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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dexter, Orrando Perry, genealogist, author,

was born Oct. 31, 1854, in New York City, and was the son of Mr. Henry Dexter, the founder of the American news company. In 1872 he graduated from Phillips Exeter academy; attended Harvard for two years; in 1878 graduated from Oxford university; and in 1880 received the degree of LL.B. from Columbia law school. He was given to genealogical research. He was much interested in the preservation of the forest of the

Adirondacks; and owned about ten thousand acres of wild lands. He was pronounced a great mathematician; and was the author of of Angles. He was also the avithor of An Index to Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of New England. He met his death at the hands of an assassin on Sept. 19, 1903, in the Adirondacks, near Dexter Lake, N.Y. Dexter, Samuel, merchant, philanthropist, was born in 1726. He was a member of the governor's council before the revolution; and for several years between 1765 and 1775 served on the more important committees of both the house and the council. He left five

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thousand dollars to Harvard college. He died in 1810 in Mendon, Mass. Dexter, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, cabinet officer, author, was born May 14, 1761, in Boston, Mass. In 1793-95 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the third congress; and in 1799-1801 he was United States senator. In 1800-01 he was secretary of war; in 1801 he was secretary of the treasury and for a short time had charge of the department of state. He was the author of Letters on Free Masonry; -Progress of Science, a poem; and Speeches and Political Papers. He died May 3, 1816, in Athens, N.Y.

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Dexter, Samuel William, journalist, founder, was born in 1792 in Boston, Mass. In 1829 he established the Emigrant at Ann Arbor, the very first newspaper published in Washtenaw county, Mich. In 1825 he laid out Saginaw city; and in 1827 was appointed justice of the county court. In 1840-41 he was regent of the university of Michigan. He died Jan. 6, 1863, in Dexter, Mich. Dexter, Seymour, soldier, lawyer, legislator, banker, jurist, author, was bom March 20, 1841, in Independence, N.Y. He served as a soldier in the civil war. He has been a member of the New York state assembly; and served as county judge. He was the author of Treatise on Co-operative Savings and Building Loan Associations; and also other works. He died in 1904 in Elmira, N.Y. Dexter, Simon Newton, manufacturer, was born May 11, 1785, in Providence, R.I. He was president of the Whitestown bank in 1833-53; was canal commissioner in 1840; and manager of the state lunatic asylum in 1849-62. He died Nov. 18, 1862, in Wliitesboro, N.Y.

Dexter, Stanley Walker, lawyer, jurist, Oct. 3, 1857, in London, England.

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In 1878 he graduated with the degree of D. A. from Yale university. Since 1898 he has been a referee in bankruptcy; and is a director of the Mutual trust company of Westchester county, N.Y. Dexter, Timothy, merchant, author, was borw' Jan. 22, 1743, in Maiden, Mass. He attained prominence as a merchant of CharlesPickle town, Mass. He was the author of For the Knowing One. He died Oct. 22, 1806, in Newburyport, Mass. Dexter, William Henry, merchant, was born Jan. 11, 1823, in Charlton, Mass. In 1873 he was made councilman in the Massachusetts government, and again in 1877. In 1874 he was elected a trustee of the Worcester academy; and for many years was its

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Dey, Anthony, pioneer, soldier, was bom in February, 1776, in Princeton, N.J. He was one of the founders of Jersey City, N.J. He died in 1859 in Jersey City, N.J. De Young, Michel Harry, journalist, publisher, was born Oct. 1, 1848, in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in the public schools of California. In 1865 became associated with his brother, late Chas. De Young, in estab-

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the great San Francisco Chronicle. Upon his brother's death in 1880 he became editor-inchief and sole proprietor. He is one of the leaders of the republican party in his state and nation was twice a member of the national republican committee; and for one term was its vice-chairman. In 1888 and in 1892 was a delegate-at-large to the national republican conventions; and in 1908 was chairman of the California delegation. Since 1889 he has taken a prominent part in the creation and management of international expositions as commissioner and as vice-president from his state. In 1893 he was president of the International league of press clubs; since 1882 has been a director of the Associate press; is president of the Union league club; and a member of various other clubs and societies in his city, state and nation. Dezendorf, John F., surveyor, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1834, in Lansingburg, N.Y. In 1863 he moved to Norfolk, Va. He was assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1869-71; and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876. He was defeated for congress in 1878. In 1881-83 he was a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh congress as a republican. Diaz, Mrs. Abby Morton, author, was bom I



1821 in Plymouth, Mass. She was one of the famous company at Brook farm; and in