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Dickinson, Clarence, musician, organist, founder, composer, was dorn May 7, 1873, in La Fayette, Ind. In 1890-94 he attended the Northwestern university of Evanston, 111.; and received his education in Chicago, Berlin and Paris. He has been director of the

department

organ

in

the Bush Temple conservatory of Chicago and a director in the theoretical department of Columbia school of music. He produced the comic opera entitled The Medicine Man, which was played in Chicago and Boston. He is a founder of the American guild or organists; the Chicago M. S. society;- and is a conductor of the Aurora musical club and the musical society of Chicago. He is the author of numerous pieces for the organ and voice.

Dickinson, Cornelius Evarts, clergyman, author, was born April 33, 1835, in Heath, Mass. He was educated in the public schools and theological seminaries of

He

is

New

England.

an eminent min-

ister of the congregational church; and has filled pastorates in Oak Park and in Elgin, III. was pastor of churches at Marietta and Wind-

in 1865 he was appointed United States district attorney for the southern district of

and

New

York. His Speeches and Correspondence, with a biography of him by his brother, appeared in 1867. He died April 13, 1866, in

New York

City.

Dickinson, David W., congressman, was born in Franklin, Tenn. In 1833-35 and 184345 he was a representative from Tennessee to the twenty-third and twenty-eighth congresses. He died April 27, 1845, in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Dickinson, Donald McDonald, lawyer, cabinet officer, was born Jan. 17, 1846, in Port Ontario, N.Y. He is a noted democratic politician; and in 1888-89 he was postmastergeneral of the United States. Dickinson, Edward, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1803, in Amherst, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1838-39; of the state senate in 1842-43; of the governor's council in 1846-47; and in 1853-55 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-third congress. He was again elected to the state legislature in 1873. He died June 16, 1874, in Massachusetts. Dickinson, Edward, educator, musician, auwas born Oct. 10, 1853, in West Springfield, Mass. In 1876 he received the degree of A.B. from Amherst

thor,

college;

A.M.

the same studied music in the Berlin university in 1885-86, 1888-89 and in 189293. In 1879-92 he was organist and teacher of music at Elmira, N. Y. Since 1893 he has been professor of the

Ohio; and for years filled a pastorate in the congregational church at Cincinnati, Ohio. Since a pastorate in the confive

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Dickinson, Daniel Stevens, lawyer, jurist. States senator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1800, in Goshen, Conn. In 1837-40 he was a member of the state senate; was judge of the court of errors in 1836-41; and in 1842-44 was president of that court. He was lieutenant-governor and president of the senate. In 184451 he was United States senator from

United

New

York.

He was a

delegate to the Baltimore conventions of 1848, 1852 and 1864; and in 1861 was elected attorney-general of the state of New York.

from

institution.

ham,

1906 he has filled gregational church at Belpre, Ohio. He is prominently identified with the affairs of the congregational church; and has filled various positions of trust and honor. He is the author of Century of Church Work; and other works.

and in 1881

received the degree of

He

history of music at Oberlin college and conservatory. He is the author of Mvisic in the History of the Western Church; and The Study of the History of Music.

Edward F., soldier, lawyer, jurcongressman, was born Jan. 31, 1829, in Fremont, Ohio. He served three years in the union army as a lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. He was elected judge of probate for Sandusky county in 1866. In 1869-71 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress as a democrat. Dickinson, Emily, poet, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. Since her death three volumes of poems, selected from her manuscripts, have been published. She died in 1886 in Amherst, Mass. Dickinson, Hester A., journalist, poet, was bom in Ohio. She is president of the Pacific coast women's press association. She is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Vesta; and Fagots. Dickinson,

ist,