic, inventor, was

26, 1873, in Council Bhill's. Iowa.

He

served in the Spanish-American Avar as a bugler. He invented the electro-type receiver for the De Forest wireless telegraph system.

De Forest, Lockwood, painter, artist, was born in 1850 in New York City. In 1891 he became an associate of the national academy of design; and in 1898 became an academician. In 1881 he founded workshops in India for the revival of wood-carving. He has received prizes at the colonial exposition at London, England; and at the world's fair at Chicago, 111.

De Forest, Robert E., lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was bom Feb. 20, 1845, in Guilford, Conn. In 1874-77 he was judge of the court of common pleas for Fairfield county. Conn. In 1878 he was elected mayor of Bridgeport; in 1880 was elected to the legislature; and in 1882 was elected to the state senate. He was corporation counsel for the city of Bridgeport; and was mayor