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from Columbia college in 1827, and from the Col- lege of physicians and surgeons, New York, in 1830. The following year he went abroad and remained there three years, studying chiefly in Paris. On his return in 1834 he settled in practice in his native city. He was married in 1835 to Helen, daughter of Peter A. Jay and granddaugh- ter of Chief -Justice Jolui Jay, and soon afterward removed to Ohio, where he owned the land which afterward became Newton Falls. He returned to New York city in 1852 and removed to New Haven, Conn., in 1854. He was a member of the Connecticut academy of arts and sciences and of the Geological society of France. He died in New Haven. Conn., Jan. 13, 1884.

DUBOIS, John, R.C. bishop, was born in Paris, France, Aug. 24, 1764. His secular education was acquired at the College of Louis le Grand, wliere he had among his classmates Robespierre and Ca- niille Desmoulins. He took his theological course at the Oratorian seminary of St. Magloire and was ordained a priest, Sept. 22, 1787, at St. Sulpice, Paris. He became chaplain at the " Pe- tit Mai.son," of the Sisters of Charity in the Rue de Seve. In May, 1791, the French revolution determined him to seek a home in America and through the influence of La Fayette and the De Noailles family he es- ' caped from

Paris disguised ^s a citizen and reached Nor- folk, Va., in August, 1791. He was received by Bishop Car- roll and placed in charge of the church at Nor- folk, Va. His letters from La Fayette secured him the friendship of powerful statesmen and while residing at the house of James Monroe he was instructed in the English language by Patrick Hemy. There being no Roman Catholic church, in Richmond, he was allowed to hold sei-vice in the state capitol. He was transferred to Alexandria, Frederick and Emmittsburg, respec- tively, building his first cliurch at Frederick. He joined the order of St. Sulpice in 1809, foimded the Moimt St. Mary's college and was its first president, teacher of Latin and French, superior of St. Joseph's academy, and procurator and treas- urer of the college. He also aided Mother Seton in foimding the American order of Sisters of Char- ity. In 1826 he was appointed bishop of New York

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and was consecrated by Archbishop Marechal, Oct. 29, 1826, in the cathedral in Baltimore. In his diocese, embracing the entire state of New York and part of New Jersey, he found a Catholic population of 150,000, ministered to by eighteen priests in eight churches. He met the opposition of the trustees who wished to dictate as to the appointment of priests and in other diocesan mat- ters, and declared that he would be their bishop whether they supported him or not. With the assistance of the Association for the propagation of the faith he erected churches in Albany and Buffalo and cleared the debt on the church at Newark, N.J. In July, 1829, he founded a female academy in New York city, placing it under the care of the Sisters of Charity. In 1830 he purchased a farm at Nyack, N.Y., where he began the erection of a college, but fire destroyed the build- ings and the project was abandoned. He subse- quently built St. Vincent de Paul's seminary, Lafargeville, N.Y. In 1837 declining health forced him to seek a coadjutor and John Hughes was appointed to assist in the labors of the diocese. He died in New York city, Dec. 21. 1842.

DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt, edu- cator, was born in Great Barrington, Mass., Feb. 23, 1868; son of negro parents. His father was Alfred Du Bois,' son of Alexander Du Bofs, whose father was a French physician in the West Indies. His mother was Mary S. Burghardt, daughter of Othello Biu'ghardt, Avhose grandfather, Thomas Burghardt, was a native chieftain, and was brought from Africa as a slave by the Dutch about 1750. He attended Fisk university, Tenn., and was graduated from Harvard in 1890, receiv- ing the degree of A.M. in 1891. For two year.s he was fellow in sociology in Harvard and in 1892 was sent abroad by the trustees of the John F. Slater fund, to study history and political science, and remained at the University of Berlin for two years. He received the degi-ee of Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895. On his return he became pro- fessor of Latin in Wilberforce university, Ohio, resigning the chair in 1896 to become assistant in sociology in the University of Pennsylvania, to take charge of a special investigation into the condition of the negi-o people in the city of Phila- delphia. He was afterward made professor of economics and history in Atlanta university, At- lanta, Ga. He was married. May 12, 1896, to Nina Gomer. He is the author of: TJie Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States oj America, 163S-1870 (1896; ; and the first volume of the Harvard Historical Studies published under the direction of the department of history in Harvard university. He also published: The Study of the Xegro Problems (1898) ; The Philadel- phia Xegro, A Social Study (1898), and newspaper articles discussing sociological subjects.