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=Disturnell, John.= _N. Y._, 1801-1877. A map-publisher of New York city who was an industrious compiler of guide-books and similar literature. New York as it Was and Is, 1876; Influence of Climate in North and South America; The Great Lakes of America; Traveller’s Guide to Hudson River; Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Mississippi, include some of his more important works.

=Ditson, George Leighton.= _Ms._, 1812- ----. A noted traveller who published Circassia, or a Tour to the Caucasus; Crimora; The Para Papers, or France, Egypt, and Ethiopia; The Crescent and the French Crusaders; The Fedariti of Italy, a Romance of Circassian Captivity.

=Dix, Dorothea Lynde.= _Me._, 1802-1887. A famous Massachusetts philanthropist the greater part of whose life was spent in efforts to improve the condition of the insane. The present enlightened treatment of the insane throughout the world is due in large measure to the impetus given in that direction by her labours in America and Europe. Her writings, except Prisons and Prison Discipline, are intended for children, and include The Garland of Flora; Conversations about Common Things; Alice and Ruth; Evening Hours. _See Life by F. Tiffany, infra._

=Dix, John Adams.= _N. H._, 1798-1879. A general and statesman who while secretary of the treasury in 1861 issued the celebrated order, “If any one attempts to tear down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” A Winter in Madeira, and A Summer in Spain and Florence; Speeches and Occasional Addresses; Resources of the State of New York. _See Memoir, by Morgan Dix, infra._ _Ap._

=Dix, John Homer.= _Circa_ 1810-1884. An oculist and aurist of Boston who published Changes of the Blood, a translation from the French of Gibert; Treatise on Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the Retina; The Opthalmoscope and its Uses.

=Dix, Morgan.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. Son of J. A. Dix, _supra_. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city conspicuous among High Church theologians, and rector of Trinity Church since 1859. Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Lectures on the Calling of a Christian Woman; Memoir of J. A. Dix, _supra_; Gospel and Philosophy; The Sacramental System; The Seven Deadly Sins; Lectures on the First Prayer Book of King Edward VI.; The Two Estates,--Wedded in the Lord, Single for the Kingdom of Heaven’s Sake. _Ap. Dut. Har._

=Dixon, James Main.= _S._, 1856- ----. A professor of English literature in Washington University, St. Louis, since 1892, and the author of A Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases.

=Doane, George Hobart.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. Son of G. W. Doane, _infra_. A prelate of the papal household at Rome since 1886, with the title of Monsignore. First Principles; Exclusion of Protestant Worship from Rome; Manual of Instructions and Prayers.

=Doane, George Washington.= _N. J._, 1799-1859. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey; consecrated bishop in 1832. Songs by the Way; Sermons on Various Occasions. The familiar hymn beginning “Softly now the light of day” is one of his most noted poems. _See Life and Writings of, by W. C. Doane, infra._

=Doane, William Croswell.= _N. J._, 1832- ----. Son of G. W. Doane, _supra_. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Albany. He has contributed much to reviews and other periodicals on topics of the day, is the author of a number of poems, among which The Sculptor Boy is often quoted, and has published several works, including Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the Sundays of the Christian Year. As a theologian his place is amongst liberal High Churchmen.

=Dod, Albert Baldwin.= _N. J._, 1805-1845. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of mathematics at Princeton College, 1830-45. Theological Essays was his only published work.

=Dodd, Mrs. Anna Bowman [Blake].= _L. I._, 1855- ----. A New York writer whose volumes of travels have been very popular. The Republic of the Future, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral Days; Glorinda: a Story; Three Normandy Inns; In the Norfolk Broads. _Cas. Rob._

=Dodd, Stephen.= _N. J._, 1777-1856. A Presbyterian minister of Connecticut, who published History of East Haven; Revolutionary Memorials.

=Doddridge, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1769-1826. An Episcopal clergyman of western Virginia. Logan, a drama; Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83.

=Dodge, David Low.= _Ct._, 1774-1852. A New York merchant who was the first president of the New York Peace Society. The Mediator’s Kingdom not of this World; War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ. _See Memorials of, 1854._

=Dodge, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1819-1890. A Baptist clergyman, president of Madison (now Colgate) University, 1868-90. Evidences of Christianity; Christian Theology.

=Dodge, Mary Abby.= “Gail Hamilton.” _Ms._, 1838-1896. A noted essayist and magazinist of Hamilton, Massachusetts, whose aggressive, pungent style made her writings at one time extremely popular. Much of her work is ephemeral in its nature, but it is always readable and often brilliant. A New Atmosphere; Gala Days; Woman’s Wrongs; Red-Letter Days; Summer Rest; Battle of the Books; Twelve Miles from a Lemon; Sermons to the Clergy; First Love is Best; What Think ye of Christ?; Country Living and Country Thinking; Skirmishes and Sketches; Wool-Gathering; Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness; Little Folk Life; Nursery Noonings; Our Common School System; Divine Guidance; The Insuppressible Book; A Washington Bible Class; Biography of James G. Blaine. _Ap. Har._

=Dodge, Mrs. Mary Barker [Carter].= _Pa._, 18-- - ----. Belfry Voices; The Gray Masque and Other Poems. _Lo._

=Dodge, Mrs. Mary [Mapes].= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A writer of New York city who has edited the Saint Nicholas Magazine since 1873. Her writings for young people include Hans Brinker; Donald and Dorothy; Rhymes and Jingles; Irvington Stories; A Few Friends; The Land of Pluck; When Life is Young, poems for young people. She has also written Theophilus and Others; Along the Way: a volume of Short Poems. _Scr._

=Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell.= _Ms._, 1810-1874. A Boston littérateur who was the author of Stories of a Grandfather about American History. _Le._

=Dodge, Richard Irving.= _N. C._, 1827-1895. A colonel in the United States army who saw much service in Indian campaigns, and made careful study of the Indian character. The Black Hills; The Plains of the Great West; Our Wild Indians; A Living Issue.

=Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A captain and brevet lieutenant-colonel in the United States army, prominent as a military historian. The Campaign of Chancellorsville; A Bird’s-Eye View of our Civil War; Great Captains; Alexander, a History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B. C. 301, with a detailed account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian; Hannibal; Cæsar; Gustavus Adolphus; Patroclus and Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle; Riders of Many Lands. _Har. Hou._

=Dods, John Bovee.= _N. Y._, 1795-1872. A clergyman of New York city whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism; Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant; Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained.

