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sey and afterward with Mr. Parker, under the firm 

 name of Parker <fc Ditson. In 1840 Mr. Parker re- 

 tired, and Mr. Ditsou carried on the business alone 



till 157. when lie 

 took Joseph C. 

 Til llaynes, a clerk, 



fa "A, a- apartni . 



a^ ^*jjh inirtlietin; 



iver Ditso; 

 Branch houses 

 were established 

 by Mr. Ditson's 

 in New York 

 city(C. II. Ditson 

 >v Co.), 1887, and 

 Philadelphia (J. 

 E. Ditson & Co.), 

 1876, the father 

 remaining in Bos- 

 ton. His was by 

 far the laigest 



music-publishing business that ever existed in the 

 United .States. Mr. Ditson was for twenty-two years 

 president of the Continental Bank of Boston, and was 

 also a director of the Boston Safe-Deposit Company, 

 the Franklin Savings-Bank, and the Old Men's Home. 

 He bequeati. to be expended under the di- 



rection of trustees for the benefit of poor musicians. 



Dorsheimer, William, lawyer and journalist, born in 

 Lyons. N. Y.. Feb. 5, 1832; died in Savannah. Ga., 

 March 26. 1888. He was educated at Phillips Acad- 

 emy, Anaover, Mas-., iin 1 s\ nit two years at Harvard. 

 He'then settled in Buffalo, N. Y., and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1854. Early in his legal career he at- 

 tained considerable influence by winning a very c< im- 

 plicated case, and became actively interested in poli- 

 His first votes were cast for the Democratic 

 ticket, but in 1856 he affiliated with the Republican 

 party. At the opening of the civil war he offered his 

 s to the Government, was appointed on the staff 

 of Gen. John C. Fremont, with the rank of major, 

 and served through the three months' campaign in 

 Missouri. He then returned to Buffalo, and formed a 

 law partnership with Spencer Clinton. In April, 1867, 

 he was appointed United States District Attorney for 

 the Northern District of New York, and at the expira- 

 tion of his term, he reunited with the Democratic par- 

 ty, after a brief adhesion to the Liberal Republican 

 Sirty. In 1674 he was elected Lieutenant-Govcrnor of 

 ew York on the ticket with Samuel J. Tilden, and 

 in 1876 was re-elected. Between these periods he took 

 an active part in the prosecution of Gov. TiliK-n's 

 measures against the canal ring. At the expiration 

 of his second term, he removed to New York city, 

 whence he was elected to Congress in 188i', and served 

 as a member of the Judieiarv Committee. He support- 

 ed Grover Cleveland for president hi 1884, was ap- 

 pointed United States Distriet Attorney for the South- 

 ern District of New York in July, 1SS5, but resigned 

 in March, 1S86, to assume control of the New York 

 " Star," in which relation he continued till death. In 

 1858 he contributed two papers to the " Atlantic 

 Monthly," a review of Par-ton's " Life of Aaron 

 Burr" and one on a "Life of Jefferson" ; in 1861 

 published a series of articles in the same magazine on 

 " Fremont's Hundred Days in Missouri " ; and in 

 1884 published a biography of Grover Cleveland. He 

 received the decrree of M. A. from Harvard in 1359. 



Douai, Carl Daniel Adolf, educator, born in Altenburg, 

 Germany, Feb. 22, 1819; died in Brooklyn.. N. Y.. 

 Jan. 21, 1888. He studied in the Dresden Gymnasi- 

 um, and was graduated at the University of Leipsic. 

