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=Dabney, Richard.= _Va._, 1787-1825. A once noted instructor in Richmond, Virginia, whose Poems, Original and Translated, contain scholarly translations from Euripides, Alcæus, and other classic poets.

=Dabney, Richard Heath.= _Va._, 1859- ----. The Causes of the French Revolution. _Ho._

=Dabney, Robert Lewis.= _Va._, 1820-1898. Nephew of R. Dabney, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1882 professor of moral philosophy in the University of Texas. Life of T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of General Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defence of Virginia and the South; The Sensualistic Philosophy of the 19th Century; A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; Collected Discussions. _Ran._

=Dabney, Virginius.= _Va._, 1835-1894. A staff officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War, who published Don Miff, a Symphony of Life; Gold That Did Not Glitter. _Lip._

=Daboll= [da´bŏl], =Nathan.= 1750-1818. A once famous instructor of Connecticut. He prepared The Schoolmaster’s Assistant, long a standard text-book on arithmetic, and The Practical Navigator.

=Daboll, Nathan.= _Ct._, 1782-1863. Son of N. Daboll, _supra_. A probate judge of Connecticut. The author, with his son, of Daboll’s New Arithmetic, and compiler of the New England Almanac, begun by the father in 1773. The second of the name continued its preparation from 1818 to the year of his own death.

=Da Costa, Jacob Mandes.= _W. I._, 1833-1900. A Philadelphia physician connected with Jefferson Medical College since 1864, and a specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs. Epithelial Tumours and Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The Physicians of the Last Century; Serous Apoplexy; Medical Diagnosis; Inhalation in Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages; Strain and Over-action of the Heart; Harvey and his Discovery. _Lip._

=Dadd, George H.= _E._, _c._ 1813- ----. A veterinary surgeon who has published The Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterinary Science; Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse; The American Cattle Doctor.

=Dagg, John Leadley.= _Va._, 1794-1884. A Baptist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1833, and was president of Mercer University, Georgia, 1844-56. Manual of Theology; Elements of Moral Science; Evidences of Christianity; English Grammar. _Bap._

=Dahlgren, John Adolph.= _Pa._, 1809-1870. A famous United States naval officer, made admiral in 1863, who invented the cannon bearing his name, and conducted the siege of Charleston during the Civil War. Thirty-Two Pounder Practice for Rangers; System of Boat Armament in the United States Navy; Naval Percussion Locks and Primers; Ordnance Memoranda; Shells and Shell Guns; Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren; Notes on Maritime International Law, edited by Charles Cowley, _supra_. _See Memoir by Mrs. Dahlgren, infra._

=Dahlgren, Mrs. Madeleine [Vinton] [Goddard].= _O._, 1835-1898. Second wife of J. A. Dahlgren, _supra_, to whom she was married in 1865. A novelist of Washington. Idealities; Thoughts on Female Suffrage; South Sea Sketches; Etiquette of Social Life in Washington; Memoir of Admiral Dahlgren; South Mountain Magic, a Narrative; A Washington Winter, a Society Novel; The Lost Name; Divorced; Lights and Shadows of a Life. _Lip._

=Dalcho, Frederick.= _E._, 1777-1836. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston, rector of St. Michael’s Church there, 1819-36, but in earlier life successively a physician and journalist. The Evidence of the Divinity of Our Saviour. Historic Account of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina; Ahiman Rezon, a work for freemasons.

=Dale, James Wilkinson.= _Del._, 1812-1881. A clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania. The Cup and the Cross, or the Baptism of Calvary; Classic Baptism; Judaic Baptism; Johannic Baptism; Christic and Patristic Baptism.

=Dales, John Blakely.= _N. Y._, 1815-1893. A United Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, whose principal writings include Roman Catholicism; Dangers and Duties of Young Men; The Gospel Minister.

=Dall, Mrs. Caroline Wells [Healey].= _Ms._, 1822- ----. Wife of C. H. A. Dall, _infra_. A Washington writer whose early efforts were mainly in the line of social reforms, while her later works were concerned with general literature. Essays and Sketches; Historical Pictures Retouched; Life of Dr. Marie Zakrzewski; Woman’s Rights under the Law; The Romance of the Association, or one Last Glimpse of Charlotte Temple and Eliza Wharton; What we Really Know about Shakespeare; Woman’s Place in History; Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee; College, Market and Court; Woman’s Right to Labor; Essays on Confucius; Patty Gray’s Journey to the Cotton Islands; My First Holiday, or Letters from Colorado; Egypt’s Place in History, include her principal works. _Le. Rob._

=Dall, Charles Henry Appleton.= _Md._, 1816-1886. A Unitarian missionary to Calcutta. The Temperance Movement in Modern Times; Theism, in Questions and Answers.

=Dall, William Healey.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Son of C. H. and C. W. Dall, _supra_. A naturalist of distinction who has been connected with the United States Coast Survey and the Geological Survey. Alaska and its Resources (1870); Tribes of the Extreme Northwest; Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska; Coast Pilot of Alaska; Pacific Coast Pilot; Reports on the Mollusca of the Blake Expedition. _Le._

=Dallas, Alexander James.= _F._, 1759-1817. A noted statesman who was secretary of state, 1796-1801, and secretary of the treasury under Madison. Features of Jay’s Treaty; Speeches on the Trial of Blount; Address to Constitutional Republicans; Causes and Character of the Late War (1815); Reports of Cases. =See Life and Writings of, by G. M. Dallas, infra.=

=Dallas, George Mifflin.= _Pa._, 1792-1864. Son of A. J. Dallas, _supra_. A statesman who was minister to Russia, 1837-39, vice-president of the United States, 1845-49, minister to England, 1856-61. Series of Letters from London; Eulogy on Andrew Jackson, as well as many single speeches and addresses. _Lip._

=Dalton= [dawl´ton], =John Call.= _Ms._, 1825-1889. A physician of note who was a professor in various medical colleges. Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The Experimental Method in Medical Science; Doctrines of the Circulation; Topographical Anatomy of the Brain; History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city; Treatise on Human Physiology; Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene.

=Daly, Charles Patrick.= _N. Y._, 1816-1899. A prominent jurist of New York City. Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York; First Settlement of Jews in North America; What we Knew of Maps and Map Drawing before Mercator.

