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Dudley, William Wade, soldier, lawyer, manufacturer, banker, was born Aug. 27, 1842, in

He was eduWeathersfield, Vt. cated at Phillips academy of Danville, Vt., and at Russell's collegiate

of

and

commer-

military academy

cial

New

Haven, Conn.

In 1860 he removed to

Richmond, Ind., and engaged in the business of milling. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain, and served with gallantry throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of brevet-colonel and brevet brigadier-general. In 187981 he was Qnited States marshal for Indiana; and in 1881-85 was commissioner of the pension bureau, at Washington, D.C. In 1885 he .engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C. Duell, Robert Holland, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1823, in Warren, jST.Y. He was district attorney for Cortland county in 1850-56; and in 1856 was elected county judge. In 1859-63 and 1871-75 was a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, forty-second and forty-third congresses. He died Feb. 11, 1891, in Cortland. N.Y. Duell, Rodolphus H., lawyer, was born Dec. 20, 1824, in Warren, N.Y. At the age of seventeen he began the practice of law; and for forty years he was one of the most foremost lawyers in Cortland, N.Y. In 1885 he was elected county judge; and in 1859-63 he served in the national congress. He is the president of local board of the Cortland state normal school.

Duemling,

was born

Hermann,

Oct.

journalist, author, 1845, in Prussia. In 1868mathematics in the Luther

5,

70 he taught high school of Milwaukee, Wis.; and in 1873-99 was professor of mathematics at Concordia college of Indiana. Since 1899 he has been editor-in-chief of the Milwaukee Germania. He is the author of Animal Life, Physiology for Colleges in two volumes Bismarck and His Time.

Duer, Caroline King, writer, author, was born Feb. 27. 1865, in New York City. She is the author of Unconscious Comedians; and Poems, published with her sister, Alice

Duer

Miller.

Duer, Edward Louis, physician, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 19, 1836, in Crosswicks, N.X He served throughout the civil war as surgeon of volunteers. He is a physician of Philadelphia. He is the author of

was insurance law. He was the author of Duer's Reports; and Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance. He died Aug. 8, 1858, on Staten Island. Duer, John 0., soldier, was born in Maryland. In 1862 he was second lieutenant in the forty-fifth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteer. He died Dec. 11, 1880. congress-

lawyer, jurist,

Duer, William,

man, was born March

18, 1747, in

England.

colonel of militia; and judge of the county courts. He was a, member of the provincial congress, and of the committee of safety; and also a member of the committee to draft the state constitution in the convention of 1777. In 1777-78 he was a delegate from York to the continental congress; secretary of the treasury board until the organization of the department in 1789; a member of the state legislature; and assistant secretary of the treasury under Hamilton until 1790. He died May 7, 1799, in

He was appointed

New York

City.

Duer, William, lawyer, congressman, was born May 25, 1805, in New York City. He served in the legislature of New York on was district attorney for two occasions Oswego county. In 1847-51 he was a representative from New York to the thirtieth and thirty-first congresses. He died in Oswego county, N.Y.

Duer, William Alexander, jurist, college president, author,

was born

Sept.

8,

1780, in

Rhinebeek, N.Y. He was president of Columbia college in 1829-42. He was the author of Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States.

York

He

died

May

30,

1858, in

New

City.

Duerink, John Baptist, missionary, was in 1809, in Belgium. He was an accomplished botanist; and traversed a great portion of Illinois and Ohio in search of rare plants and fiowers, discovering several new varieties, one of which is known as the prunus Duerinkiana. The mission of the Pottawattamies, which he conducted, owed its great success to him. He died in 1857 in Kansas.

born

Duff, John, actor, was born in 1787 in Ireland. He was for many years the most popular actor in the old Philadelphia company. His versatility seems to have been almost unbounded. He could act Richard or Jeremy Diddler, sing a comic song or take a part in an opera, with equal acceptability. He died in April, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Post-Mortem Discoveries; and Treatment of

Duff, Peter, educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 1802, in Canada. He founded DuiTs mercantile college of Pittsburg, one of the earliest institutions of the kind. He was the

Diphtheria. Duer, John, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1782, in Albany, N.Y. He was a noted New York jurist; and his specialty

Duff, William L., soldier, was born in Scotland. In 1862 he was lieutenant-colonel in the

author of The North American Accountant. He died Sept. 13, 1869, in Pittsburg, Pa.