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the circuit court, 1843-74 ; a representative in the state legislature in 1853 ; a Union delegate to the border-state convention of 1861 ; a representative in the 37th congress, 1861-63, and a Democratic presidential elector in 1865. He died in Lancas- ter, Ky., June 6, 1880.

DUNLAP, James, educator, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1744. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1773, and was tutor in that institution, 1775-77. He was or- dained a Pi-esbyterian clergyman in 1781, and preached in his native state until 1803, when he accepted the presidency of Jefferson college. Pa. At the .same time he was professor of languages and moral philosophy. He resigned in April, 1811, and removed to Uniontown, Pa., where he was principal of the academy which afterward became Madison college, 1813-16. He died near Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 22, 1818.

DUNLAP, John, pioneer printer, was born in Strabane, Ireland, in 1747. He immigrated to America when a boy, and lived with his uncle, William Dunlap, printer, Philadelphia, Pa. He established himself in the business in 1765 and in 1771 founded the Pennstjivania Packet, which after 1783 he published daily, the first daily new&paper in America. He subsequently changed the name to the JSforth American and United States Gazette. He was printer to congress and as such printed the Declaration of Independence. He was an officer in the American army during the Revolution, in the fir.st troop of Philadelphia cavalry, which acted as body guard to General Washington at the battles of Trenton and Prince- ton. He gave to the patriot cause £4000 to supply the army with provisions in 1780. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 27, 1812.

DUNLAP, Robert Pinckney, governor of Maine, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Aug. 17, 1794 ; son of Capt. John and Mary (Tappan) Dun- lap, and grandson of the Rev. Robert Dvmlap, who was born in Banilla, County Antrim, Ire- land, removed to America in 1736 and in 1747 be- came pastor of the church in Brunswick, Maine. Robert was graduated from Bowdoin in 1815 and was admitted to the bar in 1818, practising at Brunswick for a time, when he inherited a fortune, retired from business life, and devoted himself to politics. He was a state representative, 1821- 22, and state senator, 1824-28 and 1829-33. In 1829 he was a member of the governor's council. In 1833 he was elected governor of Maine and was three times re-elected, serving 1834-38. He was a representative in the 28th and 29th con- gresses, 1843-47, and was collector of the port of Portland, 1848-49. He was an overseer of Bow- doin college, 1821-60. He was married in 1825 to Lydia Chapman of Beverly, Mass. He died in Brunswick, Mame, Oct. 20, 1859.

DUNLAP, William, artist and author, was born in Perth Amboy, N.J., Feb. 19, 1766. He removed to New York in 1777 and studied draw- ing in India ink. By an accident he lost his right eye, but continued his study of art and in 1783 began to paint portraits. In 1783 he painted from life a porti'ait of George Washington, and in 1784 went abroad, studying in London under Benjamin West. After his return to the United States in 1787 he turned his attention to the drama, producing several successful plays and managing for a time the Park theatre in New York city. He lielped to found the National academy of design and was its vice-president for several years. He delivered courses of lectures on art and literature. His paintings include: Christ Bejected; Cavalry ; Bearing tJie Cross; and Death on the Pale Horse. Among his published writings are : Tlie Father, a Comedy (1789) ; The Archers, an Opera (1796); Andre, a Tragedy (1798); The Afri- cans, a Play (1811) ; A Narrative of the Events Which Followed Bonapai'te's Campaign in Bussia to His Dethronement (1814) ; Tlie Life of George Fred- erick Cooke (2 vols., 1815) ; The Life of Charles Brockden Brown (2 vols., 1815) ; A History of the American Theatre (1832) ; A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (2 vols., 1834) ; Tliirty Years Ago, or. Memoirs of a Water Drinker (2 vols., 1836); and Neio Nether- lands, Province of New York (1840). He died in New York city, Sept. 28, 1839.

DUNLOP, George Kelly, second bishop of New Mexico and Arizona, and 125th in succes- sion in the American episcopate, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Nov. 10, 1830. He was graduated at Queen's university, Galway, 1853. He immigrated to America in October, 1852, and settled in Missouri. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Ejjiscopal church by Bishop Cicero Stephens Hawks at St. Paul's church, Palmyra, Mo., Dec. 3, 1854, and a priest in St. Louis, Mo. , in 1856. He served as missionary at St. Charles, 1854-56 ; was rector of Christ church, Lexington, Mo., 1856-63, where he was also pro- fessor of Latin and Greek in the Wentwortli academy, and was rector of Grace church, Kirk- wood, Mo., 1863-80. He was a member of the standing committee of the diocese and deputy to the General convention. The General convention, of 1880 selected him as missionary bishop of New- Mexico and Arizona and he was consecrated in Christ cluirch, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 21, 1880, by Bishops Whipple, Robertson, Spalding, Perry, Burgess and Seymour. He received the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Racine college in 1880. In his diocese he was in charge of the welfare of seventeen churches and missions and his territory extended over an area 360 miles square. He died in Las Cruces, N.M., March 12, 1888.