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home in 1853, when, being otherwise in good 

 health, he entered the service of the American 

 Sunday-School Union, of which his father, 

 Joseph II. Dulles, was one of the founders, 

 and for three years was its secretary for mis- 

 sions. In 1857 he was given charge of the af- 

 fairs of the Presbyterian Publication Com- 

 mittee as its secretary and editor of its publi- 

 cations, and in 1870, on the reunion of the Old 

 School and New School branches of that 

 church, he became editorial secretary of the 

 united board, editing its books and periodicals 

 till the close of his life, and serving for a time 

 as corresponding secretary. In this congenial 

 relation he was the author of many publica- 

 tions, of which "Life in India" and "The 

 Eide through Palestine " are best known. 



Duncan, Thomas, an American soldier, born in- 

 Kaskaskia, 111., April 14, 1819 ; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., Jan. 7, 1887. He served as a 

 private in the Illinois Mounted Volunteers dur- 

 ing the Black Hawk War in 1832, and for some 

 time thereafter was connected with military 

 expeditions. In 1846 he was appointed first 

 lieutenant in the United States Mounted Rifles 

 (now the Third Cavalry), and served during 

 the war with Mexico, being engaged in the 

 siege and surrender of Vera Cruz. Subse- 

 quently, he was on recruiting duty, and then 

 served in various garrisons until 1856, having 

 meanwhile been promoted captain in March, 

 1848. He was with his regiment in New Mexi- 

 co until 1802, had command successively of 

 Forts Burgwin, Massachusetts, Garland, and 

 Union, participated in the Navajo expedition 

 of 1858, defeated the Comanche Indians in the 

 action at Hatch's Ranch in May, 1861, and was 

 advanced to major of his regiment in June, 

 1861. During the civil war he had command 

 of Fort Craig, N. M., was in charge of the 

 cavalry forces at the battle of Valverde, N. M., 

 and commanded his regiment in the action at 

 Albuquerque, N. M., where a portion of his 

 skull was removed by a cannon-ball. In 

 1863-'66 he was assistant provost-marshal of 

 Iowa, and in July, 1866, he became lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Fifth United States Cavalry, 

 after which, until September, 1868, he had 

 command of the District of Nashville. He was 

 then ordered to the Department of the Platte, 

 where he was stationed successively at Forts 

 McPherson and D. A. Russell, and then, until 

 November, 1871, he had charge of the con- 

 struction of Sidney barracks. His wound com- 

 pelled him to obtain sick-leave, and he resided 

 in Baltimore until his retirement in January, 

 1873. He received for hid services during the 

 civil war the successive brevets, including, on 

 March 13, 1865, that of brigadier-general. 



Dnnn, William MeKee, an American lawyer, 

 born in the Territory of Indiana, Dec. 12, 

 1813 ; died in Maplewood, Fairfax County, Va., 

 July 24, 1887. He was graduated at Indiana 

 State College in 1832, and, after teaching for 

 two years, at Yale in 1835. He studied law, 

 and began practicing in his native State. In 



1848 he was elected a member of the State 

 House of Representatives, in 1850 of the State 

 Constitutional Convention, and in 1858 a Rep- 

 resentative in Congress, serving on the com- 

 mittees on Manufactures, Roads and Canals, 

 and the Special Committee of " Thirty-three." 

 Two years later he was re-elected, and served 

 as chairman of the Committee on Patents. 

 While still a member of Congress he served as 

 an aide on Gen. McClellan's staff in tlie western 

 Virginia campaign. In March, 1863, he was 

 commissioned as a major and judge-advocate 

 of United States volunteers; in June, 1866, 

 was promoted to be a colonel and assistant 

 judge-advocate-general in the regular army; 

 and in December, 1875, was appointed judge- 

 advocate-general, with the rank of brigadier- 

 general. He held this office till Jan. 21, 1881, 

 when he was placed on the retired list by 

 reason of his age. He was brevetted a brig- 

 adier-general in March, 1865, for faithful, mer- 

 itorious, and distinguished services in his de- 

 partment, and WHS a delegate to the Loyalists' 

 Convention in Philadelphia in 1866. 



Eaton, Hosea Ballon, an American physician, 

 born in Plymouth, Me., March 24, 1822 ; died 

 in Rockport, Me., April 19, 1887. He was 

 educated at St. Alban's Academy, and gradu- 

 ated in medicine at the medical college, Bruns- 

 wick, Me., in 1845, beginning his practice at 

 Rockport. About 1855 he adopted the prin- 

 ciples of homoeopathy, and was thereupon ex- 

 pelled from his medical society. In 1870 he 

 was elected President of the Homoeopathic 

 Medical Society of Maine, and at the time of 

 his death was a senior of the American Insti- 

 tute of Homoeopathy. Dr. Eaton was several 

 times elected a member of the State Legislat- 

 ure, and there exposed the mismanagement 

 of the institutions for the insane, opposed the 

 law of imprisonment for debt, and favored 

 legislation tending to suppress intemperance. 

 He served as an army surgeon during the 

 greater part of the civil war. 



Elder, Robert, an American musician, born in 

 Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1825 ; died in New 

 York city, June 21, 1887. He came to the 

 United States with his father, a ship-builder, 

 while a mere boy, the family settling in New 

 York city. At the age of ten years, while 

 playing with a group of children, he fell and 

 injured his eyes so severely that he became to- 

 tally blind. After recovering from this acci- 

 dent he entered the New York Institution for 

 the Blind, where he applied himself to his stud- 

 ies with unusual diligence. While a bright 

 scholar in the general branches there taught, 

 he developed a passion for music so notice- 

 able that the faculty encouraged his efforts to 

 become a thorough instrumentalist. He was 

 graduated when twenty years old, and came 

 before the public as an organist. He gave con- 

 certs on the organ in New York city and 

 elsewhere, and had been giving lessons on his 

 favorite instrument a few months when lie 

 was appointed organist in the Sixteenth Street 



