DUANE
DUAXE
He is the aiit hor of: Provevbufroiii riyiiKHifh Pulpit
(.sele<-ti(>ns from the writinj^s Jiiul sayiiiK^of Henry
Waril Beeclier) (1887); In Snuuy Lauds (188."));
T/u' Princess of Moiitscrrat {mm; The Mi/sten/of
Abel ForeJiiiger{\Sd:i}; Tlic Yuioig Reporter (\S'.)'>);
Tlie Fast Moil (18!K)); TJic Beaeh Patrol (1897);
Tlte Yonug Siipereanjo (1898); Cadet Stand ish of
the St. Louis ( ISJIH); ami IleljiS for A mhitions Boys
(ISO'.t). He (lie.l in Cninford, N. J. Sept. 'JO. 1901.
DUANE, James, jnri.st. was born in New York
city, Feb. G, 17:J3; third son of Anthony and Altliea
(Ketaltas) Duane. Anthony Dnane, a native of
County Galway, Irehuul. and an officer in the
British uavy, resigned after being stationed in
New York, and returned there to make the city
l»is lionie. He married as his second wife Althea
Ketaltas, the daughter of a leatling merchant of
the city. She died in 1730 and he was married in
1741 to the widow of Thomas Lynch of Flusliing,
N.Y'. He died Aug. 14, 1747. His son James was
educated for the law Ib the office of James Alex-
ander and wa.s admitted an attorney, Aug. 3, 1754.
He was married Oct. 21, 1759, to Maiy, eldest
daughter of Robert Livingston, proprietor of the
Livingston manor on the Hudson river. He in-
herited from his father valuable property, includ-
iBg a tract of 6000 acres of land in the wilderness
west of Albany, N.Y., afterward Duanesburg,
Schenectady covmty. He also purchased 64,000
acres of land in the New Hampshire grant, now
a part of Vermont, which he supposed to be a por-
tion of the province of New Y'ork, and of which
he could never gain possession. In 1774 he was a
member of the active committees organized in
New York city to oppose British encroachments
and he was elected to the Continental congress of
that year. In April, 1775, he was a delegate to
the New York provincial congress and again from
Jvme, 1776, to April, 1777. He was again chosen
by that body to the Continental congress and con-
tinued a delegate in regular attendance, 1774-84,
meanwhile removing his family from New Y^ork
city to Livingston manor for safety. He at first
favored the uniting of the colonies vmder a presi-
dent appointed by the king, with congress bound
by the acts of parliament. He also opposed the
Declaration of Independence, and sought to defer
its adoption, hoping to avoid final separation.
With Joim Jay and Peter Van Schaeck he was in
favor of conciliation. He however signed the arti-
cles of confederation for New Y^ork with Francis
Lewis, William Duer and Gouvemeur Morris
in 1771. He took posse.s.sion of his large estates
in New York city upon the evacuation of the
place by the British troops, Nov. 25, 1783, and
made his home on liis farm of twenty acres, after-
wanl Gramercy Park. The same year he was
elected a state senator, serving 1782-85, and again,
1789-90. On Feb. 5, 1784, he was appointed by
Governor Clinton mayor of New York and held the
office for nearly six years. He was a member of
the council and of the convention of 1788. Presi-
dent Waslihigton appointed him U.S.district judge
of New Y'ork in 1789 and he continued on the bench
for five years. His failing health compelled him
to resign in 1794, and he erected a house at
Duanesburg, but did not live to see it completed.
He died in ScIuMiectady, N.Y., Feb. 1, 1797.
DUANE, James Chatham, soldier, was born in Schenectady, N.Y., June 30, 1824; son of James Duane; grandson of James C. Duane; and great- grandson of Judge James Duane, the fir.st mayor of New York city, and Mary Livingston, his wife. He was graduated from Union college in 1844 and from the U.S. mili- tary academy in 1848, standing third in a class of thirty-eight. W.^T<^
He served there with
a company of sappers, '^
miners and pon-
toniers, 1848-54; and . '
as assistant instructor >% i
of practical militai engineering, 1852-51 was assistant engineer \ ^:
in building Fort \ Trumbull, Conn., in ' 1849,and Fort Carroll, ,
Md., 1854-56; light- C^.^)lC0OU^, house engineer of the '
New Y^ork district, 1856-58; on the Utah expe- dition in command of the engineering company in 1858; and as insjiector of practical military engi- neering and in command of the sappers, miners and pontoniers at the Military^ academy, 1858-61. He commanded an engineer company guarding the national capitol, 1861, and later in the same year was at Fort Pickens, Fla. He was ])romoted cap- tain Aug. 6 , 1861; organized the engineer battalion and engineer eeiuipage, armj- of the Potomac, 1861-63; was detached to bridge the Potomac at Harper's Ferry in February, 1862; commantled the engineer battalion in the siege of Y'orktown, April, 1862; took part in the battle of Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862, and in the subsequent opera- tions of the campaign in the construction of roads, field works and bridges, particularly in building the bridge 2000 feet long over the Cliickaliominy, Aug. 12-14, 1862. As chief engineer of the army of the Potomac, he took part in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He was promoted major March 3, 1863, was chief engineer of the depart- ment of the South, and engaged in the attack on Fort. McAllister, Ga., and in the operations against Charle.strn, S.C. From July, 1H63, to June, 1865, he was chief engineer of the army of the Potomac. On July 6, 1864, he was brevetted lieutenant-colo-
