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=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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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