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DAILY, WILLIAM MITCHELL: 1812-1877.
Born at Coshocton, O., in 1812, William Mitchell Daily was educated in the country schools and graduated from Indiana University in 1836, receiving the D.D. degree in 1851. He also received honorary degrees from Augusta College and the University of Louisville. He married Permelia A. Northcraft, of Madison, Ind., about 1843.
Dr. Daily was president of Indiana University from 1853 to 1859. He died at New Orleans on February 5, 1877, and was buried at Madison, Ind.
Information from The University Libraries, Indiana University.
- Funeral Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of Indiana
University, November 13, 1851, Over the Remains of the Late Rev. Andrew
Wylie, President of Indiana University.
Indianapolis, 1852.
- Inaugural Address as President of Indiana University, August
2, 1854. Indianapolis, 1854.
- The Heroic Men: a Baccalaureate to the Graduating Class of
the Indiana University at the Commencement of 1855.
Bloomington, Ind., 1855.
- Our Banner: a Baccalaureate to the Graduating Class of
Indiana University, 1856. Bloomington, Ind.,
1856.
- Zaph-Nath Pa-A-Ne-Ah: a Baccalaureate to the Graduating Class
of Indiana University, 1857. Bloomington, Ind.,
1857.
- Urim and Thummin: a Baccalaureate to the Graduating Class of
Indiana University, 1858. Bloomington, Ind.,
1858.
- The Powerful Pen and the Eloquent Tongue …
Bloomington, Ind., 1859.
- The Great Rebellion. Madison,
Ind., 1862.
- Discourses from the Pulpit.
Cincinnati, 1865.
DAUGHERTY, HARVEY HARRISON: 1841-1919.
Harvey Harrison Daugherty was born in Kentucky in 1841. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Navy, and in 1865 he came to Indianapolis to study and practice law. Two years later he moved to Shelbyville, Ind., married Mary R. Wilson, and served as city clerk and city attorney. He spent the last years of his life in Indianapolis , where he died in 1919.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- Young Lawyer; and Another Essay.
Indianapolis, 1907.
-
Conglomerate; With a Sketch of the
Author's Life
. Indianapolis, 1912.
DAUGHTERS, FREEMAN: 1873-
Freeman Daughters , son of William Turpen and Sarah Elmira Heaton Daughters, was born at Lawrenceburg, Ind., on February 13, 1873, and graduated from Kansas Normal College in 1896 and the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1899. He received the S.T.B. (1903) and A.M. (1915) degrees from Columbia University and the Ed.D. from Intermountain Union College.
After teaching in Bronson, Kan., and engaging in social work in Philadelphia , in 1899 he was made a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church and in 1900 a priest. He served as rector in Idaho and Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1906, but in 1907 he withdrew from the ministry. He engaged in newspaper work from 1906 to 1909, was principal of a high school in Idaho from 1909 to 1914, and was professor of education at the University of Montana from 1915 to 1943, serving as dean of the school of education after 1930.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Ann Boleyn (joint author). 1913.
DAVIS, CLARKSON: 1833-1883.
Clarkson Davis , son of Willis and Ann Coggshall Davis, was born in Wayne County, Ind., on Jan. 7, 1833, and moved with his family to Grant County in 1838. He attended the district schools of Grant County, was a student for one term at Bloomingdale Academy, and spent five months at Earlham College. Private study led to the conferring of the A.M. degree upon him by Earlham College in 1868.
From 1857 to 1863 he was in charge of the mathematical department at Earlham, and from 1863 to 1873 he was in charge of Spiceland Academy, resigning to work for Harper & Brothers, publishers, as their special agent for Iowa and Minnesota . In 1876 he returned to Spiceland Academy as principal.
Clarkson Davis married Hannah E. Brown of Wayne County on Sept. 4, 1862.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I.
- Poems, Papers and Addresses … Published in
Memoriam … (withHannah E. Brown Davis). Richmond, Ind., 1898.
DAVIS, ELMER HOLMES: 1890-
"The reputation of a thorough student of history and politics, a story writer and a novelist who has won popular acclaim stands behind Elmer Holmes Davis , Indiana-born, well-traveled, shrewd and tolerant news analyst. His life interests follow the two traditional Hoosier industries, politics and literature; in his most recent career as radio commentator he achieves a synthesis of both. He was engaged by the Columbia Broadcasting Company Aug. 23, 1939, just as the big war news was breaking, when its ace commentator, H. V. Kaltenborn … was in Europe. For some time his essays on a number of things had been appearing in HARPER'S, FORUM, SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE and other periodicals. In March, 1940, about a dozen of these were collected in one volume, Not to Mention the War.
"Elmer Holmes Davis was born Jan. 13, 1890 in Aurora, Ind., the son of a banker, Elam H., and Louise (Severin) Davis. He took his B.A. at Franklin College in 1910, his M.A. was awarded a year after he left, for courses taken while in residence. In 1910 he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he was elected president of the American Club. While studying at Oxford he began cultivating an interest in foreign affairs and politics, and spent his summers traveling abroad. It was in Paris that he met Florence MacMillan of Mt. Vernon, New York . They were married Feb. 5, 1917 and have two children: Robert Lloyd and Caroline Ann. They live at Mystic, Conn., in the summer, during the winter in New York City .
"His first job was teaching at the Franklin, Ind. High School from 1909 to 1910. Then for a year he was on the editorial staff of ADVENTURE. As a boy he had been printer's devil on the AURORA page: 83[View Page 83] BULLETIN. Ten years later, 1914, he became a cub reporter on the NEW YORK TIMES, rising in another ten years to become feature man on American politics, expert correspondent and editorial writer. He acquired a reputation by creating, during the 1920 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, a character named Godfrey Gloom from Amity, Ind. Godfrey (Davis) was sent for 16 years to conventions, until Davis finally killed him off, and Arthur Krock of the TIMES solemnly wrote his obituary.
