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 DALTON

DALY

before the war, and was elected major, May, 1874, and lieutenant-colonel, March, 1877. In 1881 he was appointed by Governor Long inspec- tor of ordnance with the rank of colonel, and in 1883 Governor Butler appointed him adjutant- general with rank of brigadier-general. He was promoted major-general by Governor Robinson. He continued to serve as adjutant-general through the administrations of Governors Ames, Brackett, Russell, Greenhalge and Wolcott, serving as inspector-general, quartermaster-gen- eral and paymaster-general. He was married in 1863 to Hannah F., daughter of William F. Nichols of Salem, Mass.

DALTON, Tristram, senator, was born in Newbury, Mass., May 28, 1738. He attended Dunimer academy, By field, Mass., and was grad- uated from Harvard in 1755. He inherited from his father a large fortune and studied law as an accomplishment. He devoted his time to the cultivation of a large landed estate called " Spring Hill " in West Newbury, where he entertained, among other eminent men, George Wasliington, John Adams, Louis Philippe and Talleyrand. He represented his state in the convention of committees of the New England provinces, Dec. 25, 1776. He served in the state legislature as representative, speaker of the house, and senator. In 1788 he was elected a U.S. senator, and being assigned by lot the short term he served through the 1st congress, 1789-91. In the latter year, when the city of Washington, D. C., was founded, he invested his entire fortune in land there and lost all, through the misman- agement of his business agent. At the same time a vessel freighted with his furniture aijd valuable library was lost on the voyage frohi Newbury- port to Washington, and he was left penniless. The government at once tendered him a choice of several official positions and he accepted that of surveyor of the port of Boston. He was a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He died in Boston, Mass., May 30, 1817.

DALY, Augustin, dramatist, was born in Ply- mouth, N.C., July 20, 1838; son of Capt. Denis and Elizabetli Therese (Duflfey) Daly. He was educated in Norfolk, Va., and in New York city, where he Avas taken in 184. by his widowed mother, with his younger brother, afterward Justice Joseph Francis Daly. In 1859 he obtained employment on the staff of the Xeio York Sunday Courier as dramatic editor and afterward filled a similar position on the New York Express, Sun and Times. In 1862 he produced his first play, " Leah the Forsaken," adapted from Mosenthal's "Deborah." This was plaj'ed fii'st at the Howard Athenjpum, Boston, and later at Niblo's Garden, New York, and its immediate success encouraged him to prepare with Frank Ward

"La Papillone," which was played in 1864. " Lorlie's Wedding " followed close upon it, and later came " Judith " and " The Sorceress." He dramatized Charles Reade's " Griffith Gaunt " (1866), and the following year wrote his first entirely original drama, entitled " Under the Gaslight." This had long and successful runs in every part of the world and the railroad effect was plagiarized • by Bou- cicault and copied in France and Ger- many. He dramatized Mr. Beecher's "Nor- wood •' in 1868 and in 1869 resigned his position on the staffs / of the various news- l^apers to begin his ^ career of manage- ^^/Jj^/AI^^U jC^^U J^'

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and became manager of the first Fifth avenue theatre in New York, Aug. 23, 1869, his first production being Robertson's comedy "Play," which he followed with his own plays, " Hori- zon " and " Divorce." He remained there until the destruction of the theatre by fire, Jan. 1, 1873, when lie opened the second Fifth avenue theatre on Broadway, on the site of his old " Gaslight " success. In December, 1873, he opened, with Albery's "Fortune," the third Fifth avenue theatre on Twenty-eighth street, which he man- aged until 1877, running also the Grand opera house, 1872-74. After a year of European travel he returned to New York and resumed his theat- rical work by opening Daly's theatre, Sept. 17, 1879, with " Love's Young Dream " and " New- port." Among the actors introduced to the public by Mr. Dalj' are Ada Rehan, Clara Morris, Agnes Ethel, Fanny Davenport, and John Drew the younger. He was one of the four founders of the Player's club, New York city, the others being his brother. Judge J. F. Daly, Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett. Several years before his death he opened Daly's theatre in London, and was the first American manager to secure a London theatre. His original plays include: A Flash qt Licjhtninfj (1868); Horizon (1870); Divorce (1872); and Pique (written for Fanny Davenport, 1877). His dramatizations include: Man and Wife, Frou Frou and The Pickvnck Papers. He revived several famous old English comedies, in- cluding The Belle's Straterjem, The School for Scandal, and The Cotintry Girl, and many of vSliakespeare's dramas, notably The Taming of the Shrew which he produced with Ada Rehan as Kathei-ine in London and Paris. His last success