actress in the company of Effie Ober, shortly after ward joining the Hanlons, playing the title rôle in Fantasma, in which she appeared for nearly two years. She possessed a fine soprano voice, and her theatrical work was divided between light opera and the drama, with much success in both. She sang one season with the famous Boston Ideal Opera Company; she played leading rôles one season in the company of Dan Maguinness, and she made a notable success as Violet Hughes in Hoyt's A Tin Soldier. In 1891-'92 she played the Spanish mother in Mrs. Leslie Carter's production of Miss Helyett, after which she became a member of the Manola-Mason Company of Boston, and of Donnelly and Girard's company, playing in The Rainmakers. She also appeared in England, and achieved success in that country.

Dean, Sidney, clergyman and Congressman, born in Glastonbury, Conn., Nov. 16, 1818; died in Brookline, Mass., Oct. 29, 1901. He was educated at Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts, and Suffield Academy in his native State, and entered the Methodist ministry in 1843. In 185559 he represented his district in Congress, and was Washington correspondent of the New York Independent. He held pastorates at Pawtucket, R. I., 1859-'61; Providence, 1861-'63; and Warren, R. I., 1863-'65. During the next ten years he was editorially connected with Providence newspapers, retiring from journalism in 1880 to devote himself to literature and lecturing. His last ten years were spent in retirement at Brookline. In 1884 he published A History of Banking and Banks, from the Bank of Venice, 1171 to 1883.

De Cordova, Raphael J., lecturer and humorist, born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1822; died in London, England, April 4, 1901. He removed to New York city in 1849, and was employed in the commission house of Aymer & Co. till 1870. In that year, with his two sons as partners, he established a tea business in New York. The firm was dissolved in 1885, and after 1893 Mr. De Cordova resided in London. During the finan cial panic of 1857 he turned to the lecture platform, on which he had already achieved success. His subjects were humorous and the lectures very popular. He was a regular contributor to the New York newspapers, and wrote several books, one of which, The Prince's Visit, published shortly after the visit of the Prince of Wales to the United States, had a large sale. He was an expert linguist.

De Forest, Augusta, actress, born in White Plains, N. Y., in 1845; died in New York city, Oct. 20, 1901. She made her début in her early girlhood, played first in stock companies, and rose quickly to be leading lady. She played at various times in support of John McCullough, Adelaide Neilson, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, William J. Florence, and other stars. For several years she was leading woman at Wood's Museum, and at one time she was a member of Augustin Daly's company. In her last years she played in support of Margaret Mather, Belle Archer, and Grace George. She married George Hill, a New York merchant, who died soon afterward.

De Groot, Ann Boylan, philanthropist, born in Mendham, N. J., Feb. 28, 1813; died in Mount Tabor, N. J., July 10, 1901. She was a daughter of Joseph A. Boylan. Her husband, Alfred De Groot, died in 1869, leaving her a considerable fortune, which she devoted almost entirely to church and charitable work. She was the founder of the De Groot Methodist Episcopal Church, in Newark, N. J., and paid for its first edifice. She was a member of the charter Board of Trustees and Board of Managers of the Newark Home for

the Friendless, founded in 1872, serving continuously till her death. She was interested in the work among the negroes, both in the North and in the South, and founded and was the chief support of the Boylan Home for the Education of Colored Children in Jacksonville, Fla. She was also a large contributor to the Central Methodist Church, in Newark, of which she was a member, and to the Mount Tabor camp-meetings, every one of which she had attended since 1870.

De la Harpe, Joseph A., scenic artist, born in Switzerland, about 1850; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1901. When a boy he emigrated with his mother, who settled with him near Salt Lake City. He made many sketches and paintings of animals for Brigham Young, some of which are in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. His portraits of Brigham Young and other Mormon notables are in the Mormon Temple, in Salt Lake City. His first engagement in the East was in making sketches for Augustin Daly. He painted the scenery for Edwin Booth's theater. Altogether he painted the scenery for 47 theaters, 24 of which were in New York and Brooklyn.