 Soon afterward he was appointed a lecturer in the 

 University of Jena, and alter two years' service there 

 took a professorship in the Russo-German University 

 at Dorpat. At the outbreak of the revolution of 

 1848, he returned to Germany to take part in it. pro- 

 claimed the republic in his native city, and aided in 

 successfully defending the city against the assaults of 

 a full brigade of the army. He was an active member 



of the diet called to institute a reform government, 

 and wa member of the provisional Landtag ; 



but on the suppression ot tiie new government ne 

 with others was arrested for hisrh treason, imprisoned 

 till IN}:.', and then pardoned and released. In that 

 year he settled in San Antonio, Tex., and established 

 the "Zeitung,"a social-democratic paper. In May, 

 1854, he was one of the signers to a call for a conven- 

 tion, which declared that slavery was a political and 

 moral evil, and shortly afterward he was compelled 

 to give up his paper and leave the city. He then 

 taught in Philadelphia and Boston till 1860, when he 

 i. 'legate to the National Republican Convention 

 that nominated Abraham Lincoln, and an active > 

 er in the ensuing canvass. The same year he became 

 editor of the New Yorker Demokrat," but gave up 

 that office to accept the principalship of the Hobokeu, 

 N. J.. Academy. In 1866 ne established another 

 school of his own in New York city ; in 1S71 was ap- 

 pointed editor of the " Arbeiter L'nion," an organ of 

 the German trades-unions in New York city, and 

 espoused the French cause in the Franco- Prussian 

 ^ ar ; and in 1878 became editor of the " Volks Zei- 

 tung." He introduced Froebel's kindergarten system 

 of instruction into the United States, and wrote nu- 

 merous philosophical articles and treatises from a 

 social-democratic and free-thinker standpoint. 



Drew, Thomas, abolitionist, born in Plvmouth. 

 in 1819; died in Dorchester. Mass., Nov. 12, 18S8. 

 He entered journalism in Philadelphia, became asso- 

 ciated with Elihu Burritt in publishing the " Christian 

 Citizen " in Worcester, and afterward with John 

 Milton Earle, and was editor and proprietor of the 

 Worcester "Spy" for several years preceding the 

 civil war. He nad been an active anti-slavery advo- 

 cate many years, and at the time of the Anthony 

 Burns riot in Boston (1854), went there at the head of 

 a train-load of Worcester friends and made a vain 

 attempt to rescue him. After the inauguration of 

 Gov. Andrew and the opening of the civil war, he 

 was appointed military secretary to the Governor, and 

 besides the duties of this office was frequently sent to 

 the field to look after the sick and wounded" soldiers 

 of Massachusetts. For several years he was an edi- 

 torial writer on the Boston " Herald." 



Drexel, Joseph Wilhelm, banker, horn in Philadelphia, 

 Pa.. Jan. 24, 1833; died in New York city. March 25, 

 1888. He was one of the three sons of Francis Martin 

 Drexel, a native of the Austrian Tyrol, who established 

 a banking-house in Philadelphia in 1837. Joseph 

 entered his father's-banking house as a clerk, and 

 afterward was admitted to partnership. The firm 

 established branch houses in several large cities, and 

 Joseph became manager of the German branch. Dur- 

 ing his residence abroad he traveled extensively. In 

 1861 he returned to the United States and opened a 

 banking-house in Chicago, where he attained such a 

 of popularity that the authorities named two of 

 the handsomest boulevards after him and his wife. On 

 the death of his father, in 1S63, he returned to Phila- 

 delphia. In 1871 be came to New York city, and with 

 J. S. Morgan, of London, and his brother, Anthony 

 Joseph Drexel, established the firm of Drexel, Moreran 

 He retired from active business in 1876, Imt 

 retained his interest in the houses of Drexel & Co., of 

 Philadelphia ; J. S. Morgan & Co., of London ; Drexel, 

 Harjies A: Co., of Paris"; and Drexel, Morgan i 1 

 of New York; besides a third interest, with George 

 W. Cliilds and Anthony J. Drexel, in the Phila- 

 delphia "Ledger." He was also a trustee of the 

 Knickerbocker Trust Company and of the American 

 Bank-note Company, and a director in eleven national 

 banks, including the Garfield, of New York citv, of 

 which he was a founder. After his retirement from 

 business, he devoted his time and means to the advance- 

 ment of the various literary, philanthropic, scientific, 

 and musical organizations \vith which he w;.- 

 nected, and was" particularly interested in an original 

 scheme for assisting the worthy and industrious poor. 

 He bought 13,000 acres of ch'oice land in Maryland 