"Apart from his newspaper career, Elmer Davis found time to do considerable writing, both fiction and non-fiction …
"Davis has won in a short time nationwide repute an an analyst … His scholarly background and his broad, liberal viewpoint (although one writer says that 'today he would barely qualify as a liberal'), no less than his skeptical mind, enable him to plow through propaganda and rumor in an effort to find the real truth in a report. Even in times of war crises Davis keeps his calm, unhurried manner, sorting conflicting reports, carefully checking all information. When asked recently, however, if he still had 'mike fright,' he said: 'I haven't yet lost the fear that some day I will go insane at the mike and begin spouting treason, blasphemy and (worse) libel.' But so far his manner has been so quiet and casual that he has been called 'a master of understatement.'
"It is likely that Elmer Davis prefers to be known as a scholar and observer, rather than a public figure or celebrity, since he avoids anything in the way of 'showing-off.' … A great deal may be learned about the real Elmer Davis from his book of essays, Not to Mention the War. Having to talk about the War every day, he found considerable pleasure and release in writing these non-War sketches, and published them with the hope that people may like to read about things not immediately connected with these troubled times. But he discovered that he was unable to avoid the War or Hitler, or other current topics even when writing of quite different matters–about Thucydides, cats, music, the world of 1913 or bridge.
"He likes nothing better than to see today in terms of history; he is something of an authority on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, as his essay, The Logic of History shows. As a student of the classics, he believes that reading Thucydides, for example, will help us understand the times we live in better than all the works of moderns. His knowledge of history and politics breaks out in shrewdly drawn parallels when he writes on such matters, for instance, as cats and music …
"His style is both pungent and friendly; he is blunt, candid, witty–a person of broad sympathies and tolerance. Critics are generally delighted with his well-balanced prose, rich with allusion, classical or otherwise, and find he has the indispensable light touch.
"It may be no paradox, in this day of paradox, that an analyst of contemporary politics and events should claim Horace and Catullus (read in the original) as his favorite poets and list the Bible as the greatest book ever written, without a runner-up. And it is comforting to hear from a student of history:
"'With an irrational optimism befitting an alumnus of the absurd age in which I came to the surface, I still believe that higher peaks of human felicity may be ahead; that our race, if it keeps on trying, might make quite a habitable place of the planet on which it resides.'"
During World War 11 Elmer Davis was director of the ONce of War Information.
Condensed from Current Biography, 1940.
- The Princess Cecilia. New York,
1915.
- History of the New York Times, 1851-1921.
New York, 1921.
- Times Have Changed. New York,
1923.
- I'll Show You the Town. New
York, 1924.
- Friends of Mr. Sweeney. New
York, 1925.
- The Keys of the City. New York,
1925.
- Show Window. New York, 1927.
- Strange Woman. New York, 1927.
- Giant Killer. New York, 1928.
- Morals for Moderns.
Indianapolis, 1930.
- White Pants Willie.
Indianapolis, 1932.
- Bare Living (withGuy Holt). Indianapolis, 1933.
- Love Among the Ruins.
Indianapolis, 1935.
- Not to Mention the War.
Indianapolis, 1940.
- War Information. Washington, D.
C., 1943.
DAVIS, HANNAH E. BROWN (MRS. CLARKSON): 1841-1898.
Hannah E. Brown was born near Richmond, Ind., on Nov. 5, 1841, and was educated in the country schools and at Earlham College. In 1862 she married Clarkson Davis and began her career as a teacher at Spiceland Academy when her husband became principal the following year. She taught at the Academy for twenty-eight years.
After her husband's death in 1883 she studied art and languages in Europe. She died in North Dakota on March 24, 1898.
page: 84[View Page 84]Information from Parker and Heiney—Poets and Poetry of Indiana and Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I.
- Poems, Papers and Addresses … Published in
Memoriam (withClarkson Davis). Richmond, Ind., 1898.
DAVIS, SYDNEY BRIAN: 1842-?
Sydney Brian Davis was born in Parke County, Ind., on July 21, 1842, the son of Eli and Nancy McGinnis Davis.
Young Davis attended local grammar schools and was graduated from the Waveland, (Ind.) Collegiate Institute in 1861. He had begun the study of law in 1858, and in 1865 he resumed his reading and was admitted to practice in the Montgomery County bar in 1867.
In 1869 he removed to Terre Haute, where he practiced law and held several public offices. He was interested–as were many of his Parke County contemporaries-in reform; his particular fields were child welfare and prison reform. The date of Mr. Davis' death is not available.
Information from the Indiana State Library.
- Immortality, Reason and Revelation.
Plainfield, Ind., 1904.
DAVIS, THEODORE P.: 1855-1907.
Theodore P. Davis was born at Westfield, Ind., on Jan. 5, 1855. His parents were Newton J. and Louisa Pearson Davis. Davis attended school near Sheridan, Ind., where his father had purchased a farm, studied for a year at the National Normal School, Lebanon, O., and became a teacher.
He read law with the Noblesville, Ind., firm of Moss and Trissal and was admitted to the Hamilton County bar in 1874. He practiced law in Noblesville and married Miss Anna F. Gray, of Piqua, O., in 1887. He became a judge of the Appellate Court in 1892 and died in 1907.
Information from Taylor–Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Indiana.
- Upholding the Honor of the Profession.
DEBS, EUGENE VICTOR: 1855-1926.
" Eugene Victor Debs (Nov. 5, 1855-Oct. 20, 1926), Socialist advocate, was one of the ten children of Jean Daniel and Marguerite Marie (Bettrich) Debs and was born in Terre Haute, Ind. The parents, who were married in New York City on Sept. 13, 1849, were both natives of Colmar, Alsace, and had come to America in that year. After some wandering they settled in Terre Haute in the fall of 1854. Young Debs attended school until the middle of his fifteenth year, when he went to work in the shops of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway, later becoming a locomotive fireman. Four years later (1874) he quit his fireman's job and took a clerkship in a wholesale grocery house. In February of the following year he participated in the organization in his city of a lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, of which he was made secretary, and in 1878 he was appointed associate editor of the FIREMEN'S MAGAZINE. He continued with the grocery firm (doing his work for the labor-union at night) until September 1879, when he was elected city clerk. In 1880 he was appointed (and later in the year elected) national secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood and editor of its magazine. By working incredibly long hours he contrived to fill all three offices until the close of his term as city clerk in 1883, thereafter for ten years giving most of his time to his union. On June 9, 1885, he was married to Katherine Metzel of Pittsburgh, Pa., and in the fall of the year was elected to the lower house of the Indiana Legislature. In 1892 he resigned his offices in the union, but against his protest was unanimously re-elected.
