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lieutenant-colonel, \n 1865 was brevetted briga- 

 tlu-r ;r.-iirral, und in I860 ho was placed on tbo 

 1 list. 



CUTTING, JONAS ; died at Bangor, Me., Au- 

 gust 19th. Ho was Associate Justice of the 

 Supremo Court of the State of Muiuo for 

 twenty-one years. 



CUYLER, THKODORE, was born at Poughkeep- 

 sio, N. Y., September 14, 1819; died in Phila- 

 delphia, April 4th. He graduated at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania in 1838, was admitted 

 to the bar in 1841, and became one of the leading 

 lawyers of Philadelphia. He was a prominent 

 lK'in;>crat, and in 1872 was elected a delegate 

 to the State Constitutional Convention, where 

 he served as a member of the Judiciary Com- 

 mittee. 



DANBT, AUGUSTINE G. ; died in Utica, N. Y., 

 November 27th. He was born in Mansfield, 

 Mass., December 17, 1795. In 1810 he went 

 to Utica to learn the printer's trade, and in 

 1816 established the first printing-office and 

 newspaper in Rochester, N. Y. He returned 

 to Utica in 1822, and in 1824 became propri- 

 etor of the Observer, but relinquished the 

 ownership in 1834, though he still continued 

 his editorial connection with that paper. He 

 was an ardent Democrat, and as a political 

 writer supported Monroe in 1816 and 1820. 

 For twenty years he was Postmaster of Utica. 



DANFORTTI, CHARLES, originator and for 

 some years president of the Danforth Loco- 

 motive and Machine Company; died in Pater- 

 son, N. J., March 22d, in his 79th year. A 

 native of New England, he cams to Pater- 

 eon in 1C30, and began the manufacture of 

 machines. He invented the Danforth spin- 

 ning-framo, which was sold extensively in this 

 country and in Europe, and in 1852 began the 

 manufacture of locomotives. His fortune was 

 estimatad at nearly $3,000,000. 



DAVIDSON, Rev. ROBERT, D. D. ; died in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., April 6th. He was born in 

 Carlisle, Pa., February 23, 1808. He graduated 

 at Dickinson College in 1828, and at the Prince- 

 ton Theological Seminary in 1831. He was 

 pastor of a Presbyterian church in Lexington, 

 Ky., from 1832 to 1840, when he became 

 President of Transylvania University, which 

 position he resigned in 1842. He was a pastor 

 in New Brunswick, N. J., from 1843 to 1860; 

 from 1860 to 1864 in New York, and from 

 1864 to 1868 in Huntingdon, Long Island. Dr. 

 Davidson served as permanent clerk of the 

 General Assembly from 1845 to 1850. For a 

 quarter of a century he had been a member of 

 the Board of Foreign Commissions, and since 

 1867 a director of Princeton Theological Semi- 

 nary. In 1869 he was a delegate to the Gen- 

 eral Assembly of the Free Church of Soot- 

 land, in Edinburgh. 



DAVIS, Mrs. PAULINA WRIGHT, wife of the 

 Hon. Thomas Davis ; died in Providence, R. I., 

 August 24th, at the age of 63. For thirty-five 

 years she labored zealously to promote the 

 rights of women, published the first woman- 



euff rage paper, and acted in concert with Lu- 

 cretia Mott, Ernestine R. Rose, Frances D. 

 Gage, Sarah Tyndale, anl other early advo- 

 cates of the cause. 



DE LONG, CHARLES E. ; died in Virginia < 'it y, 

 Nev., October 26th. In 1869 he was appointed 

 minister-resident to Japan, and the following 

 year was made minister plenipotentiary. He 

 remained in Japan until 1873, when he was 

 succeeded by Mr. Bingham. 



DE PUT, HENRY WALTER ; died February 2d. 

 He was born at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Coun- 

 ty, N. Y., in 1820. He was admitted to the 

 bar, and for several years edited a paper in 

 Indianapolis, Ind., in support of the Liberty 

 party. From 1853 to 1854 he was private 

 secretary to Governor Seymour, afterward 

 served as consul to Carlsruhe, and was ap- 

 pointed secretary of legation at Berlin, where 

 he remained until 1860. He was appointed 

 Secretary of Nebraska by President Lincoln, 

 organized that Territory, and served as the 

 first Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature. 

 He was also Indian agent to the Pawnees, and 

 devoted much time and ability in efforts to 

 reform the Indian service. He was the author 

 of several biographical and historical works, 

 among them "Kossuth and his Generals," 

 " Louis Napoleon and his Times, with a Memoir 

 of the Bonaparte Family," and " Ethan Allen 

 and the Green Mountain Heroes of '76, with 

 the Early History of Vermont." He also wrote 

 several popular poems. 



DIXON, ARCHIBALD ; died in Henderson, Ky., 

 April 23d. He was born in North Carolina in 

 1802, removed to Kentucky in 1805, and served 

 several terms in the Legislature between 1830 

 and 1841. In 1813 he was elected Lieutenant- 

 Go vernor. He succeeded Henry Clay in the 

 United States Senate, where he served from 

 1852 to 1855. 



DODWORTH, THOMAS, the originator of Dod- 

 worth's band ; died in New York, April 26th. 

 Ho was born in Sheffield, England, in 1790; 

 came to New York in 1826, nnd soon afterward 

 organized the first military band of music in 

 New York. 



DOVE, Dr. JOHN, a native of Richmond, Va. ; 

 died there, November 16th, at the age of 84. 

 He was a Freemason sixty-three years; was 

 the oldest Grand Secretary in the world, hav- 

 ing held the office over fifty years ; and was 

 Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment of 

 Knights Templars for thirty years. 



DOWELL, JAMES R., superintendent of the 

 First District, Southern Division, of the West- 

 ern Union Telegraph Company ; died in Rich- 

 mond, Va., February 25th, aged 53 years. He 

 held various high positions of trust in the tele- 

 graph service, and was well known throughout 

 the South as an eminent Freemason. 



DOWINO, BENJAMIN, a veteran sen-captain, 

 and the oldest Odd-fellow in the world ; died 

 in New York, January 7th, aged 92. 



DOWLING, JOSEPH ; died in New York, May 

 13th. He was born in the county of Kilkenny, 



