DALL, Caroline Healy (1822—). An American author and philanthropist, born in Boston. She lectured frequently on theological subjects, and on questions associated with the amelioration of conditions affecting woman, and was a founder of the Social Science Association, the constitution of which she framed. For many years she conducted a class in literature and morals at her home in Washington. With Mrs. Pauline Wright Davis she founded Una, a journal devoted to woman's rights, and the pioneer publication of its kind in Boston. The writings of Mrs. Dall are devoted chiefly to a discussion of the rights of woman, and her work entitled The College, the Market, and the Court, or Woman's Relation to Education, Employment, and Citizenship (1867), is a widely known contribution to that subject. Another popular work from her pen is entitled, What We Really Know About Shakespeare (1885; 2d ed. 1886). DALL, William Healy (1845—). An American naturalist, born in Boston. He was a special student under Louis Agassiz. In 1865-68 he accompanied the International Telegraph Expedition to Alaska, and from 1871 to 1884 he was on the United States Coast Survey of Alaska. Since 1880 he has been attached to the United States National Museum, and since 1893 he has been professor of invertebrate paleontology at the Wagner Institute of Science, Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous papers on mollusks, brachiopods, and the natural history of Alaska. Important among his works are: Alaska and Its Resources (1870); Reports of the Mollusca of the Blake Expedition (1880-90); Mollusca of the Southwestern Coast of the United States (1890). DAL′LAS. A town and the county-seat of Paulding County, Ga., about 35 miles west by north of Atlanta; on the Southern Railway. New Hope Church, four miles from Dallas, was the scene of a sharp conflict (May 25-28, 1864) between the armies of General Sherman and General Johnston. Population, in 1890, 455; in 1900, 644. DALLAS. A city and the county-seat of Polk County, Ore., 63 miles southwest of Portland; on La Creole Creek and on the Southern Pacific Railroad (Map: Oregon, B 5). It is situated in the fertile Willamette Valley, and has considerable trade, and manufactures flour, woolen goods, lumber, sashes and doors, organs, foundry-products, and tanned leather, the industrial interests being promoted by good water-power. Sandstone is quarried in the vicinity. Dallas was settled in 1849, and in 1891 was chartered as a city. Population, in 1890, 848; in 1900, 1271.
DALLAS. A city and the county-seat of Dallas County, Tex., 33 miles east of Fort Worth, on Trinity River, and on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fé, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Texas and Pacific, the Houston and Texas Central, and the Texas and New Orleans railroads (Map: Texas, F 3). It is in the great grain belt of the State, and has large manufacturing and commercial interests. The industrial establishments include many factories of cotton-gin machinery, saddlery and harness, cotton and woolen mills, grain-elevators, flour-mills, meat-packing plant, lumber and planing mills, cotton-compresses, cottonseed-oil mills, nurseries, etc. Dallas is one of the largest distributing centres of farming implements and machinery in the United States. The city contains the Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Matthew, Saint Paul's Sanitarium, with accommodations for 200 patients, a city hospital, Carnegie Public Library, a court-house, erected at a cost of $300,000, a Confederate monument, and numerous public and private educational institutions. Dallas has a number of public parks, City Park and Oak Cliff being of notable beauty. The State Fair and Dallas Exposition is an annual event of more than State-wide reputation. The city is governed by a mayor, elected every two years, and a city council, in which rest the appointments of auditor, city engineer, city secretary, secretary of water-works, and city electrician; all other important offices are filled by popular election. The city's annual income amounts to about $750,000; expenditures to $575,000, the main items being about $40,000 each for the departments of police, fire, and water-works, and about $90,000 for schools. Population, in 1890, 38,067; in 1900, 42,638.
DALLAS, Alexander James (1759-1817).
An American politician. He was born in the
island of Jamaica, was educated at Edinburgh
and at Westminster, and in 1783 removed from
Jamaica to Philadelphia. In 1785 he was
admitted to the bar, and soon became prominent
both as a lawyer and a politician. He was
Secretary of the Treasury in President Madison's
Cabinet from 1814 to 1816, and it was on his
recommendation that in 1816 Congress passed an
act to incorporate a new United States bank.
From 1815 to 1816 he discharged the duties of the
War as well as of the Treasury Department. He
published Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged
by the Courts of the United States and of
Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution (4
vols., 1790-1807); Address to the Society of
Constitutional Republicans (1805); and
Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War
of 1812-15.
DALLAS, George Mifflin (1792-1864). An American statesman and diplomat. He was born in Philadelphia, the son of Alexander J. Dallas; graduated at Princeton in 1810; and accompanied Mr. Gallatin in his special embassy to Saint Petersburg, as private secretary. On his return he practiced law and successively filled, for his native city, the offices of deputy attorney-general, mayor, and district attorney. From 1831 to 1833 he represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate, and from 1833 to 1835 was Attorney-General of Pennsylvania. In 1837 he was appointed American Minister at Saint Petersburg, but was recalled at his own request in 1839. From 1845 to 1849 he was Vice-President of the United States, and as such cast the deciding vote for the tariff bill of 1846. From 1856 to 1861 he was Minister to the Court of Saint James, where he was called upon to deal with two matters of importance, the Central American question and the recall of the British Minister at Washington, Sir John Crampton, both of which threatened for a time to cause considerable friction between the British and the American governments. DALLAS, Robert Charles (1754-1824). An English miscellaneous writer, and a friend of