=Doe, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1838-1900. A journalist of Worcester, Massachusetts. Buffets, a novel.

=Doesticks, Q. K. Philander.= _See Thomson, Mortimer._

=Doggett, David Seth.= _Va._, 1810-1880. A Methodist bishop who lived at Richmond, Virginia, and published The War and its Close.

=Dolbear, Amos Emerson.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. A professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenomena. Matter, Ether, and Motion. _Le._

=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= _Me._, 1845- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; The American Citizen.

=Dole, Edmund Pearson.= _Me._, 1850- ----. Cousin of C. F. Dole, _supra_. Assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands. Talks About Law. _Hou._

=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. Brother of C. F. Dole, _supra_. A littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations from the Russian of Tolstoï and other writers, is the author of A Score of Famous Composers; The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse; Not Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum edition of the Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám. _Cr. Est. Kt. Mer._

=Donald, Elijah Winchester.= _Ms._, 1848-1904. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, rector of Trinity Church from 1892. The Expansion of Religion. _Hou._

=Donaldson, Frank.= _Md._, 1822-1891. A Baltimore physician, professor of hygiene in the University of Maryland since 1866. Influence of City Life and Occupations in Consumption.

=Donaldson, James Lowry.= _Md._, 1814-1885. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who published Sergeant Atkins, a tale of the Florida War.

=Donnelly, Eleanor Cecilia.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Sister of I. Donnelly, _infra_. A Philadelphia writer of religious verse, the greater part of which is occupied with Roman Catholic themes. Among her many volumes are Domus Dei; Out of Sweet Solitude; Hymns of the Sacred Heart; Children of the Golden Sheaf and Other Poems.

=Donnelly, Ignatius.= _Pa._, 1831-1901. A Minnesota writer who, besides publishing An Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World; Cæsar’s Column; Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel, was the author of The Great Cryptogram. In this work he claims to have discovered a cipher in the plays of Shakespeare which sufficiently establishes the fact that they were written by Lord Bacon, an eccentric exercise of ingenuity that has not been taken seriously by scholars. _Ap. Har._

=Doolittle, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1695-1749. A clergyman of Northfield, Massachusetts, 1718-49. Narrative of the Mischief of the French and Indians, 1744-48; Inquiry into Enthusiasm.

=Dorchester, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A noted Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem in All Ages; The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United States; Romanism versus the Public Schools. _Meth._

=Dorgan, John Aylmer.= 1836-1866. A lawyer and verse writer of Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled Studies. _See Manhattan Magazine, June, 1883._

=Dorr, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1796-1869. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1837-69. The Churchman’s Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Sunday-School Teacher’s Encouragement; Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the East; Memoir of John Fanning Watson, _infra_.

=Dorr, Mrs. Julia Caroline [Ripley].= _S. C._, 1825- ----. A poet and novelist of Rutland, Vermont. Her verse, much of which reaches a high degree of excellence, includes Daybreak, an Easter Poem; Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; Legend of the Baboushka; Poems (complete edition). Her other writings comprise four novels: Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower of England’s Face; A Cathedral Pilgrimage. _Lip. Mac. Meth. Ran. Scr._

=Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson.= _D. C._, 1815-1896. A prolific writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman Catholic. Among her works are May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra; Palms; Warp and Woof.

=Dorsey, Ella Loraine.= _D. C._, 1853-1901. Daughter of Mrs. Anna Dorsey, _supra_. A Washington writer of stories for boys. Midshipman Bob; Saxty’s Angel; The Two Tramps.

=Dorsey, James Owen.= _Md._, 1848-1895. An ethnologist who for a time was an Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the Bureau of Ethnology. Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; The Dhegiha Language, are among his writings.

=Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne [Ellis].= _Mi._, 1829-1879. A Mississippi author who was the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis, _supra_, to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mexico, where he died. Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories of the Civil War; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeggiatura; Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana.

=Dorsheimer, William.= _N. Y._, 1832-1888. A prominent citizen of Buffalo who was twice lieutenant-governor of New York, and published A Life of Grover Cleveland (1884).

=Doten, Lizzie.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Boston spiritualist trance medium whose verses are claimed to be inspired by the spirits of Shakespeare, Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past. Poems of Progress; Poems from the Inner Life. _Ban._

=Doubleday, Abner.= _N. Y._, 1819-1893. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who retired from active service in 1873. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Gettysburg made Plain. _Har. Scr._

=Doubleday, Charles William.= _E._, 1829- ----. A soldier who accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition, and later served as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in America.

=Douglas, Alice May.= _Me._, 1865- ----. A writer of verse and juvenile tales whose home is at Bath, Maine. Her verse includes Phlox; May Flowers; Gems Without Polish. Jewel Gatherers; The Peacemaker; Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her tales for young readers.

=Douglas, Amanda Minnie.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A popular novelist of Newark, New Jersey, whose more than thirty works of fiction have obtained a wide circulation. They are readable, and not without skill in construction, but are not particularly strong on the literary side. Among them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; Claudia; With Fate Against Him; Sherburne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven Daughters; Larry; Hope Mills. _Do. Le._

=Douglas, Marian.= _See Robinson, Mrs. A._

=Douglas, Silas Hamilton.= _N. Y._, 1816-1890. A professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, 1844-79. Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with A. R. Prescott).

=Douglass, Frederick.= _Md._, 1817-1895. A famous orator and the most distinguished member of the African race in America. He was born in slavery, but escaped to the North in 1838, educated himself, and soon became prominent as an anti-slavery speaker. As time went on, his style, always picturesque and eloquent, became polished and elegant. My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of My Experience in Slavery; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). _See Life by Holland, 1891._

=Douglass, William.= _S._, _c._ 1691-1752. A Scottish physician who came to America and settled in Boston in 1718. He was a man of very positive views, most of which were opposed to those of the age and the community in which he lived, and his time was well filled in controversies with the clergy, physicians, magistrates, and colonial governors. His principal work is a Summary, Historical and Political, of the British Settlements in America. Others of less note are Mercurius Novanglicanus, an almanac; Treatise on Small Pox; Midwifery; Practical History of a New, Eruptive, Miliary Fever. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Dow, Daniel.= _Ct._, 1772-1849. A Congregational clergyman of Thompson, Connecticut. Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; The Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covenants; Free Inquiry Recommended on the Subject of Free Masonry.

