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OBI : . AMF.II! Dl TKOHK. 



the Britifth; was a vice-presklcnt of thi- boar 



il times chaplain of tin- lower )H>IIM <>f i)u> 

 ii <>f the Congrega- 

 tional Mi-- f Minnesota ami a f- 



nii.l president of t: Congregational ciuii. 



In late years ho was at-ti trance an 



ciological reforms, and at the time of hi* death he 

 was the first vice-president >f th<> international 

 Board of Corm-tions ami Charities. Dr. Dana was 

 for some time one of the editon 



rote a his- ieton College, Northfleld, 



Minn. .of which he wn* a tiuste. . an. I " The Norwich 



M. Conn., during the 

 var. 

 Daatoti, Ctarle*. jurist, bora probably in 



0: died in BulTalo. \ 



rn of \VrI>h parents, l.iit he 



nilely in what part of the world he 



wa< Uirn nor when, n-'r liow many brothers nnd 



ftoers hi- ha-i. Ill-.arlle-t recollect i-ms Were of a 



\ rk city and of a little shop in which 



.- shoes. When ten years old he ac- 



1 'hin. and was at 



;.ut to work at his father's trade. His early 

 education was very limited. He was left an <>rj>lniii 

 when sixteen years old. and. after wandering through 

 several citicsand towns in western New York, h 

 lied in Buffalo. Living in a room over the shop. 



spending all th' ney he could spare from food 



for books, reci ting t> a sympathetic lady at night 

 what he read during the day. and obtaining "tie 

 winter's srhiNilini; at the ! ademy. he edu- 



cated himself while working at his trade. He was 

 admitted to the liar in isjs : practiced in partner- 

 ship with Kli Cook till ls.-,n. and alone till : 

 was elected a justice of the Supreme Court ol' 

 Y..rk in 1868,1800, and is:;, the last term being 

 for fourteen years, and with the exception of the 

 - he was also an associate justice of the (Jeneral 

 'Term of the Supreme Court of the New York dis- 

 trict from ls7:{ till hj s retirement from the bench 

 in 1891. In 1886 he was the un>uc< < -sful kcpub- 

 lican candidate for judge of the New York Court of 

 Appeals, and in 1802 and 1804 he was elected to 

 Congress. His decisions were rarely overruled, his 

 opinions would fill more than KM) printed volumes. 

 and during his long term on the bench he was hon- 

 ored by governors of each of the great political 

 parties. His most effective service as a jurist in 

 behalf of the State and citv was rendered in the 



CaUSeS grOW ing out of the Tweed and KHe Canal 



frauds. He tried Henry \V. (i.-iiet. one of the 

 leaders of the "ring." who was convicted but e- 

 caped. .! D :--N sent the .-heriff and his 



deputy to jail for thirty days f,, r ollicial careless- 

 ness, and on Genet'- return 'from Kurope. ten 



afterward, sentenced him to pay a fine of $1 



and to be impri-oncd for four months. During 

 rar on the Krie -Canal ring" he had 

 Judg 'erred to Albany to pn--. 



rial of George D. Lord, a contractor, who was 

 convicted of fraud. 



Darl*. Daniel Franklin, lawyer, born in Free- 



.nty. Me., in ls|:{' : died j n |; ;i 

 'an. 0. 1HJ7. He was brought up on a farm 

 and in a sawmill, and tinder most unfavorable cir- 

 tances became self-educated During the two 

 last years of the civil war he served as a private in 

 1st Maine Cavalry. After the war he studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in I860. I :. 

 he was elected to the lower hou? of the Legisla- 

 ture: in 1876 and 1878 to the - ,- arid in 

 1870 was chosen Governor of the State as a Repub- 

 lican. At the close of his term he was appointed 

 collector of the |K.rt of R. 



Day. David A., missionarv, born in Pennsylvania, 

 about 1847; died at sea, bee. 17, 1807. lie was 



.uehanna Lutheran l'ni\ . 



