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DE LONG

and Puritan (1889) ; A Fair Blockade Breaker (1890) ; John Holden, Unionist (1893) ; The Puritan's Daughter (1894) ; Crag Xest (1897) ; Pride of the Mercers (1897) ; A Xovelette Trilogy (1897) ; An In- nocent Cheat (1898); Out of the Sulphxtr (1898). Historical sketches : Four Years in Behel Capitals (1878, rev. author's auto, ed., 1895). Burlesques: The Rock or the Bye (28th ed., 1891) ; Society as I have Foundered It (1894) ; Schooners that Bump on the Bar (1895). Plays: Hamlet, Ye Dismal Prince (1870), the first American play to run 100 nights. played by G. L. Fox, New York city; Pluck (1871) ; Jasper, or Mystei-y of Edwin Drood; Paris, or Days of the Commune (1872) ; Bet, or through Fire and Water (1873). He is also the author of numer- ous contributions to magazines and newspapers. DEL MAR, Alexander, mining engineer and economist, was born in New York city, Aug. 9, 1836; son of Jacques and Belvidera Del Mar. Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were among the earliest settlers in the British colonies in America. His father, a descendant of the Del Mar family of Tioga county, Pa., was born in Spain, and was for twenty-five years an officer of the U.S treasury; and his mother was born in Baltimore, Md. Alex- ander was educated in the public and poh'- technic schools, and at. the University of the city of New York, . . and in 1854 was ap-

^W^/^-^A-^i?^^ pointed financial editor of the American Daily Times. He subsequently became the man- aging editor of Bunt's Merchant's Magazine and the Financial and Commercial Chronicle. He was editor of the Social Science Beview, 1864-66 ; and in the latter year organized the U.S. bureau of statistics, of w-hich he was the director, 1866-69. In 1872 he was nominated by Mr. Greeley's friends for the secretaryship of the treasury. The same year he represented the United States at the International statistical congress in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1876 he was appointed mining commissioner to the U.S. monetary com- mission, and in 1878, clerk of the committee on naval expenditures, U.S. house of representa- tives. His works include : Gold Money and Paper Money (1862); Essays in Political Economy (1865); The National Banking System (1865) ; The Inter- national Almanac, or Statistical Handbook (1866) ; Wliat is Free Trade? (1868) ; Letter on the Finances (1868) ; The Suppressed Report on the Tariff (1869) ; The Resources, Production, and Social Condition of

Egypt, Spain, Prussia, France, Russia, Bavaria, etc. (1874) ; History of the Precious Metals (1880) ; His- tory of Money in Ancient States (1884) ; The Science of Money (1885) ; History of Monetary Systems (1896) ; Politics of Money (1896) ; Money and Civ- ilization (1896) ; Ancient Britain (1898) ; The Hal- cyon Age of England (1898), etc. In 1899 he was engaged in completing his Middle Ages Revisited, the result of twelve years' study in the great libraries of London, Paris and Rome.

DELLET, James, representative, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1788, of Irish parents. He was taken to South Carolina in infancy and was graduated from South Carolina college in 1810. He was admitted to the bar in 1813, and was ap- pointed a commissioner in equity. In 1816 he removed to Claiborne, Ala., where he was a judge of the circuit court. In October, 1819, he became a representative in the first general assembly of the state, and in the twelve years following he was four times elected to the legislature and was speaker in 1821. He was a representative in the 26th congress, 1839-41, and in the 28th congress, 1843-45. He died at Clai- borne, Ala., Dec. 21, 1848.

DE LONG, Charles E., diplomatist, was one of the early. settlers in California, a member of the California assembly, 1858-59, and a state senator, 1861-63. He removed to Nevada where he engaged in mining. He was appointed U.S. minister resident to Japan, April 21, 1869, by President Grant, was raised to the dignity of minister plenipotentiary, July 14, 1870, and served till Oct. 7, 1873, when he was succeeded by John A. Bingham. He died in Virginia City, Nev., Oct. 26, 1876.

DE LONG, George Washington, naval officer, was born in New York city, Aug. 22, 1844. He was graduated at the U.S. naval academy in 1865 and was promoted ensign Dec. 1, 1866; mas- ter, March 12, 1868; lieutenant, March 29, 1869; and lieutenant-commander, Nov. 1, 1879. He served with the European squadron, 1865-69, and again 1873-74 ; with the South Atlantic squad- ron, 1870; on the North Atlantic station, 1874, and as executive officer on the schoolship St. 3Ianfs, New York harbor, 1875-78. His first Arctic experience was while serving under Capt. D. L. Brine on the Juniata in 1873, in the search for the missing steamer Polaris and its crew. With the steam launch of the Juniata, he left Upernivik, Aug. 2, 1873, with Lieut. C. W. Chipp and seven men, and crossing Melville Bay, reached to within ten miles of Cape York, but was prevented by a wild gale from landing and pursuing the search. Upon the purchase and fitting out of the Pandora by James Gordon Ben- nett, who rechristened the vessel the Jeannette, the government of the United States, by special