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infantry, serving throughout the Mexican war. He left the U.S. militar}- academy in 1852 and in 1857 he was commissioned second lieutenant, 3d U.S. artillery. He accompanied several expe- ditions against hostile Indians in the west and received honorable mention for gallantry from General Scott. In March, 1863, he was promoted captain and was stationed at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac until August, 1862, when he was appointed colonel of the 100th regi- ment N.Y. volunteers. He participated in the capture of Folly Island, Morris Island, and Battery Wagner, S.C., 1863, and in the battles at Port Walthall Junction, Drewry's Bluff, Deep Bottom, Deep Run, Fussell's Mill and the siege of Petersburg, Va., in 1864. In March, 1865, in command of the third brigade, first division, 24th army corps, he took part in the capture of Fort Gregg and was present at the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox court house. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in the field. He built Fort Phil Kearnj', Big Horn Mountains, 1866-67; Fort Abraham Lincoln, N.D., 1873-75; was in charge of the depot at Yuma, Ariz., 1868; and after that was stationed at Buffalo, N.Y., Portland, Ore., Van- couver, AV.T., St. Louis, Mo., Omaha, Neb., and in 1887 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant- colonel and placed in charge of the general depot quartermaster's department, W^ashington, D.C. In 1892 he was transferred to San Antonio as chief quartermaster, department of Texas and to Omaha, Neb., in 1893 as chief quartermaster, department of the Platte. He was retired by operation of law. Feb. 11, 1894.

DANE, Joseph, representative, was born in Beverh^, Mass., Oct. 25, 1778; son of Dr. John and Jemima (Fellows) Dane ; a nephew of Nathan Dane, delegate in the Continental congress ; and of the Rev. Francis Dane, second minister of Andover, Mass. ; and a descendant of Dr. John Dane, who immigrated to Agawam, Mass. , from England about 1636. Joseph was prepared for college at Phillips Andover academy, graduated from Harvard in 1799. was admitted to the bar in July, 1802, and practised in Kennebunk, Maine. He was a member of the state constitu- tional conventions of 1816 and 1819, and was the sole representative from Maine in the 16th con- gress, succeeding John Holmes, elected to the U.S. senate. He was also a representative in tlie 17th congress, 1821-23, resigning before the completion of his term. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1824, 1826, 1832, 1833, 1839 and 1840, and a state senator in 1829. He was married in October, 1808, to Mary, daughter of the Hon. Joseph, and granddaughter of the Rev. Jonas Clark. He died in Kennebunk. Maine. Mav 1, 1858.

DANE, Nathan, delegate, was born in Ids- wich, Mass.. Dec. 27, 1752; son of Daniel and Abigail (Burnham) Dane ; greats-grandson of John and Agnes (Chandler) Dane, who came from England in 1636 and settled in Agawam, Mass., with his brother, the Rev. Francis Dane, who was ordained in 1648 second minister of the church at Andover. Nathan was graduated at Harvard in 1778, and in 1782 became a lawyer in Beverly, Mass. He was a representative in tiie Massachusetts legislature, 1782-'85 ; a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental congress, 1785-88, and when Massachusetts and the other states ceded their territorial rights to the gen- eral government he was a member of the com- mittee on territory, of which James Monroe was chairman. He introduced in the report of 1786 the right of habeas corpus and of trial by jury as conditions of admission of the Nortliwest Terri- tory. He submitted the report of the committee to congress, amended by a provision for the abo- lition of slavery, as suggested by Manasseh Cutler and on July 5, 1786, the ordinance was unani- mously adopted. In the same ordinance he incorporated a prohibition against laws impairing the obligation of contracts, which was afterward made a part of the constitution of the United States. He was a member of the state senate, 1790-91 and 1794-97. In 1795 he was a con.mis- sioner to revise the laws of Massachusetts. He was a presidential elector, 1812, a member of the Hartford convention of 1814, and was elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1820, but did not serve on account of deafness. He was a Bible student, devoting his Sabbaths, when not attending public worship, to stud3'ing from the original languages. He gave, in 1829, 810,000, increased in 1831 to $15,000, to found the Dane professorship of law in Harvard law school, conditioned on the appointment to the chair of his friend, Joseph Strong, who held it, 1829-45. Dane Hall, erected in 1832, was named in his

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honor. He was a member of the Massachusetts agricultural society and president of the Society for the suppression of intemperance. In 1816 Harvard conferred on him the honorary degree