Denison, Frederic, Baptist clergyman, born in Stonington, Conn., Sept. 28, 1819; died in Providence, R. I., Aug. 16, 1901. He was graduated at Brown University in 1847, and in the autumn of the same year he was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Westerly, R. I. In November, 1854, he was made pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Norwich, Conn., where he remained until 1859, when he took charge of a church in Central Falls, R. I. In 1861 he became chaplain of the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry. Later he joined the 3d Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the same capacity, and served through the war. In 1865 he resumed charge of the church in Westerly, where he remained till 1871. For the following two years he was pastor of a church in New Haven, Conn., and for the succeeding three years in Woonsocket, R. I. After that he was pastor for a few years of the Roger Williams Baptist Church in Wanskuck. He then retired, and afterward made his home in Providence. He wrote many historical sketches, army hymns, pamphlets upon current subjects, memorial discourses, and miscellaneous hymns, poems, and newspaper and magazine articles, and was the author of the following books: The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; Notes of the Baptists and their Principles in Norwich, Conn.; The EvangelistsLife of Jabez S. Swan; Westerly and its Witnesses; Sabers and Spurs-the History of the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry; Shot and Shell-the History of the 3d Rhode Island Heavy Artillery; Picturesque Rhode Island; and Illustrated New Bedford, Marthas Vineyard, and Nantucket.

De Puy, William Harrison, clergyman, born in Penn Yan, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1821; died in Canaan, Conn., Sept. 4, 1901. He was graduated at Genesee College (now Syracuse University), entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845, and was engaged in pastoral work until 1849, when he became the financial agent of Genesee College. The following year he was made principal of the teachers' department of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the seminary. He was pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, in Buffalo, in 1855, and successively served the full pastoral term in each of the Methodist churches then in that city. During part of that time he was editor of the Buffalo Christian Advocate. In 1865 he was appointed assistant editor of the Christian Advocate of New York, and he filled

that office about twenty-five years. He was editor of the Daily Christian Advocate during the quadrennial General Conferences from 1860 to 1888, one of the managers of the Methodist Sunday-School Union for more than thirty years, and editor of the Methodist Year-Book from 1866 to 1889. In New York he served as pastor of the old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church four years. He received the degree of M. A. from Genesee College, that of D. D. from Union College, and that of LL. D. from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio. Dr. De Puy was author or editor of the following books: Three-score Years and Beyond (1877); Compendium of Useful Information (1878); The People's Cyclopædia of Universal Knowledge (1879); Home and Health and Home Economics (1880); The People's Atlas (1882); Methodist Centennial Year-Book (1889); American Revisions and Additions to Encyclopædia Britannica (1891); and University of Literature (1896).

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Dickinson, Leonard A., soldier, born in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 5, 1826; died in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 27, 1901. He was left an orphan at an early age, and earned the greater part of his livelihood after he was nine years old. While a young man he was a member and an officer of various military companies in New Haven and Hartford, and in October, 1861, he enlisted in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers. He was commissioned captain in that regiment, mustered into service in January, 1862, and served with it in the engagements about New Orleans under Gen. Butler, and later in the Shenandoah valley. In 1864 he was made assistant acting adjutant-general of the 19th Army Corps, and in that capacity he was in the campaigns of Gen. Sheridan. was mustered out of service Nov. 21, 1864. After 1869 he engaged in the insurance business, and for many years he was president of the Hartford Board of Underwriters. Throughout his life after the war he was intimately connected with the political life of the State. He served for three years as quartermaster on the staff of Gov. Jewell. He was appointed postmaster of Hartford by President Garfield, and held the office through President Arthur's administration. He had served continuously on the Soldiers' Hospital Board after 1886, and was a trustee and treasurer of the Fitch Soldiers' Home, in Noroton, Conn., and as the executive officer representing the State he was largely instrumental in putting the institution on a sound basis.

Dillingham, Annie (Mrs. William Dawes), actress, born in New England; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 15, 1901. She made her first appear ance at the Boston Museum, playing the leading rôle in The Love Chase, supported by the veteran actor, William Warren. She afterward acted in various stock companies throughout the country, and once, during the civil war, when she and her company were in a town that had been captured by Morgan's guerrillas, the entire wardrobe and properties of the actors were saved by her intercession with Morgan himself. While Miss Dilling ham was playing in the West Indies she met William Dawes, a merchant of British Guiana, and shortly afterward married him, retiring permanently from theatrical life.

