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ington, Richmond, Alexandria, Mobile and Orleans. He is the author of novels entitled Guilty or Not Guilty; Angela's Christmas The House in Balfour Street and Gold Dust and Diamonds. His historical works are Louisiana Story in Louisiana Families; Little Chapters; Glimpses of Old Louisiana; and other works. Dimitry, John Bull Smith, soldier, journalist, author, was born Dec. 27, 1835, in Washington, D.C. He served as a confederate soldier during the civil war with the Crescent regiment from New Orleans. For seven years he was the dramatic and literary critic of the New Orleans Times; and in 1881-89 was editorially connected with the New York Mail and Express. He was the author of History and Geography of Louisiana from Its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Qvil War; Three Good Giants; Alahualpo's Curtain; Tombcan Blanc; a History of the Louisiana Confederate Soldiers During the Civil War; and other works. He died in 1901 in New Orleans. La. Dimm, Jonathan Rose, educator, clergyman, college president, was bom Aug. 28, 1830, in Hughesville, Pa. He was educated in the public and private schools of Pennsylvania. In 1882-94 he was principal of the Missionary institute of Selins Grove, Pa. and of which in 1904 he became president. This institution developed into the Susquehanna university, of which he remained president until 1900. In 1900-96 he was professor of sociology and international law in that institution; and has held numerous positions of trust and honor.

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Dimmick, Eugene Dumont,

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to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died Aug. 2, 1861, in Honesdale, Pa. Dimmock, Charles, soldier, was bom in 1800 in Massachusetts. He was captain of Virginia militia in 1839-40: became lieutenant-colonel in 1841-42; and superintendent of the state armory in 1843-61. He was a member of the Richmond city council in

service; chief of Virginia. He

the ordnance department of died Oct. 37, 1863, in Richmond, Va. Dimmock, George, naturalist, genealogist, was born May 17, 1852, in Springfield, Mass. For a number of years he was editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology. He is the author of Anatomy of Mouth Parts of Some Insects of the Order of Diptera; and of a genealogy of the Dimmock family. Dimock, Davis, congressman, was born in

Susquehanna county. Pa. In 1841-42 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty-seventh congress. He died Jan. 13, 1842, at Montrose, Pa. Dimon, Charles Augustus Ropes, soldier, was born in Connecticut. In 1861 he was first lieutenant and adjutant in the thirtieth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

Dimond, Francis M., governor. He was the nineteenth governor of Rhode Island in 1853.'54. He died in Rhode Island.

Edward

Nelson, journalist, legis21, 1862, in Auburn, Maine. Since 1888 he has been the editor and publisher of the Daily Telegraph of Kalamazoo, Mich. In 1897 he was elected president of the Michigan republican league and in 1898 was elected a. member of the MichiDingley,

lator,

was born Aug.

gan state

legislature.

Nelson, lawyer, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 15, 1832, in Durham, Maine. In 1856 he became the Dingley,

and editor Lewiston Journal. Between the years 1862 and 1873 he was proprietor

of the

six times elected to the state legislature, serving as speaker in

was

born July 31, 1840, in Athens, N.Y. He entered the civil war as a private and in 1867 he was appointed to the ninth United States cavalry. He was retired in 1903 with the rank of brigadier-general. Dimmick, Mile M., congressman, was born in Monroe county. Pa. In 1849-53 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-first and thirty-second congresses. He died Nov. 21, 1872, in Mauchchunk, Pa. Dimmick, William H., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1815, in Milford, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania state senate in 1845-47. In 1857-61 he was a representative from Pennsylvania

and 1858; at the beginning of the

war he entered the Confederate became brigadier-general; and was civil

1863-64.Inl874-76was the twenty-fourth governor of Maine. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1876; and in 1881-99 he was a representative from Maine to the forty-seventh to the flfty-iifth congress as a republican. He died Jan. 13, 1899, in Washington,

Dimond, Thomas, manufacturer, financier, was born Sept. 1, 1864, in Garrisons, N.Y. He was educated in the New York public schools; and at Packard's business college.

He

is

proprietor of the

Thomas Dimond

iron

works; is a trustee and a member of the Bond and mortgage company bank for savings; and a director and member of the executive committee of the Mutual bank, the Colonial insurance company, and the American Lloyds insurance company. In 1876-86 he was a member of the seventh regiment