DUNMORE 



1883 



DUNSTAN 



produce and in food fish taken from the lake. 

 The industrial enterprises include locomotive 

 works, which employ 3,500 men, steel axle and 

 radiator factories, planing mills and glove and 

 shirt factories. 



A settlement at Dunkirk in 1805 was incor- 

 porated as a village in 1837. It became a city 

 in 1880. 



DUNMORE, PA., a residential suburb of 

 Scranton, which it adjoins on the southwest. 

 It is situated in Lackawanna County, in the 

 northeastern part of the state, and is served 

 by the Erie Railroad. Electric lines extend 

 northeast and southwest of the city. In 1835 

 the first settlement was made, and in 1862 the 

 borough was incorporated. Italians, Poles, 

 Slavs and Hungarians comprise one-third of the 

 population, which increased from 17,615 in 

 1910 to 20,776 in 1916. The area exceeds eight 

 square miles. 



Though Dunmore is primarily the residence 

 of a large number of people who have employ- 

 ment in Scranton, it has large home interests 

 in anthracite coal mining, about 5,000 people 

 being engaged in this industry. The city has 

 Saint Mary's Academy, the State Oral School 

 for Deaf and Dumb, Saint Joseph's Infant 

 Home, and homes for the aged and friendless. 



DUNNE, dun, FINLEY PETER (1867- ), an 

 American journalist and humorist, was born 

 and educated in Chicago. He gained wide 

 newspaper experience on the staff of Chicago 

 newspapers, and became famous through his 

 creation of the character of Mr. Dooley, the 

 genial philosopher of Archey Road, for whom 

 a Chicago newspaper man furnished the in- 

 spiration. Mr. Dunne is the author of Mr. 

 Dooley in Peace and War, Mr. Dooley in the 

 Hearts oj His Countrymen, Mr. Dooley's Phi- 

 losophy, etc. He has for some years syndicated 

 his material, thus bringing Mr. Dooley and 

 himself nation-wide publicity. 



DUNN ' VILLE , a town in Haldimand County, 

 Ontario, forty-three miles west of Buffalo and 

 thirty-four miles southeast of Hamilton, on 

 the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand 

 River; this is navigable from its mouth in 

 Lake Erie to this town, a distance of five 

 miles. Dunnville is also served by a branch 

 line of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Rail- 

 way. It is an important manufacturing center, 

 the chief products being flour, knitted and 

 woolen goods, canned and dried fruits and 

 vegetables, sewing machines, hammocks, bricks 

 and boats. Population in 1911, 2,861; in 1916, 

 estimated, 3,300. 



DUNSMUIR, dunz' mcwr, JAMES (1851- ), 

 a Canadian capitalist and legislator, formerly 

 premier and later lieutenant-governor of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, and one of the wealthiest men in 

 the province. He was born at Fort Vancouver. 

 Washington, attended school at Nanaimo, Brit- 

 ish Columbia; Hamilton, Ontario; and Blacks- 

 burg, Virginia, and then was given a business 

 training by his father, who developed the first 

 important coal mines in British Columbia. On 

 the death of his father, Dunsmuir became presi- 

 dent and chief owner of various coal com- 

 panies and also of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo 

 Railway, which he sold to the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway in 1905. He has given largely of his 

 wealth to educational and charitable institu- 

 tions. Dunsmuir entered the British Columbia 

 legislature as a Conservative in 1898, and from 

 1900 to 1902 was premier and president of the 

 council. From 1906 to 1909 he was lieutenant- 

 governor of the province. O.H.L. 



DUNS SCOTUS, dumsko'tus, JOANNES 

 (1265-1308), was a Roman Catholic divine 

 and one of the most profound thinkers of the 

 Middle Ages. His birthplace is unknown. He 

 entered the Order of the Franciscans, studied 

 at Oxford and in 1301 became professor of 

 theology there. He successfully defended the 

 doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, after- 

 wards (1854) declared a Roman Catholic 

 dogma, against Thomas Aquinas, a noted Do- 

 minican scholar. For his brilliant handling of 

 the matter he was awarded the title of Doctor 

 Subtilis, or the Subtle Doctor. The Scotist 

 philosophy establishes the necessity for divine 

 revelation on the ground that reason is insuffi- 

 cient to teach us the highest end of our exist- 

 ence, the knowledge of God. The most famous 

 work of Duns Scotus, besides his commen- 

 taries on the Bible and Aristotle, is the Opus 

 Oxonicnse ("Oxford Work"). 



DUNSTAN, SAINT (925-988), an English 

 archbishop and statesman, was born and edu- 

 cated at Glastonbury, and afterwards became 

 abbot of the monastery there. During the 

 reigns of kings Edmund and Edred, Dunstan 

 acted as their adviser, instituting many wise 

 religious reforms and aiding in the conquest 

 of the Danes. He gained the ill-will of King 

 Edwy, successor of King Edred, because he had 

 publicly rebuked him, and as a result of this act 

 he was deprived of his offices and banished. He 

 returned to England in 958, was made bishop 

 of London in 959 and Archbishop of Canterbury 

 in 960. Edgar, Edwy's successor, approved of 

 Dunstan's reforms, and gave him every assist- 



