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national

guards;

and

is

now

colonel of that regiment.

Dinkins, James,

was born Miss.

In

soldier,

author,

banker,

Madison county, he attended the North

Oct. 18, 1845, in

1860-61

Carolina

military institute. At the age of sixteen years he entered the confederate states army as a private soldier in the eighteenth regiment of Mississippi infantry in 1863 he became the first lieutenant of cavalry; and in 1864 was made captain; and he participated in every engagement his of command. He took part in all the daring and desperate raids and campaigns of Forrest, in all the battles of Coldwater, Okalona, West Point, Brice's Cross Roads, Fort Pillow, Oxford, Memphis, Harrisburg, Columbus, Franklin and Nashville. In 1874 he entered the service of the Illinois central railroad; and served for twenty-eight years in various capacities. In 1903 he founded the bank of Jefferson at Gretna, opposite New Orleans, La. He long edited the confederate column in the New Orleans Picayune; and contributed war history and reminiscences. He is the author of 1861-65 War EecoUections by an

Old Johnnie. Dinney, Joseph Villiers, educator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 9, 1863, in Aurora, m. He was educated in the university of Michigan; he attended the university of

Mun-

graduated from the Oxford university; ich;

and from the university of Paris. He has been an instructor in the university of Mich-

igan; professor in the Ohio state university; a lecturer in the Columbia university of New York City; and in the university of Illinois and in the university of Kansas. He is now professor of English and dean of the college of arts in the Ohio state university. He has been secretary of the North central association of colleges and secondary schools is a member of the Modern language association of America; and an honorary fellow of the British philosophical association. He is the author of Paragraph- Writing; Composition Rhetoric; also Composition-Literary; Aphorisms for Teachers; English in the High Schools ; Burke's American Speeches Macaulay's Warren Hastings; Language in the Kindergarten; Shakespeare Studies; and of other works. Dinnies, Mrs. Anna Peyre Shackelford,

poet,

was

bom

in 1816 in

Georgetown, S.O.

J77

She was the author of The Floral Year, a collection of one hundred poems. She died Aug. 8, 1886, in New Orleans, La. Dinsmoor, Sobert, poet, author, was born 7, 1757, in Windham, N.H. He was known as The Rustic Bard; and was the author of Incidental Poems, strongly imitative of Bums. He died in 1836 in New HampOct.

shire.

Dinsmoor, Samuel,

soldier, jurist, congress-

man, governor, author, was born July 1, 1766, in Londonderry, N.H. He was for many years a major-general of militia; a presidential elector in 1821; and in 1811-13 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the twelfth congress. He was a judge of probate; and was governor in 1831-33. He died March 15, 1835, at Keene, N.H.

Dinsmoor, Samuel, lawyer, governor, was born May 8, 1799, in Keene, N.H. He was the governor of New Hampshire in 1849-52. He died Feb. 24, 1869, in Keene, N.H. Dinsmore, Charles Allen, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1860, in New York City. He was for ten years pastor of the Phillips congregational church of Boston, Mass.; and is at present pastor of the first church of Waterbury, Conn. He is the author of The Teachings of Dante; and Aids to the Study of Dante. Dinsmore, Hugh Anderson, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was bom Dec. 24, 1850, in Benton county, Ark. In 1878-84 he was prosecuting of attorney the fourth judicial district of Arkansas. In 1887-90 he was minister resident and consul general of the United States in the kingdom of Korea. In 1893-1905 he was a representative from Arkansas, to the fifty-third, fiftyfourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, and of the fifty-eighth congresses as a demo-

and served on important committees. Dinsmore, John Walker, clergyman, author, was born March 13, 1839, in Washington county. Pa. In 1863 he was ordained to the ministry; and in 1891-1901 filled a pastorate at San Jose, Cal. In 1902 he was a crat;

member of the republican state convention. He is the author of The Scotch-Irish in America. Dinsmore, William B., president of the Adams Express company, was born in 1810 in Boston, Mass. He maide the acquaintance of Alvin Adams, who sent him to New York to take charge of the Adams express business there. He afterward took John Hoey into his employment, and from that time these two

men

toiled untiring to build

up the Adams

Express company. In a few years they had extended the route of the company to all