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young children, and this community afterward Avas absorbed by the Society of the Sacred Heart. With four women companions she landed in New Orleans in 1818, but finding a better field further in the wilderness, she opened a school at St. Louis, where she met with little success. She then removed to Florissant, which she made the permanent centre of the Society of the Sacred Heart in America. Here she commenced a work of great reform, reaching Creole, Indian and Negro women and children, and established other communities and schools, including four schools for Indian and white adults. In 1827 she founded the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis and in 1838 the convent of the Sacred Heart, St. Charles, Mo. In 1840 she was superseded by Madame Galitzin and took her place in the con- vent at St. Charles as a nun. She afterward obtained permission to go with three companions and teach the Pottawattamie Indians where the Jesuits had established a mission. Her advanced age and failing health forced her return to the convent at the end of her first year's labors. She died at St. Charles. Mo., in 1852.

DUDLEY, Benjamin Winslow, surgeon, was born in Spottsylvania coimty, Va., April 12, 1785; son of the Rev. Ambrose Dudley, a pioneer Baptist preacher of Kentucky. He attended Tran- sylvania university for a brief period and in 1806 received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He practised in Lexington. Ky., until 1810, when he went abroad and spent four years in study imder eminent surgeons of London and Paris. He achieved especial reno%vn as a lithotomist. In 1817 he founded with others the medical department of Transj^lvania uriivei-sity and for several years held the chairs of anatomy and surgery in that institution. He received the degree of LL.D. from Transylvania university. He died at Lexington, Ky.. Jan. 20, 1870.

DUDLEY, Charles Benjamin, chemist, was born in Oxford, N.Y.. July 14, 1842; son of Daniel and Maranda (Bemis) Dudley; and grandson of Benjamin Dudley. He was graduated in arts at Yale in 1871 and then entered Sheffield scientific school, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1874. He was instructor in physics in the academic department of the University of Pennsj^lvania, 1874r-75, resigning in the latter year to become chemist to the Pennsylvania railroad company. He made nvimerous researches and discoveries of value, reports of which were published at various times in the Tinnsactions of the American insti- tute of Diining engineers, of which society he became a member in 1883 and was twice elected its vice-president. In 1883 his investigations establislied the fact that milder and purer forms of steel were better adapted to the construction of rails for railways than the harder steels and those

possessing greater tensile strength. He was pres- ident of the American chemical society for the years 1896 and 1897.

DUDLEY, Charles Edward, senator, was born at Johnson Hall, Eccles Hall, Stafford, England, May 23, 1780; son of Charles and Catherine (Cooke) Dudley. His father (1737-1790) was royal collector of the customs for the port of Ne%vport, R.I., and his mother the daughter of Robert and Anne Cooke of Newport, R.I. The son was for a time employed in a counting-room, and was subsequently supercargo on a voyage to the East Indies. On his return he settled in ti-ade in New York city and thence removed to Albany, N.Y. He served in the New York senate, 1820-25, and was maj^or of Albany, 1821-28. Upon the resignation of Senator Van Buren to accept the ofiice of governor of New York, to which oflice he had been elected in November, 1828, the legis- lature of New York elected Mr. Dudley to fill the unexpired term in the U.S. senate and he took his seat in January, 1829, and served till the close of Mr. Van Buren"s term. March 4, 1833. He was married to Blandina, daughter of Rutgers Bleecker of New York city, and she founded in 1856 Dudley observatory at Albany, in memoiy of her husband, donating §75,000, and subsequently increasing the gift to more than $100,000. She was born in 1783 and died in 1863. Senator Dudley died in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 23, 1841.

DUDLEY, Charles Rowland, librarian, was born in Easton, Conn., June 26. 1853, son of Martin and Sarah (Rowland) Dudley; grandson of Amos Dudley, and a descendant of William Dudley of Guilford, Conn. He was graduated from the acaderaj- at Monson, Mass., in 1872. and from Yale law school in 1877. He practised law in Monson, Mass. . 187S-82, and removed to Denver, Col., where he became librarian of the Denver city library in 1886. He was made secretary of the State historical society in 1887, and was elected regent of the Colorado state university in 1888.

DUDLEY, Dean, historian and antiquary, was born in Kingfield, Maine, May 23, 1823; son of Edmund and Rebecca (Bangs) Dudley; and a descendant on his father's side from Governor Thomas Dudley (1576-1652) and on his mother's side from Edward Bangs, Governor Thomas Prence, and Elder William Brewster who came over in the MayfloKer in 1620. He attended Waterville liberal institute, taught school in Massachusetts for a brief period, then entered the classical school of Benjamin Greenleaf at Bradford, Mass., and finally studied law, gaining admittance to the bar in 1854. In that year he joined the New England historic, genealogical society, and gave much time to genealogical research. His genealogical collections comprise more than fifty volumes. Among his published

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