=Dow, Lorenzo.= _Ct._, 1777-1834. An eccentric Methodist travelling preacher, especially vehement against the Jesuits. Polemical Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow; A Short Account of a Long Travel; Journal and Miscellaneous Writings; History of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic work.

=Dowd, Mary Alice.= _W. Va._, 1855- ----. An educator of Stamford, Connecticut, who has published Vacation Verses.

=Dowling, John.= _E._, 1807-1878. A Baptist clergyman of New York city whose writings had a large circulation. Vindication of the Baptists; History of Romanism; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures; Power of Illustration; Nights and Mornings; Judson Offering; Exposition of the Prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ.

=Downes, John.= _N. Y._, 1799-1882. A mathematician of Washington. Peter Parley’s Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and Logarithmic Sines and Tangents; United States Almanac Complete, or Ephemeris.

=Downes, William Howe.= _Ct._, 1854- ----. A Boston journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and an art critic. Spanish Ways and By-Ways; The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a Kindergarten of War.

=Downie, David.= _S._, 1838- ----. A Baptist missionary to India who has published a History of the Telugu Mission.

=Downing, Andrew Jackson.= _N. Y._, 1815-1852. A once noted horticulturist and landscape gardener of New York who did much to popularize a knowledge of rural art. Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Architecture of Country Houses; Cottage Residences; Rural Essays. _See Garden and Forest, vol. 8._ _Wil._

=Downing, Mrs. Frances [Murdaugh].= _N. Y._, _c._ 1835-1894. A writer of Charlottesville, North Carolina, who has published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after the manner of the “Ingoldsby Legends;” and several novels, including Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; Five Little Girls and Two Little Boys.

=Downing, Jack.= _See Smith, Seba._

=Drake, Benjamin.= _Ky._, 1794-1841. A Cincinnati journalist whose writings include Cincinnati in 1820; Tales and Sketches from the Queen City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of William Henry Harrison; Life of Tecumseh.

=Drake, Charles Daniel.= _O._, 1811-1892. Son of Daniel Drake, _infra_. An eminent lawyer of St. Louis who published Law of Attachments; Life of Daniel Drake. _Lit._

=Drake, Daniel.= _N. J._, 1785-1852. Brother of B. Drake, _supra_. A distinguished physician of Cincinnati and Philadelphia who is best known by his valuable work on The Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, which embodies a vast amount of patient research. His other works include Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (1815); History of the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera; Essays on Medical Education; Discourses; Pioneer Life in Kentucky. _See Lives by Mansfield, 1855, C. D. Drake, supra, 1871; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Clke._

=Drake, Francis Samuel.= _Ms._, 1828-1885. Son of S. G. Drake, _infra_. A bookseller of Boston whose Dictionary of American Biography is incorporated in Appleton’s Cyclopedia of Biography. Other works of his are Life of General Knox; The Town of Roxbury; Tea Leaves; Indian History for Young Folks. _Har. Lip._

=Drake, Joseph Rodman.= _N. Y._, 1795-1820. A talented physician of New York city, co-author with Halleck, _infra_, of The Croaker Papers in the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests on The Culprit Fay, a delicate, fanciful creation, and the often-quoted poem The American Flag. His poetry was once extremely popular, but has failed to interest the readers of the latter half of the 19th century. A selection from his poems was made by his daughter and published in 1836.

=Drake, Samuel Adams.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Son of S. G. Drake, _infra_. A littérateur of Boston whose histories and books of home travel have been deservedly popular. Around the Hub, a Boy’s Book About Boston; The Heart of the White Mountains; Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston; Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast; Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; The Watch Fires of ’76; Burgoyne’s Invasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg; The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial Homes; New England Legends and Folk-Lore; The Making of New England, 1580-1643; The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837; The Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; History of Middlesex County; The Pine-Tree Coast. _Est. Har. Le. Rob. Scr._

=Drake, Samuel Gardiner.= _N. H._, 1798-1875. A Boston bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History of King Philip’s War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the United States; History of the French and Indian War. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Draper, Andrew Sloan.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and educator of Albany, and, since 1894, president of the University of Illinois. What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School System; A Teaching Profession; Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools and American Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts.

=Draper, Henry.= _Va._, 1837-1882. Son of J. W. Draper, _infra_. A professor in the University of New York. The Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; Text-Book of Chemistry.

=Draper, John Christopher.= _Va._, 1835-1885. Son of J. W. Draper, _infra_. A New York physician, professor in the University of New York. Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in Physics; Text-Book of Medical Physics.

=Draper, John William.= _E._, 1811-1882. A distinguished scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881 was connected with the University of New York. History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 16._

=Draper, Lyman Copeland.= _N. Y._, 1815-1891. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; King’s Mountain and its Heroes.

=Drayton, John.= _S. C._, 1766-1822. Son of W. H. Drayton, _infra_. A South Carolina statesman, twice governor of his State. View of South Carolina; Letters written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States.

=Drayton, William Henry.= _S. C._, 1742-1779. A prominent figure among statesmen of the Revolution and a member of the Continental Congress. A History of the American Revolution, which he left in manuscript, was afterwards published by his son.

=Drinker, Anne.= “Edith May.” _Pa._, 1827- ----. A verse-writer of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for Children; Katy’s Story.

=Drisler, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1818-1897. A classical scholar of distinction, professor at Columbia College from 1843, whose Greek-and-English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.

=Droch.= _See Bridges, Robert._

=Drone, Eaton Sylvester.= _O._, 1842- ----. A legal writer on the staff of the New York Herald. The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright. _Lit._

=Drummond, Josiah Hayden.= _Me._, 1827-1902. A lawyer who was attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of Lodges; History of Masonic Jurisprudence.

=Drury, Augustus Waldo.= 1851- ----. A clergyman of the sect of United Brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the founder of the sect.

=Drury, John Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Ghent, New York, who has published Truths and Untruths of Evolution. _Ran._

=Duane, James Chatham.= _N. Y._, 1824-1897. A retired brigadier-general of the United States army, author of A Manual for Engineer Troops.

