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ter-State commerce commission in 1890, and, later, solicitor of the State Department. In 1895 he became Professor of Common and Statute Law in the University of Virginia. He died in Charlottesville, Va., March 12, 1899.

Dablon, CLAUDE, Jesuit missionary; uated at the law department of the Uniborn in Dieppe, France, in 1618; began a versity of Virginia in 1875; appointed mission to the Onondaga Indians in New legal secretary of the United States inYork in 1655, and six years afterwards he accompanied Druillettes in an overland journey to the Hudson Bay region. In 1668 he went with Marquette to Lake Superior, and in 1670 was appointed superior of the missions of the Upper Lakes. He prepared the Relations concerning New France for 1671-72, and also a narrative of Marquette's journey, published in John Gilmary Shea's Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley (1853). He died in Quebec, Canada, Sept. 20, 1697.

Dabney, RICHARD HEATH, educator; born in Memphis, Tenn., March 29, 1860; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1881; Professor of History in the University of Virginia in 1897. He is the author of John Randolph; The Causes of the French Revolution, etc.

Dabney, ROBERT LEWIS, clergyman; born in Louisa county, Va., March 5, 1820; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1842; ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1847; and became Professor of Church History in Union Seminary, Virginia, in 1853. When the Civil War broke out he entered the Confederate army as chaplain, and later became chief of staff to Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. His publications include Life of T. J. Jackson, and Defence of Virginia and the South. He died in Victoria, Texas, Jan. 3, 1898.

Dabney, WALTER DAVID, lawyer; born in Albemarle county, Va., in 1853; grad

Dabney's Mills, Va. See HATCHER'S RUN.

Dacres, JAMES RICHARD, naval officer; born in Suffolk, England, Aug. 22, 1788;

JAMES RICHARD DACRES.

son of Vice-Admiral Dacres, who was a commander in the battle with Arnold on Lake Champlain in 1776. The son entered the royal navy in 1796, and, being placed in command of the frigate Guerrière in 1811, was sent to fight the Americans. He proudly boasted that he would "send the Constitution to Davy Jones's locker" when he should be so fortunate as to meet her. She had escaped him in her famous retreat, but willingly met and fought the Guerrière afterwards. Dacres was then captain. He attained the rank of flag-officer in 1838, and in 1845 was vice-admiral and commander-in-chief of the fleet at the Cape of Good Hope. He was presented with a gratuity from the "Patriotic Fund" at Lloyd's, in consideration of his wound. He was married, in 1810, to Arabella Boyd, who died in 1828. He died in Hampshire, England, Dec. 4, 1853. See CONSTITUTION (frigate).

Dade, FRANCIS LANGHORN, military officer; born in Virginia; entered the army as third lieutenant in 1813. During the war with the Seminole Indians, while on the march to Fort King, he, with almost the entire detachment, was destroyed by a treacherous attack of the Indians, Dec. 28, 1835. A monument at West Point was erected to the memory of Major Dade and the men in his command, and Fort Dade, 35 miles from Tampa, Fla., is named in his honor.

the Dahlgren gun, which he perfected at the navy-yard at Washington, and in 1862 he was made chief of the bureau of ordnance. In July, 1863, he took command of the South Atlantic squadron, and, with the land forces of General Gillmore, captured Morris Island and Fort Wagner, and reduced Fort Sumter to a heap of Daggett, NAPHTALI, clergyman; born ruins. He conducted a successful exin Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 8, 1727; grad- pedition up the St. John's River, in uated at Yale College in 1748; ordain- Florida, in 1864, and co-operated with ed pastor of a Presbyterian church at General Sherman in the capture of SavanSmithtown, Long Island, in 1751; and nah. After the evacuation of Charleston in 1755 was chosen professor of divinity he moved his vessels up to that city. at Yale, which place he held until his Admiral Dahlgren, besides being the indeath, in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25, ventor of a cannon, introduced into the 1780. In 1766, on the resignation of navy the highly esteemed light boatPresident Clap, he was chosen presi- howitzer. He was author of several dent of the college pro tempore and works on ordnance, which became textofficiated in that capacity more than a books. He died in Washington, D. C., year. He was an active patriot when July 12, 1870. the War of the Revolution broke out; and Dahlgren, MADELEINE VINTON, author; when the British attacked New Haven, in born in Gallipolis, O., about 1835; widow 1779, he took part in the resistance made of Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren. She by the citizens and surrounding militia. established and was the vice-president for Dr. Daggett was made a prisoner, and the several years of the Literary Society of severe treatment to which he was sub- Washington; was opposed to woman sufjected so shattered his constitution that frage, against which she published a he never recovered his health. After the weekly paper for two years, and also sent

a petition bearing many signatures to Congress, requesting that women should not be given the elective franchise. Popes Pius IX. and Leo XIII. several times thanked her for the various services she had rendered to the Roman Catholic Church. Her publications include Thoughts on Female Suffrage; Memoirs of John A. Dahlgren, etc. She died in Washington, D. C., May 28, 1898.

