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OBIT r \ VKI.K F.\ 



1801, when he became Professor <f Kthi.-s and chap- 

 lain .lege. l>r. Duryee was an au- 

 thority on the history of tin- mrly 1 Mitch ami 

 -.fluent* in Amen. a. a contributor 

 to periodical-, anil ai His 

 publications ii. - minds f-r the S<-i. 



sion Work A < .-nJ.-nnial DiflOOUIMt of 



tli.- K, formed Chur ' : a notable nioiio- 



graph ,,n I'.ibie; an 1 a \olume ..f 



IHH-IUS, contain; ;/o tOOf M TlM Kingdom of 



.h,-eph ||.. jurist. U.rn in <- 



died there. M. lie 



; at Sumtcr. s. c.. till the beginning 

 of the civil war: -er\.-d through the war in i .- 

 till.-ry; was graduated at Furman l'i. 



xiiie. m isis; taught A school while ttaajring 

 Uw; attdws* admitted to the barta 1 i.iiing 



.aim- active in 



political life* tad took part in tin- nprisinf led by 



llniiipliiii. Pwo years afterward he was 



l tn the ]..\\er hon-e of tin- Legislature, and 



li- to the I'emoeratic Natio: .lions 



of 1880 and 18S4. In l^rt and 1888 he u 

 Attor il of S.uth Carolina. When tin* 



rapture IB the Democratic parly in hi- 



1 he united wiih tin- Male oflieials and anti- 

 Tillman wing. In ISSM). when Benjamin Ii. Till- 

 man was nominated for Governor. Mr. Farlc was 

 his opponent and was defeated. In Is'.U I, 



.ville. and in 1894 was elected judge 

 of the 8th Circuit Court of South Carolina. 

 Tillman supported him in thi> election, but he 

 pave offense to the Tillman wing by declinini: t 

 interpret the laws as desired. Tin- campaign f-r 

 tor in 1806 was bitter, and at- 

 tracted much attention out-id.- the State. 

 John was the Tillman candidate for the 



eat, and i -i'iennl certain. In 



Carolina the nomination is made by a major- 

 ity vote of the people at a general primary. Just 

 before the campaign for tin- nomination opened 



was published what purported to be an expo- 

 sure of the circumstances of the refunding of 

 ii-bt. which involved both Judge Kvans 

 anil Senator Tillman. The publication < 



nt. and led tli. i>emo- 



rrats to nominate Judge Earle. On Jan. -J7. 

 1897, he was elected, having all the votes of the 

 joint assembly excepting one. 



I .L'. -rton \HVed P . p,,liti-ian. born in I', 

 burg. N. V.. .Ian. i:J. lsi:5:di.-d in Fort \\ 

 Ind., May M. 1V7. 11-- was for a short time editor 

 of a newsnaiMT in his native place: in lx:{:! n-m.vi-d 



_-;ged in c<.mniercial bu-; 



and in lXi7 went to Defiance ( 'ounty, < Miio. to take 

 the maiiagi-mcnt of a land compjn M6 IM- 



was elected to the - fOhfo; in 1848 



was a delegate to the Baltimore CoQTention ; aod in 

 1850 and 1KV2 was elected to Congress from the 



<li-tri'-t. He was the financial air-nt if nhio 



in N.-W Y-rk city in lHT;j-7)6; was chairman of the 



vention at Cincinnati in 



1856. In that year also, in association with Pliny 

 Hoagland and Hn-h McCulUK-h. he liecame a lessee 

 of the Indiana canals, and MiUcquently general 

 manager. In 1854 he was a delegate to the National 

 Dem- venti..n. and in 1KG8 was an ni 



cessful candidate for the nrtice of Li.-utenan: 



<>f Indiana. He declined the nomination of the 

 O'Conor 1> ; .'. He was 



appointed a United States civil 

 in 1885, succeeded Donnan H. Kat nt of 



the commission, and hell the office till Feb. 0, 1880, 

 when President Cleveland removed him. 