=Duane, William.= _N. Y._, 1760-1835. A once prominent journalist and politician of Philadelphia. Military Dictionary; The Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen; Handbook for Infantry.

=Duane, William.= _Pa._, 1808-1882. Son of W. J. Duane, _infra_. A Philadelphia writer who published Relation of Landlord to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law of Roads, etc., in Pennsylvania; Canada and the Continental Congress; Ligan, a collection of Tales and Essays.

=Duane, William John.= _I._, 1780-1865. Son to W. Duane, _supra_. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia who was secretary of the treasury in 1833, and was dismissed from office by President Jackson for declining to order the deposits removed from the Bank of the United States. The Law of Nations Investigated; Letters on Internal Improvement; Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of the Deposits, 1838.

=Dubbs, Joseph Henry.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A German Reformed clergyman, professor of history in Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1875. Otterbein and the Reformed Church; Historic Manual of the Reformed Church; Home Ballads and Metrical Versions; Why Am I Reformed?

=Du Bois, Augustus Jay.= _O._, 1849- ----. A professor of engineering at Yale University since 1877. Elements of Graphical Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed Structures; Mechanics. _Wil._

=Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. An educator of African descent, assistant professor of sociology in the University of Pennsylvania. The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States, 1638-1810. _Lgs._

=Du Bois, William Ewing.= _Pa._, 1810-1881. A Philadelphia numismatist, assayer at the Mint. Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations; Pledges of History, an account of the Antique Coins in the United States Mint.

=Du Bose, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Richards].= _E._, 1826- ----. A Georgia writer who published The Pastor’s Household, or Lessons on the Eleventh Commandment, a juvenile tale.

=Ducatel, Julius Timoleon.= _Md._, 1796-1849. A chemist of Baltimore, professor in the University of Maryland and author of a Manual of Toxicology.

=Du Chaillu= [dü-chä-yü´], =Paul Belloni=. _F._, 1835-1903. A noted French traveller who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; Stories of the Gorilla Country. The greater number of his works are intended for juvenile reading. _Har._

=Duché, Jacob.= _Pa._, 1737-1798. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who made the prayer at the opening of the Continental Congress. Becoming discouraged at the want of success of the colonists, he urged Washington to abandon the cause. He was thereupon considered an enemy of the country and his property was confiscated. Caspipina’s Letters; Discourses on Various Subjects.

=Dudley, Dean.= _Me._, 1823- ----. A Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes. Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; History of the Dudley Family.

=Dudley, Thomas Underwood.= _Va._, 1837-1904. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He served in the Confederate army as a colonel, and afterwards entered the ministry. A Wise Discrimination the Church’s Need.

=Dudley, William Russell.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. A professor of botany at Cornell University, who has published The Cayuga Flora.

=Duer, Edward Louis.= _N. J._, 1836- ----. A physician of Philadelphia. Post Mortem Discoveries; Treatment of Diphtheria.

=Duer, John.= _N. Y._, 1782-1858. A once prominent New York jurist whose specialty was insurance law. Duer’s Reports; Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance.

=Duer, William Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1780-1858. Brother of J. Duer, _supra_, and like him a prominent jurist. He was president of Columbia College, 1829-42. Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States.

=Duff, Peter.= _N. B._, 1802-1869. An educator of Pittsburg, where he founded Duff’s Mercantile College, one of the earliest institutions of the kind. The North American Accountant was his only publication of note.

=Duffel, Mary Gordon.= _Al._, _c._ 1840- ----. A resident of Alabama, who published A History of Alabama; Guide to the Mammoth Cave.

=Duffield, George.= _Pa._, 1794-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Detroit as a leader among New School Presbyterians. Dissertations on the Prophecies; Regeneration; Travels in the Holy Land; Claims of Episcopal Bishops Examined, include his most important writings.

=Duffield, George.= _Pa._, 1818-1888. Son of G. Duffield, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of some note as a hymn-writer, one of his most popular hymns being “Stand up for Jesus.”

=Duffield, John Thomas.= _Pa._, 1823-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman who was professor of mathematics in Princeton College for many years, and published The Princeton Pulpit and many religious monographs.

=Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby.= _L. I._, 1843-1887. Son of G. Duffield, 2d. A Presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, New Jersey. English Hymns, their Authors and History; Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns; Warp and Woof, a Book of Verse. _Fu._

=Duffield, William Ward.= _Pa._, 1823- ----. An engineer of Kentucky who was a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. School of the Brigade and Evolutions of the Line.

=Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey.= _Ms._, 1823-1884. A journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the Civil War he served in the Federal army, and was for some time a captive in Southern prisons. Among his writings are Prison Life in the South; Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy; Home Poems; Parnassus in Pillory, a satire.

=Dugdale, Richard L.= _F._, 1841-1883. A writer on sociology. The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; Further Studies of Criminals.

=Duhring, Julia.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. An essayist who has published Philosophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in Society; Mental Life and Culture. _Lip._

=Duhring, Louis Adolphus.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. Brother of J. Duhring, _supra_. A physician of Philadelphia, prominent as a dermatologist. Atlas of Skin Diseases; Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Epitome of Skin Diseases; Cutaneous Medicine. _Lip._

=Duke, William.= _Md._, 1757-1840. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Maryland who published A Clew to Religious Truth.

=Dulany, Daniel.= _Md._, 1721-1797. A noted Maryland statesman. Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies.

=Dulles, Charles Winslow.= _E. I._, 1850- ----. A surgeon of Philadelphia. What to Do First in Accidents or Poisoning; What to Do First in Accidents and Emergencies; Accidents and Emergencies.

=Dulles, John Welsh.= _Pa._, 1823-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, at one time a missionary to India. The Soldier’s Friend; Life in India; The Ride Through Palestine.

=Dummer, Jeremiah.= _Ms._, _c._ 1680-1739. A noted scholar who was colonial agent for Massachusetts in London, 1710-21, and was a political friend of Bolingbroke. A Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the Late Expedition to Canada; A Defence of the New England Charters,--both excellent specimens of literary skill as well as patriotism. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Dumont, Mrs. Julia Louisa [Carey].= _O._, 1794-1857. A once noted educator of Vevay, Indiana. Life Sketches from Common Paths.

