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=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.
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