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Edward Holyoke, of Tamworth, England, who was at I^ynn, 

 Mass., in 163G, and who was the grandfather of Rev. Edward Hol- 

 yoke, for thirty-two years President of Harvard College; Benjamin 

 Risley, of Hartford, Conn.; Rev. John Stockton, of Kingholt, Eng- 

 land; and the Olcutt, Gibbs and Fuller families of early New Eng- 

 land history, are found in the line of his ancestry. Through his grand- 

 mother on his father's side, he was a descendant of Daniel Morgan, 

 of Colchester, Conn., who was the ancestor of the famous general of 

 that name. His grandfather on his mother's side was the late Governor 

 Joseph Duncan of Illinois, whose ancestors came from Scotland and 

 settled in Virginia about the middle of the last century. Throvigh his 

 grandmother on this side, he was a direct descendant of John Cald- 

 well, who came to this country about 1730, and settled in Virginia, and 

 who was the father of the noted Rev. James Caldwell of Elizabeth - 

 town, New Jersey, and the great-grandfather of John Caldwell Cal- 

 houn, the famous South Carolina senator. James R. Smith, a wealthy 

 shipping merchant of New York, was his great-grandfatlier, and 

 John Ogden, the founder of Elizabethtown, also belongs to this 

 branch of his ancestry. 



Duncan was born at the old Duncan homestead at Jacksonville, 

 but all his childish memories were of Davenport as his home. At 

 the age of eight years his school education began, at the German- 

 American Institute, conducted by Mr. Wm. Riepe, who is now 

 here with us, and under his instruction he l^egan the study of the 

 German language, and received his first regular lessons in drawing. 

 Later, he attended the public schools of this city up to the age of 

 nearly seventeen, and was in one of the intermediate grades of the 

 High School when his cimnection" with them terminated. During 

 all these years he was a hard stu(^ent, and, his physical constitution 

 not being very strong, it was often necessary to take him from school 

 for a few months for rest and recuperation. He always ranked among 

 the first in the classes with which he was connected, especially in 

 mathematics, and acquired some knowledge of the French, Latin, 

 and Greek languages. 



At the age of eleven, in 1866, as his diary shows, he began making 

 a collection of insects, for which he seems naturally to have had an 

 especial taste; and in 1869, when in his fourt^'enth year, he had al- 

 ready commenced their scientific classification. 



At the same time he was also making collections of autographs, 

 stamps, coins, minerals and geological specimens, but more especial- 

 ly in objects of natural history. When out of school, much of his 



