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DUiNCAN, Alexander, representative, was Imu- I 111 Cincinnati. Oliio. lie Ijecame a physi- cian and practised medicine in liis native city. 11." %va.sa representative in the state legislature, isjs-ao and 1831-33. and a state senator, 1832-34. He was a Whig rei)re.sentative in the 25th and 2r>th congre.sses, 1835-39; wiis defeated for the 27th congress and was elected to the 28th con- gress, 1S43-45. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio, ilarch 2. ls.-,2.

DUNCAN, George Martin, educator, was born in Haledon. N'.J., Nov. 2<>. 1S57; son of James and June Martin (Torbet) Duncan. He was gradu- ated from the University of the city of New York in 1881 and from Yale divinity school in is.'<4. He studied at Yale university in 1884, as graduate fellow in divinity; at the Univei'sity of Jena, (iermany, in 1885; at Leipzig, 1885-86; at Heidelberg, ISSG; at Berlin, 1886-87; and at Paris. 1887-*<8. On his return to America in 1888 he was appointed instructor in philosophy at Yale, became assistant profe.ssor in 1891, and pro- fessor in 1894. He was married in 1889, to Mary, daughter of Theodore R. Carter of Montclair, N.J. He published: The Philosophical Works of Leihnitz, Translated from Latin and French, with Xotes (1890J; President Porter as a Philosopher ris93): and articles in The Philosophical Pevieio iiid The Psi/rholof/ical L'evi<'ii\

DU.NCAN, Herman Cope, clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 12, 1846; son of (freer Brown and Mary Jane (Cope) Duncan, and gnind-son of David and Margaret (Brown) Dun- can, and of Herman and Mary (Grier) Cope. His great-grandfather, David Duncan, was a promi- nent leader in the at- tempt to restore the Stuarts, being present at the battles of Preston Pans and Culloden. He im- migrated to America and settled in Mas- sachusetts, served in the battle of Bunker Hill and through the Revolution, and when ' ■> ■ peace was declared

v. .. settled in Carlisle, Pa.,

/^^^WZ^^..^...^ goingthence to Mason ^^ county, Ky., where he was a,s.sociated with Simon Kenton, the pioneer. His .son. David, grandfather of Herman, was a v.ldier in the war f)f 1X12 and engaged in the battle of Blue Licks, and Herman's father, Greer Brown Duncan, was a celebrated New Orleans lawyer, who practi.sed in the U.S. suy)reme court. Her- man was graduated from the L^niversity of Penn- sylvania in 1867 and was ordained a Protestant

Episci>pal clergyman in 18(i.s. He was secretary of the diocese of Louisiana. 187U-75, 1881, and from 1-883; dean of Kansas city. Mo., 1876-80, and archdeacon of Alexandria, La., from 1888. He was a trustee of St. Paul's college. Mo., 1878-80, was elected a fellow of the New Orleans academy of science and chief of the section on philology; was recorder of ordinations of the general con- vention from 1895; chairman of its connnittee on the state of the church and secx'etary of commis- sion on Christian unity. He was married to Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Thomas Alfred Cooke, and a descendant <5n her father's side from the Cookes of Gloucester county, Va., and on her mother's side from Sir Ralph Assheton, the first lawyer of the Philadelphia bar, who was con- nected bj' marriage with William Penn. Mr. Duncan received from Hobart college the degree ofS.T.D. in 1893. He publi.shed: nistorij of the Diocese of Louisiana (1888;.

DUNCAN, James Armstrong, educator, was born in Norfolk, Va., April 14, 1830; son of David and Alice (Piemont) Duncan. His fatiier \vas graduated from the University of Glasgow and became professor of Latin and Greek in Ran- dolph-Macon college, Va. The son was gi*aduated at that institution in 1849 and became a Methodist clergyman, preaching in Richmond, Alexandria, Washington city and Lynchburg, Va. He was editor of the Pichmond Christian Advocate for several years and in 1868 was elected president of Randolph-Macon college. He held the position until liis death, which occurred at Ashland, near Richmond, Va., Sept. 23, 1877.

DUNCAN, James Henry, representative, was born at Haveriiill, Mass., Dec. 5, 1793; son of James and Rebecca (White) Duncan; grandson of James and Elizabeth (Bell) Dmican: great- grandson of George Duncan, a member of the Scotch-Irish colony that came from Londondeny, Ireland, and settled Londonderry, N.H., in 1719; and a descendant on his mother's side from William White, who emigrated from England and was a first .settler of Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, and one of the six signers of the Indian deed for the town of Haverhill in 1642. His granil- father, James Duncan, settled in Haveriiill as a merchant in 1740. James Henry was prepared for college at Phillips Exeter academy and was graduated at Harvard in 1812. He was admitted to the bar in 1815 and practised in his native place. He represented his district in the Massa- chusetts legislature in 1827-28, 1837-38, and 1857. In 1828-31 lie was a state senator, and in 1839-40 was a member of the governor's council. He was a delegate to the National convention at Harrisburg. Pa., in 1839. and a representative in the 31st and 32d congresses, 1849-53. He was a trustee of Essex agricultural .society; of the