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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. noia in 1834-38. He died Jan. 15, 1844, in Jacksonville, Fla. Duncan, Noiman, journalist, author, wa^ born July 2, 1871, in Canada. He is now on the editorial staff of the New York Evening Post. He is the author of The Soul of the Street. Duncan, Robert K., educator, was born Nov. 1, 1868, in Canada. Since 1906 he has been professor of industrial chemistry at the university of Kansas. He has discovered a new process of manufacturing phosphorus, of a new low-melting glass and of processes of decorating glass.

conference in London; and in 1886 was consecrated methodist episcopal bishop of South Carolina. Duncanson, Henry Bruce, educator, biologist, author, was born Feb. 4, 1860, in Scotland county. Mo. He was educated in the public schools of Ohio

and Nebraska; and

teers.

of

volun-

was born

in Illi-

brigadier -general died Oct. 18, 1895.

He

Duncan, Thomas,

soldier,

He

served in the civil war; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier -general of volunteers. He died Jan. 7, 1887. Duncan, Thomas Elliott, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born Nov. 21, 1837, in Holmes county, Ohio. He is a noted lawyer of Mt. Gilead, Ohio; has been representative in the general assembly of Ohio; was states attorney; and served as judge of court of

nois.

common

pleas.

Duncan, William, soldier, legislator, founder, was born Oct. 14, 1772, in Adams county, Pa. For many years he was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. In 1829 he became surveyor of customs of Philadelphia; and held that office for two terms. He was a brigadier-general of the Pennsylvania volunteers; and was one of the founders of Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He died Feb. 16, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. Duncan, William A., lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1836, in Adams county, elected district attorney in 1862 in 1868. In 1883-85 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyeighth congress. He died Nov. 14, 1884, in

Pa.

He was

and again

Gettysburg, Pa.

clergyman, au1824, in New York of Life of John the Baptist; History of the Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era; The Years of Jesus; and Brief History ot the Baptists. He died May 1, 1864, in New

Duncan,

thor, City.

William

Cecil,

was born Jan. 24, He was the author

Orleans, La.

Duncan, William Stevens, physician, auwas born May 24, 1834, in Brownsville, Pa. He was the author of Medical Delusions; and Physiology of Death. He died thor,

May

16, 1892, in Brownsville, Pa.

Duncan, William Wallace, educator, clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. 20, 1839, in Bovdton, Va. He was a member of the Virginia conference; has been a cpllege professor; and bishop in the methodist episcopal church south at Spartanburg, S.C. In 1881 he was a delegate to the ecumenical

at-

tended the state normal school of Nebraska ; studied in the

Nebraska state uniand also at-

versity;

tended the university

Duncan, Samuel Augustus, soldier, was born in New Hampshire. In 1863 he was major in the fourteenth regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry; and in 1864

was brevetted

323

of

Leipzig.

For two

years he was instructor in the Nebraska state university ; and for seventeen years he has been professor of biology at the Nebraska state normal school. He is the author of Suggestive Lessons in Elementary Zoology ; and other works.

Duncombe, John Francis, lawyer, legislalecturer, was born Oct. 22, 1831, in

tor,

Erie county, Pa. He served as a representative and state senator in the Iowa legislature for seven terms, general and special sessions. For eighteen years he was regent of the Iowa state university; and for twelve years lectured on law of railroads in that institution. For twenty-four years he was curator of the state historical society of Iowa. During the Spirit Lake Indian war he served as captain of company B. He died Aug. 3, 1903, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Dundas, James, banker, financier, was born in 1788 in Alexandria, Va. He was president of the Pennsylvania bank. He died July 4, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. '

Dundy, Elmer S., lawyer, jurist, was born March 5, 1830, in Trumbull county, Ohio. He was a member of the upper house of the Nebraska for four years. In 1863-67 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Nebraska territory; in 1868-96 was United States district judge for the district of Nebraska. He died Oct. 28, 1896, in Omaha, Neb. territorial legislature of '

Dungan, David Roberts, clergyman,

col-

lege president, author, was born May 15, 1837, in Noble county, Ind. He was chaplain of the first state legislature of Nebraska ; and in 1872-73 was chaplain of the Nebraska; state senate. For six years he was a missionary in Nebraska; for six years was president of Cotner university of Lincoln, Neb.; and since 1900 has been president of the Christian university at Canton, Mo. He is the author of On the Rock; Modern Phases of Skepticism; Rum, Ruin and Remedy; and

other worts.

Dunglison, Richard James, physician, auwas born Nov. 13, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He was a physician of Philadelphia. He was the author of Practitioner's Reference Book; Elementary Physiology; and edited thor,