"From an early day he was an opponent of the organization of labor by crafts and an advocate of organization by industries. In June 1893, he took part in the formation of a labor society of the 'industrial' type, the American Railway Union, of which he was chosen president. In several minor contests with employers the new union won considerable prestige, and it came into nationwide prominence through the strike for higher wages (Apr. 13, 1894) against the Great Northern Railroad. Eighteen days later the employees returned to work with most of their demands granted. In June the employees of the Pullman Company, at South Chicago, went out, and an appeal was made to the A.R.U. to aid them by a sympathetic strike. Debs opposed the move as inexpedient, but at a hastily called convention of the union a boycott on the moving of Pullman cars was ordered, and he at once took energetic charge of the campaign. Against the page: 85[View Page 85] protest of Governor Altgeld, President Cleveland ordered federal troops to Chicago; Judges Grosscup and Woods issued a sweeping injunction against the strikers, and on July 10 a federal grand jury, charging conspiracy to obstruct the mails, indicted Debs and three others, who were immediately arrested, and were again arrested on July 17 for contempt of court in violating the injunction. The trial before Judge Grosscup, Feb. 6-12, 1895, resulted in a discontinuance because of the illness of a juror, but on the charge of contempt Debs and six others were sentenced by Judge Woods to six months in the McHenry County jail at Woodstock. Here Debs spent much of his time in reading, with the result that he avowed himself a convert to Socialism. Released on Nov. 22, he returned to Chicago, where he was accorded one of the most remarkable demonstrations in the history of the city, and thence to Terre Haute.
"In 1896 he campaigned for Bryan, but, in June, 1897, brought about the transformation of what was left of the A.R.U. into the Social Democratic Party of America. Three years later a tentative combination was made with the faction of the Socialist Labor party that had seceded in 1899, and Debs, as the fusion candidate for president, polled 96,116 votes. In the following year the two wings were formally united under the name of the Socialist Party of America, and in 1904 Debs was again nominated for president, polling 402,321 votes. About this time he became associate editor of the Socialist weekly, the APPEAL TO REASON, of Girard, Kan., and for five or six years gave his time to editorial work and to lecture tours in behalf of the APPEAL and the Socialist party. At Chicago , June 27-July 8, 1905, he aided in founding the Industrial Workers of the World, but after a time became dissatisfied with the organization and withdrew, though frequently thereafter defending its members from charges he deemed unjust. In 1908 he was again the Socialist candidate, and in a train known as the 'Red Special' made a speaking canvass of the entire country; but though he drew large crowds, his vote (420,973) showed only a slight gain over that of 1904. In 1912 he was nominated for the fourth time, and he again made a general canvass. The year was one of an unparalleled social ferment; and though the liberal platform of Wilson and the specifically progressive platform of Roosevelt were expected to diminish the Socialist vote, it increased to 901,062, or nearly six per cent of the total. In 1916 Debs declined to be a candidate.
"The manifesto of the St. Louis convention of the party (April, 1917), denouncing the war and counseling party members to oppose it by all means in their power, was warmly approved by Debs, though later in the year he favored some modification of the language of the party's policy. But in the following year, stirred no doubt by resentment over the many convictions for sedition, he took more extreme ground. At the Socialist state convention in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918, he delivered a speech in which he bitterly assailed the administration for its prosecution of persons charged with sedition. Four days later, at Cleveland, he was indicted by a federal grand jury for a violation of the Espionage Act, and on Sept. 14, after a four-days trial, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on each of two counts, the sentences to run concurrently …
"He returned to his home, but the following year spent several months in the Lindlahr Sanitarium, at Elmhurst, near Chicago… In 1924 the Socialist party, with Debs's approval, joined the LaFollette forces. In the following year it established in Chicago a national weekly organ, the AMERICAN APPEAL, of which Debs was made editor. His health declining, early in 1926 he went to Bermuda. In April he returned home, but in September again became an inmate of the sanitarium at Lindlahr, where a month later he died …"
Condensed from W. J. G., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. V.
- The American Movement. Terre Haute,
Ind., 1904.
- The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike.
Terre Haute, Ind., 1904.
- Unionism and Socialism; a Plea for Both.
Terre Haute, Ind., 1904.
- Class Unionism … Speech Delivered at Chicago,
November 24, 1905 …
Chicago, 1909.
- Craft Unionism … Speech Delivered at Chicago,
November 23, 1905. Chicago, 1909.
- Revolutionary Unionism … Speech Delivered at
Chicago, November 25, 1905. Chicago, 1909.
- The Growth of Socialism.
Chicago, n.d.
- Liberty. Chicago, n.d.
- You Railroad Men. Chicago, n.d.
- Industrial Unionism: an Address Delivered at Grand Central
Palace, New York, Sunday, Dec. 10, 1905. New
York, 1911.
- Danger Ahead for the Socialist Party in Playing the Game of
Politics (withCharles E. Russell). Chicago, 1912.
- Labor and Freedom. St. Louis,
1916.
- Eugene V. Debs Canton Speech.
Chicago, n.d.
- Walls and Bars. Chicago, 1927.
- page: 86[View Page 86]
- Speeches of Eugene Debs. New
York, 1928.
- Economics, Labor and Capital.
DE HART, RICHARD P.: ?-
Richard P. De Hart served as colonel of the 128th Ind. Regiment in the Civil War (in which he was severely wounded) and resided in Lafayette, Ind., after the war. In later life he bore the title General–probably in the Indiana state militia–was elected judge of the Tippecanoe County Circuit Court in 1902 and was still on the bench in 1909 at the time his one known book was published.
Information from The Soldier of Indiana in the War for The Union, Vol. 2, and from de Hart Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1909. 2
vols.
DEHEY, ELINOR TONG (MRS. THOMAS J.): ?-
Elinor Tong , daughter of Lucius G. and Cecilia Ball Tong, was born in South Bend, Ind., where her father was a lawyer and cashier of the St. Joseph County Bank. Her mother was a native of Lafayette, Ind., Elinor Tong married Thomas J. Dehey and at present (1946) lives in Lafayette.