=Daly, John Augustin.= _N. C._, 1838-1899. A dramatist and theatrical manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays from the German and the French, wrote Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under the Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffington, a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.

=Damon, Howard Franklin.= _Ms._, 1833-1884. A hospital physician of Boston. Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; General Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. _Lip._

=Dana, Alexander Hamilton.= _E._, 1807-1887. A lawyer of New York State. Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; Enigmas of Life, Death, and the Future State.

=Dana, Charles Anderson.= _N. H._, 1819-1897. A distinguished journalist of New York City. He was assistant secretary of war 1863-65, and since 1868 the editor of The New York Sun. His political writing is noted for its bitter partisanship, but the literary quality of his work is admirable. With J. G. Wilson, _infra_, he prepared a Life of General Grant, and was co-editor with George Ripley, _infra_, of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. _Ap._

=Dana, Charles Louis.= _Vt._, 1852- ----. A physician of note as a neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.

=Dana, Edward Salisbury.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. Son of J. D. Dana, _infra_, assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale University since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the Peabody Museum there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of Silliman’s Journal. Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics; Appendix II. (1875) and Appendix III. (1883) of Dana’s System of Mineralogy. _Wil._

=Dana, James.= _Ms._, 1735-1812. A once famous Congregational clergyman of New Haven, who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the Will.

=Dana, James Dwight.= _N. Y._, 1813-1895. A celebrated geologist, professor at Yale University from 1850. System of Mineralogy; Manual of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Geology; Corals and Coral Islands; The Geological Story Briefly Told. _Am. Do. Wil._

=Dana, James Freeman.= _N. H._, 1793-1827. A chemist and physician, the first professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College. Epitome of Chemical Philosophy; Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and its Vicinity (with S. L. Dana, _infra_).

=Dana, Mrs. Katharine [Floyd].= _L. I._, 1835-1886. A writer of New York City. Our Phil and Other Stories. _Hou_.

=Dana, Mrs. Mary.= _See Shindler, Mrs._

=Dana, Richard Henry.= _Ms._, 1787-1879. A poet and critic who was one of the founders of the North American Review in 1815. As a critic his Lectures on Shakespeare represent him fairly, and it must not be forgotten that he was one of the earliest in America to appreciate the genius of Wordsworth. The Idle Man, a publication begun in 1821 and extending to six numbers, includes his two novels, Tom Thornton; Paul Felton. His later publications include The Buccaneer, and Other Poems; Poems and Prose Writings. His verse is both imaginative and original, but at the same time unmelodious. _See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, April, 1879; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends._

=Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.= _Ms._, 1815-1882. Son of R. H. Dana, _supra_. A noted lawyer of Boston, best known in literature by the famous Two Years before the Mast, a narrative of personal adventure, which first appeared in 1840, and was reissued, enlarged, in 1869. His other works include The Seaman’s Friend, known in England as The Seaman’s Manual; Letters on Italian Unity; To Cuba and Back; Letters on the Somers Mutiny; Life of Major Vinton; Enemy Property and Enemy Territory. _See Life by C. F. Adams, 1891._

=Dana, Samuel Luther.= _N. H._, 1795-1868. Brother of J. F. Dana, _supra_. A noted chemist of Lowell, who made many improvements in cotton-printing, and was one of the foremost agricultural writers of his time. Chemical Changes in the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid; Muck Mineral for Manures; Essay on Manures. _See American Journal of Science, May, 1868._

=Dana, William Coombs.= _Ms._, 1810-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of Charleston. Hymns for Public Worship; A Transatlantic Tour; Life of Samuel Dana.

=Dana, Mrs. William Starr.= _See Parsons, Mrs. Frances._

=Dandridge, Mrs. Danske [Bedinger].= _Dk._, 1858- ----. A verse-writer of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joy, and Other Poems.

=Dane, Nathan.= _Ms._, 1752-1835. A very prominent lawyer of Massachusetts, who founded the Dane professorship at the Harvard University Law School. He published an Abridgment and Digest of American Law [in nine volumes].

=Danenhower, John Wilson.= _Il._, 1849-1887. An Arctic explorer who was second in command of the De Long Expedition in 1879, and published The Narrative of the Jeannette, 1882.

=Danforth, John.= _Ms._, 1660-1730. Son of S. Danforth, _infra_. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who published many single sermons and occasional poems.

=Danforth, Joshua Noble.= _Ms._, 1798-1861. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts and Virginia, who published Gleanings and Groupings from a Pastor’s Portfolio.

=Danforth, Samuel.= _E._, 1626-1674. A once famous Puritan clergyman of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1650-74. An Astronomical Description of the Comet of 1664; An Election Sermon; The Cry of Sodom Inquired Into.

=Danforth, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1666-1727. Son of S. Danforth, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Taunton, Massachusetts, famous for his great learning and wide influence. Eulogy on Thomas Leonard; Essay Concerning the Singing of Psalms. The MS. of his Indian Dictionary is now the property of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

=Dangé, Henri.= _See Hammond, Mrs._

=Daniel, John Moncure.= _Va._, 1825-1865. A once noted Virginia journalist who edited The Richmond Examiner, and was minister to Italy 1853-60. _See Writings of, with Memoir by his brother, 1868._

=Daniel, John Warwick.= _Va._, 1842- ----. A prominent Virginia lawyer who was an adjutant-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Attachments under the Code of Virginia; Negotiable Instruments.

=Daniels, Mrs. Cora [Linn].= _Ms._, 1852- ----. A novelist of Franklin, Massachusetts. Sardia, a Story of Love; As It Is to Be. _Ban. Le._

=Daniels, William Haven.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A Methodist clergyman, prominent as an evangelist. D. L. Moody and his Work; That Boy, who Shall Have Him?; The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers; Moody, his Words, Work, and Workers; Illustrated History of Methodism in the United States; Graduated with Honour; Memorials of Gilbert Haven; Short History of the People called Methodists. _Meth._

=Dannelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Otis [Marshall].= _Ga._, 1838- ----. A Texas writer of verse. Cactus, or Thorns and Blossoms; Wayside Flowers.

