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tory of music in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of the leading institutions in the city, of which he is director. He is acknowledged one of the best vocal teachers in America.

Destrehan, Jean Noel, statesman, was born He was a citizen of Louisiana; and in 1805 one of the authors of a pamphlet attacking the territorial government. In 1813 he was elected to the United States senate, but resigned the office before taking

about 1780.

Deuster, Peter Victor, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born on Feb. 13, 1831, in Germany. Since 1856 he has been editor and publisher of the Daily and the Weekly See Bote of

Milwaukee, Wis.; and is president of the P. V. Deuster publishing company. He was a member of the Wisstate house consin

his seat.

Detchon, Adelaide, lecturer, orator, author, poet, was born in Ohio; and is the daughter of Rev. Horace Detchon. She was educated in Cleveland and abroad. Khe has appeared in lyrical recitals throughout Great Britain, France, Sweden and Australia; and has received diamond decorations from the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews in recognition of her spontaneous

powers. In 1893 she gave the farewell evening at the World's womans' congress at the World's Columbian exposition of Chicago. She has interested the governors and leading men and women of seventeen states in the cause of national bird protection. She is the author of Liberty Found; The Awakenilng Word; The Soul's Release; The Invisible Sail; The After Story; Misunderstood; The Seeing Eye; and numerous other poems. Detmold, Christian Edward, civil engineer, was born Feb. 2, 1810, in Germany. He built the works of the New Jersey zinc company at Newark, N.J.; was president of the company; and developed the manufacture of Spiegel iron from the residue of zinc ore. He died July 2, 1887, in New York City.

Detmold, William Ludwig, surgeon, hygienist, was born Dec. 27, 1808, in Germany. He became professor of military surgery and hygiene at Columbia in 1863; and was made professor emeritus in 1866. He introduced orthopedic surgery into the United States. City.

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De Trobriand, Philip Regis, soldier, authwas born June 4, 1816, in Prance. He was a military writer who came to the or,

United States in 1841, entered the army, and after serving through the civil war, retired from active service in 1879. He was the author of several novels in French. He died July 15, 1897, in Bayport, L.I. Detwiller, Henry, physician, merchant, founder, was born Dec. 18, 1795, in Switzerland. He was the pioneer of homoeopathy in Pennsylvania; and the first to successfully practice it in America. He founded the iron industry at Bingen, Pa., and became president of the company. He died April 31, 1887, in Easton. Deuel, Joseph N., lawyer, jurist, was born April 23, 1846, in Deerfield, N.Y. In 18951903 he was city magistraite of New York City; and since 1904 has been justice of the court of special sessions. He is the author of Children's Court Law for New York City.

representatives, in 1863; was state senator in 1870 and in 1871. In 1879-85 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and fortj'-eighth congresses as a democrat. In 1887 he was appointed chairman of commission to diminish Umatilla Indian reservation in Oregon; and in 1896 was appointed United States consul to Crefeld, Germany. In 1898 he received the democratic nomination for lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin. He died in 1905 in Milwaukee, Wis. Deutsch, Gotthard, educator, author, was born Jan. 31, 1859, in Austria. He was educated in the public and private schools of his native country; of

and in 1881 graduated from the university of Vienna with the degree of Ph.D. He is a professor and acting president of the

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of the Jewish encyclopedia. He is the author of Symbolik in Cultus; Theory of Oral Tradition; Philosophy of Jewish History; Andere Zeiten, a novel; Memorial Dates of Jewish History; and other works. Deutsch, Solomon, philologist, author, was born in 1816 in Prussia. He was the author of Letters for Self -Instruction in German;

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Practical Hebrew Grammar; Key to the Pentateuch; Medical German; and Biblical History in Biblical Languages. He died in 1897.

Devan, Harriet Beecher Scoville, educator, founder, was born in Norwich, Conn. She is the granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher. Since 1896 she has been proprietor and head of the Catharine Aiken school at Stamford, Conn.

De Varona, Ignatius M., civil engineer, was bom Feb. 4, 1842, in Cuba. He came to the United States and labored for the advancement of the Cuban cause; and in 1877 he acted as consulting engineer, and later as government inspector on contracts for docks and bridges in the West Indies. In 1894 he was appointed engineer of the water supply, a position which he still holds.