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in the civil war as brigadier-general; and was brevetted major-general. In 1865 he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the United States ariiiy; and in 1888 waa retired. He died Jan. 12, 1901, in Washing

ton, D.C.

Dubbs, Joseph Henry, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 5, 1838, near AUentown, Pa. He was educated in the public schools and theological seminaries of Pennsylvania. He is a clergyman of the German Reformed church, and since 1875 has been poet,

professor of history in

Franklin and Marshall college of Lancaster, Pa. He is the author

Manual of the Reformed Church;

.of Historic

from the territory. In 1891-97 and 1901-07 was United States senator. Du Bois, Gualterus, clergyman, was born

He was so universally respected that he is said to have been more like a bishop among the Dutch churches of that day than a pastor of a single organization. .He left a large amount of manuscript, including commentaries on different books of the Bible. He died in October, 1751, in in 1666 in Holland.

New York Du

City.

Henry Augustus, physician, waa 1808, in New York City. He be-

Bois,

born Aug.

9,

came president of the Virginia cannel coal company; and later of the Peytona cannel more than coal company. He contended forty years ago that scarlet fever is an asthenic epidemic, and not amenable to medicines until

it

has run

Jan. 13, 1884, in

New

its

course.

He

died

Haven, Conn.

Home Ballads and Metrical Versions ; and Leaders of the Reformation Church History Series. He is also the author of a number of

Du Bois, Henry K., physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 31, 1847, in New Berlin, Wis. During 1870-76 he was connected with the hospitals in New York City; since 1889 he has been a member of the board of medi-

poems.

cal

Du

Fleming

Bignon,

G.,

lawyer, jurist,

state senator, was born July 25, 1853, in Milledgeville county, Ga. He was county judge of Baldwin county, Ga.; state senator and chairman of the judiciary committee in 1882; solicitor-general in 1884; and state senator and president of the senate in 1888.

Du

Bois,

Augustus Jay, educator, author,

25, 1849, in Newton Falls, Ohio. He has been a professor of engineering at Yale university since 1884. He is the author of Elements of Graphical Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed Structures; and Mechanics.

was born April

DuBois, Charles Edward, painter,

was born

Oct. 19, 1847, in

artist,

Hoboken, N.J. At

the Philadelphia exhibition he exhibited Willows at East Hampton; and The Palisades of the Hudson. At the Paris exposition of 1878 he exhibited Morning in Venice; View on the Hudson and Autumn. He died March 6, 1885, in Italy.

Du Bois, Constance Goddard, author, was born in Zanesville, Ohio. She is president of the Waterbury branch of the woman's national Indian association. She is the author of Martha Corey; A Tale of the Salem Witchcraft; Columbus and Beatria; and A Modern Pagan. Dubois, Edward Church, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 12, 1848, in London, England. In 1894-97 he was attorney-general of Rhode Island. Since 1899 he has been associate justice of the state supreme court of Rhode Island.

Dubois, Fred T., congressman. United States senator, was born May 27, 1851, in Crawford county. 111. He was United States marshal of Idaho in 1882-86. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican delegate, being the last delegate

examiners for Florida; and in 1895 beof the Florida state medical

came president association.

Dubois, John, clergyman, college president, bishop, was born Aug. 24, 1764, in Paris, France. He was the founder of Mount St. Mary's college of Emmittsburg, Va.; and also its president. He was appointed bishop of New York in 1826; and at his instance the sisters of charity from Emmittsburg founded the first female academy in the city 20, 1842, of New Y'ork in 1829. He died in New York City. Du Bois, John E., capitalist, philanthropist. He is a multi-millionaire and coppermine owner. He gave one million dollars for founding the Dai Bois hospital, a department of Dunham medical college of Chicago, 111.

Dec

Bois, Mary Constance, writer, author, in 1879 in Philadelphia, Pa. She the author of Elinor Arden, Royalist.

Du

was born is

Dubois, Patterson, educator, journalist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1886-1900 he was associate editor of the Sunday School Times of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Reckonings from Little Hands; The Point of Contact in

Teaching; and Chat-Wood.

Du

William Edward Burghardt, eduauthor, was born Feb. 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Mass. He is an educator of African descent; and assistant instructor of sociology in the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Suppression of the African Slave Trade; and The Philadelphia Negro. Bois,

cator,

Du

Bois,

William Ewing, numismatist, au-

was born Dec. 15, 1810, in Doylestown, Pa. He was a Philadelphia numismatist; and assayer at the mint. He was the author of Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nathor,

tions;

and Pledges of History, an account of