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America. She died in 1852 in St. Charles, La. Duckett, Allen B., jurist, was bom in Maryland. In 1806 he was appointed judge of the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia. He died in the District of Columbia. Duden, F. W. Ernest, merchant, founder, was born May 14, 1841, in Prussia. For a number of vears he was engaged in mercantile work. In 1878 he

took up

fraternal

work; was past chancellor of the grand of the knights of pythias for state ot

lodge

California;

and has

been past regent of the grand council of the royal arcanum for the state of California.

He

founded the order of Pendo in 1894; and for ten years

was

its

supreme secretary. He founded the order of the Lincoln annuity union; and was elected its

president in 1904.

Dudley, Albertus True, educator, author, was born Jan. 19, 1866, in Paris, N.Y. In 1887-95 he taught in Phillips Exeter academy; and since 1896 in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Following the Ball; Making the Nine; and In the Line. Dudley, Augustus Palmer, physician, surgeon, author, was born on July 4, 1853, in Phippsburg, Maine. In 1887 he was appointed instructor at the Post-graduate medical school; and for eighteen years was surgeon in the Women's hospital of New York City. He was the author of Surgical Treatment. He died in 1905 in New York City. Dudley, Charles B., soldier, chemist, was born July 14, 1842, in Oxford, N.Y. In 1862 he enlisted as a private soldier in the one hundred and fourteenth regiment New York volunteers and served for nearly three years in the civil war. He was in seven bat;

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participating

in

siege of Port Hudson in 1863; participated in the Red river campaign in the spring of

1864; and was severely wounded in the battle of Opequan creek in the Shenandoah valIn 1871 he graduated from Yale college; in 1874 graduated from the Sheffield scientific school with the degree of Ph.D. Since 1875 he has been chemist to the Pennsylvania railroad company at Altoona, Pa. He has been president of the American society for testing materials; and is a member of the society of civil engineers, the Mining engineers; the Mechanical engineers ley.

and

and the Electrical engineers. He has pubmany valuable papers on commercial products and materials used by railroads. Dudley, Benjamin Winslow, surgeon, lithotomist, was born April 13, 1785, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He performed the lateral operation exclusively, and almost always with the gorget, an instrument now becoming obsolete. His success was so great that in England he was declared to be the lished

lithotomist of the nineteenth century. He published several medical essays; was active in the organization in 1817 of the medical department of Transylvania university; and for many years held there the professorships of anatomy and surgery. He died Jan. 20, 1870, in Lexington, Ky.

Dudley, Mrs. Blandina, philanthropist, was born in 1783 in New York. She gave one hundred thousand dollars toward the endowment and erection of Dudley observatory In Albany in memory of her husband. She died in January, 1863, in Albany, N.Y. Dudley, Charles Edward, merchant. United States senator, was born May 33, 1780, in England. He was New York state senator in 1820-25; mayor of Albany in 1821-28. In 1827-33 he was United States senator from New Y^ork. He died Jan. 23, 1841, in Albany, N.Y.

Dudley, Charles Rowland, lawyer, librawas born June 26, 1853, in Easton, Conn. In 1878-82 he practiced law in Monson, Mass.; and in 1888-1900 was regent of the Colorado state university. Since 1887 he has been secretary of the Colorado state historical society. Since 1886 he has been librarian of the public library of Denver, Col. Dudley, Dean, lawyer, antiquarian, author, was born May 33, 3833, in Kingfield, Maine. He is a Boston lawyer and antiquarian. He is the author of Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; and History of the Dudley Family. Dudley, Edward Bishop, railroad president, congressman, governor, was bom Dec. 15, 1787, in Anslow county, N.C. In 1829-31 he was a representative from North Carolina to the twenty-first congress and in 1837-41 was the twenty-first governor of North Carolina. He was president of the Wilmington and Raleigh railroad company. He died Oct. 30, 1855, in Wilmington, N.C. Dudley, Emelius C, physician, author, was born May 29, 1850, in Westfield, Mass. Since 1875 he has practiced medicine in Chicago, 111. He is the author of Principles and Practice of Gynecology. Dudley, Irving Bedell, lawyer, jurist, diplomat, was born Nov. 30, 1860, in Jefferson, Ohio. In 1888 he was a jurist of San Diego, Cal. In 1897 he was appointed United States minister to Peru. rian,