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Dickinson, Robert Latou, physician, obstewas born Feb. 21, 1861, in Jersey City, N.J. In 1883 he graduated from the Long Island college hospital; and practices his profession in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is obstetrician-in-ohief to the methodist episcopal hospital; and gynecologist to Saint Mary's hospital of Jamaica. He is the author of American Textbook of Obstetrics. Dickinson, Rodolphus, clergyman, author, was born in 1787 in Deerfield, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman in Deerfield, Mass. He published a much criticised New and Corrected Version of the New Testament; and Geographical and Statistical View of Massachusetts. He died in 1863 in Deerfield, Mass. Dickinson, Rudolphus, congressman, was born in 1798 in Massachusetts. In 1847-49 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirtieth congress. He died March 13, 1849, in Massachusetts. Dickinson, Townsend, lawyer, jurist. In 1836 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Arkansas. Dickson, Allah Hamilton, lawyer, was bom Nov. 14, 1851, in Utica, N.Y. He was attorney for several large corporations; and was a director and council for the first national bank of Pittsburg. He died Jan. 21, 1893, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Dickson, Andrew FUnn, clergyman, author, was bom Nov. 9, 1825, in Charleston, S.C. In 1876-79 he had charge of the Southern general assembly's colored theological institute at Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was the author of Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; and The Light, is It Waning? He died in 1879 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dickson, Cyrus, clergyman, was born Dec. 20, 1816, in Erie county. Pa. He was chosen permanent clerk of the general assembly; and soon afterward secretary of the board of home missions. In 1877 he represented the board at the pan-presbyterian council in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died Sept. 11, 1881, in Baltimore, Md. Dickson, David, congressman. In 1835-36 he was a representative from Mississippi to the twenty-fourth congress. He died July 31, trician, author,

1836, in Little Rock, Ark.

Dickson, Frank Stoddard, educator, sold-

congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1876, in 111. He enlisted as a private in the fourth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; and became captain and quartermaster. Since 1903 he has been engaged as a teacher. In 1905-07 he was a representative from Illinois to the fifty-ninth congress as a reier,

Hillsboro,

publican.

Dickson, Frederick Stoever, lawyer, auwas born June 24, 1850, in Utica, N.Y. Since 1873 he has practiced law in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of An Analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries; An Analysis of Kent's Commentaries; and Blackwood's History of the United States. Dickson, Harris, lawyer, author, was born July 21, 1868, in Yazoo City, Miss. Since thor,

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practiced law in Vicksburg, the author of The Black Wolf's Breed; and Siege of Lady Resolute. Dickson, James A., actor, was born in 1744 in London, England. He became eminent as an actor of comic old men. He was manager of the Boston theatre in 1806, and continued so for many years. He died April 1, 1853, in Boston, Mass.

Dickson, James Henderson, physician, founder, was born Dec, 1806, in Wilmington, N.C. He was one of the first surgeons to perform the direct transfusion of blood and tenotomy for clubfoot. He is one of the founders of the Wilmington library association. Died Sept. 23, 1862, in Wilmington, N.C. Dickson, James Pringle, manufacturer, business president, was born July 34, 1852, in Carbondale, Pa. He entered the employ of the Dickson manufacturing company; and in 1886 became its president. He is a director in the Moosic power company; the Scranton electric heat and power company; and the Crown Point iron company. Dickson, John, lawyer, congressman, au-

was born in 1783 in Keene, N.H. He was prominent in opposition to slavery; and in 1831-35 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-second and twentythird congresses. He is the author of Remarks on the Presentation of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of

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Columbia. He died Feb. 22, 1853, in West Bloomfield, N.Y. Dickson, Joseph, soldier, congressman, was bom in North Carolina. He served in the revolutionary war. In 1799-1801 he was a representative from North Carolina to the sixth congress. Dickson, Leonard Eugene, mathematiciaoi, author, was born Jan. 22, 1874, in Independence, Iowa. Since 1900 he has been professor of mathematics at the university of Chicago. He is the author of Linear. Groups ; Theory of Algebraic Equations; and College Algebra.

Dickson, Samuel, physician, congressman, was born in 1807 in New York. In 1855-57 he was a representative from New York to the thirty-fourth congress. He died May 3 1858, in New Scotland, N.Y. Dickson, Samuel Henry, educator, physician, author, was born Sept. 30, 1798, in Charleston, S.C. In 1858 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain and Death; On the Correlation of Forces; Esthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its History Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; and Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics. He died March 31, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. Dickson, Thomas, manufacturer, financier

was born March

26, 1803, in England. In 1863 he established the Dickson manufacturing company, builders of locomotives and all