Dimitry, John (Bull Smith), author, born in Washington, D. C., Dec. 27, 1835; died in New Orleans, Sept. 7, 1901. He was the son of Prof. Alexander Dimitry. He was graduated at Georgetown College, and from 1859 to 1861 was secretary of legation to his father, who was United States minister to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He was connected editorially with newspapers in

New Orleans, Washington, New York, and Philadelphia, and while on the New York Mail and Express his story Le Tombeau Blane won the prize of $500 offered by The Storyteller for the best short story. He was Professor of Languages and Belles-Lettres, Colegio Caldas, South America, from 1873 to 1876, and he held the same chair in Montgomery College, Virginia, in 1894–95. He gained considerable reputation as a writer of epitaphs, and was the author of The Life of Jefferson Davis, written, with John C. Ridpath, in collaboration with Mrs. Jefferson Davis; School History and Geography of Louisiana (1877); Three Good Giants (1887); Atahualpa's Curtain (1889); and the Confederate Military History of Louisiana (1900).

Donahoe, Patrick, publisher, born in Munnery, County Cavan, Ireland, March 17, 1811: died in Boston, Mass., March 18, 1901. He at tended the public schools of Boston, whither he had come with his parents when ten years old. and afterward worked as a compositor in the office of the Columbian Centinel, and later on the Boston Transcript. In 1836 he founded The Pilot. in the interest of the Catholics of the United States, which, through his personal canvass, attained a wide circulation. In addition to his newspaper he established a large book-publishing house, and subsequently added a bookstore and an emporium of organs and church furniture. During the civil war he actively interested himself in the organization of Irish regiments. He was treasurer of the fund for the equipment of the Irish 9th, and when the regiment was depart ing for the field he presented Col. Cass with $1,000 in gold for distribution among the men. He assisted in the formation of the 28th Massachusetts Regiment, and generously aided the soldiers at Camp Cameron, Cambridge, during the early days of the war. In 1872, when his chapter of misfortune began, Mr. Donahoe was the richest Catholic in New England, and his large fortune was drawn on freely for churches and philanthrop ic interests. The great fire of 1872 destroyed his buildings, stereotype plates, book stock, and other property to the value of $350,000. He at once resumed business, but was burned out again in May, 1873. He built again, and a third time was burned out. The insurance companies had nearly all collapsed through the losses incurred in the great fire, and in consequence his losses were al most total. In addition, he had indorsed heavily for friends, and through his generosity in this di rection he lost more than $250,000. Then the panic of 1876 came, and friends that had advanced money to carry on the business withdrew their assistance. His bank was obliged to suspend payment, and Mr. Donahoe, to repay the $73.000 due depositors, put everything he possessed at the dis posal of his creditors. The Pilot was purchased by Archbishop Williams and John Boyle O'Reilly The latter, who for some years had been in edi torial charge of the paper, now assumed the additional duties of business manager. Meantime, Mr. Donahoe was beginning business life anew. He resumed his foreign exchange and passenger agency, and in 1878 established Donahoe's Magazine. To gain a circulation for it, he went over the same ground that he had traversed in young manhood in the interests of The Pilot. Success came to him, and in 1890, after the death of John Boyle O'Reilly, Mr. Donahoe, then nearly eighty years old, bought back The Pilot. In 1894 he sold Donahoe's Magazine. On March 17. 1893, he was awarded the Lætare medal by Notre Dame University, given each year to some Catholic "especially distinguished for his services to

religion and to his fellow men," and on May 8, 1894, he was tendered a complimentary dinner by the representative citizens of Boston, at which more than 300 were present.

