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minister in Trinity pjirish in September, 1855. In ISoy he was m:i<le assistant ri't-tor of Trinity church and on the deatli of the Uev. Dr. Berrien was chosen rector of the parish, the largest in America. Nov. 10, 18(52. He was a delegate to the several general conventions of the P.E. cluirch and was pres- ident of the house of ileputies at the gen- eral convention after the convention in Chicago in October, 18S6; was a member of the Clioral society under Doctor Hodges that introduced the tirst choral service ever held in New York; was a trustee of Columbia college and university from 1862, of the General tlieo- logical seminary from 1863, and chairman of its standing committee, and a trustee of Hobart college from 1862. He became a trustee ax officio of Sailor's Snug Harl)or and of the Leake and Watt's orphan asylum; also a trustee of the Hou.se of Mercj'. of the Society for promoting religion and learning, and of the Cliurch orphan home; vice-president of the New York Protestant Episcopal pub- lic school, and of the society for the preven- tion of cruelty to animals. He received from Columbia the degree of A.M. in IS.jl and that of S.T.D. in 1862; from the University of the South that of D.C.L. in 1885, and from Princeton that of S.T.D. in 1^06. His pub- lislied works in- clude: iJinnmentnriea nn St. Paul's Epistle to the Romnm (1SR4). to the Galatiana and Colossians (1865); LertnroH on Pantheism (1865); Lectures on the Tico Estates, The Wedded in the Lord and the Single for the Turd's Sakp (1872); Sn-mons, Doc- trinal and Pracliral (1878); Memoirs of John A. Dix (2 vols., ias3); The First Prayer Book of Kinfj Ed- ward TV. (1881.4th ed., 1885); The CaUinr/ of a Christian Woman and Her Traininrj to FvWl It

(1883. 6th ed.. 1885); Gospel and Philosophy (1886); The Sacramental System (1893); History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of Xeio York (ISIIS).

DIXON, Archibald, senator, was born in Cas- well county, N.C., April 2, 1802; son of Wynn Dixon and grandson of Col. Henry Dixon, both Revolutionary soldiers. He was removed with his father's family to Henderson county, Ky., in 1805, where he was admitted to the bar in 1824. He was elected a representative in the state legis- lature in 1830, a state senator in 1836, and again a state representative in 1841. In 1843 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky and in 1848 was the Whig candidate for governor, but withdrew in favor of John J. Crittenden. He was a delegate to the Constitutional convention of 1849 and was named by the faction of the Whig party opposed to gradual emancipation, as candidate for governor in 1851. The emancipa- tionists nominated Cassius M. Claj'. and Lazarus W. Powell, the Democratic candidate, secured the election. In 1852 he was elected U.S. senator to fill the unexpired term of Henry Clay, de- ceased, and he completed his term, Marcli 4, 1855. He was a delegate to the peace convention in 1863 held at Frankfort, Ky. He died at Hender- son, Ky. , April 23, 1876.

DIXON, Brandt Van Blarcom, educator, was born at Paterson, N.J., Feb. 27, 1850. His father's family removed in 1858 to St. Louis, Mo., where he was prepared for college at the public and private scliools. He entered Amherst college in 1866, and Cornell university in 1869, and was graduated from the latter in 1870. He was principal of the Bellevue collegiate in.stitute. Caledonia, Mo., in 1870; principal of St. Louis grammar school, 1870-73; assistant principal of St. Louis Central high school. 1873-85, and prin- cipal, 1885-87. He was called to New Orleans by the administrators of the Tulane educational fund in 1887, directed the establishment of the H. Sophie Newcomb memorial college, and be- came its president. He was at the .same time appointed to the chair of metaphysics in Tulane university.

DIXON, Charles Edward, educator, was born in Port Byron, N.Y., April 8, 1864; son of Edward J. and Eleanor Elizal)eth (Soutliworth) Dixon. He was graduated at De Pauw university in 1888; was an instructor in Latin in the prepara- tory school of De Pauw universitj', 1886-91, and in the summers of 1890 and 1891 took charge of the Latin department in the Summer school at Bay "View, Mich. In the fall of the latter year he accepted the chair of Latin in Olivet college, Mich., which he held till 1895. He was fellow in the L^niversity of Chicago, 189.5-98, but spent the first year of this period in .study at the American