=Da Ponte, Lorenzo.= _Iy._, 1749-1838. An Italian dramatist who furnished libretti for Mozart’s operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came to America in 1805, and after 1828 was professor of Italian in Columbia College. He published his own Life (1823); History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici (1833).

=Darby, John.= _See Garretson._

=Darby, John.= _Ms._, 1804-1877. An educator who was connected with various colleges North and South. Manual of Botany; The Botany of the Southern States; Chemistry, are some of his publications.

=Darby, William.= _Pa._, 1755-1834. A geographer who published Geographical Dictionary of Louisiana; Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country; Emigrant’s Guide to the Western Country; Tour from New York to Detroit (1819); Geography and History of Florida; View of the United States (1823); Lectures on the Discovery of America; Mnemonica, a Register of Events from the Earliest Period; Geographical Dictionary.

=Darden, Mrs. Fannie [Baker].= _Al._, 1829- ----. Romances of the Texas Revolution; Poems.

=Dargan, Clara Victoria.= _See Maclean, Mrs._

=Darley, Felix Octavius Carr.= _Pa._, 1822-1888. A well-known artist and illustrator whose home was at Claymont, Delaware. His only writing is included in Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil.

=Darling, Mrs. Flora [Adams].= _N. H._, 1840- ----. A writer of fiction whose writings include Mrs. Darling’s Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War; A Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon Lily; Was it a Just Verdict?; A Social Diplomat; From Two Points of View; The Senator’s Daughter.

=Darling, Henry.= _Pa._, 1823-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Hamilton College, 1881-1891. The Close Walk; Slavery and the War; Conformity to the World; Not Doing but Receiving.

=Darling, Mary Greenleaf.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. Battles at Home; In the World; Gladys, a Romance. _Le. Lo._

=Darling, William.= _S._, 1815-1884. A distinguished New York physician who published Anatomography, or Graphic Anatomy; Essentials of Anatomy (with A. L. Ranney).

=Darlington, William.= _Pa._, 1782-1863. A famous botanist of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in whose honour Darlingtonia, a genus of pitcher-plants, was named. Mutual Influence of Habits and Disease; Agricultural Botany; Flora Cestrica; Memorials of John Bartram, _supra_, and Humphrey Marshall.

=D’Arusmont, Madame Frances [Wright].= _S._, 1795-1852. A very energetic and versatile Scottish reformer who came several times to America, and finally settled in Cincinnati. Her attacks on social institutions aroused much hostility, her opposition to slavery making her the object of especial dislike. Popular Lectures on Free Inquiry; Biographical Notes and Political Letters of Fanny Wright D’Arusmont (1844); Altorf: a tragedy; Views of Society and Manners in America; A Few Days in Athens, include her principal works. _See Gilbert’s The Pioneer Woman, 1855; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14._

=Daveiss, Mrs. Maria [Thompson].= _Ky._, 1814-1896. A Kentucky author who wrote much for agricultural journals, and published Roger Sherman, a Tale of ’76; Woman’s Love; History of Mercer and Boyle Counties, Kentucky; Cultivation and Uses of the Chinese Sugar Cane.

=Davenport, John.= _E._, 1597-1670. A famous Puritan divine who, before coming to America in 1637, was a celebrated London preacher. In 1638 he was one of the founders of New Haven, and in 1660 concealed the noted regicides, Goffe and Whalley, from their pursuers. In 1666 he became pastor of the First Church in Boston. Instructions to Elders of the English Church; Catechism containing the Chief Heads of the Christian Religion; Discourse about Civil Government in New England. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14._

=David, Jean Baptist.= _F._, 1761-1841. A Roman Catholic bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky. Among his many works are Vindication of Catholic Doctrine concerning Images; Address to Brethren of Other Professions; On the Rule of Faith; True Piety.

=Davidson, Charles.= _O._, 1852- ----. An instructor of Belmont, California. The Phonology of the Stressed Vowels of Beowulf; Studies in the English Mystery Plays.

=Davidson, George.= _E._, 1825- ----. An astronomer of distinction, founder of the Davidson Observatory in San Francisco. The United States Coast Survey of the Pacific Coast; Coast Pilot of Alaska; Voyages of Discovery on the Northwest Coast of America, 1539-1603.

=Davidson, James Wood.= _S. C._, 1829- ----. An educator of South Carolina and elsewhere, whose Living Writers of the South is quite wanting in discrimination and critical ability. His other works include School History of South Carolina; The Correspondent; The Poetry of the Future; Florida of To-Day. _Ap._

=Davidson, Lucretia Maria.= _N. Y._, 1808-1825. A precocious verse-writer now quite forgotten. Amir Khan and Other Poems was issued in 1829. _See Memoir by S. F. B. Morse, and Life by C. M. Sedgwick, infra._

=Davidson, Margaret Miller.= _N. Y._, 1823-1838. Sister to L. M. Davidson, and, like her, a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses were extravagantly lauded by contemporary writers, but by no critics of a later day. _See Memoir by Washington Irving._

=Davidson, Robert.= _Md._, 1750-1812. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1804-09. Epitome of Geography in Verse for Schools; The Christian’s A, B, C, or the 119th Psalm in Metre; New Metrical Version of the Psalms, with Notes.

=Davidson, Robert.= _Pa._, 1808-1876. Son of R. Davidson, _supra_. A Presbyterian minister in Kentucky and other States, among whose writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and Other Poems; The Christ of God, or the Relation of Christ to Christianity.

=Davidson, Thomas.= _S._, 1840-1900. A writer on art and philosophy who came to the United States in 1866 and settled at Cambridge. The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays; The Place of Art in Education; Giordano Bruno and the Relation of his Philosophy to Free Thought; Handbook of Dante, from the Italian of Scartazzini, with Notes and Additions; Prolegomena to Tennyson’s “In Memoriam;” Aristotle, and Ancient and Modern Educational Ideals; The Education of the Greek People and its Influence on Civilization. _Ap. Gi. Hou._

=Davies, Charles.= _Ct._, 1798-1876. A noted professor of mathematics in Columbia College from 1857. Beside a notable series of mathematical text-books, from A Primary Table Book to Elementary Geometry and Trigonometry, he published also editions of Legendre’s Geometry and Bourdon’s Algebra. Other works by him comprise Practical Mathematics; Elements of Surveying; Analytical Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Metric System; Mathematical Dictionary (with W. G. Peck).