Donnelly, Ignatius, author, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 3, 1831; died in Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 1, 1901. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, was graduated at the Central High School in 1849, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He removed to St. Paul, Minn., in 1856, and in 1859 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Minnesota on the Republican ticket. He served in Congress from December, 1863, till March, 1869. Then, having been defeated for another reelection, he entered the Democratic party. He took the stump for Horace Greeley in 1872, and was president of the antimonopoly convention that nominated Peter Cooper for the presidency in 1876. In 1873 he was elected to the State Senate, and served many years as Democratic member of that body and of the House. Sept. 6, 1898, he was nominated for the vice-presidency of the United States by the convention of the People's party in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in May, 1900, he was nominated for the same office by the Middle-of-the-Road division of the People's party in their convention in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. For five years he published in St. Paul The Antimonopolist, a weekly paper in which he advocated the Greenback policy, and during his last years, in addition to conducting a large farm, he edited The Representative, a reform journal published in Minneapolis. For several years previous to 1894 he was president of the Farmers' Alliance of Minnesota. After publishing several minor works, among them an Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare, he brought out his Atlantis, the Antediluvian World (1882), in which he attempted to prove that a great island continent, the Atlantis of the ancients, once extended from the West Indies nearly to Europe; that civilization originated there and spread to both the adjacent continents; that the island sank in a great convulsion, and that the islands of the Atlantic are such parts of it as were too high to be submerged. Afterward he published Ragnarok (1883), an attempt to prove that the deposits of clay, gravel, and decomposed rock characteristic of the drift age, were the result of contact between the earth and a comet; and The Great Cryptogram, in which he attempted to demonstrate by an alleged cipher (which was quite clear to him, but to no one else) that Lord Bacon was the author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. He afterward applied this cryptogram with equal success to Don Quixote. His other books were Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (1890); The Golden Bottle, a political novel (1892); Doctor Huguet; and The American People's Money. He wrote the preamble to the Omaha platform of the People's party, which has been regarded in the light of a party creed. While in Congress, Mr. Donnelly earnestly advocated the creation of the National Bureau of Education, and he was the first man that ever agitated in Congress the question of the planting of trees by the Government.

Dougherty, Andrew, inventor and manufacturer, born in Ireland in 1826; died in New York city, March 4, 1901. He came to New York when nine years old, and soon afterward ran away to follow a seafaring life till 1848, when he returned and set up a small establishment for the manufacture of cards at 48 Ann Street. The business grew till it was one of the most important of its class in the United States. Most of the devices now used in the making of cards

were his inventions, and he was the originator of a paper-wetting appliance that the newspapers of the country used in preparing their paper for the press up to the time of the invention of the web perfecting press, which uses dry paper.

Douglass, Andrew Ellicott, archeologist, born in West Point, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1819; died in New York city, Sept. 30, 1901. He was the son of Major David Bates Douglass, U. S. A., and was graduated at Kenyon College in 1838. In 1839 he engaged in business in New York in what afterward became the Hazard Powder Company, of which he became president in 1867. In 1876 he retired from active business, and thereafter devoted his time to the study of archeology, and chiefly to the investigation of Indian remains in the United States. He spent ten winters in Florida, locating and exploring more than 50 Indian mounds and collecting more than 22,000 archeological specimens, now exhibited in the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. Mr. Douglass was the author of many papers on archeology.

Draper, Herbert Lemuel, officer in the United States Marine Corps, born in Papnerville, Canada, Dec. 24, 1866; died in Hong-Kong, China, in September, 1901. He was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1883; became 2d lieutenant Marine Corps, July 1, 1889; 1st lieutenant, July 1, 1891; and captain, March 3, 1899. His first conspicuous service was in 1893, at the time of the troubles in Hawaii, when he commanded the marines sent ashore from the Boston to preserve order and to protect American interests in Honolulu. In the Spanish-American War he served as adjutant of Col. Huntington's batallion, and for conspicuous service in the occupation and defense of Guantanamo, where he was the first to raise the United States flag on Cuban soil, he was brevetted captain. Afterward he was sent to the Philippines, where, on his post at Subig, he rendered efficient service, and for a time served as collector of customs for the district.

