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DUBBS, Joseph Henry, eilucator, was Iwru in Nortii Wliitehail. Pa.. Oct. 5, 1888; .son of the Rev. Dr. Josepli S. ami Elejuior (Lereh) Dubbs; and great -j:raudst»n of Jacob Dubs, who came to America from the canttm of Zurich, Switzerland, in 17:i2. ami settled in Pennsylvania. Jo.seph Henry wivs graduated from Franklin and Marsiuill college in 1856 : and from the Theological seminary, Mercersburg, Pa., in 1859, and was ordained a minister of the Reformed church (German) in the same year at Harrisburg, Pa. He became pastor of Zion cluircli, AUentown, in 1859; Trinity church. Pottstown. in 18G3; and Christ Reformed church, Pliiladelphia. in 1871. In 1875 he was elected Audenried professor of history and archas- ology in Franklin and Marshall college. In 1879 he was elected a corresponding member of the Ethnographic society of France, and in 1885 a fellow of the Roj-al historical society of Great Britain. He received the honorary degi-ee of D.D. from Ursinus college in 1878, and that of LL.D. from Heidelberg vmiversity, Ohio, in 1897. He was editorial coiTespondent of the Heformed Church Jlessenrjer, 1873-75, and editor-in-chief of that paper, 1895-96; editor of The Guardian, 1883- 86; and published: Historic Manual of the lie- formed Chttrch (1895) ; Home Ballads and Metncal Versions (1888) ; miy Am I Heformed ? (1889) ; and wrote the History of the Reformed Church pub- lished in Vol. VIII., American Church History Series (1H95).

DUBOIS, Augustus Jay, educator, was born at Newton Falls. Oliio, April 25, 1849; sonof Heniy Augustus and Helen (Jay) Dubois; grandson of Cornelius Du Bois and of Peter A. Jay; and a descendant of Jolin Jay. He was graduated from Yale, Ph.B., 18G9, C.E., 1870, and Ph.D., 1873. He studied in the mining school at Freiburg, Saxony, 1873-75; was profe.s.sor of civil and mechanical engineering in Lehigh universit}', 1875-77; Higgin professor of dynamical engineer- ing at Yale, 1877-84, and was transfeiTed in 1884 to the chair of civil engineering. He was elected a life member of the American society of mechan- ical engineers, Aug. 10, 1881. Among his pub- lished writings are : Elements of Graphical Statics (1875) ; T/te Xitr Method of Graphical Statics (1875) ; The StTfsses in Framed Struct tt res (1883; 12th ed., 1897) ; The Elementary Priuciples of Mechanics (1894); Tables for Bridije Enrfineers (1885); tran.s- lations, including Weisbach's Hydraulics and Hydraulic Motors (1877); Wej^rauch's Iron and St'''-l Structures {IS1~); Weisbach's Theory of the Steam Enr/ine (1878); and Roentgen's Thermo- dynamics (1880).

DUBOIS, Fred Thomas, senator, was born in Crawforil county, 111., May 29, 1851; son of Jesse Kilgore and Delia (Morris) Dubois. He was pre- pared for college at Springfield, 111, was graduated at Yale in 1872, became a clerk in a counting- house, and afterward obtained a position in the state auditor's office. In 1875 he was appointed secretary of the board of railway and warehouse commissioners in Illinois. In 1880 he removed to Blackfoot. Idaho, and was employed at the Fort Hall agency until 1883, when he was appointed U.S. marshal for the territory'. He was a dele- gate to the 50th and 51st congresses, ser\'ing until the admission of Idaho as a state in 1890. On Dec. 18, 1890, he was elected U.S. senator from Idaho, serving until March 3, 1897. He was a dele- gate to the Republican national convention in 1892 and was selected to notify Whitelaw Reid of his nomination as vice-president. He was also a delegate to the Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896 and left the convention and the Republican party. He was made chairman of the executive committee of the silver Republican party.

DU BOIS, George Washington, clergyman, was born in New York city, Sept. 26, 1822; son of Cornelius and Sarah Piatt (Ogden) Du Bois; grandson of Peter and Maria (Van Voorhees) Du Bois of Dutchess county, N.Y., and of Robert and Sarah (Piatt) Ogden of Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. His remote ancestor and original settler in America was Jacques Du Bois, who was born about 1G28 in Lille, France. Tlie brothers of his maternal grandfather. Col. Aaron Ogden and Gen. Mathias Ogden,. served with distinction in the war of the Revolution. George W. Du Bois was graduated from the University of the city of New York in 1843 and from the theological semi- naiy at Gambler, Ohio, in 1846. He was rector at Cincinnati, 1 846 ; at Warren, 1848-53 ; at Zanes- ville, 1853-57; at Chillicothe, Ohio, 1857-62; and was chaplain of the 11th Oliio volunteers, 1861- 62. He was rector at St. Paul, 3Iinn., 1863-64; Dubuque, Iowa, 1865-67: Faribault, Minn., 1867- 78; Crosswicks and Allento\\'n, N.J., 1878-79; Wilmington, Del., 1879-84, and resided at Essex, N. Y., from 1884. He was married in 1848 to Maria Coxe, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Charles Mcllvaine, D.D., D.C.L. ; and of their children, George Mcllvaine and Heniy Ogden took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of the city of New York in 1897.

DUBOIS, Henry Augustus, physician, was born in New York city, Aug. 9. 180S; son of Cor- nelius and Sarah Piatt (Ogden) Dubois; grand- son of Peter and Mary (Van Voorhees) Du Bois ; and fifth in descent from Jacques Du Bois, a French Huguenot refugee. He was graduated