=Davies, Samuel.= _Del._, 1724-1761. A Presbyterian clergyman of great renown in his day as a preacher, and the fourth president of Princeton College. He wrote a number of hymns still in use, and his Sermons in 5 volumes appeared in London in 1767. _See Sermons, 1851, with Memoir by Albert Barnes, supra._

=Davies, Thomas Alfred.= _N. Y._, 1809-1899. Brother of C. Davies, _supra_. A Federal officer in the Civil War. Cosmogony, or Mysteries of Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geologists; How to Make Money and how to Keep It.

=Davis, Andrew Jackson.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. A noted spiritualist of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the following may be considered the most important: The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography, 1885. _Ban._

=Davis, Andrew McFarland.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Brother of H. Davis, _infra_. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge. Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. _Mac._

=Davis, Asahel.= _Ms._, 1791-18--. A Massachusetts antiquary who published Ancient America and Researches of the East (1847); History of New Amsterdam.

=Davis, Augusta Cordelia.= _Me._, 1836- ----. Poems from Yare.

=Davis, Mrs. Caroline E---- [Kelly].= _N. H._, 1831- ----. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales. Among her fifty or more volumes are, No Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope; That Boy. _Lo._

=Davis, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1807-1877. Son of D. Davis, _infra_. A rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted hydrographer. Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he published Law of Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and Other Ocean Currents; and translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium. _See Life, by C. H. Davis, infra, 1899._

=Davis, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Son of C. H. Davis, _supra_. A United States naval officer. Chronometer Rates as Affected by Temperature and Other Causes; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes.

=Davis, Charles Henry Stanley.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. A physician of Meriden, Connecticut. History of Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as a Musical Instrument; Education and Training of Feeble Minded Children; Index to Periodical Literature.

=Davis, Cushman Kellogg.= _N. Y._, 1838-1900. A prominent Minnesota lawyer and United States senator, who wrote The Law in Shakespeare.

=Davis, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1762-1835. A Massachusetts jurist who was solicitor-general of his State, 1800-32. Criminal Practice; Precedents of Indictments.

=Davis, Edwin Hamilton.= _O._, 1811-1888. An archæologist whose chief work is Monuments of the Mississippi.

=Davis, Emerson.= _Ms._, 1798-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1861-68. Historical Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; The First Half Century, or Events and Changes, 1800-50.

=Davis, George Thomas.= _Ms._, 1810-1877. A Massachusetts lawyer whose speeches in Congress were published in 1852.

=Davis, Henry Winter.= _Md._, 1817-1865. A Maryland statesman and lawyer, conspicuously loyal to the Union during the Civil War. The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th Century (1853); Speeches and Addresses in Congress (1867). _Har._

=Davis, Horace.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. Nephew of G. Bancroft, _supra_. A manufacturer of California. Dolor Davis, a Sketch of his Life; American Constitutions and the Relation of the Three Departments as adjusted by a Century; Shakespeare’s Sonnets, an Essay.

=Davis, Jefferson.= _Ky._, 1808-1889. President of the Confederate States. After the fall of the Confederacy, in 1865, he was confined as a prisoner of war in Fortress Monroe, and upon his release, in 1867, he lived in retirement in Mississippi. His history, which appeared in 1881, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, is a valuable commentary on the Civil War as it appeared to one of the chief figures of the time, but it is as narrowly conceived as it is diffuse in statement and bitter in tone. _See Lives, by Alfriend, 1868; E. A. Pollard, infra, 1869; Prison Life of, by Craven, 1866; Memoir by his Wife, 1890; London Times Biographies of Eminent Persons, 4th Series._ _Ap._

=Davis, John A. G.= _Va._, 1801-1840. A Virginia lawyer, professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1830-40. Estates Tail, Executive Devises, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes; Treatise on Criminal Law.

=Davis, John Chandler Bancroft.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. Brother of H. Davis, _supra_. A diplomatist who was agent for the United States before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims, and afterwards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. The Massachusetts Justice; The Case of the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes; United States Supreme Court Reports; Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims. _Hou._

=Davis, John Woodbridge.= _N. Y._, 1854-1902. Son of E. H. Davis, _supra_. A civil engineer who, besides contributing much to engineering journals, published Formulæ for the Calculation of Railroad Earth Work and Average Haul (1876), which speedily came into use as a text-book.

=Davis, Lemuel Clarke.= _Md._, 1835- ----. A Philadelphia journalist, editor of The Inquirer, and author of The Stranded Ship, a Story of Sea and Shore.

=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn [Moore].= _Al._, 1852- ----. A prominent writer of New Orleans, on the editorial staff of the Picayune. Minding the Gap, and Other Poems; In War Times at La Rose Blanche, sketches for young people; Under the Man-Fig, a novel; An Elephant’s Track and Other Stories; The Wire-Cutters. _Har. Hou. Lo._

=Davis, Matthew L.= _N. Y._, 1766-1850. A Washington journalist who published a Life of Aaron Burr.

=Davis, Nathan Smith.= _N. Y._, 1817-1904. A Chicago physician, dean of the Northwestern University, whose principal writings include Lectures on Various Important Diseases; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Verdict of Science concerning the Effects of Alcohol on Man; Medical Education and Reform.

=Davis, Noah Knowles.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A professor of moral science in the University of Virginia since 1873. The Theory of Thought, a Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive Logic; the Elements of Deductive Logic. _Har._

=Davis, Peter Seibert.= _Md._, 1828-1892. A German Reformed divine who wrote The Young Parson.

=Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine [Harding].= _Pa._, 1831- ----. Wife of L. C. Davis, _supra_. A novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of labouring-class life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of The Atlantic Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law unto Herself; Kitty’s Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick’s Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; Frances Waldeaux. _Har. Lip. Scr._

=Davis, Reuben.= _Tn._, 1813-1890. A Mississippi lawyer and a general in the Confederate service, who was the author of Recollections of Mississippi and the Mississippians. _Hou._

=Davis, Richard Bingham.= _N. Y._, 1771-1799. A verse-writer of New York city. _See Poems, with Memoir edited by John T. Irving, 1807._

=Davis, Richard Harding.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. Son of L. C. and R. H. Davis, _supra_. A popular New York writer whose first book, Gallegher and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in 1890. His work is always characterized by dash and spirit, but exhibits some defects of style, and touches scarcely more than the superficial side of life. Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for Boys. _Har. Scr._

=Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson.= _Va._, 1864-1898. Daughter of Jefferson Davis, _supra_. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century, a Sketch of Robert Emmet; The Veiled Doctor. _Har._

=Davis, William Bramwell.= _O._, 1832- ----. A physician and surgeon of Cincinnati. Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; The Alcohol Question.

=Davis, William Morris.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A professor of physical geography in Harvard University since 1890. Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; Elementary Meteorology. _Gi. Har. Le._

=Davis, William Watts Hart.= _Pa._, 1820- ----. El Gringo, or New Mexico and her People; History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards. _Har._

=Dawes, Anna Laurens.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A daughter of Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and periodicals. How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and Future; Biography of Charles Sumner. _Do. Gi._

=Dawes, Rufus.= _Ms._, 1803-1859. A witty jurist of Massachusetts, who won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Historical Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.

=Dawson, George.= _S._, 1813-1883. A once influential Albany journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The Pleasures of Angling.

=Dawson, Henry Barton.= _E._, 1821-1889. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and editor of The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles of the United States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts; Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the Revolution. _Scr._

=Day, Henry.= _Ms._, 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a volume of Spanish travels.

=Day, Henry Noble.= _Ct._, 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president, and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric, reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics; The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton; Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater number of his writings. _Scr._

=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.

=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1773-1867. Son of J. Day, _supra_. A noted mathematician who was president of Yale College, 1817-46. Introduction to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; Examination of Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane Trigonometry; Navigation and Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will and Contingent Volition.

=Day, Richard Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist of Syracuse. Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.

=Dayton, Amos Cooper.= _N. J._, 1813-1865. A Baptist clergyman and physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith, was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel’s Daughter, a novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book; Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion.

=Dean, Amos.= _Vt._, 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of Civilization.

=Dean, John.= _Ms._, 1831-1888. A physician who published Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata.

=Dean, John Ward.= _Me._, 1815-1902. A noted antiquarian of Boston, editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and one of the founders of the Prince Society. Memoir of Nathaniel Ward, _infra_; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth, _infra_; Life of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin; The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.

=Dean, Paul.= _Vt._, 1789-1860. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor in Boston, 1813-40, who was author of Lectures on Final Restoration.

=Deane, Charles.= _Me._, 1813-1889. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge, who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation; John Smith’s True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens of early American literature.

=Deane, Margery.= _See Pitman, Mrs._

=Deane, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1784-1834. A Baptist clergyman of Scituate, Massachusetts. The Populous Village, a poem; History of Scituate.

=Deane, Silas.= _Ct._, 1737-1789. A diplomatist who, with Franklin and Lee, negotiated a treaty of peace and amity between France and the United States. He was subjected to much misrepresentation, and died abroad in poverty and exile. Letters to Robert Morgan; Paris Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane’s late Intercepted Letters to his Brother and Other Friends.

=Deane, William Reed.= _Ms._, 1809-1879. An antiquary of Mansfield, Massachusetts, who published genealogies of the families of Deane, Leonard, and Watson.

=Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell.= _N. H._, 1783-1851. A lawyer and public-spirited citizen of Boston, a son of Commodore Dearborn. Commerce of the Black Sea; Biography of Commodore Bainbridge; History of Navigation and Naval Architecture.

=De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson.= _S. C._, 1820-1867. A noted statistician of New Orleans, who founded De Bow’s Review. Industrial Resources of the South and West; Statistical View of the United States; The Southern States, their Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (1850).

=De Charms, Richard.= _Pa._, 1796-1864. A Swedenborgian divine of Baltimore and New York city. Freedom and Slavery in the Light of the New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; Lectures at Charlestown.

=De Costa, Benjamin Franklin.= _Ms._, 1831-1904. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city, well known as an historical writer. The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, illustrated by translations from the Icelandic Sagas; The Northmen in Maine; The Moabite Stone; Verrazano, the Explorer; The Rector of Roxburgh, a novel; and a number of historical monographs. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Deems, Charles Force.= _Md._, 1820-1893. A Methodist clergyman, prominent for many years in New York city as pastor of the Church of the Strangers. Triumphs of Peace, and Other Poems; Home Altar; Twelve College Sermons; Life of Dr. Adam Clarke; Devotional Melodies; Weights and Wings; The Light of the Nations; The Gospel of Common Sense as Contained in the Epistle of James; The Gospel of Spiritual Insight; A Scotch Verdict in re-Evolution; My Septuagint, comprise the larger number of his writings. _Cas. Fu._

=Deering, Nathaniel.= _Me._, 1791-1881. A writer of Portland, Maine, whose work enjoyed a local fame. Carabasset, a tragedy; The Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both in Portland and Boston; Bozzaris, a tragedy. _See Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine._

=De Forest, John William.= _Ct._, 1826- ----. A novelist of New Haven who was a Federal officer in the Civil War. His stories are skillfully constructed, and the characterization is strong, but they have hardly won the reputation that, as a whole, they deserve. History of the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Oriental Acquaintances, or Travels in Asia Minor; European Acquaintances; Witching Times; The Lauson Tragedy; Seacliff, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty; Overland; Kate Beaumont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody Chasm; The Wetherel Affair; Justine Vane; Irene Vane; Irene the Missionary; Playing the Mischief. _Ap. Har._

=De Hart, William Chetwood.= _N. Y._, 1800-1848. An officer in the United States army who published Observations on Military Law and Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial.

=Dehon, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1776-1817. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. A once popular preacher. Ninety Sermons on the Public Means of Grace.

