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father's History of Medicine. 4, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pa.

died

March

Dunglison, Robley, physician, author, was born Jan. 4, 1798, in England. He was professor in Jefferson medical college from 1836. He was the author of a Medical Dictionary, which has a very wide reputation; Human Physiology; Elements of Hygiene; Genferal Therapeutics; The Medical Student; The Practice of Medicine; and Commentaries on Diseases

Stomach and Bowels

the

of

Children. He died April delphia, Pa.

Dunham,

1,

in

1869, in Phila-

physician, author, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in New York City. He was the author of Homoeopathy the Science Carroll,

of Therapeutics; and Lectures in Materia Medica. He died Feb. 18, 1877, in Irvingtonon-Hudson, N.Y.

Dunham, Cyrus L., lawyer, congressman, was born in New York. He was elected to the legislature of Indiana in 1846 and 1847. In 1849-55 he was a representative from Indiana

the

to

thirty-second

thirty-first,

and thirty-third congresses; and he served again in the legislature at a subsequent period.

He

died

Oct.

15,

1856,

in

Valley

Farm, Ind.

Dunham, Edward

Kellogg, physician, pa-

thologist, scientist, was born Sept. 1, 1860, in Newburgh, N.Y. In 1881 he graduated with the degree of Ph.B. from Columbia university; and in 1886 with the degree of M.D. from Harvard. Since 1899 he has been professor of pathology in the university and

Bellevue hospital medical college.

Dunham,

Emma

was born in She composed a number of cantatas. She is the author of The Home Opera Margaret. She died in Auburn, Maine. Dunham, Henry Morton, musician, composer, was born July 27, 1853, in Brockton, Mass. In 1878-99 he was teacher in New England conservatory of music. He was the author of Organ School, in four Books. He died in 1900 in Boston, Mass. B. S., poet,

1826 in Auburn, Maine.

pioneer, clergyman, was 1827, in Chesterfield, N.H. He received his education in the public schools; and in the theological seminaries of New

Dunham, John,

born Aug.

Dunham, Moses Earle, clergyman, author, was born in 1825 in New York. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Utica, N.Y. He was the author of Here and Hereafter; The Philosophy of Prayer; and Limitations in Biblical Knowledge. Died 1898 in Utica, N.Y. Dunham, Kansom W., merchant, congressman, was born March 21, 1838, in Savoy, Mass. He was president of the Chicago board of trade in 1882. In 1883-89 he was a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican. He, died in 1896 in Chicago, 111.

Dunham, Samuel Clark, soldier, printer, journalist, author, was born Feb. 32, 1855, in Eureka, 111. In 1877 he was a volunteer in the Bitter Root battle of Big Hole in the Nez Perces campaign; in 1897-99 was statistical expert in the United States department of labor. In 1886-97 he was stenographer in the department of labor at Washington; and for twelve years was private secretary to the late Senator Daniel W. Voorhces of Indiana. In 1897 he was assigned to the Klondike gold fields; in 1899 was the first special agent in the twelfth United States census; and had charge of the census for the northern district of Alaska. Since 1902 he has been editor of the Tonopah Miner of Nevada. He is the author of The Goldsmith of Nome; The Missing Link in Shorthand; and Dust from the Desert. Dunham, Sylvester Clark, lawyer, insurance president, was born April 24, 1846, in Mansfield, Conn. For twelve years he practiced law in Hartford, Conn. Since 1901 he has been president of the Travelers' insurance company; and is also president of the Travelers' indemnity company. Dunham, Thomas Harrison, soldier, was born in Massachusetts. In 1861 he was corporal in the eleventh regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Dunham, William Russell, physician, author, was born Dec. 15, 1832, in Chesterfield, N. H. Was educated in the public and private schools of New

England; and attended

7,

England. In

1852

was ordained a

Berkshire medical college; in 1865 graduated from the medical school of Harvard university. Until 1876 he practiced medicine at Westmoreland, N. H.; and since then at Keene, N.H., but has now retired from active practice. He is

he

clergy-

man and

spent fifteen years in pioneer work in Indiana along the

Wabash

river

and

its

branches; and he also preached to the Miami Indians, which resulted in the formation of a mission school and several baptist churchHe also attained prominence as a gospel es. singer and poet, and now resides in Cass City, Mich.

versed in astronomy; and has invented ingenious astronomical apparatus. For four years he was a member of the examining board of military surgeons for pensions; and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. He is the author of Theory of Medical Science; and

many

valuable medical pamphlets.