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DUANE, WILLIAM J. 



commander was made in 1855. He was in the 

 Paraguay expedition in 1858, and in the sub- 

 sequent year was ordered to the Brazilian 

 equadron on the staff of the present Admiral 

 Shubrick. In 1860 he was assigned to ord- 

 nance duty at the Philadelphia yard ; and here 

 it was, in the city which had been adopted as 

 the home of his father when, thirty years be- 

 fore, the seeds of rebellion were sown in his 

 native State that the outbreak of war found 

 Commander Drayton. The son faithfully sus- 

 tained the principles of the father, rejected all 

 proffers of place in the South, and was soon in 

 command of the steamer Pocahontas in the ex- 

 pedition against Port Eoyal, under Admiral Du 

 Pont, and on that occasion fought against his 

 brother, Gen. T. F. Drayton (a graduate of West 

 Point), who commanded the Confederate troops 

 at Hilton Head. He was afterwards transferred 

 to the Pawnee, in which vessel he was of great 

 service on the Southern coast. He made re- 

 peated reconnoissances up St. Helena Sound 

 and adjacent waters; was at the capture of 

 Fernandina and St. Mary's, the occupation of 

 Stono Eiver, etc. He was promoted to captain 

 on the 16th of July, 1862, and in the fall of 

 that year was ordered to the monitor Passaic, 

 the second of that class of vessels. In this iron- 

 clad he bombarded Fort McAllister, and was 

 in the first attack upon Fort Sumter, under 

 Admiral Du Pont. After a short ordnance 

 duty in New York, he was appointed Fleet 

 Captain of the West Gulf squadron, under Ad- 

 miral Farragut, and was with him in the Hart- 

 ford at the time of the fight with and capture 

 of the rebel fleet in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. 

 It was as flag officer that Captain Drayton was 

 particularly distinguished. Having the most 

 refined and gentlemanly manners, and speaking 

 with great fluency and correctness French, 

 Spanish, and Italian, his services in that posi- 

 tion were desired and sought for by every com- 

 manding officer with whom he sailed. He re- 

 mained with Admiral Farragut until the return 

 of that officer to New York, and perhaps no 

 one in the navy enjoyed his confidence to a 

 greater extent than Capt. Drayton. On the 

 28th of April last he was appointed chief of 

 the Bureau of Navigation, as successor to Rear- 

 Admiral Davis. His disease was strangulation 

 of the bowels, and the fatal result was reached 

 after a brief illness. 



DTJANE, Hon. WILLIAM J., Secretary of the 

 United States Treasury under President Jack- 

 son, born in Clonmel, Ireland, in 1780, died at 

 Philadelphia, September 26, 1865. His father 

 was born in this country, but at eleven years of 

 age was taken to Ireland to be educated for a 

 Roman Catholic priest. At the age of nineteen 

 he married a young Protestant lady, for which 

 ho was disinherited. Subsequently ho learned 

 the. printing trade, became an editor and pub- 

 lisher, and in 1795 removed with his family to 

 America, and was for some years editor of the 

 "Philadelphia Aurora," then an important po- 

 litical paper. 



DUPIN, ANDRE M. J. J. 



William J., the subject of this sketch, like his 

 father, learned the trade of printer, and was at 

 one time a dealer in printing paper and printing 

 ink. He studied law, and in 1803 was admitted 

 to the bar. He repeatedly represented the city 

 of Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Legislature, 

 and was the author, in 1821, of the resolutions 

 against the admission of Missouri into the Union 

 as a slave State. He also filled several minor 

 offices in the city, his attention being princi- 

 pally devoted to the public schools, in which 

 he took a deep interest, as well as in every 

 thing pertaining to the internal improvement 

 schemes of his State. He was the legal agent 

 for many years of Stephen Girard, and in 1831 

 wrote the famous will by which Girard trans- 

 mitted his vast inheritance to the city of Phila- 

 delphia. By the terms of this will Mr. Duane 

 was made a trustee, and, subsequently, a director 

 of Girard College, and one of the five execu- 

 tors of the Girard estate. Two years after this 

 will was executed Mr. Duane abandoned his 

 practice to accept office, and was appointed by 

 President Jackson Secretary of the United 

 States Treasury. It is said he accepted with 

 reluctance. A few months subsequently, upon 

 receiving an order from the President to re- 

 move the United States deposits from the 

 United States Bank at Philadelphia, he felt it 

 his duty to refuse, and in consequence was dis- 

 missed in September, 1833. His place was 

 immediately filled by Roger B. Taney, who 

 agreed in the financial policy of the President, 

 and the deposits were removed. Mr. Duane 

 retired to the practice of the law at Philadel- 

 phia, and since the death of his father, in 1835, 

 had withdrawn from public life. He was con- 

 sidered remarkably well informed upon local 

 history. 



DUPIN, AXDK MARIE JEAX JACQUES, a 

 French lawyer and politician, born in Varzy, de- 

 partment of the Nievre, February 1, 1783, died 

 in Paris, November 9, 1865. He was the oldest of 

 three brothers, each of whom became eminent, 

 was educated for the bar, and was admitted to 

 practice early in the present century. In 1815 

 he was elected to the Legislative Chamber, and 

 from that time was concerned in nearly every 

 important cause, political or civil, which camo 

 before the tribunals. He was again elected to 

 the Chamber in 1827, and then took his place 

 among the opposition. He had previously es- 

 tablished himself in the favor of Louis Philippe, 

 and in 1830 he assisted at the revolution which 

 dethroned Charles X. The new government 

 received him as a member, and shortly after- 

 wards rewarded his fidelity with the post of 

 Procureur General of the Cour de Cassation. 

 Later he became President of the Chamber, 

 an office from which he retired after eight 

 years' service. On the fall of Louis Philippe, 

 M. Dupin resigned himself to fate and becnmo 

 President of the republican Chamber, and re- 

 tained even after the coup d'etat of 1852 his 

 office of Procureur General. He was, however, 

 shamed into retiring when the confiscation or 



