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brick house erected in the county ami wliirli stood in a state of gooil preservation in lfS!»S>. Reuben was a student at Georgetown college, Ky., lf<44-4, and was graduated at Brown uni- versity in 1S49. He then studied law at tiie Uni- versity of Louisville, receiving his LL.B. degree in 18">0. He was a practising lawyer in Louis- ville, Ky.. 1!Ch)-8. He was a member of the city council. 18.")3-54;a park commissioner; part owner of the Louisville Dnihj Courier and its editor, ISoT-oD; founder of the pultlic library of Ken- tucky in 1871, and its president, 1871-80, and founder of the Filson club, Louisville, 1884, and its president from its foimdation. He was elected to a membership in the American, the Vir- ginia and the Wisconsin historical societies, the Polj-technic society of Louisville, and a num- ber of liistorical and scientific societies in Amer- ica and Europe. He received the degree of LL. D. from Brown in 1894, from Georgetown in 1895, and from the University of Louisville in 1896. He collected a library of rare and choice books, which in 1899 exceeded 50,000 volumes, besides innumerable pamphlets and manuscript, his col- lection l:)eing especially rich in American and the most complete in the world in Kentucky bibliography. He was married in 1852 to Eliza- beth H., daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth (Hum phreys) Rates of Cincinnati, Ohio, and their son, William T., became a prominent physician of Louisville. His published writings, besides nu- merous orations and addresses, include : Life and Times of John Filson (1884); Histoncal Sketch of St. PauVs Church (1889) ; Centenary of Kentucky (1892); Centena)-y of Louisville (1893), and many contributions, principally of an historic charac- ter, to current literature, notably his Exposition of the Kentucky Resolutions of 170S-99 which ap- peared in the Snuthern Bivouac, March, April and May, issO, and attracted wide attention.

DURRIE, Daniel Steele, librarian, was born in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 2, 1819; son of Horace and Johanna h (Steele) Durrie; grandson of John Durrie, of Stony Stratford, Buckingham county, England, who came to America in 1781 ; and a d€«icendant of John Steele, the first secretary of the colony uf Connecticut, and of William Brad- ford, governor of Plymouth colony. He attended a seminar)' in South Hadley, Ma.s.s., and was aftenvard emplf)yed in a book store in his native city. He established a lxxjk.selling business on his own account in 1844, remaining in Albany until 1850, wlien he removed to Madison, Wis., and was engjiged in the same occupation, 1854-57. In 1856 he retired from business to become the librarian of the State historical .society of Wis- consin, and lield that position until his deatli in 1892. when he was succeeded liy his a.ssistant, Lsaac S. Bradley. HLs published writings in

elude: Genealogy of the Steele Family (1859, enl. ed.. 1862); Uenealoijy of the Holt /■'am/.'*/ (1864) ; Bihlioijraphia (fenealoyica Americana, an Index to American Genealoyies (1868, 3d ed., 1886); History of Madison, ]\'is., includinij the Four Lake Country of Wisconsin (1874); History of Missouri (with W. B. Davis, 1876) ; History of loica (with C. R. Tuttle, 187G) ; and historical works in pamphlet form. He died at Madison, Wis., Aug. 31, 1892.

DURTHALLER, Joseph, educator, was born in Ste. Marie-au-:Mi,-iK', Alsace, Nov. 28, 1819. He was educated at Sti-asburg and received his B.A. degree from the University of Paris. He then pursued his theological studies at the semi- nary of Strasburg, and was ordained a priest. In 1844 he joined the Society of Jesus, and in 1845, with other Jesuit fathers, was banished by the French government. He immigrated to America and taught in St. Mary's college, Mont- real, Canada. He was transferred to the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York citj', where he was professor of philosophy, vice-pre.sident, and from 1860 to 1863, president of the college. He ob- tained from the regents of the University of the state of New Y'ork a charter ranking the Col- lege of St. Francis Xavier a university, and in 1861 he conferred the first degrees in the name of the trustees of the newly chartered college. In 1863 he was transferred to Bufi"alo, N.Y., where he built St. Michael's church and founded a German school, which became Canisius college. He was recalled to the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1871, and was made prefect of studies and afterward rector of St. Lawrence's church, where he founded the German congregation of St. Joseph and in 1874 was made its superior. He died in New York city. May 3, 1885.

DURYEA, Joseph Tuthill, clergyman, was born at Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y^., Dec. 9, 1832; son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Tuthill) Duryea, and grandson of John and Amelia (Smith) Tut- hill. His father's ancestors were Huguenots who fled from France into Holland and subse- quently immigrated to New York. His motlier descended from John Tuthill, who emigrated from England to New Y'ork in 1640. He was prepared for college at Union Hall academy, Jamaica, N.Y., was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1856, and from the Princeton theological seminary in 1862. He was pastor at Troy, N.Y., 1862-65; at the Collegiate Reformed church. New York city, 1865-70; at the Classon Avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1870-80; at the Central Congregational church, Boston, 1880-90; at the First Congregational church, Omaha, Neb., 1890-95, and at tlie First Reformed church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895-98. He resigned his pastorate at Brooklyn in 1898. He was tutor of Greek at Princeton in 1858, and of