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 DUSTON

BUTTON

Rutgers college, having previously declined the professorshij) of history and iKilitifiil economy in the same institution. He succeeded his latlicr as trustee of Rutgers college, serving, 1«77- 91, and in 1883 was president of the General synod of the Reformed church in America, in session in Albany, N.Y. Ue was a member of the St. Nichobis and Holland societies. He was married in 18G5 to Charlotte W. Nuttman of Newark, N.J.. who up to the time of her death was treasurer of the Woman's board of foreign missions. The Ciiarlotte W. Duryee sciiool for women in connection with the Amoy mission peri>etuates her memory, and their daughter, Lily N. Duryee. went as a voluntary missionary to Amoy in 1895. He took an active interest in the 1894. making many speeches in the cause of re- form througiiout the state. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers college in 1876. He published Sentinels for the Suitl, a tract for soldiers written during the war and which re- ceived a prize from the American tract society; Eelifjious and Occasional Vernes (1886); and lie- liijious Lyrics (1887). He died at New Brunswick, N.J.. .Jan. 2a 1807.
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DUSTON, Hannah, pioneer, was born probably in 1660, and was married to Thomas Duston of Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 3, 1677. When Haverhill was captured by the Indians in 1697, Hannah Duston and Mary Neff. her nurse, were spared the tomahawk, which dealt death to her infant,

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scarcely a week old and to many of the inhabi- tants. The two women were made captive by the savages, and her husband with their seven elder children, at her earnest entreaty, fled to a place of sjifety. The captive mother was obliged to walk through the snow without shoes day after day until they reached the wigwam of the Indian chief on an island near the present site of Ojncord, N.H. Aided V)y Samuel Leonardson, a white lad, who had lu-en raptured at Worcester

one year before, she planned escape. On an ap- pointed niglit with the aid of her nurse and the lad she made an attack on the sleeping Indians. Slie herself scalped nine braves, Leonardson killed the chief, and only a squaw and a badly wounded Indian boy escaped. They then provi- sioned one canoe, sinking the remainder, and od reaching Haverhill she found her family safe. She had with her the Indians' scalps, toma- hawks and guns, as trophies and she presented them to the governor of Massacluisetts colony. The general court gave to Mrs. Duston and the Worcester lad each §230. The island, the scene of their prowess, was named Duston's island, and a granite monument was erected at Haver- hill, by the states of New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts in 1874, on the tablets of which were inscribed the names of Hannah Duston, Mary Neff and Samuel Leonardson. Mrs. Duston died in Haverliill, Mass.

DUTCHER, Silas Belden, banker, was born in Springfield, X.Y., July 12. 1829; .son of Parce- for C. and Johannah Low (Fink) Dutcher. He Avas educated at the district school and for one term attended Caze- novia academy. He then taught school during the winters of 184.J-51, engaged in railroading, 18.")l-o."), and in mercantile business in New York city, 1855-69 He was a .supervisor of the city and coimty of New York, 1861-62, supervisor of internal revenue, 1868-72; pen- sion agent at New York city, 1872-75; appraiser of the port of New York, 1877-80; su- perintendent of public works of New Yox'k state, 1880-83; president of the Union dime savings bank. New York city, 1884-91; commissicmer to frame the charter of Greater New Y'ork, 1896- 97, and president of the Hamilton trust company, Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1891.

DUTTON, Arthur Henry, soldier, was born in Waliingford, Conn.; Nov. 15, 1838. He was grad- uated at the U.S. military academy in 1861, and was commissioned lieutenant in the engineer corps. He was as.signed to duty on the staff of General Mansfield, commanding the defences of Washington, D.C., in 1861, and he commanded the defences of Fernandina, Fla., in 1862. He was made colonel of the 21.st Connecticut regi- ment, Sept. 5, 1862. and while in Noith Carolina serve<l as chief of staff to General Pe<'k, and sub- sequently to Gen. "W. F. Smith. He distinguished

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