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church and in a few years had erected one of the finest church edifices in Chicago. Father Dunne gave his personal supervision to the education of the youtli of his parish before providing for elab- orate general worship, and his pupils from the parochial school were commended for their thor- oughness, when admitted to the pubhc high school, by the board of education. He was ele- vated to the bishopric, being consecrated by Archbishop Feehan in All Saints" church, Nov. 3U, 1893, and was appointed to the see of Dallas, Texas, as successor to the Rt. Rev. Thomas Francis Brennan, D.D., first bishop of Dallas, who resigned in 189:2.

DUNNE, Finley Peter, .iournalist, was born in Chicago, 111., July 10, ISGT; son of Peter and Ellen (Finley) Dunne; grandson of Patrick and Amelia (Malone) Dunne, and of Richard and Katherine (English) Finley ; and of Irish descent. His edu- cation was acquu-ed in the public schools of Chi- cago. He began newspaper work in 1886, was city editor of the Chicago Times in 1889, an editorial writer on the Eveninfj Post, 1892-95, and on the Times Herald, 1895-98. In January, 1898, he became editor of the Journal, and contributed to that paper a series of brief essays in Irish dia- lect as the utterances of "Mr. Dooley." Many of these were pubhshed in book form in. No- vember, 1898, under the title J/r. Dooley in Peace and War, which became one of the most popular books of the year and was followed bj' Jlr. Booleij in the Hearts of His Countrymen (1899).

DUNNELL, Mark Hill, representative, was born at Buxton, Maine, July 2, 1823; son of Samuel and Achsah (Hill) Dunnell ; gi'^andson of Joseph Dunnell, and of Nathaniel Hill, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and a descendant of Benjamin Dunnell. He was gi-aduated from Colby university in 1849, was principal of the Norway and Hebron academies, and in 1854 was elected a representative in the Maine leg- islature. In 1855 he was 3 member of the state senate. He began the practice of law in Port- land, Maine, in 1860, and in 1861 entered the Union volimteer army as colonel of the 5th Maine regiment of infantry. He was U.S. consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1862. He settled in Owatonna, Minn., 1865, and in 1867 was a repre- sentative in the state legislature, and state super- intendent of public instruction, 1867-70. He Avas a representative in the 42d, 43d, 44th, 45tli, 46th and 47th congresses, 1871-85, and in the 51st con- gress, 1889-91, in which last he was chairman of the committee on the census. In 1873 he was made an honorary member of the Geographical and statistical society of Mexico. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Shurtleff college. Upper Alton. 111., in 1868, and from Colby uni- versity in 1899.

DUNNING, Annie Ketchuni, author, was born in New York city, Nov. 2, 1831 ; daughter of the Hon. Hiram Ketchum. She was married to the Rev. Andrew Dunning of Thompson, Conn. Her first book," Clementina's Mirror," was published in 1857 and secured for her a position as writer for the Presbyterian board of publication. She wrote chiefly under the pen-name " Nellie Gra- hame." A complete list of her books comprises more than fifty titles and includes: Whispers from Dreamland (1861) ; First Glass of Wine (1866); Only a Penny (1867); Only a Child (1868) ; Miss Latimer's Meetincjs (1869) ; Fred Wilson (1870) ; Mary's Xew Friends (1871) ; and A Story of Four Lives (1871).

DUNNINQTON, Francis Perry, chemist, was born in Baltimore, Md., March 3, 1851; son of William A. and Sarah B. (Keener) Dunnington, and grandson of William Perry and Ann G. (Reynolds) Dunnington, and of Christian and Mary Clare (Br ice) Keener, all natives of Mary- land. He was a student at the University of Virginia, 1867-72, and received the degrees B.S., C.E. and M.E. in 1872. He was adjunct professor of analytical chemistry at the imiversity, 1872- 84, and was advanced to the chair of analytical and agricultural chemistry in 1884. He was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science in 1877, a fellow in 1880, and secretary of the chemical section in 1885. He was elected a fellow of the American chemical society in 1877; of the British associa- tion for the advancement of science in 1884, and of the Chemical society of Great Britain in 1893. In a paper published in the American Journal of Science, December, 1891, he was the first chemist to draw attention to the imiversal distribution of titanic oxide over the surface of the earth, and the paper appeared in the London Chemical Xeics, Nov. 5, 1897. He i^ublished occasional articles in mineral chemistry, also a series of notes of student work in the chemical laboratorj^ of the Univer- sity of Virginia, 1884-98. He was married Aug^ 22, 1878, to Marion S. Beale, and their daugliter, Sarah B. Dunnington, was editor of the Hollins Semi-Annual, 1897-98.

DUNPHY, Edward J., representative, was born in New York city. May 12, 1856. He was- graduated from Mount St. Mary's college, Em-- mittsburg. Md., in 1876, and was connected with the law department of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad company, 1876-84. He was a representative in the 51st, 52d and 53d con- gresses. 1889-95.

DUNSTER, Edward Swift, physician, was born at Springvale, Y'ork comity, Maine, Sept. 2, 1834. He Avas graduated from Harvard in 1856 and from the New Y'ork college of physicians and surgeons in 1859, and practised medicine in New