Draper, William Henry, physician, born in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 14, 1830; died in New York city, April 26, 1901. He was graduated at Columbia College in 1851. While attending college he played the organ in St. Thomas's Church, then at Broadway and Houston Street. He was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1855, and took the degree of M. A. at Columbia the same year. He then studied in Paris and London, and in 1869 was appointed Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. After a time he retired from that professorship to take that of Clinical Medicine in the same college. He held that post from 1879 to 1898, when he retired, but was appointed emeritus professor. Dr. Draper became attending physician in the New York Hospital in 1862, and acted until 1889, when he retired on account of failing health, but took up the service again in 1893. He served the hospital in all thirty-nine years. He was connected with the New York House of Mercy, St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, and the Northwestern Dispensary. In 1893 he was Roosevelt's president of the Medical Board. During the civil war he made a trip to the peninsula in connection with the Sanitary Commission. Dr. Draper was a general practitioner, always objecting to specialization.

Drysdale, William, journalist and author, born in Lancaster, Pa., July 11, 1852; died in Cranford, N. J., Sept. 20, 1901. He received his early education from his father, and was for a time a student at Columbia Law School. His

reporting of the trial of Henry Ward Beecher, in 1874, for the New York Sun, put him in the first rank of newspaper reporters. For one year, 1876, he was city editor of the Philadelphia Times, and in 1877 he joined the staff of the New York Times, with which paper he was connected for more than twenty years. In 1879 he was sent by his paper into Mexico and Cuba, and much of his time thereafter was spent in those countries. He also did correspondence work in Europe. His stories for boys, drawn chiefly from the experiences of his wanderings in the Antilles, achieved a wide popularity. He published Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (selections from the writings and sayings of Henry Ward Beecher); In Sunny Lands; Outdoor Life in Nassau and Cuba; The Princess of Montserrat; The Mystery of Abel Forefinger; The Young Reporter; The Fast Mail; The Beach Patrol; The Young Supercargo; Cadet Standish of the St. Louis; Helps for Ambitious Boys; Helps for Ambitious Girls; and the Treasury Club.

Du Barry, Beekman, soldier, born in Bordentown, N. J., Dec. 4, 1828; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1901. He was the eldest son of Dr. Edmund Louis Du Barry, a surgeon in the United States navy. His mother was the youngest daughter of Col. William Duane. He was graduated at West Point in 1849, and assigned, as a brevet 2d lieutenant, to the 1st Artillery. In September of that year he sailed with his company for Florida, where he served against the Seminoles until September, 1850. He then served as Assistant Professor of Ethics at West Point until April, 1853, when he went for three months on exploration duty in connection with the first reconnaissance for a Northern Pacific Railroad route. After his return he was on duty as Assistant Professor of French at West Point until May, 1854, when he went with his company, by way of the Isthmus, to San Diego, Cal., and thence to Fort Yuma, Cal., serving there till September, 1856. He had been made 2d lieutenant of Light Battery E, 3d Artillery, Feb. 13, 1850, and 1st lieutenant, Dec. 24, 1853, and during much of the time he was in command of his company, was also post commissary, and as acting assistant quartermaster designed and constructed the buildings at Fort Yuma. In November, 1856, he went to Fort Snelling, Minn., and in the following year served in the expedition against the Sioux Indians on Yellow Medicine river; and later served in Kansas in quelling the disturbances connected with the formation of a State Constitution in 1857-58. In the winter of 1857-'58 he was detailed to examine the Missouri river from Fort Leavenworth to the mouth of the Platte, and to select a site for a depot for the army in Utah. The following September he marched with the battery from old Fort Scott, Kansas, through Missouri and western Iowa, to Fort Ridgely, Minnesota., where he was on duty till the spring of 1859. After a four months' leave of absence he again served as Assistant Professor of French at West Point till May 11, 1861, when he was appointed captain and commissary of subsistence and ordered to Harrisburg, Pa. He organized the supply for Gen. Patterson's army on the line to Harpers Ferry, and forwarded by rail the troops arriving there in the first months of the war. From December, 1861, till September, 1862, he served as chief commissary in western Kentucky, West Tennessee, and northern Mississippi. From October, 1862, until December, 1864, he was purchasing and depot commissary at Cincinnati, Ohio, and he was then ordered to Washington as assistant to the commissary-general of subsistence, in whose office he

served until Nov. 3, 1873. He was then on purchasing and depot duty in St. Paul, Minn., till September, 1876; in Boston till May, 1877; and in New York till August, 1879. He served at the Military Academy from September, 1879, until September, 1881. He was brevetted lieutenantcolonel and colonel, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service during the war, and received the rank of major, Feb. 9, 1863; lieutenantcolonel, May 20, 1882; and colonel, Sept. 3, 1889. From April, 1882, he served as assistant to the commissary-general of subsistence until July 10, 1890, when he was appointed commissary-general of subsistence with the rank of brigadier-general, which post he filled until his retirement, Dec. 4, 1892.