. James ( rauford. clergyman, born in 

 .my. Ind . NOT, -'. 1884; died in Phila- 

 ildpi. . 1^.17. 11, Berred from 



till afi.-r the fall of Yi<-lv-l>urg .-n a supph 



-.us for the army under (Jen. (Irani. 



and entered tin* ministry of ti.. ."di>t 



pal i hurch in AngOSt, \^('>-\. In is?5 he was 



al ion by the (Jeneral ( 'oii- 



n wa> appoint! d "f linaiice 



and trea>urer of t he Church fund ; and in L884 



I in Phihuleljihia. II. WM !<< -led a bi-liop 

 of the Church, and assigned to the South Carolina 



I \.uiv John, philanthropist, bnrn in \Ya\ncs- 

 ville.nhio. .March!*. 1M-J; di.-.l in hemcr. CoL, July 

 .iduated at the niedicjil depart* 

 meiit of Cincinnati College in l- s :!^: be can pi. 



<Mtawa. 111.; and soon aftrrwanl r -moved t<> 

 Attica. Ind.. where he secured the erection of the 

 lir^-t insane asylum in Indiana. He \\.-i- Mip.-rin- 

 tendent of this institution Ii. 



elected to the faculty of tin- Knsh Medical College, 

 at Chicai:". p,y inve-tnieiiis in real e-tale in the 

 voung city he acouiicd large wealth, much of which 

 lie applied to philanthropic pi, Be founded 



the town of Kvaiiston and the Nm-thw. 



by in that city; endowed two chairs \s it I. 

 000 each : and \\;^ pre-id.-nt of the board of in 

 of the university for more than a third of a cen- 

 tury. He was also one of the founders and buildeis 

 Of the Frt Wayne and Cl ...iln-ad. and was 



its managini: director till after his removal to ( 'olo- 

 rado. lr. M\ an- \\ ;i kte to t he convent ion 



that first nominated Mr. Lincoln f'-rthe ; 

 In iNflg he became Governor of Colorado Territory. 

 Hi- first act was the organixation of an effective 

 military force, which particularly distinguished 

 itself by repelling an inva-. 



rangers under (Jen. sii.ley. Before the expiration 



of his term <J< . i bv I'r.-ideiit 



John-on. In 1M.") the fir-t Slate organ i/.at ion of 



Colorado was effected, and in anticipation of an 



n into the t'niou ( , an.l 



Jerome 15. ChalTee Were elected I'liited State- Sena- 

 The act for admission .| by both 



houses of Congress, but Preside nt .Johnson \ 

 it. ( Jo v. Kvans founded the l"niver>it\ 

 giving f200,000 for its construction an : 

 (jiieiit large endowment, erected Kvan- cha|el. \vus 

 t he jrincipal contributor to the erection of i 

 Methodist F.piscopal church, and aided nearly 

 Methodist . tiOD and educational institution 



in the State. 



i:\iins. llioiiiiis >Villianiv denti-l. born in Phil- 

 adelphia, I ..;. ivj:!: died in Pa: 



When fonrleci, years old he went 

 to work with a goldsmith and dental plate maker. 

 Hi- -kill in making plates led him ! undertake the 

 study of dentistry, and when eight. id he 



received a -peciiil medal for original' work. He 

 practiced dentistry in Maryland and in Laic 



quired a large technical knowledge of metals, 

 ami made a specialty of saving teeth by filling. He 

 wouhl often (ill several teeth for the privii' 

 extracting the worst one. after filling, for a speci- 

 men of hi* work, and by thi* method he acquired a 

 curious collection, which, with specimens of his 

 plate work, he placed on exhibition at the Franklin 

 Institute in Philadelphia. About this time lie 



a -nb-tit ute for gold foil for filling teeth. 

 uade experiment- with a view to hardening 



India rubber. He mixed the rubber with sulphur, 



baked the mass, and instead of getting the white 



.ii-e he de-ired. obtained a black 0D6. He laid 



aside his specimen, labeled "Tried to make ivory. 

 hut made -lony." and gave it no further serious 

 thought till some time after his settlement in Paris, 



