Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 03.djvu/231

 DE MILLE

DEMMON

by the classis of New York in 1837 and was pas- tor at New Prospect, N.J., 1837-49, and Minisink, N.Y., 1850-52. He was ijrincipal of Harrisburg academy, N.Y., 1852-54, preached at Pascack, N.J., 1854-67, and in 1867 returned to New Pros- pect, N.J., where he was pastor until 1885 and pastor emeritus from that jear. He later re- moved to New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers con- ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1857. His published works include: Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Begeneration (1842) ; Exposition of First Peter (1851) ; Exposition of Second Peter (1862) ; Christocracy ; or Essays on the Coming and Kingdom f Christ (with Dr. W. R. Gordon, 1867) ; and Commentary on the Catholic Ejnstles (1879). He died in New Brunswick, N.J., Jan. 20, 1897.

DE MILLE, Henry Churchill, playwright, was born in "Washington, N.C., in 1850. He was graduated at Cohimbia college in 1875 and was a teacher in Locksvood academy, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1875-78. He taught in the Columbia college grammar school, 1878-82, and on the opening of the Madison Square theatre in New York in 1882, he was employed as a reader of the plays offered there for production. In 1883 he wrote Duty ; or, Dehnar's Daughters, wliich was brought out at the Madison Square theatre. In 1884 he produced at the same theatre, Sealed Instntctions, a comedy, and made his debut on the stage in Young Mrs. Wintlirop. Then in collaboration with David Belasco he wrote May Blossom, Lord Chumley, TJie Wife, The Charity Ball nnd Men and Women. He later wrote The Main Line, and 77i6 Lost Para- dise, which established his name as a playwright. He married, in 1876, Matilda, daughter of S3-lves- ter and Cecilia (Wolff) Samuel, of Loiidon, Eng. He died at Pompton, N. J., Feb. 5, 1893.

DEMING, Henry Champion, representative, was born in Middle Haddam, Conn., in 1815. He was graduated at Yale in 1836 and at Harvard law school in 1838. He practised law in New York city and while in New York edited with Park Benjamin the Xeio World, a literary maga- zine. He transferred his law office to Hartford, Conn., in 1847; was a representative in the state legislature, 1849-50; a state senator in 1851 and again a representative, 1859-61, serving as speaker of the house in 1861. He was mayor of Hartford, 1854-58, and 1860-62. He was a state rights Democrat up to 1861. In September, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 12th Connecticut volunteers and accompanied General Butler's expedition to New Orleans. When the city Avas captured, the 12th Connecticut had the post of honor as guard to the custom house and Colonel Deming was acting maj-or of the city from October, 1862, to February, 1863, when he resigned from the arm}-. He returned to Hart- ford and in April, 1863, was elected a representa-

tive in the 38th congress and was a member of the committee on military affairs and chairman of the committee on expenditures in the war department. He was re-elected to the 39th congress, was retained on the two committees, and on the death of President Lincoln was on the committee to direct his obsequies. In 1866 he was a delegate to the Loyalist convention in Philadelphia and the same year was a member of the committee appointed to attend the funeral of General Scott. He was apiwinted by President Grant collector of internal revenue for his district, serving 1869-72. He published: trans- lations of Sue's Mysteries of Paris and Wandering Jew (1840) ; Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln (1865) ; and Life of Ulysses S. Grant (1868). He died in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 9, 1872.

DEMING, Philander, author, was oorn in Car- lisle, N.Y., Feb. 6, 1829; son of the Rev. Rufus Romeo and Julia Ann (Porter) Deming ; grand- son of Davis and Elizabeth (Curtis) Deming and of Dr. Norton and Sarah (Cobb) Porter; and a descendant of Thomas Deming of Weathersfield, Conn. (1635). He was fitted for college at Whitestown seminary, and was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1861. He engaged in legislative reporting and in correspondence for the newspapers, 1861-66, and made stenographic reports of trials at the circuits of the supreme court of the state of New York, 1866-82. In 1872 he was graduated from the Albany law school and admitted to the bar. In 1879 he was chosen president of the New York state law stenogra- phers' association. In 1873 he began to write sketches and stories of Adirondack life, and scenes in the courts, published principall}" in the Atlantic Monthly. He is also the author of: Adi- rondack Stories (1880) ; and Tompkins and Other Folks (1885).

DEMMON, Isaac Newton, educator, was born at Centre of Northfield, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1842; son of Leonard and Nancy (Boughey) Demnion; and grandson of David and Susan (Torrey) Demmon, and of John and Julia Ann (Cackler) Boughey. His paternal grandfather was a native of Massa- chusetts and resided for many years at Chester- field. His maternal grandfather came frc«n Shropshii'e, England, early in the nineteenth century, and settled on the Western Reserve, Ohio. He removed with his parents in 1844 to Noble county, Ind., then an almost unbroken forest. He taught school, 1860-63, and attended the North Western Christian (afterward Butler) university, Indianapolis, 1863-64. In 1864 he re- sponded to a call for volunteers, and on i-eturning from the war entered the University of Michigan and was graduated in 1868. He was professor of Greek in Mount Union college. Alliance, Ohio, 1868-70; professor of ancient languages.