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DU BOSE, William Porcher, educator, w:is boni in Winnsboro, S.C, April 11, 18:i0; son of Tlieotlore S. ami Jane S. (Porcher) Dii Bose; grandson of Samuel and Eliza (Marion) DuBose and of Thomas and Elizabetli (Sinkler) Porcher; and of Huguenot descent on both sides. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1839, aiul in 18(11 entered the Confederate arm}', where he lield the office of adjutant. After the war he studied theology and in 1803 took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was rector of St. John's church, Winnsboro, S.C, 1866-67, and of Trinity church, Abbeville, S.C, 1868-71. He was made cliaplain and professor in the Univer- sity of the South in 1871 and professor of exege- sis and moral science and dean of the theological department in 1894. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Columbia college in 1875. He is the autiior of: The Soteriology of the Xeio Testament (189-2). and The Ecumenic nl Councils (1S97).

DUBOURQ, Louis William Valentine, R.C. bishop, was born at Cape Fran^-ais, San Domingo, W.I., Feb. 14, 1766, the family being from Bor- deaux, France. After acquiring a collegiate edu- cation in France he entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice, where he completed his theological course and was ordained a priest in 1788. He was placed in charge of a preparatory establishiuent at Issy and when the French revolution broke out he fled to Spain and thence to America, arriving in Bal- timore in December, 1794. Under advice of Bishop Carroll he joined the order of St. Sulpice in 1795. In 1796 he was appointed president of Georgetown college, where he remained vmtil 1798, when he went with Fathers Flaget and Badade to Havana, Culm, and they there endeavored to found a Sul- pkian college. They met with opposition from the native priests, and Dubourg and Badade returned in 1799, but brought back with them some of the more intelligent Cubans to be educated in Baltimore. A school was opened for them which afterward became St. Mary's college. The accommodations hardly sufficed for the students sent from the West Indies by Father Flaget, 1799-1801, but in 1803 the Spanish government demanded the return to Cuba of all her .subjects, the government .sending a ship to convey them home. In 1806 he secured an act of the legislature of Maryland making St. Mary's college a univer- sity, and it became known as the Theological seminar}' of St. Sulpice and St. Mary's university. Father Dubourg induced Mother Seton, the founder of the Sisters of Charity in America, to remain in the United States rather than join a religious commimity in France, and he purcliased the land for the Emmittsburg convent and was appointed by Bishop Carroll ecclesiastical superior of the order. In 1812 he was appointed adminis- trator ajwstolic to the vacant diocese of New

Orleans, and during the war, 1812-13, he wrote patriotic letters to his people. In 1815 he went to Europe to procure priests for his diocese, as well as means for tiie establishment of educational and charitable institutions, and was appointed by Rome, bishop of New Orleans, Sept. 15, 1815, and was consecrated by Cardinal Joseph Doria Pamfilo, Sept. 24, 1815. He then proceeded to France, where he obtained recruits. King Louis XVIII. phiced at his service a war frigate, the Caravaney in which he embarked, July 1, 1817, with a com- pany of thirty-one persons. They landed at Annapolis, Md., Sept. 4, 1817, and went from there to St. Louis, Mo., where Bisliop Dubourg made his residence. He foimded a seminary and college at the Barrens, and another at St. Louis, and at his recjuest in 1825, a Jesuit mission was settled at Florrisant. Subsequently he transferred to the order of Jesus his college at St. Louis. Bisliop Dubourg visited W^ashington, D.C., during Mon- roe's administration and procured money from the government for his Indian missions. He es- tablished schools for girls in charge of the Sistei-s of Loretto and induced five ladies of the order of the Sacred Heart in Paris to accompany him to St. Louis and found a convent. He erected a cathedral at St. Louis, and numerous churclies throughout the diocese. In 1823 he removed to New Orleans, La. , and the Rev, Joseph Rosati was appointed as his coadjutor. In 1826 he went to Europe on business for his see, and while in Rome he resigned the see of New Orleans in November, 1826, and Avas transferred to the bishopric of Montauban in France on the nomination of the king, Aug. 13, 1826, decreed at Rome, Oct. 2, 1826. On Feb. 15, 1833, he was appointed to succeed Cardinal Rohan as archbishop of Bensan^-on and took possession of his see, Oct. 10, 1833. He died at Bensan^on, France, Dec. 12, 1833.

DUBUIS, Claude Mary, R.C. bishop, was born at Coutouvre, Loire, France, March 10, 1817. He studied for the priesthood and after his ordination in the seminary chapel at Lyons, June 1, 1844, he immigrated to Texas and served as missionary jjriest at Castroville, 1847-50. He had no house and lived in a hut, but afterward, with the aid of another missionary, built with his own liands a schoolhouse and residence. He was transferred to San Antonio in 1850, where he was in charge of the church of San Fernando and founded there the Ursuline convent and academy. In 1862 he was appointed bishop of Galveston and was con- secrated at tiie Grand seminary, Lyons, France, Nov. 23, 1802, by Bishop Odin of New Orleans. U.S.A., and returned to Galveston as .successor to Bishop Od'n. After the civil war the growth of the diocese was extraordinary. He built several new churches, convents, seminaries, colleges and academies and maintained thriving religious