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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. member and has

of

numerous clubs and

filled

various positions of

societies; tj-ust

and

honor. Dealey,

James Quayle, educator, author, was born Aug. 13, 1861, in England. Since 1895 he has been professor of social and poscience at Brown university. He is the author of Spanish Sources of the Mexican Constitution of 1824; is part author of Textbook of Sociology; Our State Constitution; and Development of the State. Dealy, Patrick F., clergyman, lecturer, college president, was born April 7, 1827, in Ireland. He was president of St. John's college of Fordham, N.Y.; and in 1882 founded the Fordham College Monthly. He died Dee. 23, 1891, in New York City. Dean, Amos, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 16, 1803, in Barnard, Vt. He was the author of Lectures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law; and History of Civilization. He died in litical

1868 in Albany, 'N.Y. Dean, Bashford, educator, zoologist, author, was born Oct. 38, 1867, in Xew York City. He received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D.

from Columbia university of

He

New York

City.

curator of fishes in the American museum of natural history; a member of the advisory board of the New York aquarium; and professor of zoology in the Columbia university. He is the author of Fishes Living and Fossil Reports in the United States and State Fish Commission publications; is

and numerous Monographs on fossil fishes and on the embryology of fishes. Dean, Benjamin, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1824, in England. He was a member of the Massachusetts state senate from Boston in 1862, 1863 and 1869. In 1877-79 he was a, repreentative from Massachusetts to the fortyfifth congress. He died April 9, 1897, in Boston, Mass. Dean, Gilbert, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1819, in Pleasant Valley,

N.Y.

In 1851-55 he was a representative from New York to the thirty- second and the thirty-third es; eral

congress-

and served on sevimportant com-

mittees. He was reelected for a second term; but resigned in 1855 to accept the office of judge of the supreme court of the state.

In 1862 he was

elected to the state assembly. He died Oct.

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Dean, Ezra, congressman, was born in 1791 in New York. In 1841-45 he was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-seventh and 12, 1870, in

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twenty-eighth congresses. He died in New York. Dean, Henry Munson, physician, army surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 1836, in Canaan, Conn. He was a surgeon in the United States army during the civil war. He has been president of the Iowa and Illinois central medical association; and also president of the Muscatine

academy

of medicine.

Dean, John, physician, author, was born in 1831 in Massachusetts. He was the author of Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; and Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata. He died in 1888.

Dean, John, lawyer, author. Since 1892 he hca been associate justice of the state supreme court of Pennsylvania. He died in 1905 in Philadelphia, Pa. Dean, John Ward, journalist, author, was bom March 13, 1815, in Wiscaset, Maine.

He was

vice-president of the American staand its recording .secrewas one of the founders of the Prince society in 1858, and for ten years was its president. He was the librarian of the New England historic-genealogical society of Boston, Mass.; in 1876 became the sole editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; and editor of the New England Bibliopolist. He was the author of Memoir of Nathaniel Ward; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth Life of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin Story of the Embarkation of Cromwell for New England; Life of John M. Bradbury; and Lives of Dodge, Franklin Kidder, Samuel P. Fowler, Daniel C. Colesworthy, and others. He died in 1902 in Medtistical association, tary in 1860-72. He

Mass. Dean, Josiah, state senator, congressman, was born March 16, 1748, in Baynham, Mass. He was a presidential elector in 1805; and in 1807-09 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the tenth congress. In 1804-07 he was a state senator; and in 1810ford,

a member of the state legislature. died Oct. 14, 1818.

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Dean, Julia, actress, was

bom

July 22,

1830, in Pleasant Valley, N.J. She appeared first as Lady Ellen in The Lady of the Lake in 1845, in Louisville, Ky! She died March 6, 1868, in New York City.

Dean, Paul, clergyman, author, was born 1789 in Barnard, Vt. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston in 1813-40. He was the author of Lectures on Final Restoration. He died Oct. 1, 1860, in Framingham, Mass. in

Dean, Richard Grain, naval officer, was born May 27, 1833, in Harrisburg, Pa. In 1856 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the United States navy. In 1895 he was retired; and in 1906 was advanced to the rank of rear-admiral.