Duffield, John Thomas, clergyman and educator, born in McConnelisburg, Pa., Feb. 19, 1823; died in Princeton, N. J., April 10, 1901. He was graduated at Princeton in 1841, and took charge of the mathematical department of Union Academy,Philadelphia. He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1844, and in 1845 he was appointed tutor of Greek in Princeton. From 1847 till 1854 he was Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, and in 1854 he was appointed to a full professorship. He was licensed to preach in 1849, and for several

years he filled the pulpit of the Second Presbyterian Church in Princeton, in the founding of which he was mainly instrumental, and at the time of his death he was president of the board of trustees. In 1865 he was moderator of the Synod of New Jersey. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Princeton in 1872, and Lake Forest University in 1890 gave him the degree of LL. D. Prof. Duffield was an abundant contributor to current religious literature, and he had written a great deal in the last years of his life in advocacy of the revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith, being one of the few Princeton professors that advocated the movement. After his retirement from active class-room duty he was chairman of the Faculty Committee on Scholarships and Charitable Funds, and in the administration of this office he came notably into sympathetic touch with the students.

Dunglison, Richard James, physician and editor, born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13, 1834: died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 5, 1901. He was a son of Prof. Robley Dunglison, of Jefferson Medical College, and studied medicine under his father's direction. He was graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1856. From 1862 till 1865 he served as acting assistant surgeon of the United States army, on duty in the military hospitals in Philadelphia. He was one of the originators of the Philadelphia Medical Times; edited Dunglison's Medical Dictionary, Dunglison's History of Medicine, etc., and was the author of Practition ers' Reference Book; Handbook of Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Dietetics: The Present Treatment of Disease; a New School Physiology and Hygiene; Elementary Physiology and Hygiene;

and Surgical Diseases of Children (translated from the French by Guersant). He also edited and began the publication of Dunglison's College and Clinical Record in 1899.

Durfee, Thomas, jurist, born in Tiverton, R. I., Feb. 6, 1826; died in Providence, R. I., June 6. 1901. He was a son of Job Durfee (1790-1847). Both father and son were graduates of Brown University, and each was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Thomas Durfee was graduated at Brown University in 1846, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and was reporter of the Supreme Court from 1849 till 1853. He then served as judge in the Court of Magistrates in Providence six years, one year as assistant and five years as presiding judge. He was a member of the Legislature from Providence, was speaker of the House from 1863 till 1865, and was in the Senate the following year, till he went upon the Supreme Court bench. In 1865 he became Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and in January, 1875, he was elected Chief Justice. From that time till March 14, 1891, when he resigned, Judge Durfee was at the head of the judiciary of the State, and his opinions are notable for their literary quality, force, and logic. During the civil war his pen and voice were powerful in the support of the National cause. He was Chancellor of Brown University from 1879 till 1888, and a trustee from 1876 till 1888. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1875. In addition to his many legal papers he published The Complete Works of Job Durfee, with a Memoir of his Life (1849); Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 2 vols. (1851-'53); Oration at Providence, July 4, 1853; Treatise on the Law on Highways, begun by Joseph K. Angell and published in 1857; Village Picnic, and Other Poems (1872); Gleanings from the Judicial His tory of Rhode Island (1883); and Some Thoughts on the Constitution of Rhode Island (1887). Eaton, C. Harry, artist, born in Akron, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1850; died in Englewood, N. J., Aug. 4, 1901. He taught himself his art. Among the rewards he received were a silver medal in Boston in 1887, a gold medal at the Prize Fund Exhibition at the American Art Galleries in New York city in 1888, and the William T. Evans prize at the American Water-Color Society Exhibition in 1898. His home was in Leonia, N. J., and the greater part of his work was done in New York. He was an associate of the National Academy of Design and secretary of the American WaterColor Society. His painting Lily Pond is owned by the Detroit Museum of Art.

