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DEVIN, Thomas C, soldier, was born in New York city in iy'22. He was educated at the jiub- lic school and learned the trade of painter. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 1st N.Y.S.M. regi- ment in 1801 and recruited in June of that year the first cavalry company sent by Governor Mor- gan to the defence of Washington. He was commissioned its captain and it formed a part of the 1st New York volunteer cavalry regiment. At the end of his three months' service he re- turned to the front as colonel of the 6th New York volunteer cavalry, and liis service in this regiment Avas with the cavalry corps, army of the Potomac. He commanded a brigade at Five Forks, and captured the Confederate earthworks. At Front Royal his regiment captured two stands of colors, during which effort he was severely wounded. He received for this action the brevet of brigadier-general, Aug. 15, 1864. At the close of the civil war he was commis- sioned lieutenant-colonel of the 8th U.S. cavalry, July 28, 1866, and on March 2, 1867, was brev- etted colonel, U.S.A., for gallantry at Fisher's Hill, and brigadier-general for Sailor's Creek. General Grant is said to have ranked General Devin as second only to General Sheridan as a cavalry officer. He was promoted colonel of the 3d U.S. cavalry, June 23, 1877. He was married in 1855 to Elizabeth Maj' Campbell, a native of Scotland, and a direct descendant of Sir Colin Campbell. She was taken to New York in 1841, at the age of four, and died at Highland Falls, N.Y., April 3, 1897. During the civil war she spent much of her private means for medical sup- plies for the army. General Devin died, in New York cit}', April 4, 1878.

DEVINE, Edward Thomas, .social economist, was born in Union, Hardin county, Iowa, May 6, 1867; son of John and Laura (Hall) Devine, and grandson of Frederick and Clarissa (Hotohkiss) Hall. His first American ancestors lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut, 1650 to 1700. He prepared for college at Albion seminary and was graduated at Cornell college, Iowa, A.B., 1887, and A.M., 1890. He studied in Halle, Germany, 1890-91; was a fellow of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1891-95, and received the degree of Ph.D. from that institution in 1892. He was staff lecturer on economics, American society for the extension of university teaching, Philadelphia, 1893-98, and secretary of the soci- ety, 1895-98. He was elected a member of the council of the American economic association, of the council of the American academy of po- litical and social science, and of the New York social reform club. He is the author of Econom- ics (1898), and papers on social questions pub- lished in the Annals of the American academy of arts and sciences, Charities Beview and elsewhere.

DEVINE, Joseph McMurray, governor of North Dakota, was born in Wheeling, Va., March 15, 1801; son of Hugh E. and Jane (Mc- Murray) Devine, and grandson of Jolm Devine, and of William and Isabel McMurray. He was graduated at the University of West Virginia in 1884. He was a teacher in Dakota and served as superintendent of schools for La Moure county, 1886-96. He was made state educational lecturer in 1890; was lieutenant-governor of North Da- kota, 1897-98, governor of the state in 1898, after the death of Gov. Frank A. Briggs, and lieuten- ant-governor again 1899-1900.

DE VINNE, Daniel, clergyman, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, Feb. 1, 1793. He was taken to America in infancy and spent his boy- hood in Charleston, N. Y. He joined the Method- ist Episcopal church, preached in the south, 1819-1825, and in 1826 was transferred to the New York conference. He was married in 1826 to Joanna Augusta, davighter of Samuel and Ann (Cregier) Low of New York. He wrote: Tlie Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery (1844); liecollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry (1869); and The Irish Primitive Church (1870). He died in Morrisania. N.Y., Feb. 10, 1883.

DE VINNE, Theodore Low, printer, was born in Stamford, Conn., Dec. 25, 1828; son of the Rev. Daniel and Joanna Augusta (Low) De Vinne. He acquired a common school education and learned the printer's trade in the office of the Gazette, Newburgh, N.Y., 1844-48. In 1849 he entered the estab- lishment of Francis Hart of New York city, and ten years later became junior member of the firm of Francis Hart & Co. He established a rep- utation as a compe- tent printer, and on the death of Mr. Hart in 1877 became man- ager of the business. In 1883 the firm name was changed to The- odore L. De Yinne & ^^ <-...,_.- Co. He printed St. Jn-i-O ■ aC. MjL uCu-rtX^ Nicholas from its be- ginning in 1873, and the Centwy from 1874. He was married in 1850 to Grace, daughter of Joseph Brockbank, of Willimantic, Conn. He was one of the founders and first secretary of the New York typot betas, and was president of the United typothetae of America, 1887-88. He is the author of Printers' Price List (1871); Invetition of Printing (1876); Historic Types (1886), and maga- zine articles.

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