the first territorial legislature of Wisconsin, hold in Burlington (Iowa, and Minnesota being then parts of the territory). In 1847 he was again a member of the territorial legislature, and in 1848 was elected to the first state legislature of Wisconsin. He was elected as a Free-soiler to congress, serving from 6 Dec, 1849, till 3 March, 1858, and was the first distinctive anti-slaveiy man in congress from the northwest. In 1855 he was chosen as a Republican to be U. S. senator from Wisconsin, succeeding Isaac P. Walker. He was a member of the peace con- gress in 18G1, and was appointed governor of Utah in 1805, holding that office until failing health compelled him to resign.
DURKEE, John, soldier, b. in Windham, Conn.,
in 1728 ; d. in Norwich, 29 May, 1782. He served
in the French and Indian war, becoming a major
of militia, and, from the place of his residence,
was known as the "bold bean-hiller." In 1766,
at the time of the passage of the stamp-act, the
county of New London appointed him to cor-
respond with the Sons of Liberty in the adjoining
provinces. He was among those who settled in
Wyoming valley under the name of the Susque-
hanna company in 1769, and was the leader of the
Connecticut forces, commanding the fort that bore
his name. Subsequently he was captured by the
force sent out by Gov. John Penn, and taken to
Philadelphia, where for a time he was closely con-
fined. In 1770 he was released, and again took
command, but afterward returned to Connecticut.
At the beginning of the Revolutionary war he
raised "one hundred choice men," who were
annexed to Putnam's brigade, of which he was
major. He distinguished himself at Bunker Hill,
and commanded a regiment in the battles of Long
Island, Germantown, Harlem, White Plains, Tren-
ton, and Monmouth, and was in Gen. John Sulli-
van's expedition against the Six Nations in 1779.
A year later he resigned from the army.
DUROCHER, Laurent, lawyer, b. in the Mission
of St. Genevieve, Mo., in 1786 ; d. in Monroe, Mich.,
21 Sept., 1861. His father was a French-Canadian. '
Laurent was educated in Montreal, and settled at
Prenchtown, on the river Raisin, in 1805. At the
beginning of the war of 1812 he joined Gen. Hull's
army, and rendered important services to the gov-
ernment after his surrender. He was clerk of
' Monroe county from its organization in 1818 till
about 1838, for six years was in the territorial
council, and in 1835 a member of the convention
that framed the first constitution of Michigan.
He also served in the state legislature, and was
justice of the peace and probate judge at Monroe.
He was the great legal authority among the French
population on the river Raisin.
DURRETT, Reuben Thomas, lawyer, b. in
Henry county, Ky., 24 Jan., 1824. After studying
at Georgetown college, Ky., he was graduated at
Brown in 1849, and at the law department of the
University of Louisville in 1850, and practised his
profession in Louisville until 1880. From 1857
till 1859 he was editor and half owner of the Louis-
ville " Courier." He was the founder of the public
library of Kentucky, of the Louisville Abstract and
loan association, and of the Filson club of Louis-
ville, and has collected one of the most complete
and valuable private libraries in the southwest. He
is president of the associations that he has formed,
and a member of various historical societies, and
has travelled extensively. He is the author of
" The Life and Writings of John Filson, the First
Historian of Kentucky " (pi;blished by the Filson
club, 1884), and has assisted in the preparation of
many historical works, and contributed to various
periodicals. A series of articles on the " Kentucky
Resolutions of 1798-'9 " appeared in the " Southern
Bivouac " in 1886. Many of his arguments and ad-
dresses, both legal and literary, have been published.
DURRIE, Daniel Steele, antiquarian, b. in
Albany, N. Y., 2 Jan., 1819; d. in Madison, Wis.,
31 Aug., 1892. He was educated in South tJadley,
Mass., and became a bookseller at Albany in 1843,
removed to the west in 1850, resumed that business
at Madison, Wis., in 1852, and followed it till 1857.
In 1858 he became librarian of the State historical
society of Wisconsin. He has been superintendent
of public schools at Roxbury, and secretary of the
Madison board of education. Among his publica-
tions are genealogical histories of the Steele and
Holt families (Albany, 1862 and 1864) ; " Biblio-
graphica Genealogica Americana, or Index to
American Pedigrees " (3d ed., 1886) ; " History of
Madison, Wis., and the Four-Lake Country " (Madi-
son, 1874); with W. B. Davis, "History of Mis-
souri " (St. Louis, 1875) ; and " Wisconsin Bio-
graphical Dictionary."
DURTHALER, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Ste.
Marie-au-Migne, Alsace, in 1819 ; d. in New York
in 1885. He was educated at the Lyceum of Stras-
bourg, and took his degree at the University of
France, tie studied theology in the Seminary of
Strasbourg, and became a Jesuit in 1844. He was
then employed in teaching, and was noted for the
number of artistic and literary celebrities that had
been his pupils. During the Revolution of 1848 he
came to the United States, at his own request was
sent on the Indian mission, and in 1850 arrived at
Walpole island. Here he was stricken with typhoid
fever, and on his recovery was sent to teach in
St. Mary's college, Monti'eal. He was next trans-
ferred to St. Francis Xavier's college, New York, of
which he may be considered the founder. He built
the new college, made it legally a collegiate institu-
tion, extended the course of science, strengthened
its classical curriculum, and began its fine minera-
logical, botanical, and conchological collections.
In 1863 he resigned the presidency of St. Francis
Xavier's and went to Buffalo, where he built a
large church for the Germans, and founded the
classical school that was afterward developed into
Canisius's college. In 1871 he returned to St.
Francis Xavier's college, but after a short stay went
to Hoboken, where he organized a German parish.
In 1875 he was named rector of St. Joseph's church,
New York, and during the succeeding ten years
built a church and school-houses, and founded a
convent and school of the Sisters of Notre Dame.
DURYÉE, Abram, soldier, b. in New York city, 29 April, 1815 ; d. there, 27 Sept., 1890, His grandfather served in the Revolutionary war, being at one time a prisoner in the old sugarhouse on Liberty street. His father and two of his uncles served as officers in the war of 1812. Young Duryee was graduated at the Crosby street
high-school, and trained to mercantile life, accumulating a fortune as a mahogany merchant in New York. He entered the New York state militia in 1833, and served in the 142d regiment. Five years later he joined the 27th regiment (now
the 7th) as a private, and rose gradually until lift became its colonel in 1849, holding that office for fourteen years. During the Astor place riots he commanded his regiment and was twice wounded, and he also participated in the subsequent police, city hall, sixth ward, and " dead-rabbit " riots with the 7th. In April, 1861, he raised in less than a week the 5th New York volunteers, a regiment
best known as "Duryee's zouaves." His command was engaged at Big Bethel, the first battle of the