Information from the South Bend Public Library and from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. II.
- New Manual of Catholic Devotions.
Baltimore and New York, 1901.
- South Bend Blue Book for 1909-1910. South
Bend, Ind., 1908.
- Religious Orders of Women in the United States: Accounts of
Their Origin and of Their Most Important Institutions, Interwoven with Brief
Histories of Many Famous Convents. Hammond,
Ind., 1913.
DE LA HUNT, THOMAS JAMES: 1866-1933.
Thomas de laHunt –"Tommy Dellyhunt" to the majority of his tolerant but faintly derisive fellow citizens in Cannelton–was a character (in both the actual and the Hoosier colloquial sense) of a sort common to New England and the southeastern seaboard but rarely found in Indiana except in the southern river towns. There is (in Indiana, at least) usually only one to the community: he or she lives entirely in the past, dwelling upon the glories of a mighty family or a titled ancestor.
Sometimes there is an estate in escrow to be proved; sometimes there is a book to be written in evidence of the true worth of an ancestor, or the securing of some credit for him, which has been unjustly given to another–but always there is preoccupation with the past; always there is a total unawareness of the present. They are usually gentle people–although occasionally a female of the breed who has inherited a competence and a handsome old home has a tendency to lord it over the neighboring rabble–and they are gently treated by their fellow citizens. They are smiled at but never laughed at; seldom held in high regard but, also, never hurt intentionally.
Thomas de la Hunt was one of these people: his name, according to his fellow citizens, had been Delahunt for at least several generations before his romantic researches gave him evidence to support his own more aristocratic rendering of it. He was small and quiet and self effacing: in a neat, rusty-black suit which gave ready evidence of its age, black tie, black hat, one could, in the Indiana phrase, "tell him a mile off" for what he was.
According to the Cannelton Public Library, the facts of his life are these:
"He was the son of Maj. T. J. and Isabelle Huckeby de la Hunt and was born Nov. 9, 1866, in Cannelton, Ind. He attended grade and high school in his home town and finished his education at Sewanee College (now The University of the South), Tenn. "He contributed a column on local history to the EVANSVILLE COURIER. This column, called the 'Pocket Periscope,' was authentic, witty and entertaining. He wrote the script and also produced the Perry County pageant commemorating the first centennial of Indiana's statehood.
"He was president of the Perry County Historical Society in 1931 and 1932, and he was very active in securing historical data pertaining to the pioneer days."
Mr. de la Hunt passed away July 3, 1933.
Information from interviews with Mr. de la Hunt and from the Cannelton Public Library.
- Perry County; a History.
Indianapolis, 1916.
DE MOTTE, JOHN BREWER: 1848-1907.
Born in Waveland, Ind., in 1848, John Brewer De Motte graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De page: 87[View Page 87] Pauw) University in 1874, received the A.M. degree in 1877, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1887. In 1878 he married Lelia Washburn, who died in 1910.
From 1874 to 1884 he was principal of the preparatory department of Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University and from 1875 to 1891 served as professor of mathematics and physics at the same institution.
He died at Greencastle, Ind., on Sept. 1, 1907.
Information from De Pauw University's dlumnal Record, 1920.
- The Secret of Character Building.
Chicago, 1893.
DENBY, CHARLES: 1830-1904.
Charles Denby , son of Nathaniel and Jane Harvey Denby, was born in Virginia , in 1830 and was educated at Georgetown University and Virginia Military Institute. For three years he taught tactics at the Masonic University in Selma, Ala.
He moved to Evansville, Ind., where he served as editor of the DAILY INQUIRER and in 1855 was admitted to the bar. In 1856 he was a member of the state Legislature. He married Martha Fitch of Logansport in September, 1858.
During the Civil War Charles Denby was a colonel of the 42nd and later the 80th Indiana Regiment. For thirteen years, from 1885 to 1898, he was U. S. Minister to China. In 1899 he was a member of the U. S. Philippine Commission.
Mr. Denby died at Jamestown, N. Y. on Jan. 13, 1904.
Information from Powell–History of Cass County, 1913, and supplied by the Evansville Public Library.
- China and Her People. Boston,
1906. 2 vols.
DENNIS, CHARLES: 1844-1919.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., on Sept. 4, 1844, Charles Dennis lived in Indianapolis after 1852, where he was educated in the grade schools. He learned the drug business but in 1875 turned to newspaper work. He was a partner of George C. Harding in the SATURDAY REVIEW OF INDIANAPOLIS and was a reporter on the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL and the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Ten Days with Francis Murphy: the Man and the Plan.
Indianapolis, 1889.
- Names of Indiana Counties.
Indianapolis, 1917-18.
DENNIS, DAVID WORTH: 1849-1916.
David Worth Dennis , son of Nathan and Evalina Worth Dennis, was born in Economy, Ind., on Apr. 8, 1849. He attended the county schools and prepared himself for college admission at the Spiceland Academy. Entering Earlham College, he received the A.B. degree in 1873 and the A.M. in 1876. He took his Ph.D. degree at Syracuse University in 1886, and in 1889-90 studied at the universities of Bonn and Edinburgh.
His entire life was spent as an educator, first as a teacher in the Richmond, Ind., high school and for thirty-two years as professor of biology at Earlham College. For two years he served as president of Wilmington (O.) College, and for two years he was principal of Bloomingdale (Ind.) Academy.
His first wife was Martha Curl, by whom he had one son, William Cullen Dennis; after her death he married Emma Zeller. Dr. Dennis died on May 13, 1916.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Morrisson-Reeves Library, Richmond, Ind.
- An Analytical Key to the Fossils of the Vicinity of Richmond,
Indiana. Richmond, Ind., 1878.
- Notes and Tables for Twenty Weeks in Experimental Chemistry
and Qualitative Analysis. Richmond, Ind., 1885.
- Capital Punishment! What the Scriptures Teach Regarding
It. Richmond, Ind., 1886.
- Nature Study; One Hundred Lessons About Plants.
Terre Haute, Ind., 1903.
DENNIS, MARTHA CURL (MRs. DAVID WORTH): ?–1897.
