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Albany. He "«-as married to Lucy, daughter of Thomas Lloyd and Sarah Ann (Smith) Wharton. He died in New York city, March 25, 1888.

DRIGQS, John F., representative, was born in Kinderhook, N.Y., March 3, 1813. He became a master mechanic, was superintendent of the New York penitentiarj' in 1811 1 5, and worked in New York cit}- until 1856, when he removed to East Saginaw, 3Iich. In 1858 he was chosen president of the village and served in the lower house of the state legislature in 1859. He was a representative in the 38th, 39th and 40th congresses, 1863-69. He was a delegate to the Loyalist couA-ention in Philadelphia in 1866. He died at East Saginaw, Mich., Dec. 17, 1877.

DRIPPS, Joseph Frederick, clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 19, 1844; son of Matthew and Amelia (Millar) Dripps. He was graduated from the University of the cit}" of New York in 1863 and from Princeton theological semi- nary in 1868. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1870 and was pastor at Germantown, Pa., 1870-80; at Philadelphia, Pa., 1882-86, and at Savannah, Ga., 1889-96. He was president of the board of education of the Presbyterian church, 1884-89. He was married Jan. 27, 1875, to Emily, daughter of Robert D. Dunning. Lafayette college conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1884. He published: Love and Friendship (1880) ; Hoio to Believe ; and How to Bepent.

DRISCOL, Michael, clergyman, was born in Drumbeagh, County Clare, Ireland, May 7, 1805, of German parents. He learned the trade of a stone cutter in his native country, and while yet a young man he immigrated t.o the United States and found employment near Bardstowu, Ky., as a stone cutter. He later entered St. Mary's college and was admitted into the novitiate of the Jesuit order, Sept. 15, 1839. He was ordained a priest in 1846 and was appointed president of the diocesan seminary of St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y. In 1847 he was sent to Montreal, Canada, and was later made rector of St. Patrick's jjarish in that city. He returned to New York city in 1856 to accept the presidency of the College of St. Francis Xavier, and served as such until 1860 ; he was then made rector of St. Francis Xavier's church, and subsequently resigned to devote his time to missionary work. He was pastor of St. Joseph's church, Troy, N.Y., 1868-76, retiring to end his days at St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y., where he died, March 4, 1880.

DRISLER, Henry, educator, was born on Staten Island, N.Y., Dec. 27, 1818; son of Henry and Catherine Drisler. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1839, and was an instructor in the Columbia college grammar school until 1843, when he became a tutor in Greek and Latin in the college. In 1845 he was promoted to the

adjunct professorship of the Greek and Latin languages, which he held until 1857. He was pro- fessor of Latin language and literature, 1857-67, and Jay professor of Greek language and litera- ture, 1867-94. In 1888 he became acting president of Columbia college, and in 1890 was chosen dean of the School of arts. This office he resigned July 1, 1894, and became emeritus professor of Greek language and literatvu-e. In 1894 President Seth Low gave the college 810,000 for the endowment of a Henry Drisler scholarship in comparative philology. He received the degree of LL.D. from Colmnbia in 1864 and from Harvard in 1886. In 1881 he became editor of Harper's classical series. He pviblished an edition of Liddell and Scott's Passow's Greek Lexicon (1846), and an edition of Yonge's EnfjUsh-Greek Lexicon (1870). He died in New York city, Nov. 30, 1897.

DROMGOOLE, George Coke, representative, was born in Lawrenceville, Brunswick county, Va., about 1795; son of Edward Dromgoole of Sligo, Ireland. His mother was English. He en- tered the University of North Carolina in the class of 1814, but was not graduated. He was admitted to the bar and practised law in his native state at Gholsonville, Belfast, Gaston and Simimit. He was a representative in the state legislature for several successive terms, a state senator, president of the senate, and a member of the second constitutional convention of Vir- ginia. He was a representative in the 24th, 25th and 26th congresses, 1835^1, declined to be a candidate for tlie 27th congress and was elected to the 28th and 29th congresses, 1843-47. He died at Summit, Ya., April 27, 1847.

DROMGOOLE, Will Allen, author, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Oct. 26, 1860; daughter of John Easter and Rebecca Mildred (Blanch) Drom- goole; granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas and Mary Dromgoole and of Ezekial and Mildred (Cook) Blanch of Virginia; and great-grand- daughter of Edward Dromgoole of Sligo, Ireland, and his wife, an English woman. Her maternal grandfather was of Danish descent and her ma- ternal grandmother was French. She was grad- uated from the Clarksville female academj-, Tenn., in 1876. She was appointed assistant en- grossing clerk of the Tennessee house of repre- sentatives in 1883, was elected engrossing clerk of the state senate, 1885; was re-elected in 1887; served an extra term, and was defeated for re- election in 1889. She taught school in Tennessee one year, and one year in Temple, Texas, and afterward devoted her time chiefly to literary work. She is the author of : Heart of Old Hickory (1891) ; The Farrier's Dog and His Felloio (1897) ; Further Advent%(res of the Felloio (1898); Valley Path (1898) ; Three Little Crackers (1898) ; Hero Chums (1898); Bare Old Chums (1898); A Boy's