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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dick, Samuel Medary, clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1857, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He is pastor of the Mathewson street

methodist episcopal church of Providence, K. I. He is the author of Short Talks on Our National Flag; and The Principle of Synthetic Unity in Berkeley and Kant. Dick, Wallace Peter, educator, musician, composer, was born Sept. 9, 1857, in Lowell, Mass. In 1891 he accepted the position of professor of languages in the state normal school at Westchester, Pa. He has composed a number of instrumental pieces and several songs, the most popular of which are Little Sunbeam; and Light of My Life. Dickens, Samuel, congressman, was born in North Carolina. In 1815-17 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fourteenth congress. He died in North Carolina. Dickenson, John T., merchant, public official, jurist, was born March 7, 1845, in Stafford, England. He was educated at the Eccleshall grammar school; and graduated under an Oxford M.A. He succeeded to his father's business of hardware merchant at Stafford, of which city his father served as mayor. In 1869 he moved to London; and ten years later emigrated to New York City. In 1881 he settled in Taney county. Mo.; and soon attained success as a general merchant. He was public administrator of Taney county for three terms; and postmaster for sixteen years. Since 1903 he has been judge of the probate court for Taney county; and resides in Dickens, Mo., which town was named in-

his honor.

Dickerman, Benoni, poet, was born July 9, 1810, in Naugatuc, Coim. He is the author of The Blood-Stained Cross. Dickerman, Charles Heber, educator, manufactvirer, banker, congressman, was bom Feb.

3,

1843, in Harford, Pa. He was educated in the public schools and at Harford university. He taught school for several years; he was a bookkeeper for awhile and was then admitted to the bar. In 1868-80 he was general

manager

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pany, Bethlehem, Pa. In 1880 he became the secretary and treasurer of the car building firm of Murray, gal and company of Milton, Pa., which

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pany was absorbed by another corporation. For many years he was a director of the second national bank of Maiich Chunk, the Lehigh valley national bank and other corporations and since 1897 has been president of the First national bank of Milton, Pa. For three years he was chairman of the democratic county committee; and in 1892 was

a delegate to the national democratic convention. In 1903-05 he was a representative

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from Pennsylvania to the fifty-eighth congress as a democrat; and served on several important committees. Dickerman, William Carter, manutacturer, was born Dec. 12, 1874, in Bethlehem, Pa. He is- vice-president of the American car and foundry company of Milton, Pa. Christopher J., soldier, was York. In 1861 he was lieutenant-colonel in the tenth regiment Michigan volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetDickerson,

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ted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Sept. 20, 1873. Dickerson, D. S., governor. In 1907 he was elected governor of Nevada for the term ending in 1911. Dickerson, James Stokes, clergyman, journalist, was born July 6, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became joint proprietor and editor of the Standard of Chicago, a baptist weekly paper. He died in March, 1876, in Chicago, 111. Dickerson, Jonathan G., lawyer, jurist. In 1862, 1869 and 1876-78 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Maine. He died Sept. 1, 1878.

Dickerson, Mahlon, lawyer, jurist, goverUnited States senator, cabinet officer, was born April 17, 1770, in Morris county, N.J. He was recorder of the city of Philadelphia and subsequently quartermaster-general of the state. He returned to New Jersey, and was elected to the legislature of that state. He was judge of the supreme court of New Jersey; was the seventh governor in 181517; and in 1819-33 he was United States senator from New Jersey. In 1834-38 he was secretary of the navy. For two years he was president of the American institute. He died Oct. 5, 1853, in Morris county, N.J. nor,



Mary

Cynthia, educator, author, 1866, in Hastings, Mich. In 1897-1905 she was head of the department of biology and nature study in the Rhode Island normal school at Providence; and in 1907-08 was instructor of zoology at Stanford university. She is the author of Moths and Butterflies; and the The Frog Book. Dickerson, Philemon, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1788, in Morris county, N.J. In 1833-37 and 1839-41 he was a representative from New Jersey to the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth congresses. In 1836-37 he was the twelfth governor of New Jersey; and was subsequently judge of the United States district court for New Jersey. He died Dec. 10, 1862, in Paterson, N.J. Dickerson,

was born March

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