=De Kay, Charles.= _D. C._, 1849- ----. Grandson of J. R. Drake, _infra_. A New York journalist and poet, literary editor of The Times since 1877. Hesperus; Vision of Nimrod; Vision of Esther; Love Poems of Louis Barnaval; The Bohemians, a Tragedy of Modern Life; Barye, his Life and Works. _Ap._

=De Kay, James Ellsworth.= _Pl._, 1792-1851. A physician and naturalist of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Sketches of Turkey; Natural History of New York.

=De Koven, James.= _Ct._, 1831-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of Wisconsin, very prominent at one time as a leader of ritualistic thought, whose views more than once prevented his elevation to the episcopate. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions was issued after his death. _Ap._

=De Kroyft, Mrs. Susan Helen [Aldrich].= _N. Y._, 1818- ----. A writer living in Dansville, New York, who became blind soon after her marriage in 1845, her husband having died on their wedding day. A Place in thy Memory, a very popular collection of letters; Darwin and Moses, a lecture; Little Jakey, a story.

=Delafield, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A physician and surgeon of New York city, who was the first president of the Association of American Physicians and Pathologists. Handbook of Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy; Studies in Pathological Anatomy; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy.

=De Lancey, Edward Floyd.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. A lawyer and historical writer of New York city. Memoir of James De Lancey; The Capture of Fort Washington the Result of Treason; Memoir of James W. Beekman; Memoir of William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; Origin and History of Manors in the Province of New York; History of Mamaroneck, New York.

=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A popular writer of stories for young people. Oakleigh; In the Old Herrick House; Malvern, a Neighbourhood Story. _Har. We._

=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade [Campbell].= _Pa._, 1857- ----. A novelist and poet of Boston who became suddenly famous on the publication of John Ward, Preacher, a story upon lines similar to Mrs. Ward’s “Robert Elsmere.” Other works by her include The Old Garden and Other Verses; Sydney; The Story of a Child; Mr. Tommy Dove and Other Stories; Philip and his Wife; Florida Days, a volume of travels. _Hou. Lit._

=Delano, Amasa.= _Ms._, 1763-1817. A once noted Massachusetts sea captain who was an extensive traveller, and published Narrative of Voyages and Travels.

=Delavan, Edward Cornelius.= _N. Y._, 1793-1871. A retired wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer. Adulterations of Liquors; Temperance in Wine Countries.

=De Leon, Edwin.= _S. C._, 1828-1891. A Washington journalist who was European diplomatic agent of the Confederacy during the Civil War period. Thirty Years of my Life on Three Continents; The Khedive’s Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Copt, a novel; Under the Star and Under the Crescent. _Lip._

=Del Mar, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A New York writer on political economy. Gold Money and Paper Money; Essays on Political Economy; The Great Paper Bubble; What is Free Trade?; Resources, Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt; Why Should the Chinese Go?; History of the Precious Metals; History of Money in China; History of Money in Various Countries; The Science of Money; Money and Civilization; Statistical Handbook; The National Banking System; The Worship of Augustus Caesar.

=De Long, George Washington.= _N. Y._, 1844-1881. An Arctic explorer who was a lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Voyage of the Jeannette, including his journals of his latest expedition, edited by his wife, appeared in 1884.

=Demarest, David D.= _N. J._, 1819-1898. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey. History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church; Practical Catechetics; The Huguenots on the Hackensack.

=Demarest, John Terhune.= _N. J._, 1813-1897. A Dutch Reformed clergyman. Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration; Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Christocracy (with W. R. Gordon).

=Demarest, Mrs. Mary Augusta [Lee].= _N. Y._, 1838-1888. A writer of popular, unpretentious verse, who published My Ain Countree and Other Poems.

=Deming, Henry Champion.= _Ct._, 1815-1872. A prominent lawyer of Hartford who published translations of the novels of Eugène Sue and a Life of General Grant.

=Deming, Philander.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A stenographic court reporter of Albany until 1882, whose sketches are characterized by much originality. Adirondack Stories; Tompkins and Other Folks. _Hou._

=Dempster, John.= _Fl._, 1794-1863. A noted Methodist preacher and educator, and one of the founders of the theological school of Boston University. Lectures and Addresses was issued in 1864. _Meth._

=Denio= [de-ni´o], =Hiram.= _N. Y._, 1799-1871. A Utica jurist who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court, and the Court for Correction of Errors.

=Denison, Charles Wheeler.= _Ct._, 1809-1881. A clergyman who as a young man was editor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery journal of New York. During the Civil War he served as chaplain in the Federal army. The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair, a temperance tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an exposure of the padrone system; Life of General Grant; Out at Sea, a volume of verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; Winfield, the Lawyer’s Son, form a series of biographies of noted men for juvenile reading.

=Denison, Daniel.= _E._, 1613-1682. A famous colonial soldier of Massachusetts. Irenicon, or Salve for New England’s Sore.

=Denison, Frederic.= _Ct._, 1819-1901. A Baptist divine of Rhode Island. The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and its Witnesses, 1626-1876; Picturesque Narragansett; Picturesque Rhode Island, are his principal writings.

=Denison, John Henry.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A Congregational clergyman retired from active service, but at one time college pastor at Williamstown, Massachusetts. Christ’s Idea of the Supernatural. _Hou._

=Denison, John Ledyard.= _Ct._, 1826- ----. Brother of F. Denison, _supra_. A publisher of Norwich, Connecticut. Picturesque History of the Wars of the United States; Illustrated History of the New World.

=Denison, Mrs. Mary [Andrews].= _Ms._, 1826- ----. Wife of C. W. Denison, _supra_. A prolific author of tales, mainly of home life, some of them to be classed as Sunday-school literature, while others are of a more ambitious character. Among them are Opposite the Jail; That Husband of Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine; Rothmell; His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; If She Will, She Will. _Har. Le. Lip._

=Dennie, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1768-1812. A journalist and essayist of Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his deserts. The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers, is his only literary legacy. _See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892._

=Denton, Franklin Evert.= _O._, 1859- ----. A journalist of Cleveland who published in 1883 The Early Poems of Franklin Denton.

