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and Michigan, divided it into farms of 100 acres, 

 erected comfortable five-room dwellings, and .sold 

 them at cost, on twelve years' time, to people whom 

 he thought worthy of such assistance. He offered 

 Gen. Grant the use of his furnished cottage on Mount 

 MacGregor, and after his death therein presented the 

 building and grounds to the Grand Army of the Re- 

 public as a memorial of the great soldier. In 1887 

 he presented a $2,000 oil-painting by Edward Gay to 

 the State of New York, for the adornment of the new 

 Executive mansion at Albany. It is estimated that he 

 spent an average of 50,000 a year in charitable work ; 

 and it was not known until his death that he had kept 

 an agent at the city prison (Tombs) for many years to 

 investigate the condition of the families of criminals 

 confined there and relieve deserving ones. Mr. Drcxel 

 was a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 and gave it some early Italian paintings, a collection 

 of Egyptian casts, and another of coins, the painting 

 " Harpsichord," and a cabinet of ancient musical in- 

 struments. He also was president of the New York 

 Philharmonic Society and of the Sanitary League, a 

 director of the Metropolitan Opera House, treasurer 

 of the Cancer Hospital Society, and a member of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, ti 

 ciety for the Improvement of the Condition of the 

 Poor, the American Geographical Society, and the 

 New York and Saratoga Historical Societies. 



Drumgoole, John 0., clergyman, born in County Long- 

 ford, Ireland, in 1828 ; died in New York city, March 

 28, 1888. He came to the United States with his 

 parents when eight years old, entered St. John's 

 College, Fordham, N. Y., in 1848, and studied there 

 till obliged to leave to help support the family, and 

 then became sexton of St. Mary's Church. While 

 filling this office he made a vow to consecrate himself 

 to the physical and spiritual improvement of the poor. 

 He resumed his studies in St. Francis Xavier College, 

 took the theological course in the Seminary of Our 

 Lady of Angels, Niagara Falls, and was ordained a 

 priest on May 24> 1865. For a time he was curate at his 

 old church, St. Mary's, when he applied to Archbishop 

 McCloskey for permission to establish a mission for 

 the protection of homeless and destitute children. 

 His plans were approved, and he was appointed 

 director of St. Vincent do Paul's Newsboys' Lodging- 

 house, and under his administration the enterprise 

 soon attained prosperity. He took charge in 1871, 

 was obliged to rent the adjoining building in 1--7-, 

 and after ten years of devoted laoor erected a large 

 tire-proof building on the corner of Great Jones Street 

 and Lafayette Place, which occupies four city lots and 

 cost, with the ground, $300,000. In 18-3, the accom- 

 modations again proving insufficient, he purchased 

 over 500 acres on Prince's Bay, Staten Island, and 

 erected buildings there. The property represents 

 over $700, 000 ? and when each part was opened it was 

 free from debt. Nearly 1,500 children are housed, 

 fed, clothed, and educated in the institution, the name 

 of which was changed to Mission of the Immaculate 

 Virgin for Homeless and Destitute Children. 



Duffield, Q-eorge, hyrnnologist. born in Carlisle, Pa., 

 Sept. ]2, 1816 ; died in Bloomfield, N. J., July 7, 1888. 

 Lie was graduated at Yale College in 1^7, and after 

 a three years' course in Union Theolodcal Semi- 

 nary, New York city, was ordained a Presbyterian 

 minister, Dec., 27, 1840. He held pastorates in 

 Brooklyn, 1840; Bloomfield, N. J., 1847; Phila- 

 delphia, 1852 ; Adrian, Mich., 1861; Galesburg, 111., 

 1865; Sagiuaw city, Mich., 1869 ; and Lansing, Mich., 

 1877-'80; and resided in Detroit, Mich., without a 

 charge in 1884-'87, when he removed to Bloomfield. 

 He was author of many hymns, of which " Blessed 

 Saviour, thee I love " (1851) ; and " Stand up, stand 

 up for Jesus" (1858), are the most widely Known. 

 The latter has been translated into French, German, 

 and Chinese, and was written as the concluding ex- 

 hortation of a sermon delivered by him on the death 

 of the Rev. Dudley S. Tyng. He received the degree 

 of D. D., from Knox College, Illinois, in 1872. 



