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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. kinds of machinery. In 1867 he was vicepresident of the Delaware and Hudson company. Died July 31, 1884, in Morristown, N.J. Dickson, W. A., legislator, congressman, was born July 20, 1861, in Centerville, Miss. He was educated in the public and private schools of his native town; graduated from Pleasant Grove high school; attended the Centenary college of Jackson, La.; and he graduated from the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn. He has been a member of the board of supervisors; county school commissioner; presidental elector; and a member of the trustees of the agricultural college of Mississippi. He served two terms as a member of the Mississippi state legislature-, and still resides in Centerville, Miss. In 190911 he was a representative fro;n Mississippi to the sixty-first congress as a democrat. Dickson, William, congressman, was bom in Tennessee. In 1801-07 he was a representative from Tennessee to the seventh, eighth and ninth congresses. He died in Tennessee. Didier, Eugene Lemoine, journalist, author, was born Dee. 22, 1838, in Baltimore, Md.

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edited the Southern Society in 1867-9; in 1869-70 was deputy marshal United States supreme court. He is the author of Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; and The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine.

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Didier, Franklin James, physician, author, in 1794 in Baltimore, Md. He was a Baltimore physician and a frequent contributor to the periodicals of his time. He was the author of Didier's Letters from Paris and Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk. He died in 1840 in Baltimore, Md. Diefendorf, Allen Ross, physician, author, was born Dec. 21, 1871, in Savannah, N.Y. Since 1896 he has practiced medicine; and is now lecturer in psychiatry at Yale university. He is the author of .Clinical Psychiatry.

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Diehl, Clarence A., merchant, business president, was born July 9, 1869 in Panora, Iowa. He was educated in the public and high schools of Iowa; and took a special course in St. Louis, Mo. Until 1892 he was engaged in newspaper work. In 1882-83 he was chief clerk of the Navajo Indian agency at Fort Defiance, Ariz.; and in 1883-89 was engaged in the abstract business in Iowa. He made numerous tours through Mexico and Cuba; and is now interested in Mexican and Cuban properties, both in mining and real estate. He is treasurer and a member of the executive board for the GermanAmerican cofTee company. He has contributed valuable articles to American literature on historical and other subjects.

Samuel Willauer Black, naval ofauthor, was born Sept. 20, 1851, in Reading, Pa. In 1873 he graduated from the United States naval academy; and since 1904 has been judge advocate general with rank of captain in the United States navy. Diehl,

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the author of Practical Problems; and

The Compensation of the Compass. Dielman, Frederick,

civil engineer, artist, 1847, in Germany. He studied art under Diez at the Royal academy, Munich; and in 1876 opened a, studio in New York City. In 1883 he became a member of the national academy of design. He served as a topographer and draughtsman of United States engineers in Fortress Monroe and Baltimore; and in the survey of canal routes over the AUeghanies of Virginia. Dienst, George Elias, physician, clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1858, in Hamilton county, Ind. In 1883 he was ordained to the ministry in the evangelical association; and in 1904 was ordained priest in the protestant episcopal church. Since 1898 he has been a practicing physician; and in 1904-08 was rector of the episcopal church at Naperville, 111.; and now resides in Aurora, 111. He is the author of Paul Anjiro; What to do for the Head; and What to do for the Stomach. Dies, Martin W., congressman. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Texas to the sixty-first congress as a democrat. Dieterich, Louis Philip, portrait painter, artist, was born April 8, 1842, in Germany. He studied in the best schools of Baltimore. Dietrich, Charles Henry, merchant, banker. United States senator, was born Nov. 26, 1853, in Aurora, 111. For several years he was engaged in the mercantile business

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since 1878 he has been actively connected with the business and public alTairs of Hastings, Neb.; and is president of the German national bank of that city.

In 1901-03 he was the twelfth governor of Nebraska; and in 190103 he was the United States senator from the state of Nebraska to fill a vacancy. Dietrich, Frank Sigel, educator, lawyer, jurist; was born Jan. 23, 1863, in Ottawa, Kan. In 1887-91 he was an instructor of history at the Ottawa university. In 1891-1907 he was a practicing attorney. Since 1907 he has been judge of the United States district court for the district of Idaho. Dietz, Ella, poet. She is the author of The Triumph of Time, a volume of poems. Diffenderfer, Frank Reid, journalist, author, was born in Lancaster, Pa. Since 1877 he has been editor of the New Era of Lancaster, Pa. He was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania German society. Since 1896 he has been secretary of the Lancaster county historical society; and since 1891 secretary of the Lancaster county agricultural society. He is the author of The German Exodus to England in 1709.