Edwards, Arthur, clergyman and editor, born in Norwalk, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1834; died in Chicago, Ill., March 20, 1901. He was graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1858, and immediately began work under the Detroit Conference of the Methodist Church, and was stationed at Marine, Mich. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed chaplain of the 1st Michigan Infantry, and he remained with the regiment till after Gettysburg, when he received the command of a cavalry regiment. After the war he was a publisher of Methodist literature. He became assistant editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate in 1864, and four years later was appointed editorin-chief of that paper, and served in this place till his death. He was the first to advocate the use of illustrations in the Church press. He was a member of six general conferences, and of the London Ecumenical Conference in 1881. He was also a member of the Baltimore Centennial Conference, and for ten years served as secretary of the Detroit Conference.

Ellicott, Henry J., sculptor, born near Ellicott City, Md., in 1848; died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 11, 1901. He was a great-grandson of Major Andrew Ellicott, who assisted D'Enfant in laying out the city of Washington. Mr. Ellicott received his early education in Washington, and afterward studied in the Academy of Design, New York city. Among his first works of prominence were the bronze statues for the monuments of the 1st and 2d Pennsylvania Volunteers on the battlefield of Gettysburg. The equestrian statues of Gen. Hancock, in Washington, and of Gen. McClellan, in Philadelphia, are probably his best-known productions. He also made busts of many wellknown Americans, among others one of the late Zebulon B. Vance, for the State Capitol in Raleigh, N. C.

Emery, John James, local character, born in Fairfield, Me., Aug. 28, 1806; died in Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 4, 1901. He was one of fifteen children, was educated in the common schools, and studied surveying. He was an extensive farmer, and also carried on a large lumbering business. He was a selectman and county surveyor, and represented his town in the Legislature. In 1870 he removed to Turners Falls, Mass., to engage in business, and in later years had resided in Dorchester and Boston. In 1839 he was the innocent cause of what is known as the Aroostook War. During the boundary dispute with Canada he was sent to look over the ground and make a report upon it. While doing this he was captured by British soldiers and taken into Canada. When the affair became known there was great excitement, and immediate talk of war. The State troops were ordered out under the direction of the President, and sent to the boundary to secure his release. The Canadian Government released him before the Maine troops reached the scene, but at the same time assembled several regiments of troops on the border. President Van Buren sent Gen. Scott to take command, and he remained in the field till the trouble was over.

Esher, John Jacob, bishop of the Evangelical Church, born in Strasburg, Alsace, Dec. 11, 1823; died in Chicago, Ill., April 16, 1901. His family brought him to the United States when he was seven years old, and settled near Warren, Pa. In 1836 they removed to Illinois, settling on the banks of Des Plaines river, about 20 miles northwest of Chicago. Bishop Esher was licensed to preach at the first session of the Illinois Conference of the Evangelical Church, held in his father's house in 1845. After preaching one year in Illinois, one year in Iowa, and two years in Milwaukee, he was elected presiding elder of the Wisconsin district. At the close of his term the district was made the Wisconsin Conference, and he was stationed as missionary in Chicago and elected presiding elder of the Chicago district. Afterward, at Plainfield, Ill., he aided in the establishment of Northwestern College, assisted in its removal to Naperville, Ill., and as general solicitor laid the foundation of its endowment fund. For a time he served as editor of the Sundayschool literature of his Church, in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the same time he was editor of the Christliche Botschafter, and he was the first editor of the Evangelical Magazine. At the General Conference of 1863, held in Buffalo, N. Y., he was elected a bishop, and he was reelected for ten successive terms, serving till his death. From the time of his elevation to the bishopric his life was largely the history of the Church. He visited Germany in 1864 and again in 1900, and in February, 1865, organized the Germany Conference in Stuttgart. In 1884-'85 he visited Japan to re