Born in Parke County, Ind., Martha Curl was educated in the county schools, attended Bloomingdale Academy and the Normal School at Lebanon, O., and graduated from Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute in 1874.
On June 22, 1876, while teaching at Bloomingdale Academy, she was married to David Worth Dennis, principal of the school. In 1884-85 she was an instructor page: 88[View Page 88] in English at Earlham College. She organized the "History Class" of Richmond, Ind., in 1890 and remained its leader until her death.
Mrs. Dennis was the author of many essays and articles. Her only book, a collection of her poems and essays, was published after her death by the "History Class."
She died in Richmond, Ind., on Feb. 4, 1897.
Information from Earlham College and the Rockville Public Library.
- In Memoriam … Published by the History
Class. Richmond, Ind., n.d.
DICKEY, JOHN MCELROY: 1789-1849.
John McElroy Dickey , son of David and Margaret Stephenson Dickey, was born in South Carolina in 1789. Going to Kentucky with his family, he studied with a cousin, the Rev. William Dickey, and afterwards at a school opened by the Rev. N. H. Hall at Hardin's Creek Church. In 1813 he married Nancy W. McCleskey.
He was licensed to preach by the Muhlenberg Presbytery in 1814 and moved to Washington, Ind., in 1815. To support his family he supplemented his pastoral work by farming, teaching, surveying, and other occupations. After his first wife's early death, in 1818 he married Margaret Osborn Steele.
He organized several churches in southern Indiana, becoming known as "the father of the Presbyterian Church in Indiana." After many years of ill health he died on Nov. 21, 1849.
Information from the Indiana State Library.
- A Brief History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of
Indiana. Madison, Ind., n.d. [1828].
DILLON, JOHN BROWN: 1808?-1879.
John Brown Dillon , facile writer and able historian, was born in Wellsburg, W. Va. (then Virginia), in 1807 or 1808. Little is known of his youth or, for that matter, of his later life. He was respected by his contemporaries, and something tragic in his bearing and manner apparently elicited their sympathy, but no one seemed to be in his confidence; no one seemed to be on terms better than acquaintanceship with him.
He lived alone, in bachelor quarters reported to be more notable for the books, papers and notes with which they were strewn than for order or comfort. Lonely in life, he left no relative or close friend to search out the details or to fill in the outline of his biography.
An orphan at nine, he learned the printing trade and worked for some time in Cincinnati. There the episode probably occurred which is supposed to have prompted the writing of a poem, "The Burial of the Beautiful," which first earned Dillon regard as a writer and which was thought to be the key to the mystery of his lonely life: it was written in his eighteenth year and printed in the CINCINNATI GAZETTE, on which he was working.
Before 1834 Dillon went to Logansport, Ind. He read law–became, indeed, an authority on American colonial law and legislation–and was admitted to the bar but did not practice. Instead he and Stanislaus Lasselle (supposed to have furnished extra capital to match Dillon's technical knowledge) founded the newspaper CANAL TELEGRAPH, of which Dillon acted as editor.
It was during this period that he completed and published the most important historical work relating to the Old Northwest Territory up to his day and for at least a century following. Historical Notes on the Discovery and Settlement of the Territory … Northwest of the River Ohio was published in Indianapolis in 1843 and was immediately recognized for what it was–a sound, scholarly, readable compilation of the facts of settlement gathered from original sources which had been carefully checked in many cases with the men who took leading parts in the events described.
The authorship of this work probably had much to do with John B. Dillon's appointment to the post of Indiana State Librarian in 1845. Although the possibilities of profit in a newspaper published in a town as thriving as Logansport of that day were certainly greater than those offered by the library post, Dillon accepted; income necessary to maintain anything beyond the most Spartan existence was not likely to be of much interest to him.
During the rest of his life Dillon held various minor appointments–assuring an existence and time to write–and he carried out his duties with meticulous care for detail. He served as secretary of the State Board of Agriculture for a few years, was Assistant Secretary of State for two years and held a clerkship in the United States Department of the Interior in Washington from 1863 to 1875. He used these years in Washington to good advantage; two important books page: 89[View Page 89] resulted from his easy access to documents and publications there.
In 1875 he left Washington and returned to Indianapolis, where he had lived as a state employe from 1845 to 1863, and remained there until his death in 1879.
- The History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by
Europeans, to the Close of the Territorial Government in 1816: with an
Introduction Containing Historical Notes of the Discovery and Settlement of
the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio.
Indianapolis, 1843.
- An Address Delivered Before the Editorial Convention,
Assembled at Indianapolis, on the Ninth of December, 1846.
Indianapolis, 1847.
- Notes on Historical Evidence in Reference to Adverse Theories
of the Origin and Nature of the Government of the United States of
America. New York, 1871.
- Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America as Applied to the
Public Lands, Primitive Education, Religion, Morals, Indians, Etc.
Indianapolis, 1879.
- National Decline of the Miami Indians.
Indianapolis, 1897.
DOBBINS, DOUGLAS: 1860–1927.
Douglas Dobbins , teacher, attorney and writer, was born in Shelby County, Ind., in 1860. After attending Franklin College he taught school, was superintendent of Shelby County schools from 1883 to 1887, and for a time edited the GREENWOOD NEWS. He later took up the practice of law. He wrote under the name of Stephen Arnold Douglas. Mr. Dobbins died in 1927.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- Quarrytown. Westerville, Ohio,
1915.
-
Heart Echoes from Old Shelby, and Other
Poems
. Franklin, Ind., 1916.
-
When the Old Flag Goes By and Other Poems
.
- Those Old Home Scenes.
DONNAN, LAURA: 1854-1930.
Laura Donnan was born in Indianapolis in 1854. She received her education in the Indianapolis public schools, the Indianapolis Normal School, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University.
Before joining the staff of Shortridge High School ( Indianapolis ) in 1883, she taught in the public schools of Knightstown and Cambridge City, Ind. At Shortridge and in educational circles throughout the country she is principally remembered for her organization of the Shortridge Senate–a revolutionary step in student government. She died in Indianapolis in 1930.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Our Governments. Indianapolis,
1900.
DONNAN, MAY WINTERS (MRS. WALLACE): 1859-1913.
