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laiul, I-^IM')*). At the close of the war he re- turned to Detroit, where he engaged in the prac- tice of law and was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for representative in the 42d congress in 1870. He was made corjKtration counsel for tlu' city of Detroit in 1870, and was a member of the state miiitarj- board and its presi- dent. He was orator of the Society of the Army of the Cum- berland ai the un- veiling of the Garfield memorial statue in "Washington, D.C., in of the Michigan state bar association; de- partment commander G.A.R., Michigan, and commander of the Michigan com- mander}', ^lilitary order of the Loyal Legion. He was appointed, May 27. 1898, brigadier-general of U.S. volunteers, served in the Santiago campaign, was brevetted major-general U.S. volunteers for distinguished .services in the presence of the enemy at Aqua- I lures, Cuba, 1898, and was honorably discharged, Nov. 3(1, 1898.
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DUFFIELD, John Thomas, clergyman, was b-.rn at .McConiiellsburg, Pa., Feb. 19, 1823; son of William Duffield ; grandson of Samuel DuflReld ; and a descendant of George Duffield of Pequea, Liiucaster coimty, Pa., wliose son, the Rev. (ieorge Duffield, was assistant chaplain of the ( "ontinental congress. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1841 and was direc- tor of the mathematical department in Union academy, Pliiladelphia, Pa, 1841-42. He at- tended the Princeton theological seminary, 1842- 44, and in 184.'j became tutor of Greek in the Ccjllege of New Jersey. In 1847 he was advanced ti) the adjunct profe.s.sorship of mathematics, and in 1854 to the full chair. He was professor of philosopliical mechanics and mathematics, 1862- 73, and in the latter year became professor of mathematics. Meanwhile, having been ordained a Presljyterian clergyman, he acted as stated -upi)ly of the second Presbyterian cimrch at Princeton, l8.')0-r)2, and continued to do occa- sional pulpit work. He was moderator of the Synod of New Jersey in 1866. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Princeton in 1873 and that of LL.D. from Lake Forest university in 1890. He published: Hip Princfton Pnlpit (1852); Second Ailvcnt (18P,6) : Th>' Philnnojyhj/ nf Mathpiiiatics ( IHf)6) : EvoUttion an it Rpsj)rcfs Man antl (lie Bihle (1878). He died in Princeton, N.J. . April 10. 1901.

DUFFIELD, Samuel Pearce, physician, was born in Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 24, 1833; son of the Rev. George and Isabella Graham (Bethune) Duffield. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1854, studied chemistry and anat- omy there, 1854-55; and attended the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1855-56. He went abroad in 1856 and studied physics and chemistry in the principal German universities, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from Geissen in 1858. He then returned to the United States and settled as a physician and expert chemist in Detroit, Mich., removing in 1871 to Dearborn, Mich. He was health officer of Detroit, 1887-93 and 1895-98, having been called the second time to put down an epidemic of small-pox, which he successfully accomplished. He superintended the purchasing and arranging of the apparatus in the chemical laboratory of the Detroit medical college at its organization in 1868, and received from that institution the honorary degree of M.D. in 1872. He is the author of many valuable papers on scientific subjects.

DUFFIELD, Samuel Willoughby, clergyman, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1843; son of the Rev. George Duffield (1818-1888). He was graduated at Yale in 1863 and in 1866 was licensed a Presbyterian clergyman. He was engaged in missionary work in Chicago, III., in 1866-67; was pastor of the Kenderton Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1867-71; of the First Presby- terian church, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1871-74; of the Eighth Presbyterian church, Chicago, 111., 1874-76; of the Central Presbyterian church, Auburn, N.Y., 1876-78; of the Second Presbyte- rian church, Altoona, Pa., 1878-81, and of West- minster Presbyterian church, Bloomfield, N.J., from 1881 until his death. He published: Wai-p and Woof (1870); EnrjUsh Hymns, Their Authors andHisto7-y (1886) ; and Latin Hymn-Writers (1887). He died in Bloomfield, N.J., May 12, 1887.

DUFFIELD, William Ward, soldier, was born at Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 19, 1823; son of the Rev. George and Isabella Graham (Bethune) Duffield. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1841 and became a civil engineer in Tennessee. He was 1st lieutenant of a company of Tennessee militia, 1845-46, and volunteered in the war with Mexico, being promoted in 1847 to the rank of acting adjutant of the 2d Tennessee infantry. He was wounded at Cerro Gordo and Contreras. After the war he served as civil engineer on several important railroads in the United States. In 1861 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Michigan volunteers and served in the first b;ittle of Bull Run. He was appointed colonel of the 9th Michigan infantry, Sept. 10, 1861, and was ordered to join General Sherman at Louis-