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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DENT DOUGHERTY.) 



about the city and its vicinity. His horses, with either 

 the brake or a huge, old-fashioned laudau, were seen 

 regularly for years at Saratoga, and his shirt bosom 

 always exhibited a mass of diamonds. Mr. Delevan 

 spent more than $50,000 in erecting a massive me- 

 morial, in the form of a series of monuments, in the 

 cemetery at Sleepy Hollow, where his father and ten 

 brothers were buried. 



Dent, Frederick Tracey, military officer, born in 

 White Haven, Mo., Dec. 17, 1820 ; died in Denver, 

 Col., Dec. 24, 1892. He was a classmate and brother- 

 in-law of Gen. U. S. Grant; was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy and appointed 

 brevet 2d lieutenant 6th United States Infantry in 

 1843 ; was promoted 2d lieutenant 5th Infantry in 

 1846, 1st lieutenant in 1847, captain 9th Infantry in 

 1855, major 4th Infantry in 1863, lieutenant-colonel 

 82d Infantry in 1867, colonel 1st Artillery in 1881, 

 and was retired Dec. 1, 1883. In the volunteer serv- 

 ice he was commissioned brigadier-general April 5, 

 1865, and was mustered out April 30, 1866. During 

 his military career he was brevetted 1st lieutenant for 

 gallantry in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, 

 captain 'for Molino del Rey, lieutenant-colonel for 

 the Wilderness campaign, colonel for bravery be- 

 fore Petersburg, and brigadier-general for services in 

 the field during the civil war. On March 29, 1864, he 

 was appointed aid on the staff of Gen. Grant. He was 

 present in the battles and operations of the Richmond 

 campaign of 1864, and in 1865 was military com- 

 mander of Richmond. After the war he continued 

 on staff duty till Gen. Grant's election to the presi- 

 dency, when he became his private secretary. 



Denver, James W v lawyer, born in Winchester, Va., 

 in 1818 ; died in Washington, D. C., Aug. 9, 1892. He 

 accompanied his parents to Ohio when thirteen years 

 old, received a puolic-school education, and removed 

 to Missouri in 1841, where he studied law, and was 

 admitted to the bar. He served through the Mexican 

 War as a captain in the 12th United States Infantry. 

 He removed to California in 1850, and Avas appointed 

 a member of a special relief committee to protect emi- 

 grants, and was chosen a State Senator in 1852. In 

 the latter year he fought a duel with Edward Gilbert, 

 a former member of Congress, in consequence of a 

 controversy over some legislation, and killed his oppo- 

 nent. In 1853 he was appointed Secretary of State of 

 California; in 1855-'57 was a member of Congress; 

 in 1857 was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 

 but resigned soon afterward to accept the governor- 

 ship of the Territory of Kansas, which included the 

 present States of Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. 

 He resigned as Governor in 1858; was reappointed 

 Indian Commissioner, and held this office till March, 

 1859. He entered the national army in 1861; was 

 commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers ; served 

 in the Western States, and resigned in March, 1863. 

 After the war he practiced law in Washington, D. C., 

 and resisted all appeals to become a candidate for 

 public office till 1870, when, as a candidate for Con- 

 gress, he met the first defeat of his life. While Gov- 

 ernor of Kansas Territory Gen. Denver suggested the 

 name of Colorado for the new Territory formed out of 

 Kansas, and sent a full set of officers to Arapahoe 

 County, where the pioneers and officers named the 

 settlement Denver, in his honor. 



Derby, James Cephas, publisher, born in Little Falls, 

 N. Y., July 20, 1S18; died in Brooklyn. N. Y., Sept. 

 221 1892. He was apprenticed to the book -publish ing 

 business in Auburn, N. Y., in 1833, and organized the 

 publishing firm of J. C. Derby & Co. in 1840, the style 

 of which was changed to Derby & Miller in 1848 ; 

 sold his interest, and went to San Francisco in 1852 ; 

 and permanently settled in New York city in 1853, 

 forming, two years afterward, the firm of Derby & 

 Jackson. In 1861 the name was again changed to 

 J. C. Derby & Co., and subsequently to Derby & 

 Miller. The first firm to which he belonged published 

 the first hymnal with tunes and words, compiled by 

 the Rev. Josiah Hopkins, D. D., in 1844, and also 

 published the first detailed biographies of George 



Washington's mother and wife. In 1848 he brought 

 out a '' Life of General Zachary Taylor," and during 

 each of the next ten presidential campaigns he pro- 

 duced biographies of at least one of the candidates. 

