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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (Du BARRY DUNGLISON.) 



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 t lie' Antilles, achieved a wide 

 popularity. He published Proverbs from Plym- 

 outh 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 Treas- 

 ury Club. 



Du Barry, Beekman, soldier, born in Borden- 

 town. N. J., Dec. 4, 1828; died in Washington, 

 1). 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 young- 

 est 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 W r est 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 As- 

 sistant 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, 

 185G. 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 quarter- 

 master 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 Kan- 

 sas 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 ex- 

 amine 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 west- 

 ern 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 As- 

 sistant Professor of French at West Point till 

 May 11, 1861, when he was appointed captain and 

 commissary of subsistence and ordered to Harris- 

 burg, Pa. He organized the supply for Gen. Pat- 

 terson'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 commis- 

 sary 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 com- 

 missary-general of subsistence, in whose office he 



served until Nov. 3, 1873. He was then on pur- 

 chasing 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 lieutenant- 

 colonel and colonel, March 13, 1865, for faithful 

 and meritorious service during the war, and re- 

 ceived the rank of major, Feb. 9, 1863; lieutenant- 

 colonel, 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 edu- 

 cator, 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 mathemat- 

 ical department 

 of Union Acad- 

 emy,Philadelphia. 

 He entered Prince- 

 ton Theological 

 Seminary in 1844, 

 and in 1845 he 

 was appointed tu- 

 tor of Greek in 

 Princeton. From 

 1847 till 1854 he 

 was Adjunct Pro- 

 fessor of Mathe- 

 matics, and in 

 1854 he was ap- 

 pointed to a full 

 professorship. He 

 was licensed to 

 preach in 1849, 

 and for several 



years he filled the pulpit of the Second Pres- 

 byterian Church in Princeton, in the found- 

 ing 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 mod- 

 erator of the Synod of New Jersey. The de- 

 gree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Prince- 

 ton in 1872, and Lake Forest University in 1890 

 gave him the degree of LL. D. Prof. Duffield was 

 an abundant contributor to current religious lit- 

 erature, 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 Jeff'erson 

 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 Dungli- 

 son'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 Treat- 

 ment of Disease; a New School Physiology and 

 Hygiene; Elementary Physiology and Hygiene; 



