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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dickinson, Jacob McGavock, lawyer, jurist, 30, 1851, in Columbus, Miss. He has served several times on the supreme bench of Tennessee; and in 1895-97 was assistant attorney-general of the United States.

was born Jan.

Dickinson, John, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Nov. 13, 1732, in Maryland. In 1764 he was a member of the assembly; and in 1765 of the general congress. In 1774-76 and 1776-80 he was a, delegate

from Pennsylvania and Delaware to the continental congress. He signed the articles of confederation as well as the constitution. In

1772-83 he was president of that state ; and in 1783-85 was president of Pennsylvania. He was a political writer of great influence during the period of the revolution. Dickinson college, which he helped to found, was named in his honor. He wrote vigorously against the stamp act; and his various state papers display both eloquence and dignity. He was the author of Petition to the King; Second Petition to the King; Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer; Letters of Pabius. He died Feb. 14, 1808, in Wilmington, Del. Dickinson, John D., congressman, was bom Middlesex county. Conn. In 181923 and 1827-31 he was a representative to the sixteenth, seventeenth, twentieth and twenty-first congresses. He died Jan. 28, 1841, in Troy, N.Y. Dickinson, Jonathan, jurist, author, was born in England. He came to the colony in 1696; and in 1711 was associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. His book, entitled God's Protecting Providence Man's Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative of personal adventure. He died in 1722 in Pennsylvania.

in 1767 in

Dickinson, Jonathan, clergyman, college president, author, was bom April 22, 1688, In Hatfield, Mass. He was the first president of the college of New Jersey, now Princeton college. He was the author of Familiar Letters Upon Important Subjects in Religion; Eeasonableness of Christianity; and True Scripture Doctrine. He died Oct. 17, 1747, in Elizabethtown, N.J. Dickinson, Joseph, soldier, was bom in 1831 in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was first lieutenant and adjutant in the twenty-sixth

regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died April 26, 1904, in Washington, D.C. Dickinson, Leonard A., soldier, philanthropist. He attained the rank of brigadier-general. He bequeathed one-half of his residuary estate to St. Thomas' church of Hartford; and one-fourth each to the Hartford hospi-

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in Hartford, Conn.

Dickinson, Marquis Fayette, educator, lawwas born Jan. 16, 1840, in Am-

yer, author, herst, Mass.

He is descended from Nathaniel Dickinson, one of the Winthrop colony of 1630, who settled Weathersfield, Conn., and in 1658 was one of the adventurers who founded the town of Hadley, Mass. He was a teacher of classics in the Williston seminary during 1862-65. He has been president of the Nashawannuck manufacturing company, and a director of the Williston mills, both of Easthampton, Mass.; and president of the Whitcomb envelope company. He is now a noted lawyer of Boston, Mass.; and president of the Boston common council in 1872. He is the author of Legislation on the Hours of Labor; and Amherst Centennial Address. Dickinson, Martha Gilbert, author, poet, was bom in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Amherst, Mass. She is the author of Within the Hedge, a collection of verse; The Cathedral; and various other poems. Dickinson,

Mary

Clare, superior of Carmel-

was born in 1755 in London, England. She was one of the four Carmelites that left ites,

Europe to establish a branch of the community in the United States in 1790. They landed at Port Tobacco, Md., and took possession of their house, which was the first conventual establishment in the United States. In 1800 Sister Mary Clare Dickinson was elected superior, which office she held for thirty years She died in 1830 in

Baltimore, Md. Dickinson, Mrs.

Mary Lowe,

educator, au-

was born

in 1839 in Fitchburg, Mass. After the death of her husband she was professor of belles lettres, emeritus professor, and lecturer at Denver university. She was president of the Woman's national Indian association; and is now honorary president of the national council of women United States association. She is the author of Driftwood; Stories and Poems; Temptation of Katherine Gray; Fair Half -Dozen ; Mother thor, poet,

Star; and other works. Dickinson, Philemon, soldier, congressman. United States senator, was born April 5, 1739, in Dover, Del. He commanded the Jersey militia at the battle of Monmouth. In 1782-83 he was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress. In 1789-93 he was United States senator. He died Feb. 4, 1809, in Trenton, N.J.

Richard WiUiam, clergyman, on Nov. 21, 1804, in New York City. In 1859-72 he was pastor of a church at Inwood, New York City. He was the author of Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of John Howard; and The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically Viewed. He died Aug. 16, 1874, in Fordham, N.Y. Dickinson, author, was

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