 Mr. Derby was the first publisher of " Fanny Fern's" 

 works, and of William H. Seward's " Life of John 

 Quincy Adams," and for many years made a specialty 

 of the works of Addison, Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, 

 Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, and their contemporaries, 

 and of law books, among which were Blatchford's 

 " United States Reports." He was also connected for 

 several years with the subscription-book department 

 of D. Appleton & Co., and published a large volume 

 entitled " Fifty Years among Authors, Books, and 

 Publishers" (New York, 18841 



Dillon, Sidney, railroad bulkier, born in Northamp- 

 ton, Montgomery County, N. Y., May 7, 1812- died in 

 New York city, June 9, 1892. He received a com- 

 mon-school education, and became an errand boy for 

 the men engaged in building the railroad from Albany 

 to Schenectady, the first in New York State. lie 

 then was similarly employed on the Rensselaer and 

 Saratoga Railroadj and when that was completed be- 

 came a foreman in the building of the Boston and 

 Providence road. From this lie went as foreman and 

 manager to the Stonington road ; and in 1848 secured 

 his first personal contract for a section of the Western 

 Railroad of Massachusetts. Subsequently he was en- 

 gaged in the construction of parts or the whole of 

 about thirty roads, including the Troy and Schenec- 

 tady, the Hartford and Springfield, the Cheshire of 

 Vermont, the Vermont and Massachusetts, the Rut- 

 land and Burlington, the Central of New Jersey, the 

 Boston and New York Central, the Philadelphia and 

 Erie, the Erie and Cleveland, and the Morris and Es- 

 sex Railroads. In 1865 he became interested in the 

 construction and management of the Union Pacific 

 Railroad, with which he remained connected througji 

 life. He completed the Union Pacific Railroad in 

 four years, and drove a silver spike on Promontory 

 Point for the last rail that connected the Union Pacific 

 with the Central Pacific road in the spring of 1869. 

 After finishing this work, he built fifty miles of the 

 New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga road, and sub- 

 sequently was concerned in the building of the Con- 

 necticut Valley, the Chillicothe, Council Bluffs and 

 Omaha, the Canada Southern, and the Paterson 

 branch of the Morris and Essex Railroad. He also-had 

 the contract for lowering the tracks of the New York 

 Central Railroad, and built the Fourth Avenue Tun- 

 nel in New York city. Mr. Dillon was a director of 

 the Union Pacific Railroad Company for nearly thirty 

 years ; was its president several times, and at the 

 time of his death was chairman of its board of di- 

 rectors. He was also a president or director in many 

 of the largest railroad companies in the country, and 

 for many years had been actively identified with the 

 railroad operations of Jay Gould. 



Dougherty, Daniel, lawyer, born in Philadelphia, 

 Oct. 15,1826; died there, Sept. 5, 1892. He was the 

 son of a poor Irishman, who had been a land sur- 

 veyor in his own country. He received a common- 

 school education, left home early in life, began 

 studying law in 1844, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1849. His rapid advance in his profession was caused 

 by his oratorical ability. He identified himself with 

 the Democratic party early in life, and remained in it 

 till his death, excepting during the civil war. In 1861 

 he gave hearty support to the Union cause. The 

 next year he was one of the founders of the Union 

 League Club in Philadelphia, and in 1864 his speeches 

 in advocacy of President Lincoln's re-election were 

 among the most noteworthy in the campaign. After 

 the war he resumed his connection with the Demo- 

 cratic party, and also became a popular lecturer. 

 Among his best-known efforts in this line were those 

 on " The Stage," on " Orators and Oratory," and on 

 "American Politics. On Nov. 11, 1889, he made 

 what has been considered the greatest public address 

 of his life, at the opening of the Roman Catholic Lay 

 Congress in Baltimore. 