May Winters Donnan was born in Indianapolis in 1859 and died there in 1913. She was the wife of Wallace Donnan. In addition to her poetry and juvenile fiction she wrote literary criticism which appeared in the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL and in the INDIANAPOLIS PRESS. For many years she conducted private classes in English literature and history at her home and gave readings and lectures at the literary clubs throughout the state.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Various Verses. Cambridge, 1914.
DOOLEY, A. H.: ?-1903.
As a young man A. H. Dooley was a bookseller in Terre Haute, Ind. He became owner and publisher of the INDIANAPOLIS HERALD, was editor of the KANSAS CITY STAR, and later was identified with other Indianapolis newspapers. According to Nicholson–The Hoosiers: "He has found time to preach the doctrine of sweetness and light through the Indianapolis press." Mr. Dooley died in 1903.
Information from Nicholsonm—The Hoosiers.
- History of Elizaville (Boone County) Baptist Church.
Lebanon, Ind., n.d.
DOREMUS, JENNIE BROWN: ?-?
No data on the life of Jennie Brown Doremus , except for the tradition that she was a resident of Kokomo, Ind., has been found.
The title of her book–apparently biographical or reminiscent–suggests Indiana residence.
page: 90[View Page 90]Information from the Kokomo Public Library.
- Jennette Browning; or, a Hoosier Girl's Victory, a
True History of a Remarkable Life. Winona,
Minn. [1889].
DRAKE, DEAMOR R.: 1874
Deamor R. Drake was born in LaGrange County, Ind., Aug. 12, 1874, the son of Reason R. and Salina Ann Stone Drake. He attended the common schools, graduated from LaGrange High School in 1893, and from the Valparaiso Normal College in 1894. He taught school several years in Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County. Several of his poems have been set to music.
Information from the LaGrange Public Library.
- Country Chimes and Other Rhymes.
- Glimpses of Hoosierdom. Chicayo,
1903.
DRAPER, WILLIAM COLUMBUS: 1850-?
Born at Bloomington, Ind., in 1850, William Columbus Draper was educated in the Bloomington public schools and graduated from Indiana University in 1867. As a resident of Trinidad, Colo., he managed a saw-mill and was a lumber merchant.
Information from The University Libraries, Indiana University.
- Esmeralda, and Other Stories. Trinidad,
Colo., 1902.
DREISER, THEODORE: 1871-1945.
Theodore Dreiser , a controversial literary figure in American letters, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., on Aug. 27, 1871.
His parents were John Paul and Sarah Schanab Dreiser. The father was the object of Theodore Dreiser's extreme dislike; for his mother he held an admiration amounting to worship. His book, d Hoosier Holiday, says: "He [the senior Dreiser] was a crank, a tenth rate Saint Simon of Assisi … He worked, ate, played, slept and dreamed religion."–And of his mother: "I certainly had one of the most perfect mothers ever a man had … an open, uneducated, wondering, dreamy mind, none of the customary, conscious principles with which so many conventional souls are afflicted. A happy, hopeful, animal mother … A pagan mother … A great poet mother … A great hearted mother …"
Throughout his autobiographical writing, long passages of which are introspective, Dreiser refers constantly to the poverty of his family and appears to boast of the difficulties in which its members became involved. There are mentioned in d Hoosier Holiday, besides the father and mother: sisters, several of whom "ran away and (in seemingly, only in so far as the beliefs of my father were concerned) went to the bad. They did not go to the bad actually … although I might disagree with many as to what is bad …"; a brother, Paul (Dresser, author and composer of "On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away") who "got into jail"; a brother who "finally died of drunkenness," his brother Rome, who followed the famih" on one of its many moves to a new town only "to get drunk and disgrace us"; a ne'er-do-well uncle and his wife who had four children, "one of whom, the eldest, became a thief (but a very clever one, I have heard); the second a railroad brakeman; the third the wife of an idle country loafer … the fourth, a hunchbacked boy, was to me, at least, a veritable sprite of iniquity …"; and "a half uncle … a stingy, greedy, well meaning Baptist …"
In addition to these relatives, Dreiser reports most of the friends and acquaintances of his youth as eventually becoming bar-flies, odd-job men, women of ill repute (or wives of lawyers, doctors or tradesmen–a status which he regarded as less fortunate than that preceding), as having been imprisoned, killed by accidental violence, or, in the happier cases, as having disappeared leaving no trace.
The bare facts of the Dreiser family's history, shorn of his colorful trimming, seem to be these:
The father had owned a woolen mill in Sullivan, Ind. Fire had destroyed it, and its loss had taken his home and whatever other assets he may have held. The family (there would eventually be ten children) then removed to Terre Haute , where Dreiser senior became either foreman or superintendent of another woolen mill. There Theodore was born.
By the time Theodore was seven some of the older children were working (Paul had become a minstrel show man and had changed his name to the supposedly more appropriate "Dresser"), but hard t!mes, or perhaps the difficulties to peace inherent in the life of a strict Catholic father and a "pagan… animal mother," caused Mrs. Dreiser to take the younger children back to the town of Sullivan.
At Sullivan the monetary situation grew so difficult page: 91[View Page 91] that after two years Paul Dresser–always to be patronized by the younger, more intellectual Theodore–brought his mother and her children to Evansville, where he supported the brood for two years.
After this period the family moved to Warsaw, Ind., where John Dreiser had apparently found employment. Theodore certainly attended a parochial school in Evansville, probably some sort of school in Sullivan, and possibly in Terre Haute. Now he entered the public school at Warsaw and continued there through high school. After working in Chicago for a time, he was enrolled at Indiana University, where he remained through his eighteenth year.
In 1891 he began newspaper work on the CHICAGO GLOBE, going to St. Louis the next year, where he was employed until 1894. In 1895 he became editor of the magazine EVERY MONTH, leaving after a year to do various assignments for HARPER'S, McCLURE'S, CENTURY, COSMOPOLITAN and MUNSEY'S magazines until 1905-06, when he edited SMITH'S MAGAZINE. In 1906-07 he edited BROADWAY MAGAZINE and from 1907 to 1910 served as editor-in-chief of the Butterick Publications (DELINEATOR, DESIGNER, NEW IDEA, etc.). Later he became editor of the AMERICAN SPECTATOR, continuing until January, 1934.
