DUSTON
BUTTON
Rutgers college, having previously declined the
professorshij) of history and iKilitifiil economy
in the same institution. He succeeded his latlicr
as trustee of Rutgers college, serving, 1«77-
91, and in 1883 was president of the General
synod of the Reformed church in America, in
session in Albany, N.Y. Ue was a member of
the St. Nichobis and Holland societies. He was
married in 18G5 to Charlotte W. Nuttman of
Newark, N.J.. who up to the time of her death
was treasurer of the Woman's board of foreign
missions. The Ciiarlotte W. Duryee sciiool for
women in connection with the Amoy mission
peri>etuates her memory, and their daughter, Lily
N. Duryee. went as a voluntary missionary to
Amoy in 1895. He took an active interest in the
- ■ anti-gambling ■' campaign in New Jersey in
1894. making many speeches in the cause of re- form througiiout the state. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers college in 1876. He published Sentinels for the Suitl, a tract for soldiers written during the war and which re- ceived a prize from the American tract society; Eelifjious and Occasional Vernes (1886); and lie- liijious Lyrics (1887). He died at New Brunswick, N.J.. .Jan. 2a 1807.
DUSTON, Hannah, pioneer, was born probably in 1660, and was married to Thomas Duston of Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 3, 1677. When Haverhill was captured by the Indians in 1697, Hannah Duston and Mary Neff. her nurse, were spared the tomahawk, which dealt death to her infant,
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scarcely a week old and to many of the inhabi- tants. The two women were made captive by the savages, and her husband with their seven elder children, at her earnest entreaty, fled to a place of sjifety. The captive mother was obliged to walk through the snow without shoes day after day until they reached the wigwam of the Indian chief on an island near the present site of Ojncord, N.H. Aided V)y Samuel Leonardson, a white lad, who had lu-en raptured at Worcester
one year before, she planned escape. On an ap-
pointed niglit with the aid of her nurse and the
lad she made an attack on the sleeping Indians.
Slie herself scalped nine braves, Leonardson
killed the chief, and only a squaw and a badly
wounded Indian boy escaped. They then provi-
sioned one canoe, sinking the remainder, and od
reaching Haverhill she found her family safe.
She had with her the Indians' scalps, toma-
hawks and guns, as trophies and she presented
them to the governor of Massacluisetts colony.
The general court gave to Mrs. Duston and the
Worcester lad each §230. The island, the scene
of their prowess, was named Duston's island,
and a granite monument was erected at Haver-
hill, by the states of New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts in 1874, on the tablets of which were
inscribed the names of Hannah Duston, Mary
Neff and Samuel Leonardson. Mrs. Duston died
in Haverliill, Mass.
DUTCHER, Silas Belden, banker, was born in Springfield, X.Y., July 12. 1829; .son of Parce- for C. and Johannah Low (Fink) Dutcher. He Avas educated at the district school and for one term attended Caze- novia academy. He then taught school during the winters of 184.J-51, engaged in railroading, 18.")l-o."), and in mercantile business in New York city, 1855-69 He was a .supervisor of the city and coimty of New York, 1861-62, supervisor of internal revenue, 1868-72; pen- sion agent at New York city, 1872-75; appraiser of the port of New York, 1877-80; su- perintendent of public works of New Yox'k state, 1880-83; president of the Union dime savings bank. New York city, 1884-91; commissicmer to frame the charter of Greater New Y'ork, 1896- 97, and president of the Hamilton trust company, Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1891.
DUTTON, Arthur Henry, soldier, was born in Waliingford, Conn.; Nov. 15, 1838. He was grad- uated at the U.S. military academy in 1861, and was commissioned lieutenant in the engineer corps. He was as.signed to duty on the staff of General Mansfield, commanding the defences of Washington, D.C., in 1861, and he commanded the defences of Fernandina, Fla., in 1862. He was made colonel of the 21.st Connecticut regi- ment, Sept. 5, 1862. and while in Noith Carolina serve<l as chief of staff to General Pe<'k, and sub- sequently to Gen. "W. F. Smith. He distinguished
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