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Pa. In 1865 he entered the coke industry; and became prime factor in the development of the famous Connellsville enterprise. He was the organizer and promoter of the first railroad of the section. He was for twelve years president of the Shoe and leather bank of Pittsburg, Pa. He died March 18, 1884, in Hot Springs, Ark. Divol, Ira, educator, was born in October, 1820, in Topham, Vt. He was state superintendent of public schools in Missouri; and laid the foundation of the public school library, which afterward became the public library in St. Louis,. Mo. He died June 22, 1871, in Baraboo, Wis. Dix, Beulah Marie, playwright, author, was bom Dec. 25, 1876, in Kingston, Mass.

She graduated from Radcliffe college of Cambridge, Mass.; and received the degree of

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plays a,re A Rose o' Plymouth Town; The Road to Yesterday; The Lilac Room; Young Femald; The Breed of the Treshams; also Boy O'CarroU; and Matt of Merrymount. Dix, Charles Temple, painter, artist was

born Feb. 25, 1838, in Albany, N.Y. His Sunset in Capri is a spirited study of sea and shore. He died March 11, 1873, in Rome. Dix, Dorothea Lynda, philanthropist, author, was born about 1794 in Hampden, Maine. The greater part of her life was spent in efforts to improve the condition of the insane. She was the author of Prisons and Prison Discipline; The Garland of Flora; Conversations about Common Things; Alice and Ruth; and Evening Hours. She died July 19, 1887, in Trenton, N.J. Dix, Edwin Asa, lawyer, author, was born June 25, 1860, in Newark, N.J. He has held a. fellowship in history at the Princeton university; and for awhile was literary editor of the Churchman. He has traveled extensive-

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Mid-summer Drive Through the Pyre-

nees Deason Bradbury Old Bowen's Legacy and Champlain, the Founder of New France. Dix, J. Augustus, educator, was born April 13, 1831, in Albany, N.Y. He was one of the



incorporators, and for three years president of the city hospital of Elizabeth, N.J.; and In 1880-94 was superintendent of public in-

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struction in that city. He died Oct. 13, 1894, in Elizabeth, N.J. Dix, John Adams, soldier, lawyer, governor. United States senator, cabinet officer, author, was born July 24, 1798, in Boscawen, N.H. He was a, general and

statesman who, while in 1861 he was secretary of issued

the treasury the celebrated

any one attempts to haul down flag, the American shoot him on the spot. In 1843-49 he was a United States senatoi, and the twenty -fourth governor of New York order. If

in 1873-75. He was Winter in Madeira, and A Summer in Spain and Florence; Speeches and Occasional Addresses; and Resources of

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the State of 1879, in New Dix, John

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York City. Homer, oculist,

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hotel erected on this continent. He was the author of Changes of the Blood, a translation from the French of Gibert ; Treatise on Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the Retina;

and The Ophthalmoscope and its Uses. He died in 1884 in Boston, Mass. Dix, Morgan, clergyman, author, was bom Nov. 1, 1827, in New York City. Since 1859 he has been rector of Trinity church of New York City. He is the author of Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Lectures on the Calling of a Christian Woman; Memoir of A. Dix, his father; Gospel and Philoso-

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phy; The Sacramental System; The Seven Deadlv Sins; Lectures on the First Prayer Book 'of King Edward VI; and The Two Estates. He died April 29, 1908, in New York City. Dix, William Giles, litterateur, author, poet, was bom in 1821 in Maine. He was the author of The Deck of the Crescent City; Pompeii and Other Poems; The Unholy Alliance; a Catholic in the Nineteenth Century; and The Wreck of the Glide. He died in 1898. Dixey, Henry E., actor, was bom Jan. 6, 1859, in Boston, Mass. His principal roles are Dr. Syntax in Cinderella at School;

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Lorenzo in The Mascot; Sir Mincing Lane in Billee Taylor; Bunthorne in Patience; Sir Joseph Porter in Pinafore; Peter Papyms in The New Evangeline; and Boss Knivett in The Romany Rye. Dixon, Amzi Clarence, clergyman, author, was bom July 6, 1854. Since 1902 he has been pastor of the Euggles street baptist church of Boston, Mass. He is the author of The Lights and Shadows of American Life; and Heaven on Earth. Dixon, Archibald, lawyer, legislator. United States senator, was

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