=Dunbar, Charles Franklin.= _Ms._, 1830-1900. A professor of political economy at Harvard University from 1871. Chapters on The Theory and History of Banking. _Put._

=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= _O._, 1872- ----. A verse-writer of Dayton, Ohio, of African descent. Lyrics of Lowly Life. _Do._

=Duncan, William Cecil.= _N. Y._, 1824-1864. A Baptist clergyman of New Orleans. Life of John the Baptist; History of the Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era; The Years of Jesus; Brief History of the Baptists.

=Duncan, William Stevens.= _Pa._, 1834- ----. A physician of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Medical Delusions; Physiology of Death.

=Dunglison= [dŭng´glĭ-son], =Richard James.= _Md._, 1834-1901. Son of R. Dunglison, _infra_. A physician of Philadelphia who published Practitioner’s Reference Book; Elementary Physiology.

=Dunglison, Robley.= _E._, 1798-1869. An eminent Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College from 1836, and one of the most learned men of his profession. His most important work is his Medical Dictionary, which has a very wide reputation. Other works are, Human Physiology; Elements of Hygiene; General Therapeutics; The Medical Student; The Practice of Medicine; Commentaries on Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels in Children. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._

=Dunham, Carroll.= _N. Y._, 1828-1877. A once prominent homœopathic physician of New York. Homœopathy the Science of Therapeutics; Lectures in Materia Medica.

=Dunham, William Russell.= _N. H._, 1833- ----. A physician of Keene, New Hampshire, who has published Theory of Medical Science.

=Dunlap, Andrew.= _Ms._, 1794-1835. A lawyer of Boston, and author of Admiralty Practice in Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction.

=Dunlap, John A.= _Circa_ 1793-_c._ 1858. A justice of the peace in New York city. Practice of the Superior Court of New York in Civil Actions; Abridgement of the 13th and 14th books of Coke’s Reports.

=Dunlap, Samuel Fales.= _Ms._, 1825- ----. Son of A. Dunlap, _supra_, and, like him, a lawyer of Boston. Origin of Ancient Names; Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man.

=Dunlap, William.= _N. J._, 1766-1839. A once prominent artist, dramatist, and theatrical manager of New York city. Life of George Frederick Cooke; Life of Charles Brockden Brown; The American Theatre; History of New York; History, Rise, and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States; Thirty Years Ago, a novel; New Netherlands, Province of New York; The Father, a comedy; Leicester, a tragedy, include the greater part of his writings.

=Dunlop, James.= _Pa._, 1795-1856. A Pittsburg lawyer prominent as an opponent of slavery. Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853; Digest of the General Laws of the United States.

=Dunn, Jacob Piatt.= _Ind._, 1855- ----. The State librarian of Indiana. History of Indiana; Massacres of the Mountains, a History of Indian Wars in the Far West. _Har. Hou._

=Dunn, Lewis Romaine.= _N. J._, 1822-1876. A Methodist divine of New Jersey. Lizzie Hagar, the Orphan Girl; The Mission of the Spirit; Angels of God; Sermons on the Higher Life.

=Dunning, Albert Elijah.= _Ct._, 1844- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, editor of the Congregationalist. The Sunday-School Library; Bible Studies; Congregationalists in America. _C. P. S. Hi._

=Dunning, Mrs. Annie [Ketchum].= “Nellie Grahame.” _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, mainly for the Presbyterian Board of Publication. Among them are Clementina’s Mirrour; A Story of Four Lives; Broken Pitchers; Contradictions. _Lo._

=Dunning, Charlotte.= _See Morse, Mrs._

=Duponceau= [du-pŏn´sō or dü´poN´so´], =Pierre Etienne.= _F._, 1760-1844. A Frenchman who came to America as aid to Baron Steuben, settled in Philadelphia, and became eminent as a lawyer. He was president of the American Philosophical Society, and his Memoir on the Indian Languages of North America attracted much attention amongst scholars.

=Dupuy= [dü-pwe´], =Eliza Ann.= _Va._, 1814-1881. A sensational novelist of Kentucky, for many years a regular contributor of serial stories to the New York Ledger. Among them are The Conspirator, a story of Aaron Burr; The Huguenot Exiles; The Concealed Treasure. _Har._

=Durbin, John Price.= _Ky._, 1800-1876. A Methodist clergyman noted for his eloquence, who was missionary secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1850-72. Observations in Europe; Observations in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. _See Life by J. A. Roche, 1879._ _Har._

=Durfee, Job.= _R. I._, 1790-1847. A Rhode Island jurist who was chief justice of his State, 1835-47. What Cheer, or Roger Williams in Exile; Panidea, a philosophical treatise. _See Complete Works, with Memoir by his son, 1849._

=Durivage, Francis Alexander.= _Ms._, 1813-1881. Nephew to Edward Everett, _infra_. A magazinist of Boston, among whose writings are The Fatal Casket; Life Scenes from the World Around Us; Cyclopedia of History.

=Durrie, Daniel Steele.= _N. Y._, 1819-1892. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Bibliographia Genealogica Americana; History of Madison.

=Dutcher, Addison Porter.= _N. Y._, 1818-1884. A physician of Cleveland. Selections from my Portfolio, essays on Popular and Scientific Subjects; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Sparks from the Forge of a Rough Thinker; Two Voyages to Europe. _Lip._

=Dutcher, Jacob C.= _Circa_ 1820- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York. Requisites of National Greatness; The Prodigal Son; Our Fallen Heroes; The Old Home by the River; Frank Lyttleton, or Winning his Way.

=Dutton, Clarence Edward.= _Ct._, 1841- ----. An officer in the United States army associated with the Geological Survey. Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah; Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District; Hawaiian Volcanoes; Mount Taylor and the Zuñi Plateau; The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.

=Dutton, Henry.= _Ct._, 1796-1869. A prominent jurist of Connecticut who issued a Digest of the Connecticut Reports.

=Duval, John Pope.= _Va._, 1790-_c._ 1855. A Florida lawyer who published in 1840 A Digest of the Laws of Florida.

=Duyckinck= [dī´kiṉk], =Evert Augustus=. _N. Y._, 1816-1878. A literary critic of New York city, who with his brother George, _infra_, was the author of an Encyclopædia of American Literature, first issued in 1855. Its estimates were sometimes over-indulgent, but on the whole the work gave a fairly just view of the subject at that time. Other works by the elder Duyckinck are History of the War for the Union; Biography of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America.