Dreiser was twice married–his first wife, Sarah Osborne White Dreiser, died in 1942, and his second wife, Helen, survived him.
The first of his novels, Sister Carrie, appeared in 1900, when he was experienced as a periodical contributor and editor but was by no means well known. The book was startlingly frank in its treatment of delicate subject matter, and Dreiser's publishers withdrew it almost immediately, but the notoriety it acquired by its suppression was sufficient to gain a recognition of sorts for its author. Other fairly successful books followed, and in 1916 Dreiser produced The Genius, which enjoyed the benefits of being banned in several cities with resulting publicity. His next books sold widely, and, after a suitable period, another sensational and frequently banned novel, An American Tragedy, added a stimulant to his fame, which lasted to within a few years of his death on Dec. 28, 1945.
A half century or so–during which the sensationalism which marked his best known novels will have had time to mellow–should give some clear decision as to Theodore Dreiser's contribution to Twentieth century literature. During his life he was, to transplanted Hoosier critic George Jean Nathan, "the most important American author"; to many a reader of sound but less exotic taste he was only a gloomy and dirty-minded man whose prose was tortuous. To Llewelyn Powys, he was possessed of "great lumbering imagination, full of divine curiosity … I never fail to feel awe at the struggles of this ungainly giant, whose limbs are still half buried in clay." H. L. Mencken said of him, "He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved." To many a Midwesterner he seemed to be only a writer who could find a rotten spot in every apple. Jacob Piatt Dunn, ardent Hoosier, was admittedly irritated by Dreiser's rumbling philosophical wanderings and cavalier treatment of his Indiana friends and relatives in A Hoosier Holiday. Putting the common plaint in words, Dunn wrote: "He was afflicted with the Marie Bashkirtseff idea that it is fine to bare your soul to the world, unconscious of the fact that the average soul is more presentable in a fig-leaf–much more so in pajamas."
Information from Who's Who in America; Dunn–Indiana and Indianans; Dreiser–A Hoosier Holiday; Dictionary of American Biography; Living Authors; etc., etc.
-
Sister Carrie
. 1900.
-
Jennie Gerhardt: a Novel
. New York, 1911.
- The Financier. New York, 1912.
-
A Traveler at Forty
. New York, 1913.
-
The Titan
. New York, 1914.
- Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural.
New York, 1916.
-
A Hoosier Holiday
. New York, 1916.
-
The Genius
. New York, 1917.
- The Bulwark. New York, 1917.
-
Free and Other Stories
. New York, 1918.
- The Hand of the Potter; a Tragedy in 4 Acts.
New York, 1918.
-
Twelve Men
. New York, 1919.
-
Hey, Rub-a-Dub-Dub; a Book of the Mystery and
Wonder and Terror of Life
. New York, 1920.
- A Book About Myself. New York,
1922. (Reissued in 1931 as Newspaper
Days.)
- The Color of a Great City. New
York, 1923.
- An American Tragedy. New York,
1926. 2 vols.
- Moods, Cadenced and Declaimed. New
York, 1926.
- Chains; Lesser Novels and Stories. New
York, 1927.
- Dreiser Looks at Russia. New
York, 1928.
- A Gallery of Women. New York,
1929.
- My City. New York, 1929.
- Epitaph; a Poem. New York, 1930.
- Fine Furniture. New York, 1930. 6 vols.
- Dawn; a History of Myself. New
York, 1931.
- Tragic America. New York, 1932.
- America Is Worth Saving. New
York, 1941.
- page: 92[View Page 92]
- The Bulwark. New York, 1946.
- Best Short Stories. (Edited byHoward Fast.) Cleveland, O., 1947.
- The Stoic. New York, 1947.
DRIVER, LEEOTIS LINCOLN: 1867-
Leeotis Lincoln Driver , son of Joab and Mary Ellen Burres Driver, was born in Stony Creek Township, Randolph County, Ind., on Feb. 22, 1867, and graduated from Central Normal (now Canterbury) College at Danville, Ind., in 1883. He received the A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1919, the A.M. from Earlham College in 1919, and an LL.D. from Wabash in 1921. On Apr. 15, 1886, he married Carrie Ann Wood.
From 1883 to 1887 he was a teacher in the elementary schools of Randolph County, from 1895 to 1907 in the Winchester (Ind.) High School, serving as principal after 1900, and from 1907 to 1920 superintendent of schools in Randolph County. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1920, where from 1920 until 1937 he was associated with the Department of Public Instruction for that state.
Mr. Driver was the author of many articles on rural school consolidation.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Past and Present of Randolph County, Indiana (withJohn L. Smith). Indianapolis, 1914.
-
The Organization of Public Education for Service in the New
Democracy …
DRURY, AUGUSTUS WALDO: 1851-1935.
Augustus Waldo Drury , son of Morgan Shortridge and Elizabeth Lambert Drury, was born in Madison County, Ind., on Mar. 21, 1851. After graduating from Western (now Coe) College in Iowa in 1872 he taught Greek and Latin there for one year. He then entered Bonebrake Theological Seminary at Dayton, O. , from which he graduated in 1877 and was ordained to the United Brethren ministry. After 1880 he was associated with the Seminary, first as professor of church history and after 1892 as professor of systematic theology. He died Feb. 18, 1935.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Life of Rev. Philip William Otterbein, Founder of the Church
of the United Brethren in Christ. Dayton, 1884.
- Life of Bishop J. J. Glossbrenner.
Dayton, 1889.
- Disciplines of the United Brethren in Christ.
Dayton, 1895.
- Otterbein Birthday Book. Dayton.
- Baptism, Its Place in the Church Visible.
Dayton, 1902.
- History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County,
Ohio. Chicago, 1909.
2 vols.
- Outlines of Doctrinal Theology, With Preliminary Chapters on
Theology in General and Theological Encyclopedia.
Dayton, 1914.
- History of the Church of the United Brethren in
Christ. Dayton, 1924.
DRURY, MARION RICHARDSON: 1849-1939.
