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 DIMITRY

DIMMOCK

ment, 1861-65. In 1868 he became assistant-super- intendent of public schools in New Orleans, and in 1870 he was appointed to the chair of ancient languages in the Christian Brothers' college at Pass Cliristian, Miss. He was married in Wash- ington, D.C., in 1835, to Mary Powell, daughter of Robert Mills, for many years United States government architect, her mother having been Eliza Barnwell Smith, daughter of Gen. John Smith of "Hack wood," Frederick county, Vir- ginia. In 1867 Georgetown college conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He was the author of many contributions to periodical literature. He died in New Orleans, La., Jan. 30, 1883.

DIMITRY, Charles Patton, author and Jour- nalist, was born in Washington, D.C., July 31, 1837 ; second son of Alexander and Mary Powell (Mills) Dirnitrj'. His first American ancestors on his mother's side were Col. Miles Cary of War- wick county, Va., about 1646, and Thomas Smith, known usually as Landgrave Smith, who was governor of South Carolina under the lords-proprietors of that colony, 1690- 94. His paternal giandfather fought as <i volvmteer from New Orleans at the battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815, and among his maternal ancestors were two soldiers of 'loJ^/a^^^^K^.i^fi^ the. Revolutionary ^ — ::y^ war, his gre^t-grand- father, Gen. John Smith of '" Hackwood," Fred- erick county, Va., and his great^ grandfather. Gen. John Bull, of the vicinity of Norristown, Pa. He attended Georgetown (D.C.) college in 1856, and in April, 1861, joined the Confederate army. After the close of the civil war he resumed the active practice of the profession of journal- ism, chiefly in the capacity of editorial writer, and at various periods between 1865 and 1890 was employed on the Patriot, the Post, and the Sunday Gazette of Washington, D.C, the World, Graphic, News and Star of New York, the Union of Brook- lyn, and the Bee, South Illustrated, and Louisiana Eeview of New Orleans, La. He became a mem- ber of the Louisiana society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was made the state historian of the society. Georgetown college conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1867. He is the author of many contributions, including poems, to periodical literature and of several novels, of which the best known is the House in Balfour Street (1868). In 1891-93 he pub- lished in the Times Democrat of New Orleans.

under the title "Louisiana Families," a series of sketches, biographical and historical, accom- panied with portraits of many of the old colonial families of Louisiana, and in 1897-98 he published in the Picayune of the same city, a history, in paragraphs, of the colony and state of Louisiana, in a series of articles entitled "Louisiana Story in Little Chapters."

DIMITRY, John Bull Smith, author, was born in Washington, D.C, Dec. 27, 1835; son of Alexander and Mary (Mills) Dimitry; and grand- son of Andrea and Celeste (Dragon) Dimitry, and of Robert Mills. He was graduated at College Hill, Miss., and in 1859, on the appointment of his father as United States minister to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, he became secretary of legation and remained in Central America until the out- break of the civil war. He then joined the Con- federate army and served until 1864, receiving a severe wound at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 1863. In 1864 he became chief clerk in the Confederate post-office department. In 1865 he wrote a tribute in epitaphic form to the memory of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, which was published in England and appeared in several foreign journals. It was afterward carved on the tomb of the Veteran association. Army of the Tennessee, New Orleans. In 1865 he became dramatic and literary editor of the New Orleans Times. In 1869 he went abroad for study and travel and on his return in 1870 resumed relations with the Times. In 1872 he went to Washington, D.C, where he engaged in journalism. He re- moved to New York in 1873. In 1874 he went to South America and for two years held the chair of languages in Colegio Caldas, Barrauquilla, Co- lombia. Returning to New York he was for several years comiected with the Mail and Express. In 1884 he wrote : ie Tombeau Blanc, a story of leprosy, for which he received a $500 prize offered by the Story Teller. He published History and Geography of Louisiana (1877) : and Tliree Good Giants (1888). In 1890 he aided, in conjunction with Mrs. Varina Jefferson-Davis in preparing the Life of Jefferson Davis. In 1897 he was selected to write Tlie Military History {Confederate) of Louisiana in the Civil War (1898). He died in New Orleans, La., Sept. 7, 1901,

DIMMICK, William H., representative, was bom in Milford, Pa., Dec. 20, 1815. He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and in 1836 and 1837 was prosecuting attorney for Wayne covmty. He was a member of the state senate in 1845, 1846 and 1847, and a representative in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61, He died at Honesdale, Pa., Aug. 2, 1861.

DIMMOCK, Charles, "soldier, was born in Massachusetts, in 1800. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1821, and served