=Duyckinck, George Long.= _N. Y._, 1823-1863. Brother of E. A. Duyckinck, _supra_. A writer of New York city who, beside his share in The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of Lives of George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; Bishop Latimer.

=Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge.= _Ct._, 1816-1889. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. An educator of New York city. The Higher Christian Education; Modern Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman’s Higher Culture; The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the Dwight Family in America; History of the Strong Family.

=Dwight, Edwin Welles.= _Ms._, 1789-1841. A Congregational clergyman of Richmond, Massachusetts, whose only publication was a History of Berkshire County.

=Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis.= _Ms._, 1803-1862. A Congregational missionary to Armenia. Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia; Christianity Revived in the East; Catalogue of Armenian Literature in the Middle Ages.

=Dwight, Henry Edwin.= _Ct._, 1797-1832. The eighth son of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. An educator of New Haven who published Travels in the North of Germany.

=Dwight, Henry Otis.= _Ty._, 1843- ----. Son of H. G. O. Dwight, _supra_. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and a correspondent of the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. Turkish Life in War Times; Constantinople and its Problems. _Rev. Scr._

=Dwight, John Sullivan.= _Ms._, 1813-1893. A distinguished musical critic of Boston, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, an outspoken, fearless, high-class critical periodical, 1852-81. In earlier life he spent five years at Brook Farm, and was a contributor to The Dial. He was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the poem God Save the State.

=Dwight, Mary Ann.= _Ms._, 1806-1858. A teacher of drawing and painting in New York city. Grecian and Roman Mythology; Introduction to the Study of Art; Art as a Branch of Education.

=Dwight, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1770-1831. Brother of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A physician and clergyman of Rhode Island and Connecticut, who published the first school geography in America, and was author also of The Great Question Answered; A Compendious History of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. _Bar._

=Dwight, Sereno Edwards.= _Ct._, 1786-1850. The fifth son of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman and educator. Life of David Brainerd; The Hebrew Wife, an argument in opposition to marriage with a deceased wife’s sister; Select Discourses. He edited the Works of Jonathan Edwards, _infra_, in ten volumes, with Life. _See Memoir by W. T. Dwight._

=Dwight, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1764-1846. Brother of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A once famous journalist of New York city, and a member of Congress, well known as a Federalist. History of the Hartford Convention; Character of Thomas Jefferson. _See Life and Writings, 1840._

=Dwight, Theodore.= _Ct._, 1796-1866. Son of T. Dwight, _supra_. A New York littérateur whose varied writings include Tour in Italy; New Gazetteer of the United States; History of Connecticut; Summer Tour of New England; The Northern Traveller; The Roman Republic of 1849; The Kansas War; Life of Garibaldi; The Father’s Book; First Lessons in Modern Greek; School Dictionary of Roots and Derivatives.

=Dwight, Theodore William.= _N. Y._, 1822-1892. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, _infra_. A jurist of note who was professor of municipal law in Columbia College. Argument in the Rose Will Case; Trial by Impeachment; Prisons and Reformatories (with E. C. Wines, _infra_).

=Dwight, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A physician of Boston, successor to O. W. Holmes, _infra_, as professor of anatomy in the Harvard Medical School. Anatomy of the Head; The Intracranial Circulation. _Hou._

=Dwight, Timothy.= _Ms._, 1752-1817. A Congregational clergyman who was a very prominent figure in the early history of the republic, and as president of Yale College, 1795-1817, of great influence as an educator as well. His most important work is Theology Explained and Defended in a Course of 173 Sermons, which has gone into more than one hundred editions. Other prose works are Genuineness and Authenticity of the Old Testament; Observations on Language; Essay on Light; Travels in New England and New York, which still furnishes entertaining reading. His writings in verse include The Conquest of Canaan, a very ponderous epic; Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; The Triumph of Infidelity, a satire. _See Sparks’s American Biography; Allibone’s Dictionary; Tyler’s Three Men of Letters, 1895._

=Dwight, Timothy.= _Ct._, 1828- ----. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman, president of Yale University, 1886-99, and one of the members of the New Testament Revision Company. The True Ideal of an American University.

=Dwight, William Buck.= _Ty._, 1833- ----. Son of H. G. O. Dwight, _supra_. A scientist who has been curator of Vassar College Museum for many years.

=Dyckman, Jacob.= _N. Y._, 1788-1822. A physician of New York city who was the author of Pathology of Human Fluids.

=Dyer, Mrs. Catherine Cornelia [Joy].= _N. Y._, 1817-1903. Wife of H. Dyer, _infra_. Henry and the Bird’s Nest; Sunny Days Abroad; Brief History of the Joy Family; Records of the Dyer Family.

=Dyer, Heman.= _Vt._, 1810-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Voice of the Lord upon the Waters; Records of an Active Life, an autobiography.

=Dyer, Sidney.= _N. Y._, 1814-1898. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a song-writer. Voices of Nature and Thoughts in Rhyme; Psalmist for Use of Baptist Churches; Songs and Ballads; The Drunkard’s Child; Ruth, a Cantata; Black Diamonds; Home and Abroad; Hoofs and Claws; Ocean Gardens and Palaces; Elmdale Lyceum; The Beautiful Ladder, or the Two Students.

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=Eads, James Buchanan.= _Ind._, 1820-1887. A civil engineer of distinction and the designer of the Mississippi jetties. System of Naval Defence; Mouth of the Mississippi, the Jetty System Explained; Discussion on Upright Bridges.

=Eames, Mrs. Jane [Anthony].= _Ms._, 1816-1894. A writer of Concord, New Hampshire. A Budget of Letters; The Budget Closed; My Mother’s Jewel; The Christmas Gift; Letters from Bermuda, comprise the most of her writing.

=Earle, Mrs. Alice [Morse].= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A writer on American antiquarian themes. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days; Margaret Winthrop, a biography; Costume of Colonial Times; Customs and Fashions in Old New England; The Sabbath in Puritan New England; China-Collecting in America; Colonial Dames and Goodwives; Colonial Days in Old New York. _Hou. S. Scr._

=Earle, Pliny.= _Ms._, 1809-1892. A son of the inventor of the same name, and a prominent physician, who was superintendent of the State Insane Hospital at Northampton, Massachusetts, 1864-1885. Marathon and Other Poems; Institutions for the Insane in Prussia, Germany, and Austria; Visits to Thirteen Insane Asylums in Europe; The Curability of Insanity; Blood-Letting in Disorders; The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and his Descendants.

