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 DALZELL

DAMROSCH

He numbered among his clients the Roosevelt family and the Chemical national bank. He was attorne\- for the Citizens' association and prose- cuted for John Hecker and Christopher Pullman their celelarated suits against New York city departments, which suits led to both plaintiffs being at different times personally assailed by ring mobs. Mr. Daly in 186.3 conducted proceed- ings against a number of city officials before Governor Fenton at Albany, and with him were associated John McKeon and Judges Whitney and Emott. He was secretarj- of the board of legal advisers of the Citizens' association, which board included Charles O'Conor, Charles Tracy, B. D. Silliman, Dorman B. Eaton and others, leaders of the New York bar. In 1870 Mr. Daly was elected a judge of the court of common pleas for fourteen years. At that time the Tweed ring was at the height of its power and Mr. Dalj^ was the conspicuous prosecutor of municipal frauds, but the leaders, in proof of their intention to select good judicial officers under the amended state constitution, placed him and Hamilton W. Robinson, Richard L. Larre- more and Charles H. Van Brunt in nomination. In 1884 he was re-elected with Judge R. L. Lar re- more, they being the only candidates elected on their ticket, and Judge Daly became chief jus- tice of the court upon the retirement of Chief- Justice Larremore in 1890 by the votes of his associates. When the courts were consolidated in 1896, Judge Daly, with the other judges of the court of common pleas, became justices of the supreme court. His term of office expired Dec. 31, 1898.

DALZELL, John, representative, was born in New York city, April 19, 1845; son of Samuel and Mary (McDonnell) Dalzell, and. a descendant of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was educated in the public schools of Pittsburg, Pa., where he was taken during his infancJ^ and also attended the Western university of Pennsylvania and Yale college, being graduated from the latter in I860. He studied law in the office of John H. Hampton, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and shortly afterward became the partner of his preceptor. The law firm of Hampton & Dalzell continued for twenty years, representing almost all the rail- road companies centring in Pittsburg, and many wealthy corporations. In 1887 the firm became Dalzell, Scott & Gordon. He was elected to the 50th, 51st, 52d, 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 1887-1905. serving on committees on Pacific railroads, on elections, on ways and means and on rules. In 1893 and again in 1899 Mr. Dalzell was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. senator. In 1898 he visited Cuba and Porto Rico to study the conditions of the newly ac- quired possessions for use in future legislation.

DAMRELL, Charles Lowe, bookseller, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., Nov. 16, 1826; son of Moses and Elizabeth (Lowe) Damrell. His father was a shipowner and was at one time employed in the revenue service. The son acquired his education in the common schools of his native place. In 1849 he removed to Boston and worked first in the bookstore of James Monroe & Co., and later in that of A. Williams & Co. In 1869 Mr. Williams bought out the business of E. P. Dutton & Co., at the OlcL Corner bookstore. Mr. Damrell continued business at the old stand of A. Wil- liams & Co., under the firm name Crosby & Damrell, for one j'ear. In 1870 he entered the Old Corner bookstore as a partner, and later Mr. Williams sold out his interest and the firm be- came Cupples, Upham & Co. In 1886 Mr. Cup- pies disposed of his share and the firm name was changed to Damrell & Upham. The building known as the Old Corner bookstore was erected in 1713 b}^ Thomas Crease, and was used as a dwelling and apothecary shop bj- Mr. Crease, and also by Dr. Samuel Clarke, father of James Free- man Clarke. It was first used as a bookstore in 1828, by Carter & Hendee, and then in succession by Allen & Ticknor, William D. Ticknor, Tick- nor & Fields, E. P. Dutton & Co., A. Williams & Co., Cupples, Upham & Co., and Damrell & Upham. Mr. Damrell never married. He died in Boston. Mass., March 28, 1896.

DAMRELL, William Shapleigh, representa- tive, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., Nov. 29,

1809; son of and Catherine (Shapleigh)

Damrell. He never attended school, acquiring his education in a printing office. He removed to Boston, where he became the proprietor of what grew to be an extensive printing establish- ment. He was a representative from Massa- chusetts in the 34th congress, having been elected by the American party, and in the 35th con- gress, having been elected by the Republicans. His term of service in congress extended from 1835 to 1859. He was married April 9, 1829, to Adeline Augusta Neef of New Castle, N.H., and their son, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew N. Dam- rell, U.S. engineer, was stationed at Mobile, Ala., during the war with Spain, 1898. He died in Dedham, Mass., May 17, 1860.

DAMROSCH, Leopold, musician, was born at Posen, Prussia. Oct. 22, 1832. At a very early- age his talent for music displayed itself, but as it was discouraged by his parents, he devoted himself to the study of medicine, and was grad- uated from the University of Berlin, M.D., in 1854. His education as a violinLst, which had commenced in 1841, was completed in 1847 under the guidance of Hubert Ries, Dehn and Bohnier giving him, meanwhile, theoretical in- struction. In 1856 he made his first public