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=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.
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