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whence he was transferred to the training-ship 

 "Constitution, 1 ' and from 1880 till 1883 in 

 charge of the hospital at the Navy-Yard, 

 Brooklyn. About ten years ago Surgeon 

 DearboVne contracted the Chagres fever, while 

 on duty in Panama, and never recovered, al- 

 though he traveled extensively in the hope of 

 restoration. He was accounted in the service 

 one of its ablest surgeons. 



De Pauw, Washington C., an American manu- 

 facturer, born in Salem, Ind., Jan. 4, 1822 ; 

 died in New Albany, Ind., May 5, 1887. His 

 grandfather came from France to the United 

 States with Lafayette, and his father was a 

 lawyer in Indiana. He received a liberal edu- 

 cation, found employment in the office of the 

 county-clerk when nineteen years old, and be- 

 came county-clerk himself by election just after 

 passing his majority. A brief service in office- 

 work proving too confining for his health, he 

 resigned the place, and interested himself in 

 the saw-mill and grist-mill business, to which 

 he added farming and banking. These in- 

 terests prospered greatly and led him to in- 

 crease the number of his mills, by doing which 

 at a fortunate time he was enabled to amass 

 considerable wealth by providing largely for 

 the Government's need of supplies for troops 

 during the civil war. After the war he began 

 to concentrate his chief enterprises in New Al- 

 bany, Ind., till he had a capital of $2,000,000 

 invested in manufactories there, the principal 

 establishment being the American Plate-Glass 

 Works, one of the largest of its kind in the 

 world. His investments in New Albany and 

 in real estate, banking, railroad, and other in- 

 terests elsewhere, brought to him a fortune, 

 estimated at his death to amount to $7,000,- 

 000. Besides being the wealthiest citizen of 

 Indiana, he was the most philanthropic. He 

 took hold of the Indiana Asbury University at 

 a time when not only the usefulness but the 

 existence of the institution was imperiled, met 

 all its immediate wants, provided for its future 

 on a magnificent scale, and enabled it to be at 

 once reorganized and expanded into a univer- 

 sity in fact. At the solicitation of the board of 

 trustees, he consented that the university 

 should bear his name, and on May 5, 1884, the 

 change of name was legally effected. The uni- 

 versity is at Greencastle, Ind., and received 

 from Mr. De Pauw during his lifetime the sum 

 of $1,500,000. He established the De Pauw 

 College at New Albany, Ind., for the education 

 of young women, giving it a handsome susten- 

 tation fund, and was proportionately liberal to 

 the various religious, educational, and charita- 

 ble enterprises of his State. His will disposed 

 of his entire' fortune among members of his 

 family and religious and educational organiza- 

 tions, and as a special offer of thanksgiving for 

 the prosperity that had attended his business 

 career, he minutely provided for the erection 

 of a building in New Albany with accommo- 

 dations tor an industrial school, infirmary, hos- 

 pital, lying-in-hospital, home for the friendless, 



free reading-room, drug-store, and fancy store, 

 all for the free use of the worthy poor. 



Detmold, Christian E., an American civil en- 

 gineer, born in Hanover, Germany, in 1809 ; 

 died in New York city, July 2, 1887. He was 

 educated in a military school in his native 

 country, and on removing to the United States 

 in 1835 adopted the profession of a civil- en- 

 gineer. In this career he became very success- 

 ful, and had charge of the construction of im- 

 portant works, notably the Charleston and 

 Hamburg Railroad in South Carolina, several 

 canals in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the 

 famous Crystal Palace in New York city, in 

 1853. He subsequently became the owner of 

 a large coal-mine in Pennsylvania, to which he 

 gave close attention, and from which he gained 

 an independent fortune. He spent much of 

 the latter part of his life in Paris, France, re- 

 turning at regular periods to look after his 

 business interests. He was a Republican in 

 politics, a member of the Union League and 

 Century clubs, and one of the committee ap- 

 pointed to investigate the Tweed frauds. 



Detwiller, Henry, an American physician, born 

 in Basle, Switzerland, Dec. 18, 1795 ; died in 

 Easton, Pa., April 21, 1887. He came to the 

 United States in 1817, and settled in the Le- 

 high valley, where he remained a few years, 

 and then returned to Europe. "While abroad 

 he became intimate with Hahnemann, the fa- 

 ther of homoeopathy, by whom he was induced 

 to study medicine according to the new school. 

 He followed this course, returned to the United 

 States, and became one of the first members of 

 the American Institute of Homoeopathy in 

 New York, having been the first physician to 

 administer homoeopathic medicines in Ameri- 

 ca, beginning their use in 1828. Quite early in 

 his medical career an unusual epidemic broke 

 out in the Lehigh valley, which for a time baf- 

 fled the skill of the oldest practitioners. With 

 others he attempted an investigation, and, 

 while it was in progress, his treatment of the 

 sick was so uniformly successful as to excite 

 widespread comment. He had satisfied him- 

 self that the lining in earthen vessels in com- 

 mon use in housekeeping contained poison, and 

 was the cause of the mysterious malady, and to 

 this conclusion he owed his remarkable success 

 and subsequent large fortune. He was an en- 

 thusiastic student of botany and ornithology. 



Dix, Dorothea Lynde, an American philanthro- 

 pist, born in Worcester, Mass., in 1805 ; died 

 in Trenton, N. J., July 19, 1887. She was the 

 daughter of a physician, was left an orphan in 

 early life, and, having received a good educa- 

 tion, supported herself by teaching, in Boston, 

 meanwhile indulging a naturally practical 

 mind in the preparation of juvenile and devo- 

 tional books. She inherited a considerable 

 sum of money in 1830, and at once consecrated 

 herself and her fortune to the amelioration of 

 suffering humanity. With a rare courage she 

 espoused the cause of the most uninviting class- 

 es, beginning her self-imposed labor in the State 