Dunkel, Aaron Kline, printer, born in Lancaster, Pa., 

 May 20, 1837; died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 31, 

 1888. lie learned the printer's trade in the office of 

 the u Lancasterian," and removing to Philadelphia in 

 1856, was employed as a compositor on the old 

 ''Pennsylvanian." In 1861 he enlisted in the second 

 company of the State Fencibles, under the three- 

 months' call, and on the expiration of this service re- 

 enlisted in the Zouaves d'Afrique (Gen. N. P. Banks's 

 body-guard), afterward attached to the Fourteenth 

 Pennsylvania Volunteers. He attained the rank of 

 captain, was wounded at Chancellorsville, in May, 

 1863, recovered, and commanded his company at Get- 

 tysburg, where he was taken prisoner in the second 

 day's fight. He was confined in Libby Prison nine 

 months, made his escape with others through the 

 famous tunnel, and was recaptured three days after- 

 ward. After being exchanged he served on the staff 

 of Gen. Patrick, as assistant adjutant-general. During 

 his service he took part in the battles of Winchester, 

 Cedar Mountain. Frederiekshurg, Chancellorsville, 

 Gettysburg, and the siege of Petersburg. After the war 

 he resumed his occupation as a printer, and was em- 

 ployed on "The Press" till 1868, when, in associ- 

 ation with three other printers, he established the 

 " Sunday Republic," which he conducted successfully 

 till 1886, and then retired on account of failing health. 

 He was twice elected State Senator from Philadelphia, 

 and was elected Secretary of Internal Affairs on the 

 ticket with ex-Gov. Henry M. Hoyt. 



Dunlop, George Kelly, clergyman, born in County 

 Tyrone, Ireland, Nov. 10, 1830; died in Las Cruces, 

 New Mexico, March 13, 1888. He was educated at 

 the Royal College of Dungannon and at Queen's Uni- 

 versity, and came to the United States in 1852. He 

 was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, Dec. 3, 1854, and priest, Aug. 7, 1856, and 

 accepted a charge in St. Charles, Mo. Two years 

 later he became rector of Christ Church, Lexington, 

 Ky., and after a service of seven years, resigned to 

 take charge of Grace Church, Kirk wood, Mo., which 

 he held for sixteen years. He was a deputy from his 

 diocese to the General Conventions of 1871, 1877, and 

 1880, a member of the standing committee, an exam- 

 ining chaplain, and dean of the St. Louis Convoca- 

 tion, and was consecrated second Missionary Bishop 

 of New Mexico and Arizona, in St. Louis, Mo., on 

 Nov. 21, 1880. He received the degree of S. T. D. 

 from Racine College in 1880. 



Dunster, Edward Swift, physician, born in Spring- 

 ville, York County, Me., Sept. 2, 1834; died in Ann 

 Arbor, Mich., May 3, 1888. He was graduated at 

 Harvard in 1856, and at the New York College of 

 Phvsicians and Surgeons in 1859, and began practice 

 in New York in 1860. At the beginning of the civil 

 war he entered the national army as an assistant sur- 

 geon ? and served continuously on the field and in 

 hospitals till February, 1866. He was appointed a 

 medical inspector by 6en. Rosecrans, and the greater 

 part of his service was in connection with that office. 

 At the close of the war he returned to New York, 

 where he edited the "New York Medical Journal" 

 from 1866 till 1872, and was physician in charge of 

 the Randall's Island Hospital from 1869 till 1873, in 

 the mean time occupying the chair of Obstetrics and 

 Diseases of "Women and Children in the University of 

 Vermont for three years, and the same chair in the 

 Long Island Medical College for two years. In 1873 

 he became Professor of Gynaecology in the medical de- 

 partment of the University of Michigaiij at Ann Ar- 

 bor, and held this office at the time of his death. He 

 was the author of several works in his special branch. 



Dwight, William, soldier, born in Springfield, Mass., 

 July 14, 1831 ; died in Boston. Mass., April 21, 1888. 

 He was appointed a cadet in the United States Mili- 

 tary Academy, but resigned before graduation, and 

 engaged in business. On May, 14, 1861. he was com- 

 missioned a captain in the T* hirteenth United States 

 Infantry, and in the following month lieutenant-col- 

 onel of'the Seventieth Regiment of New York Volun- 