=Earle, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1796-1849. Brother of P. Earle, _supra_. A lawyer and philanthropist of Philadelphia. Essay on Penal Law; Right of States to Alter and Annul their Charters; Railroads and Internal Communications (1830); Life of Benjamin Lundy.

=Early, Jubal Anderson.= _Va._, 1816-1894. A distinguished general in the Confederate army who settled in New Orleans after the close of the Civil War. Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States; Campaigns of General Lee; Jackson’s Campaign against Pope.

=Eastburn, James Wallis.= _E._, 1797-1819. An Episcopal clergyman remembered as co-author with R. C. Sands of the once noted poem Yamoyden.

=Eastburn, Manton.= _E._, 1801-1872. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, and somewhat prominent as a dogmatic, aggressive Low Churchman. Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and Greek Poetry; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians; Essays and Dissertations on Biblical Literature.

=Eastman, Charles Gamage.= _Me._, 1816-1861. A verse-writer of Montpelier, Vermont, who published in 1848 a volume of Poems, descriptive of rural life in New England, that was popular for a time.

=Eastman, Mrs. Elaine [Goodale].= _Ms._, 1863- ----. A writer who, with her younger sister, Dora Goodale, _infra_, attracted much attention, when both were children, by the publication of several volumes of poems, of which the literary quality was very marked. She afterward became a teacher at various Indian schools, and in 1891 married Dr. Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian, educated at the Boston University; she now lives in South Dakota. Journal of a Farmer’s Daughter; The Coming of the Birds. _See Goodale, D. R._

=Eastman, Julia Arabella.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A Massachusetts teacher who has written a number of juvenile tales, among which are Short Comings and Long Goings; Young Rick; Kitty Kent’s Trouble. _Lo._

=Eastman, Mrs. Mary [Henderson].= _Va._, 1818- ----. Wife of S. Eastman, _infra_. Romance of Indian Life; Dacotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux; American Aboriginal Portfolio; Chicora and other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered; Tales of Fashionable Life; Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, a reply to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

=Eastman, Philip.= _N. H._, 1799-1869. A jurist of Maine. General Statutes of Maine; Digest of Maine Law Reports.

=Eastman, Seth.= _Me._, 1808-1875. An officer in the United States army stationed at Fort Snelling and other places on the Western frontier; afterwards a lieutenant-colonel and brevet brigadier-general. History, Condition, and Future Prospects of the Indians of the United States; Topographical Drawing.

=Eaton, Amos.= _N. Y._, 1776-1842. A once prominent scientist whose writings include Index to Geology of the Northern States; Natural History of New York; Geological Survey of the Erie Canal District; Philosophical Instructor; Manual of Botany of North America.

=Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton.= _N. S._, 1849- ----. An Episcopal clergyman and instructor of New York city. The Heart of the Creeds, a notable contribution to Broad church literature; Acadian Legends and Lyrics; Letter-Writing: its Ethics and Etiquette; The Church of England in Nova Scotia; Tales of a Garrison Town (with C. L. Betts, _supra_).

=Eaton, Cyrus.= _Me._, 1784-1875. An educator of Maine who was totally blind for the last thirty years of his life. Annals of Warren, Maine; Woman, a poem; History of Thomaston, Maine.

=Eaton, Daniel Cady.= _Mch._, 1834-1895. Grandson of Amos Eaton, _supra_. A professor of botany at Yale University. The Ferns of North America; Ferns of the Southwest. _Wn._

=Eaton, Daniel Cady.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. Cousin of D. C. Eaton, _supra_. A professor of the history of art at Yale University, 1869-76. Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture. _Hou._

=Eaton, Dorman Bridgeman.= _Vt._, 1823-1899. A jurist of New York city, prominent in civil service reform, who published Civil Service in Great Britain, and edited the seventh edition of Kent’s Commentaries. _Har._

=Eaton, John Henry.= _Tn._, 1790-1856. A once noted politician who was secretary of war, 1829-31, and minister to Spain, 1836-40. He wrote a Life of Andrew Jackson.

=Eaton, Samuel John Mills.= _Pa._, 1820-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Franklin, Pennsylvania, 1848-82. Petroleum; History of Venango County, Pennsylvania; Lake Side; Jerusalem, the Holy City; Palestine.

=Eaton, Thomas Treadwell.= _Tn._, 1845- ----. A Baptist minister of Louisville. My Angels; Talks to Children; Marriage and Law; Talks on Getting Married.

=Eberle, John.= _Pa._, 1787-1838. A noted physician of Philadelphia, and later of Cincinnati. Botanical Terminology; Diseases and Physical Education of Children; Therapeutics and Materia Medica; Notes on Theory and Practice of Medicine. _Lip._

=Eckard, James Read.= _Pa._, 1805-1887. A Presbyterian missionary to India. Faith and Justification (in the Tamil language); The Hindoo Traveller; Outline of English Law from Blackstone.

=Eddy, Ansel Doane.= _Ms._, 1798-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York who published the Christian Citizen; Duties, Dangers, and Securities of Youth.

=Eddy, Clarence.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. An organist of Chicago. The Church and Concert Organist; The Organ in Church.

=Eddy, Daniel Clark.= _Ms._, 1823-1896. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, and subsequently of Brooklyn, who wrote extensively, some of his books having been very popular. Among them are The Percy Family, and Walter’s Tour in the East, two series of volumes for young readers; Young Man’s Friend; Young Woman’s Friend; The Burman Apostle, a life of Judson; Roger Williams and the Baptists; The Unitarian Apostasy; Europa, or Scenes in the Old World; Waiting at the Cross; Angel Whispers.

=Eddy, Henry Turner.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. A mathematician, since 1874 a professor in the University of Cincinnati. Analytical Geometry; Researches in Graphical Statics; Thermodynamics; Maximum Stress under Concentrated Loads.

=Eddy, Mrs. Mary Morse [Baker] [Glover] [Patterson].= _N. H._, 1822- ----. A resident of Concord, New Hampshire, widely known as the founder of the sect of Christian Scientists. Besides Christian Science; Science and Health, she has published a number of pamphlets on the general subject of Christian Science.

