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 DUDLEY

DUELL

He removed to New York city in 1841 and was graduated from the College of physicians and surgeons in 1843. In 1843 he established himself in practice in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was chosen curator of the New York medical college in 1851 and subsequently helped to found the Long Island college hospital, of which he was at various times member of the council, member of the board of regents, treasurer and president. He was actively connected with several medical societies in New York and vicinity. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 9, 1880.

DUDLEY, William Lofland, chemist, was born in Covington, Ky., April 16, 1859; son of George Reed and Emma (Lofland) Dudley. His first American ancestor was Francis Dudley of Con- cord, Mass. (1640). He was graduated B.S. at the University of Cincinnati in 1880, and in the same year accepted the chair of chemistry and toxicol- ogy in Miami medical college, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1886 he became professor of chemistry in Van- derbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., and subse- quently became dean of the medical department. He was a commissioner of the Cincinnati indus- trial exposition, 1883-85, a director of the Ohio mechanics institute, 1884-86, and "director of affairs " of the Tennessee Centennial exposition (1897). He was elected a member of the leading scientific societies of the world. In 1889 he was chairman of the section of chemistry and vice- president of the American association for the advancement of science, and in 1898 a member of the council of the American chemical society. He discovered, in conjunction with John Holland of Cincinnati, a method of making castings of iridium by fusing the metal with phosphorus. Miami medical college conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.D. in 1885. He is the author of numerous contributions to scientific journals and of an article on iridium in " Mineral Resources of the United States. 1883-84."

DUDLEY, William Russell, botanist, was born in Guilford, Conn., March 1, 1849 ; son of Samuel William and Lucy (Chittenden) Dudley ; grand- son of Ambrose and Elizabeth (Russel) Dudley; and a descendant of William Dudley, one of the original colonists of Guilford (1639). one of the signers of the "plantation covenant," and for- merly of Ockley, Surrey, England. He was graduated B.S. from Cornell university in 1874 and in 1875 studied natural history under Prof. Louis Agassiz. In 1876 he received his M.S. degree from Cornell and took a course in botany at the Harvard summer school. While an under- graduate he was appointed instructor in botany at Cornell, remaining as such, 1872-76. In the latter year he was advanced to the assistant pro- fessorship of botany in the same institution, and in 1883 became assistant professor of cryptogamic

botany. He was a teacher of botany in the Martha's Vineyard summer institute, 1878-79; studied at the universities of Strasburg and Berlin, 1887-88, and in 1893 was elected professor of botany at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university. He is the author of: The Cayuga Flora (1886); Flora of Lackawanna and Wijoming Valleys {l^^l) ; Manual of Plant Histology (1887; new ed., 1894); and contributions to botanical magazines.

DUDLEY, William Wade, soldier, was born in Weathersfield Bow. Vt., Aug. 27, 1842; son of the Rev. John and Abby Wade Dudley. His ma- ternal great grandfather, Col. Nathaniel Wade, was colonel of the 12th Continental line (Mass. troops), frequently acted as an aide-de-camp to Washington and commanded at West Point after the trea- son of Benedict Arnold, by the special direction of Washington. Wil- liam Wade Dudley was educated at Phillips academy, Danville, Vt., and at Russell military in- stitute. New Haven, Conn. In 1860 he re- moved to Richmond, Ind., and in 1861 en- tered the service of the government as captain of the Richmond city Greys in the 19th Indiana volunteers. His ser- vice included the battles around Washington, 1861-62. He commanded his regiment at Antietam and was there slightly wounded. He distin- guished himself at both battles of Fredericks- burg, at ChancellorsviUe, with the Iron brigade, 1st army corps, under Gen. J. F. Reynolds, and at Gettysburg, where he lost 72 per cent of his men, and had his right leg amputated on the field. For his conduct in this battle he was brevetted brigadier-general. He continued in the service, acting as inspector and judge advocate, until the close of the war. He was admitted to the bar in 1870; was U.S. marshal for Indiana, 1879-81 ; com- missioner of pensions under appointment of Presidents Garfield and Arthur, 1881-84 ; engaged in the banking busine.ss, 1884-87; was treasurer of the Republican national committee, 1888-92, and practised law in Washington, D.C., from 1887. He was married in 1864 to Theresa, daughter of the Rev. George Fiske of Richmond, Ind. He died at Washington, D.C., Nov. 11, 1897.

DUELL, Robert Holland, representative, was born in Warren, Herkimer county, N.Y., Dec. 20, 1824. He was graduated at Syracuse acad- emy and was admitted to the bar in 1845. In