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for a year devoted his time to his private practice. In INW the college was reorganized, becoming the medical college of South Carolina, and he resumed his cliair, retaining it until 1847, when he accepted that of medicine in the University of the city of New York. In 1850 he returned to his professor- sliip in Charleston and remained there until 18.")8, when he became professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in JelTerson medical college, Philadelpliia, Pa. The University of the city of New York conferred ujton him the degree of LL.D. in 1S.">3. He is the author of: Dcnr/ue; its History, Ptithntn^y and Treatment (1826); Mannal of Pathol- ogy and Practice of Medicine (2 vols.); Essays on Patholnijy and Therapeutics (2 vols., 184o); Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, etc. (1852); Elements of Medicine (1855); and Studies in Patholof/y and Therapeutics (1867). He died in Philadelphia, Pa.. March 31, 1872.

DIDIER, Eugene Lemoine, author, was born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 22, 1848; son of Dr. Frank- lin J. and Julia (Lemoine) Didier, and grandson of Henry Didier of Montpelier, France, who came to America in 1776. He took a four years* course in English at St. Vincent's academy, Baltimore, Md., and entered Loyola college in the same city, but left in 1865, intending to pursue a mercantile career. After tliree years in a counting room, during which time he continued his classical stud- ies, he determined to devote himself to literature. He wa-s private secretary of Chief Justice Chase, 1869-70, and at the same time wrote frequently for reviews and other periodicals. In 1881 he edited Timou. a literarj- and satirical journal pub- lished in Baltimore, having previously edited SoHthf-rn Soriity. In the autumn of 1883 he visited Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece and Turkej% acting as special correspondent of the Boston Literary World, and the San Francisco Alta Cali- fornia. He lived in New York, 1884-87, and in 1888 resumed his residence in Baltimore, continu- ing actively in literary pursuits. In 1889 he founded the Xo Name Marjazine, which he edited for three years. In 1893 he founded and edited Sucre.tx. which was a failure and was discontinued in April, 1894. He tlien resumed general literary work and contributed to leading American maga- zines. His published works include: Life of Edgar Allan Poe (1876,18th ed.. 1892); Life of Madam Jionaparte (1879); A Primer of Criticism (lHs:>,.

DIELMAN, Frederick, artist, was born in Hanover, Germany, Dec. 25. 1847. He was brought to America in infancy and passed his youtli in western Maryland. He was graduated from Calvert college in 1864, and in 1866 was ap- pointed topographer and draughtsman in the U.S. engineer office, serving in Baltimore, Fort Mon- roe, and on canal surveys in Virginia. In 1872 he

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entered the Royal academy in Munich. In 1876 he settled in New York city, where he becama well known as an illustrator and genre ]iainter. He was "a ciiarter member of the Society of Amer- ican artists, and a memljer of tJie Tile club, the American water-color society, the Salmagundi sketch clul). the New York etching club, and the Century asso- ciation. In 1883 he was elected a Na- tional academician. He married, in 1883, Lilla M., daughter of Ma j. -Gen. Henry W. Benham. In 1896 he accompli.shed his first important work as a mural decorator. — the two mo.saic panels in the congressional reading-room at Washington. The subjects of these panels are "Law" and "History."' In 1899 he was elected president of the National Academy of Design. His principal i)aintiiigs are: The Mard' Plaijer.'i (1883): A Colonial Wedding (1894); Old Time Favorites: A Bod Weed: Christine.

DIETRICH, Charles Henry, U. S. senator, was born in .\iuoia. 111.. Nov. 20. 1853; son of Leonanl and Wiliielmina Dietrich. He became president of the German National bank. Hastings. Neb., in 1878, and was elected governor of Nebraska in 1900. but resigned, and was elected U. S. senator (Republiciui) fiom Nebraska. March 28, 1901.

DILLER. Joseph Silas, geologist, was born in Plainfield, Pa.. Aug. 27. 1850; son of Samuel and Catharine (Bear) Diller. In 1873 he became a teacher in the ^lassacliusetts normal school at Westtield, remaining there until 1875. He then entered Lawrence scientific school of Harvard and received his B.S. degree in 1879. He accompanied the Assos expedition in the capacity of geologist. 1881-83, and in tiie latter year was appointed assistant geologist on the U.S. geological survej-. He is the author of Xotes on the Heology of the Troad (1883); Diamonds in the United States (1886); Notes on the Geology of Xorthern California (1886); Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, (1887); Sandstone Dikes (1890); A Late Volcanic Eruption in Xorthern California and its Peculiar Lava (1891): Mica- Peridotite from Kentucky (1S92); Geology of the Taylnrrilh' Pegion of California (1892); Creta- ceous and Early Tertiary of Xorthern California and Oregon (ISdS); Mount Shasta, A Typical Volcano (1895); Tertiary Pevolution in the Topography of the Pacific Coast (1895); A Geological P('Connais.'<anre in Xorthirrstrrn Oregon (1896); Crater Lake, Onynn (1897).