=Eddy, Richard.= _R. I._, 1828- ----. A Universalist clergyman of Melrose, Massachusetts. Universalism in America; History of the Sixtieth New York Regiment; The Martyr to Liberty.

=Eddy, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1758-1827. A philanthropist whose efforts were chiefly in the direction of prison reform, and who was the author of The State Prisons of New York. _See Life by S. L. Knapp, 1834._

=Eddy, Thomas Mears.= _O._, 1823-1874. A Methodist minister of Chicago, who published Patriotism of Illinois, a history of that State during the Civil War.

=Eddy, Zachary.= _Vt._, 1815-1891. A Presbyterian minister of Augusta, Georgia. Immanuel, or the Life of Christ; Hymns of the Church; Songs of the Church.

=Edes, Henry Herbert.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A Boston merchant of antiquarian tastes, who has published Charlestown’s Historic Points; Memorial of Josiah Barker.

=Edes, Robert Thaxter.= _Me._, 1838- ----. A physician of Washington. Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases; Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic or Ganglionic Nervous System; Therapeutical Handbook of United States Pharmacopœia; Text Book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

=Edgar, Cornelius Henry.= _N. J._, 1811-1884. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Easton, Pennsylvania. Lectures on Slavery; Discourses on the Death of Lincoln; Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted; Exposition of the Nine Last Wars (1867).

=Edgren, August Hjalmar.= _Sn._, 1840- ----. A Swedish scholar who came to the United States in 1862, and served for a time in the Federal army, and afterwards in the Swedish army. Since 1884 he has been professor of languages in the University of Nebraska. Complete Sanskrit Grammar; German and English Dictionary (with W. D. Whitney, _infra_); The Literature of America (in Swedish); Public Schools and Colleges of the United States; Swedish Literature in America; American Antiquities.

=Edmonds, John Worth.= _N. Y._, 1799-1874. A prominent jurist of New York city, noted as an ardent defender of Spiritualism. Spiritualism (with G. T. Dexter); Reports of Select Law Cases; Letters and Tracts on Spiritualism.

=Edwards, Bela Bates.= _Ms._, 1802-1852. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Andover Theological Seminary, and editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra. He published an Eclectic Reader; Biography of Self-made Men; Memoirs of E. Cornelius; but his principal work was in the line of religious editorship. _See Memoir by E. A. Parks, infra._

=Edwards, Charles.= _E._, 1797-1868. A New York lawyer who was counsel to the British consulate. The Juryman’s Guide; Parties to Bills and Other Pleadings; Feathers from my Own Wings; Receivers in Chancery; Reports of Chancery Cases; Receivers in Equity; Referees; History and Poetry of Finger Rings; Pleasantries about Courts and Lawyers.

=Edwards, Emory.= _Va._, 1841- ----. A naval engineer who served in the United States navy as assistant engineer, 1864-68, and was subsequently employed in a similar capacity in the merchant marine service. A Catechism of the Marine Steam Engine; Modern American Locomotive Engines; Modern American Marine Engines, Boilers, and Screw Propellers; The Practical Steam Engineer’s Guide. _Bai._

=Edwards, George Wharton.= _Ct._, 1860- ----. An artist and writer of short stories living at Plainfield, New Jersey. P’tit Matinic’, and Other Monotones; Thumb-Nail Sketches; The Rivalries of Long and Short Codiac; Break o’ Day and Other Stories. _Cent._

=Edwards, Harry Stillwell.= _Ga._, 1854- ----. A littérateur and journalist of Macon, Georgia. Two Runaways and Other Stories; Sons and Fathers. _Cent. Ra._

=Edwards, James Thomas.= _N. J._, 1838- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Baltimore. The Grass Family; The Voice Tree; The Silva of Chautauqua Lake.

=Edwards, John.= _W._, 1806-1887. A Welsh poet who came to America in 1828, and settled in central New York. He was long prominent amongst Welsh residents in the United States, and published two volumes of verse, The Crucifixion; The Omnipresence of God.

=Edwards, John Ellis.= _N. C._, 1814-1891. A Methodist clergyman of Richmond, Virginia. Life of John Wesley Childs; Random Sketches and Notes of European Travel; The Confederate Soldier; Log Meeting-House.

=Edwards, Jonathan.= _Ct._, 1703-1757. A Congregational clergyman who must be called the most subtle reasoner the New World has ever produced. He was the son of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational minister of East Windsor, Connecticut, and was minister at Northampton, Massachusetts, 1727-50. From 1751 to 1758 he served as missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, and the last month of his life was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was the greatest defender of Calvinism that has ever lived, and as a preacher had an extraordinary influence. His famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” is the best example of the pitiless, ferocious realism of his style. His chief work is the celebrated Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of acute, precise, and original thinking. His other works include Notes on the Mind and Natural Science, written when he was between 15 and 16 years of age; The Religious Affections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; God’s Last End in the Creation; Treatise on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; Inquiry into the Qualifications for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival of Religion; History of the Redemption; Life of David Brainerd. _See Lives by S. E. Dwight, supra; S. Hopkins, infra; A. V. G. Allen, 1889, supra; Sparks’s American Biography, vol. 8; Tyler’s American Literature; Duyckinck’s Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Edwards, Jonathan, Jr.= _Ms._, 1745-1801. Son of Jonathan Edwards, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of great ability who was president of Union College. Treatise on Liberty and Necessity; Discourses on the Atonement. _See Memoir by Tryon Edwards, infra; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Edwards, Justin.= _Ms._, 1787-1853. A Congregational clergyman, prominent in the temperance movement. Beside a Sabbath Manual; Temperance Manual, he published a great number of tracts. _See Memoir by W. Hallock, 1854._

=Edwards, Morgan.= _W._, 1722-1795. A Welsh Baptist clergyman who came to America in 1761, and was the foremost colonial minister of his faith. He was one of the founders of Brown University. Materials Toward a History of the Baptists in Pennsylvania; Materials Toward a History of the Baptists in New Jersey.

=Edwards, Ninian Wirt.= _Ky._, 1809-1889. A prominent jurist of Illinois, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of that State. History of Illinois and Ninian Edwards.