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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DONOVAN DURYEE.) 



was appointed administrator of St. Stephen's parish, 

 though retaining the pastorate of St. Michael's. He 

 was an irremovable pastor, and a member of the arch- 

 bishop's council since 1873. 



Donovan, Caroline Soulsby, philanthropist, born in 

 Baltimore, Md., Dec. 20, 1803; died in Catonsville, 

 Md., March 5, 1890. She belonged to an old Mary- 

 land family, and was the widow of Joseph Donovan, 

 who became wealthy in mercantile business and 

 died in 1861. She bequeathed $100,000 to Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore, for the purpose of endow- 

 ing a chair of English Literature; a block of warehouses 

 valued at 180,000 to trustees with instructions for 

 them to use the income in promoting the Colonization 

 Society of Liberia ; $10,000 to Washington and Lee 

 University, Lexington, Va. ; and a handsome sum to 

 the Little Sisters of the Poor in Baltimore. 



Drake, Thomas, manufacturer, born in Leeds, Eng- 

 land, April 9, 1807 ; died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 

 18, 1890. His father, John Drake, was a manufacturer 

 of woolen goods, who, meeting with financial losses 

 in 1828, came to the United States with his family. 

 Thomas, in 1837, rented a small building near Falls 

 Village Conn., and began business for himself, mak- 

 ing, it is said, the first lot of goods known as Kentucky 

 woolen jeans. His business increased rapidly ; he en- 

 larged his works, took his brother and two friends 

 into partnership, and operated under the firm name of 

 T. Drake & Co. till the dissolution of the partnership 

 in 1840. In 1841 he removed to Philadelphia, where 

 he erected a brick mill which contained 70 woolen 

 looms and 6 sets of woolen cards. In 1845 he erected 

 a second mill, fitted with 224 looms and 10,000 spindles, 

 in which he carried on the manufacture of print cloths 

 till 1861, when he retired from business. He was 

 elected a director of the First National Bank in 1864, 

 and of the Fidelity Trust Company in 1874, and held 

 both offices till his death. He left an estate estimated 

 to be worth $4,500,000. He bequeathed $100,000 to 

 various local charities, and conditionally provided for 

 the endowment of a grand educational institution. 

 The clause relating to the latter project provided, that 

 should his daughter die without executing a specified 

 power of disposition and without leaving any lineal 

 descendant to whom the estate would descend by pro- 

 cess of law, his trustees should procure a charter for a 

 school to be known as the Thomas and Matilda Drake 

 College, which should be managed and conducted on 

 the same principles as Girard College, with the excep- 

 tion that it should be for girls instead of boys. The 

 net income of his estate should be applied to the erec- 

 tion of the necessary buildings on his residence lot in 

 Germantown, and to the maintenance of the college 

 and its pupils forever. 



Dresel, Otto, composer, born in Geisenham, Germa- 

 ny, Dec. 20, 1826 ; died in Beverly Cove, Mass., July 

 26, 1890. He studied music with Liszt and Haupt- 

 mann ; came to the United States in 1848, and settled 

 in Boston, MASS., in 1852. For many years he was 

 associated with Robert Franz in editorial and musical 

 work, and with him prepared the edition of Handel's 

 " Messiah" to which Mozart's "Additional Accom- 

 paniments " were added. He founded the Bach Club 

 in Boston, and directed its weekly practice in the 

 choral works of Bach and Handel ; and was a mem- 

 ber of the Harvard Musical Association and of the St. 

 Botolph Club. 



Drummond, Thomas, lawyer, born in Bristol Mills, 

 Me., Oct. 16, 1809; died in Wheaton, 111.. May 15, 

 1890. He spent several years at sea while a youth, 

 was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1830, studied 

 law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1833. Two years afterward he removed to Galena, 

