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* DAYTON. 13 DEACON. Colonel Ludlow and Genex'als Saint Clair, Dayton, and Wilkinson, bought the land of the natives, and in the following year a company of ninelccn from Cincinnati made the first settlement. In 1805 Dayton I so named in honor of Gen. .Jona- than Dayton) was incorporated as a town, and in 1841 was chartered as a eity. There were destructive floods in 1805, 1847, 1866, 1863, 188G, and in 1898, and in 1849 there was a disastrous epidemic of cholera. During the Harrison cam- paign of 1840 a notable meeting of Wliigs was held here. Consult Steele and Houk, History of Dayton (Dayton, 1889) . DAYTON. A city and the county-seat of Rhea County, Teim., 38 miles nortli by east of Chattanooga; on the Cincinnati, Xew Orleans and Texas Paeilie Railroad (Map: Tennessee, F 5). Coal is mined, and there are also iron- furnaces, machine-shops, flour and lumber mills, brick-vards, and other industrial establishments. Population, 1890, 2719; 1900, 2004. DAYTON. A city and the county-seat of Columbia County, Wash., 40 miles northeast of Walla alia ; on the Touchet River, and on the Washington and Columbia River Railroad, and a, branch line of the Oregon Railroad and Naviga- tion Company lilap: Washington, H 3). It is the centre of an agricultural and stock-raising country, and contains large flouring mills, and other manufacturing plants. The city has good water power. Population, in 1890, 1880; in 1800, 2216. DAYTON, .Jonathan (1760-1824). An American soldier and legislator, born in Eliz- abethtown, X. J. He graduated at Princeton, was admitted to the bar, was appointed lieu- tenant in a New Jersey regiment in 1777, .served under General Sullivan against the Six Nations, and in 1798 became a brigadier-general in the United States Army. He was a member of the New .Jersey Legislature, and Speaker of the Assembly, and was a delegate to the Constitu- tional Convention of 1787. From 1791 to 1799 he was a member of Congress ( lieing Speaker of the House from 1795 to 1799), and from 1799 until 1805 served in the L'nited States Senate. DAYTON, William Lewis (1807-64). An American politician, nephew of .Jonathan Day- ton (q.v.). He was born in Somerset Coimty, N. J., graduated at Princeton in 1825. was ad- mitted to the bar five years later, and began the practice of the law in Trenton. He became a member of the State Council or Senate in 1837, and in 1842 was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. He wa,s reelected on the expiration of his term, and took an active part with the Whigs in opposing the extension of slavery, the annexation of Texas, and the Fugitive Slave Law. In 1856 he was the Re- publican candidate for Vice-President. He was Attorney-General of New .Jersey from 1857 to 1861, and from then until his death was United States Minister to France. D'AZEGLIO. See Azeglio, Marciiese d'. DAZZLE. A sharper who manages to intro- duce hiiii>ilf from Oak Hall. Squire Harkaway's home, in Dion Boucicault's comedy London, As- surance. DEACON (.AS. deacon, from Lat. diaronus. from Gk. SiuKovot, diakonos, attendant). . subordinate ecclesiastical officer. In apostolic times, the name was applied to those officials of the Cluirch who had the charge of collecting and distributing the alms of the faithful and taking care of the poor and the sick (Acts vi. 1-8 J ; and these seem to have been considered the characteristic functions of the diaconate as late as the Trullan Coimcil of 692. Thus, we And Saint Laurence, Archdeacon of Rome, in the middle of the third century, making the care of the poor and the attendance upon Sixtus, his bishop, at the attar, his principal occupation and his pride, and it was as a deacon that Atlia- nasius attended his bishop at the tirst general council of Nica>a, 325, and delemled the faith against Arius. But that the otlice was not intended to be restricted to these functions may be inferred from the fact that immediately after its institution we find deacons teaching and even baptizing (Acts vi. 10; viii. 5, 38). It evidently included in very early times the duties of guarding the sacred assemblies from the presence of unworthy persons, receiving the oblations and bringing them to the priest, read- ing the epistle and gospel from the ambo, and the names of those who were inscribed on the dip- tychs for commemoration, and assisting in the administration of the holy communion. In mat- ters of external ministry, they had a very wide range, which the Apostolic Constitutions sum up by saying that the deacon nnist be the ear, eye, mouth, hand, heart, and soul of the bishop. With the development of the subdiaconate and the minor orders, only the more important and honorable oltices in and out of the church were left to the deacon. Owing to their small number (in early times not more than seven in any place), and to their immediate relations to the bishop, they began to assume considerable importance, and their pretensions had more than once to be restrained. The office of deacon as it existed in the Early Church has been preserved in the Eastern churches with little modification. At the present time in the Roman Catholic Church, the office is practically of no importance, as it is really nothing more than a step to the priesthood, which is usually administered almost immediately after ordination to the diaconate. The Ponfi'/icale Romanum, indeed, defines the duties of a deacon as ministering at the altar, baptizing, and preaching; but all duties specially belonging to the offices of deacon and subdeacon, including, their special functions in a solemn mass, are in practice nearly always discharged bv priests. The special ceremonies of the ordi- nation of a deacon include the putting on of the dalmatic and stole, and the delivery to him of the book of the Gospels, as well as the laying on of the bishop's hands. In the Anglican Church the imposition of hands, and the delivery of the book of the Gospels, ai'e retained. The deacon, who nuist be twenty-three years of age, con- tinues a year in the office except in special cases. Besides pastoral work, preaching, and baptizing, he may read a large part of the service: but in England he is not allowed to hold a benefice. In the Methodist Episcopal Church, the de.acon is a member of nn order of the ministry next below the elder. The deacons are elected by the annual conference, and ordained by the bishop presiding. They may assist in the administration of the Lord's supper, may administer the rite of bap- tism, solemnize marriage, and serve as traveling preachers. In the Congregational churches, one