Selil, B ill llle.i. 



and \vith his bride went M ,hlenl>er_ 



:le- from Monrovia. Liber .\here 



he labored incessantly for twenty-! He 



ue.i the evangelical, cducai lonal. and indus- 

 trial elem. .ired and brought to n hiu'll 



of onltivation a tract of 10 -.\\inchhe 



divided into small farms and allotted to the i 

 of the nn ion; and made the mis-ion one of the 

 most succc-sful on that continent. He was known 

 for hundreds ,,f miles alnng the west coast, an : 

 (pielitlv acte.l a- arbitral' 



He \\a- on his way to the I'm 1 i| cr- 



ate his health at the time of his death. 



D.i\ ton. \\ illiam I.cnis. iuri-i.b..rn in Trenton. 

 \ .1.. April i:5. !*:;.; died th. II. 



I S(.n of William L.'uj- Dayton,th lii-piiblican 

 camlidate for \ :.-nt f the Ci, 



on the ticket with .lolm C. Fremont in |s.Vi. and 

 I'nited States mini-ter to France m l^r.l V,l. He 

 was graduated at Princeton i;. ^lant 



ary of leu'aiion at Pan- in !- - ad- 



mitted to the bar in \**\'\ : and wa- pn 

 : Gh)T. Marcux L. \\ a nl : 



and 1 s -!' he wa- city solicitor of Trenton: in 

 is rnit.-d Slates minister t.. the Nether- 

 lands; and from 1*!MJ till his death he \\a- a judge 

 of the New .ler-ey Court of Krroi-s and Appeals. 



Me. in (.eor-c \\ a-liin^lon inmirr. born in 



: died in Fall I, 



1897, In IM; he wa- appointed t., 

 the en^ineerini: and a-' ronomical department of 

 the United State- C..a-l Survey, and he remained 

 in that service till lsv\ ||, , -n-lncted determina- 

 tion- (f meridians of longitude between the Cnited 

 - and Fiirope by a-t ronomical and telegraphic 

 ob-ervation-. and invented many in>truments and 

 method- by which his depart me nt of t 

 was greatly improved. He ivpn-cnled the ' 

 Survey at the landing of the Atlantic cable at 

 Heart's Content, Newfoundland, in !*''!> ; had 

 charge of the Government observation of the 

 eclipse of the sun at Shelbyville. K\.. in lsr,j. and 

 of the total-eolipM xpcdition to J n. in 



1870; and at the time of his retirement wai 

 termining an arc across the continent to conned 

 the surveys of the Atlantic and Pacific < 



Derfcj, Pcrlc\ _ nealo-i-t. born in Mur! 1 

 bopi. Teiin.. in ls-j:'>: died in Salem. Ma.. Man-h 



W. Be removed to Salem abcm< IS:;T: learned 



the jeweler's trade, and worked at it for several 

 in Pawtucket. H. I.: and. returning to Salem. 

 became an accomplished portrait painter. During 

 the past thirty \ear- he a|iplied himself almo-t 

 whol: i. and had been em- 



plove.l in nearly e\ery Mate in the I'lii-m in 

 piling family record-. 



he Trohriand. Philippe lle-i- Idler, born 



Tours. France. June 1. l^HJ; died in Itayp- rt. 

 I-land. N.Y.. .Inly b',. 1807. I lc wa- a so,, ,,f 



.l.i-4-ph de Tr< briand. commander of the mili- 

 tary district of Tours and in his youth was one of 

 t he" pages of Charles X. Km- of France. Hi- father 

 wi-hed him to acquire a military education, and he 

 undertook preparation for St.-Cyr: hut after the 

 revolution of iv.n |,i- father, then commander at 

 i from the army, and the son's edu- 

 cation was completed at Orlcan- and Poitiers where 

 he was gradual e,l in IKJI ,,nd 1-.:-. [fl 1841, on 

 the death of his fat her and his succession to the 

 family estates and the title of Baron de Trohriand. 

 he came to the t'nited State- for a period of travel, 

 acquainted with Mary Ma<on .Jones 

 daughter of the ['resident of the Chemical Bank, 

 and in 1H-W they were married. For several years 

 they lived in Italy, attached to the court of the 