=Depew, Chauncey Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A very prominent lawyer and railway president of New York city, of wide fame as a ready after-dinner speaker. He has published Orations and After-Dinner Speeches; Later Speeches. _Cas._

=De Peyster, John Watts.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. An historical writer of New York city, and a general of the State militia. Life of Torstenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and the Dutch in Maine; Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War; Personal and Military History of General Kearney; Life of Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of Scots, a Study; The Character of Mary and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell, a drama; The Thirty Years’ War; Before, At, and After Gettysburg; Life of Baron Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; The Real Napoleon Bonaparte.

=De Puy, Henry Walter.= _N. Y._, 1820- ----. A lawyer and journalist. Kossuth and his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his Times; Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of ’76.

=De Puy, William Harrison.= _N. Y._, 1821-1901. A Methodist clergyman of western New York. Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home and Health; Home Economics, a very popular book. _Meth._

=Derby, Elias Hasket.= _Ms._, 1803-1880. A noted railway attorney of Boston. Two Months Abroad; Catholic Letters; The Overland Route to the Pacific; Position and Prospects of the United States with Respect to Finance, Commerce, and Prosperity.

=Derby, George.= _Ms._, 1819-1874. Cousin of E. H. Derby, _supra_. A physician of Boston, prominent as a sanitarian, who published Anthracite and Health.

=Derby, George Horatio.= “John Phœnix.” _Ms._, 1823-1861. Son of J. B. Derby, _infra_. A topographical engineer in the United States army who was a popular humourist in his day. Phœnixiana; Squibob Papers.

=Derby, James Cephas.= _N. Y._, 1818-1892. A noted publisher of New York and San Francisco, and author of Fifty Years Among Authors, Books, and Publishers.

=Derby, John Barton.= _Ms._, 1792-1867. Half-brother of G. Derby, _supra_. A verse-writer whose later years were spent in Boston. Musings of a Recluse; The Sea; The Village.

=De Saussure, Henry William.= _S. C._, 1763-1839. A jurist of South Carolina, who was director of the United States Mint in 1794, and published Reports of the Courts of Chancery and Equity in South Carolina from the Revolution to 1813.

=Deshon, George.= _Ct._, 1823-1903. A Roman Catholic priest of the Paulist order, whose Guide for Young Catholic Women has had a very extended circulation.

=De Smet, Peter John.= _Bm._, 1801-1872. A noted Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians, who came to the United States in 1821. His writings, originally published in French, include The Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains; Indian Letters and Sketches; Western Missions and Missionaries; New Indian Sketches.

=De Trobriand= [trō-brĕe-ăan´], =Philip Regis.= _F._, 1816-1897. A military writer who came to the United States in 1841, entered the army, and, after serving through the Civil War, retired from active service in 1879, and resided in New Orleans. Les Gentilshommes de l’Ouest, a novel; Quatre ans de Campagnes à armée du Potomac.

=De Vere, Mary Ainge=, “Madeline Bridges.” _N. Y._, 18-- - ----. A writer of Brooklyn, Long Island. Love Songs and Other Poems; Poems.

=De Vere, Maximilian Schele.= _Sn._, 1820-1898. A philologist of note who came from Sweden to the United States in 1843, and after 1844 was a professor in the University of Virginia. Outlines of Comparative Philology; Studies in English; Americanisms; Wonders of the Deep; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; Romance of American History, include the most important of his works. _Lip. Put. Scr._

=Devereux, Thomas Pollock.= _N. C._, 1793-1869. A North Carolina lawyer who published Reports of North Carolina Supreme Court, 1826-34; Reports in the Superior Court, 1834-40; Equity Reports, 1826-40.

=De Vinne, Daniel.= _I._, 1793-1883. A Methodist clergyman of New York city. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery; Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry; Irish Primitive Church.

=De Vinne, Theodore Low.= _Ct._, 1828- ----. Son of D. De Vinne, _supra_. A noted printer of New York city. Printer’s Price List; Invention of Printing; Historic Types.

=Dew, Thomas Roderick.= _Va._, 1802-1846. An educator of Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1836-46. A Digest of the History and Laws of Ancient and Modern Nations is his chief work. Other writings of his include The Policy of the Government; Lectures on History; Usury; Essay in Favour of Slavery, which had a great influence in turning popular sentiment against emancipation. _Ap._

=De Walden, Thomas Blaides.= _E._, 1811-1873. A New York actor of some note as an author and adapter of many plays, among which are The Upper Ten and the Lower Twenty; Kit; The Jesuit.

=Dewees, William Potts.= _Pa._, 1768-1841. A once popular physician of Philadelphia, professor of obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. His literary style was bad, yet his writings were widely circulated in the profession and highly valued. Medical Essays; Physical and Medical Treatment of Children; System of Midwifery; Practice of Medicine. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Dewey, Chester.= _Ms._, 1783-1867. A botanist who as an educator was connected with various colleges, and lastly with the University of Rochester. Besides a History of Herbaceous Plants of Massachusetts, he wrote an elaborate monograph on the Carices of North America, the result of many years’ labour.

=Dewey, Melvil.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. The librarian of Columbia College and director of the New York State library. Library School Rules; The Decimal Classification and Relation Index.

=Dewey, Orville.= _Ms._, 1794-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of conservative opinions, once prominent as a pastor in New York and Boston. Unitarian Belief; Discourses on Human Life; The Old World and the New; Letters on Revivals; Problems of Human Life and Destiny; Education of the Human Race, comprise his principal writings. _See Autobiography and Letters, 1883._ _A. U. A._

=De Witt, Benjamin.= 1774-1819. A New York physician and scientist who published Oxygen; Minerals in New York.

=De Witt, John.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. A Reformed Dutch clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1863-92. The Sure Foundation and how to Build on It; The Psalms, a New Translation (1891); What is Inspiration? _Rev._

=De Witt, John.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary since 1892, and the author of Sermons on the Christian Life.

=De Witt, Simeon.= _N. Y._, 1756-1834. A once famous surveyor who is commonly held responsible for the classical nomenclature of places in central and western New York. He published Elements of Perspective.

=Dexter, Henry Martyn.= _Ms._, 1821-1890. A Congregational clergyman of prominence in Boston as editor of The Congregationalist, 1867-90. He was a positive, dogmatic writer, much addicted to historical and religious controversy. His most important work is The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years. Handbook of Congregationalism; Pilgrim Memoranda; The Verdict of Reason; As to Roger Williams and his Banishment, a marked example of special pleading; History of the Old Plymouth Colony; History and the Study of History; The Right Use of Books; The Study of Politics, include the greater number of his other works. _C. P. S. Har._

=Dexter, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1761-1816. A jurist of Boston who was secretary of war under President John Adams. Letters on Free Masonry; Progress of Science, a poem; Speeches and Political Papers.