 111., where he practiced till 1850, and was then ap- 

 pointed judge of the United States district court. On 

 the creation of the United States circuit court, in 1869, 

 he was appointed judge for the district including 

 Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin ; and he held this 

 office till 1884, when lie resigned on account of having 

 reached the constitutional age. What is considered 

 his most important judicial work was done after his 



advancement to the circuit court, and involved the 

 legal management of nearly 16,000 miles of railroads 

 in his circuit, which had been wrecked in the panic of 

 1873. By the summer of 1876 this mileage had passed 

 into the hands of receivers appointed by him. These 

 interests represented more than $300,000,000 in bonds, 

 and nearly twice as much in stocks. Each receiver 

 reported to him in detail, and he had to pass judg- 

 ment on their combined acts, many of which involved 

 unusual questions of equity. In seven years all the 

 receiverships were terminated, and he had saved every 

 road. The opinion was expressed that he did more to 

 shape the policy of courts in managing railroads in 

 the hands of receivers, and in determining the rights 

 of creditors, than any other judge in the country. 



Dunton, Walter Chipman, lawyer, born in Bristol, 

 Vt., Nov. 29, 1830; died in Rutland, Vt., April 23, 

 1890. He was graduated at Middlebury College, Ver- 

 mont, in 1857 ; was admitted to the bar in Rutland in 

 1858, was a member of the Legislature of Kansas Ter- 

 ritory in 1861 ; and was judge of the probate court of 

 the district of Rutland, Vt., from 1865 till 1877. In 

 the latter year he was appointed a judge of the Su- 

 preme Court of Vermont, to fill a vacancy, and in 1878 

 was elected to the office for two years, but_ failing 

 health compelled him to resign in 1879. Judge Dun- 

 ton was elected a State Senator in 1880, and served as 

 chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and as a mem- 

 ber of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments. 

 In 1881 he was President of the Vermont Bar Asso- 

 ciation, and in 1888 he removed to Iowa City, Iowa,, 

 to fill for one year a chair in the Law School of the 

 State University. He was also a member of the State 

 Constitutional Convention in 1870, and excepting one 

 year, a director of the Baxter National Bank in Rut- 

 land from 1872 till his death. 



Duryee, Abram, military officer, born in New York 

 city, April 29, 1815 ; died there, Sept. 27, 1890. He 

 was of French Huguenot ancestry, and inherited his 

 military spirit, his grandfather having been a soldier 

 in the Revolutionary War, and his father and two 

 uncles officers in the War of 1812. He was educated 

 in the public schools of New York city and in the 

 grammar school of Columbia College, and for many 

 years was engaged in importing mahogany. His mili- 

 tary career began in 1833, when he 'joined the One 

 Hundred and Fortv-second Regiment of State militia. 

 In 1838 he changed to the Twenty-seventh, now the 

 Seventh Regiment, and he rose from the ranks till he 

 was elected colonel Jan. 29, 1849. He resigned the 

 office July 4, 1859. During this tenure lie com- 

 manded the regiment in the Astor Place, City Hall, 

 police, Sixth Ward, and "dead rabbit" riots ; and 

 was twice wounded in the first. After he resigned 

 the merchants of New York city presented him with a 

 service of solid silver that cost $5,000. In April, 

 1861, he raised the Fifth Regiment of New York volun- 

 teers in less than a week, drilled it a month, was 

 ordered with it to Fort Monroe, and there as acting- 

 brigadier-general had command of six regiments till 

 ordered to the front for the advance on Little and Big 

 Bethel, where the Duryee Zouaves were first engaged. 

 He was promoted brigadier-general Aug. 31, 1861, and 

 was given a brigade in Ricketts's division of McDow- 

 ell's corps, with which he took part in the battles of 

 Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, Thorough- 

 fare Gap, Groveton, Chantilly, South Mountain, and 

 Antietam. At the second Bull Run he was twice 

 wounded, but held his position to the end ; and when 

 Gen. Ricketts succeeded Gen. Hooker as corps com- 

 mander, he was placed in command of the division. 

 He resigned from the army in January, 1863, because 

 of dissatisfaction with the treatment his brigade had 

 received. At the close of the war he was brevetted 

 major-general of volunteers for his distinguished 

 services. After his return he was elected colonel of 

 the Seventy-first Regiment and brigadier-general of 

 the Fourth Brigade, N. G. S. N. Y., but declined both 

 offices. In 1873 he was appointed a police commis- 

 sioner of New York city, 'and rendered important 

 service in breaking up a gathering of Communists in 