Huguenot faith in 1683, and removed to New York to work among the French under the Reformed Church. In 1688 the French erected their first church in Marketfield Street, between Broad and Whitehall streets; in 1692 Daillé narrowly escaped imprisonment because he had denounced the violent measures of JACOB LEISLER (q. v.); and in 1696 he became pastor of the School Street Church in Boston. He died in Boston, Mass., May 21, 1715.

Dahlgren, ULRIC, artillery officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., in 1842; son of Rear-Admiral Dahlgren. At the outbreak Daiquiri, a sea-coast town in the of the Civil War he became aide first to province of Santiago, about 15 miles east his father and later to General Sigel, and of Santiago, Cuba. It was here that the was Sigel's chief of artillery at the second American army of invasion disembarked battle of Bull Run. He distinguished after the declaration of war against Spain himself in an attack on Fredericksburg in 1898. After GEN. WILLIAM RUFUS and at the battle of Chancellorsville, and SHAFTER (q. ".), commander of the expeon the retreat of the Confederates from dition, had accepted the offer of the services Gettysburg he led the charge into Hagers- of the Cuban troops under General Garcia, town. He lost his life in a raid under- he furnished them with rations and amtaken for the purpose of releasing Na- munition. A number of sharp-shooters,

Dale, SAMUEL, pioneer; born in Rock- He was appointed secretary of state of bridge county, Va., in 1772. His parents Pennsylvania in 1791, and was engaged as emigrated to Georgia in 1783. In 1793, after the death of his parents, he enlisted in the United States army as a scout, and subsequently became well known as “Big Sam.” In 1831 he supervised the removal of the Choctaw Indians to the Indian Territory. He died in Lauderdale county, Miss., May 24, 1841.

paymaster of a force to quell the WHISKEY INSURRECTION (q. v.). In 1801 he was appointed United States attorney for the Eastern Department of Pennsylvania, and he held that place until called to the cabinet of Madison as Secretary of the Treasury in October, 1814. In 1815 he also performed the duties of the War Office, and was earnest in his efforts to re establish a national bank. He resigned in November, 1816, and resumed the practice of law. He died in Trenton, N. J., Jan. 16, 1817.

Dale, SIR THOMAS, colonial governor; was a distinguished soldier in the Low Countries, and was knighted by King James in 1606. Appointed chief magistrate of Virginia, he administered the government on the basis of martial law; Dallas, GEORGE MIFFLIN, statesman; planted new settlements on the James, born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1792; a towards the Falls (now Richmond); and son of the preceding; graduated at the introduced salutary changes in the land College of New Jersey in 1810, and adlaws of the colony. He conquered the Ap- mitted to the bar in 1813. He went pomattox Indians. In 1611 Sir Thomas with Mr. Gallatin to Russia as private Gates succeeded him, but he resumed the secretary, and returned in 1814, when office in 1614. In 1616 he returned to he assisted his father in the Treasury England; went to Holland; and in 1619 Department. In 1828 he was mayor of was made commander of the East India Philadelphia; United States Senator from fleet, when, near Bantam, he fought the 1832 to 1833, and declined a re-election. Dutch. He died near Bantam, East Indies, He was ambassador to Russia from early in 1620. 1837 to 1839, and Vice-President of the United States from 1845 to 1849. From 1856 to 1861 he was American minister in London. Mr. Dallas was an able lawyer and statesman. He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1864.

Dall, WILLIAM HEALEY, naturalist; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 21, 1845; took part in the international telegraph expedition to Alaska in 1865-68; appointed assistant in the United States coast survey of Alaska in 1871, where he spent several years in various kinds of work, which included the geography, natural history, geology, etc., of Alaska and adjacent islands. Among his books are Alaska and its Resources; Tribes of the Extreme Northwest; Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska, etc.

Dallas, a city in Georgia, where, during the Atlanta campaign, Sherman's advance under General Hooker was temporarily checked, May 25, 1864. Three days later Hardee attacked McPherson on the right, with great loss. The Confederates retired May 29.

Dallas, ALEXANDER JAMES, statesman; born in the island of Jamaica, June 21, 1759; left nome in 1783, settled in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar. He soon became a practitioner in the Supreme Court of the United States. He wrote for the newspapers, and at one time was the editor of the Columbian Magazine.

Dallas-Clarendon Treaty, a convention negotiated in 1856 for the adjustment of difficulties between the United States and Great Britain arising under the CLAYTON-BULWER TREATY (q. v.). It was rejected by the Senate.

Dalton, a city in Georgia, strongly fortified by the Confederates under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who checked the advance of General Sherman until forced to evacuate by a flank movement by General McPherson, May 12, 1864.

Daly, CHARLES PATRICK, jurist; born in New York City, Oct. 31, 1816; admitted to the bar in 1839; elected to the New York Assembly in 1843; became justice in 1844, and chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1871; president of the American Geographical Society for more than forty years. Among his writings are History of Naturalization; First Settlement of Jews in North America; What We Know of Maps