=Diaz, Mrs. Abby [Morton].= _Ms._, 1821-1904. A Boston writer who in youth was one of the famous company at Brook Farm, and was afterward prominent in relation to social reforms. Her books for juvenile readers, which are characterized by a strong vein of humour, include The William Henry Letters; William Henry and his Friends; Chronicles of the Stimpcett Family; The Cats’ Arabian Nights; The John Spicer Lectures; Lucy Maria; Polly Cologne; Jimmyjohns; A Story-book for Children. Other works are Bybury to Beacon Street, a discussion of social topics; Domestic Problems; Only a Flock of Women. _Lo._

=Dibble, Sheldon.= _N. Y._, 1809-1845. A missionary to the Sandwich Islands who published History of the Sandwich Island Missions.

=Dickenson, Baxter.= _Ms._, 1795-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, author of Letters to Students.

=Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A once famous lecturer on politics and woman-suffrage who, after a short and unsuccessful career as an actress, has since lived in retirement. A Paying Investment, a Plea for Education; A Ragged Register of People, Places, and Opinions; What Answer? a novel; and two plays, Mary Tudor; The Crown of Thorns. _Har. Hou._

=Dickinson, Charles Monroe.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A journalist of Binghamton, New York, who published The Children, and Other Verses.

=Dickinson, Daniel Stevens.= _Ct._, 1800-1866. A Democratic politician, long prominent in the State of New York. Speeches and Correspondence, with a biography of him by his brother, appeared in 1867.

=Dickinson, Emily.= _Ms._, 1830-1886. A poet whose entire life was passed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in great seclusion, and who rarely published any of her work. Since her death attention has been drawn to the strikingly original nature of her poetry by the publication of three volumes of Poems, selected from her manuscripts. They display an utter disregard of technique as well as an almost startling originality of conception. _See Letters of, 1847-1886, edited by Mrs. Todd._ _Rob._

=Dickinson, John.= _Md._, 1732-1808. A political writer of great influence during the period of the Revolution. Dickinson College, which he helped to found, was named in his honour. He wrote vigorously against the Stamp Act, and his various state papers display both eloquence and dignity. Petition to the King; Second Petition to the King; Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer; Letters of Fabius.

=Dickinson, Jonathan.= _E._, 16-- -1722. A chief justice of Pennsylvania who came to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled God’s Protecting Providence Man’s Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative of personal adventure, and has been several times reprinted since its first appearance in 1699.

=Dickinson, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1688-1747. A Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who was one of the chief American theologians of his day, and the first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton College). He was a voluminous writer, and much given to controversy of a theological nature. Among his many works are included Familiar Letters upon Important Subjects in Religion; Reasonableness of Christianity; True Scripture Doctrine. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Dickinson, Richard William.= _N. Y._, 1804-1874. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of John Howard; The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically Viewed.

=Dickinson, Rodolphus.= _Ms._, 1787-1863. An Episcopal clergyman in Deerfield, Massachusetts, who published a much criticised New and Corrected Version of the New Testament; Geographical and Statistical View of Massachusetts.

=Dickson, Andrew Flinn.= _S. C._, 1825-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alabama. Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; The Light, is it Waning?

=Dickson, John.= _N. H._, 1783-1852. A New York congressman, early prominent in opposition to slavery. Remarks on the Presentation of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.

=Dickson, Samuel Henry.= _S. C._, 1798-1872. A physician of eminence in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where from 1858 to 1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote much on medical and other topics, his literary style being greatly admired. Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, and Death; On the Correlation of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Didier= [dy´deer], =Eugene Lemoine.= _Md._, 1838- ----. Son of F. J. Didier, _infra_. A Baltimore littérateur whose style as a critic is somewhat aggressive. Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine (1884). _Scr._

=Didier, Franklin James.= _Md._, 1794-1840. A Baltimore physician who was the author of Didier’s Letters from Paris; Franklin’s Letters to his Kinsfolk.

=Dillaye, Stephen Devalson.= _N. Y._, 1820-1884. The Money and Finances of the French Revolution of 1789.

=Dillon, John Forrest.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A noted jurist of Iowa, and, since 1879, of New York city. United States Circuit Court Reports; Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts; Municipal Bonds; Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America. _Lit._

=Diman, Jeremiah Lewis.= _R. I._, 1831-1881. A Congregational clergyman who was professor of history and political economy in Brown University from 1864. Orations and Essays; The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories. _See Memoirs by Caroline Hazard, infra._ _Hou._

=Dimitry, Charles Patton.= _D. C._, 1837- ----. A novelist and journalist of New Orleans. Guilty or not Guilty; Angela’s Christmas; The Alderly Tragedy; The House in Balfour Street.

=Dimitry, John Bull Smith.= _D. C._, 1835-1901. Brother of C. P. Dimitry, _supra_. A journalist of New York city. History and Geography of Louisiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Civil War.

=Dimmock, George.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. A naturalist of Cambridge, at one time editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology. Anatomy of Mouth Parts of Some Insects of the Order of Diptera.

=Dinnies, Mrs. Anna Peyre [Shackelford].= _S. C._, 1816-1886. A verse-writer of New Orleans who published The Floral Year, a collection of one hundred poems.

=Dinsmore, Robert.= _N. H._, 1757-1836. A homely verse-writer of Windham, New Hampshire, who was known as “The Rustic Bard,” and published Incidental Poems, strongly imitative of Burns. _See Whittier’s Old Portraits and Modern Sketches._

=Dirck, Cornelius Lansing.= _N. Y._, 1785-1857. A Presbyterian clergyman for many years connected with Auburn Theological Seminary, who published Sermons on Important Subjects.

=Disosway, Gabriel Poillon.= _N. Y._, 1798-1868. An antiquary of New York city. The Children’s Book of Sermons; The Earliest Churches of New York and its Vicinity.