Marion Richardson Drury , son of Morgan S. and Elizabeth Lambert Drury, was born at Pendleton, Ind., on Dec. 27, 1849, and graduated from Western (now Coe) College in 1872, receiving the A.M. degree in 1875. In the latter year he also graduated from Union Biblical (now Bonebrake Theological) Seminary. He married Lucinda Denny on June 20, 1872.
Ordained to the United Brethren ministry in 1875, he served as pastor of churches in Iowa, Ohio, and California until 1910, when he became president of Philomath College in Oregon . From 1913 to 1916 he was president of Leander Clark College in Iowa , from 1917 to 1919 pastor at Cedar Rapids , from 1912 to 1922 student secretary of Coe College, and after 1922 missionary in Puerto Rico . He was editor or compiler of several books besides those listed.
He died on Feb. 21, 1939.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- At Hand: a Pocket Vocabulary of Daily Duty and Privilege for
the Use of Christian Young People. Dayton, O.,
1895.
- Life of Bishop J. W. Hott. Dayton,
O., 1902.
- Our Catechism. Dayton, O., n.d.
- After Eighty Years. 1930.
- Reminiscences of Early Days in Iowa. 1931.
- Life of Augustus Waldo Drury. 1936.
DUFOUR, JOHN JAMES: 1763-1827.
" John James [christened Jean Jacques] Dufour … pioneer viticulturist and founder of the Swiss vineyards in America, eldest child of Jean Jacques [Rudolf] Dufour, a Swiss vinedresser, was born in the commune of Chatelard, district of Vevay, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. He came to America in 1796 with page: 93[View Page 93] the definite purpose of founding a grape colony to cultivate the grape for wine. After an extensive search for a suitable situation for the vineyard, he arrived at Lexington, Ky. , on Aug. 28, 1798, where he organized a vineyard association. A tract of 630 acres, called the First Vineyard, was purchased on the Kentucky River about twenty-five miles from Lexington . After the vineyard was well started, Dufour sent for his brothers and sisters in Switzerland . They, with relatives and friends, a little band of seventeen, arrived at the First Vineyard in the summer of 1801. They were full of hope but their efforts were doomed to failure, as a fatal disease soon attacked the vines. Some members of the colony then started the Second Vineyard … at … Vevay, Ind. The subscribers to the Vineyard Association having become disheartened, the association was dissolved and the full burden of carrying on the vineyards rested on the Swiss colony. In 1806 Dufour was obliged to return to Europe. He left the vineyards in the hands of his younger brothers. The second war with England broke out in his absence and he was delayed in returning until 1816. In the meantime his brothers abandoned the First Vineyard and joined the other colonists at Vevay . Here Dufour joined them on his return to America and here he wrote his book, The American Vine-Dresser's Guide … He died at Vevay at the age of sixty-four, a few months after his book was published. He was a man of unusual intelligence, forethought, and perseverance. While his grape colony experiments ended in failure, he contributed an important chapter to the history of grape growing in America."
Condensed from C. R. B., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. V.
- The American Vine-Dresser's Guide, Being a Treatise
on the Cultivation of the Vine and the Process of Wine Making; Adapted to
the Soil and Climate of the United States …
Cincinnati, 1826.
DUMONT, JULIA LOUISA CORY (MRS. JOHN L.): 1794-1857.
Julia Louisa Cory (also "Corey" and sometimes "Carey"), daughter of Ebenezer and Martha D. Cory [?] was born in Marietta, O. , in October, 1794, a few months after her father's death, presumably at the hands of Indians. Her parents had come to Ohio from New York , and after her husband's death Mrs. Cory returned with her infant daughter to New York the following spring. She supported herself and baby by doing tailoring, then married R. Manville (or Man & ville), a widower with six children. After his death she again became a tailoress.
Julia Cory grew up in New York , attended Milton Academy, and taught school for two years. In August, 1812, she married John L. Dumont and accompanied him to Cincinnati, O. , where he became a land agent for William Henry Harrison. In 1814 they came to Vevay, Ind., where they reared their family (eleven children were born to them, several of whom died in childhood) and where Mrs. Dumont, about 1820, began her teaching career. John Dumont was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1818, filled various local offices in Vevay , and was Switzerland County's representative in the first Indiana Legislature. He also ran for governor of the state in 1837 but was defeated.
Mrs. Dumont is probably best known for having taught the Eggleston brothers–Edward and George Carey–both having praised her highly in their writings. Her literary reputation is principally based on the fact that she was Indiana 's first short story writer and the first widely known woman writer of the Middle West. She wrote during the era of the first successful American literary magazines, and her contributions did much to encourage new and struggling ones. Among the publications in which her stories appeared were THE CINCINNATI LITERARY GAZETTE, THE CINCINNATI MIRROR, THE WESTERN GEM AND CABINET OF LITERATURE, THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, and THE SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL AND MONTHLY REVIEW. One of the earliest of her writings to be published in the West was "Theodore Harland," which won a contest sponsored by the CINCINNATI CHRONICLE in 1827 and was republished in other papers. Although she attempted to write realistically of the western scene, she could not divorce herself entirely from the romantic style of her day. In 1856 her stories were collected and published in one volume, Life Sketches from Common Paths.
Mrs. Dumont died at Vevay on Jan. 2, 1857.
Information from Briscoe–unpublished ms. The Hoosier School of Fiction and the INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Vol. 34.
- Life Sketches from Common Paths: a Series of American
Tales. New York, 1856.
DUNGAN, DAVID ROBERTS: 1837-?
David Roberts Dungan , son of James and Mary Ann Johns Dungan, was born in Noble County, Ind. page: 94[View Page 94] on May 15, 1837. In 1859 he was ordained to the Christian (Disciples) ministry and from 1861 to 1867 was a missionary in Nebraska . He was regent of the University of Nebraska from 1868 to 1872. In 1884, while professor of exegesis and history at Drake University, Ia. , he received his A.M. He was president of Cotner University (1890-96), president (1900-02) and dean of the Bible Department (1902-05) of Christian University, and, after 1905, professor of sacred literature at Drake University.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- On the Rock; or, Truth Stranger Than Fiction.
St. Louis, 1872.
- Prohibition vs. License. Oscaloosa,
Iowa, 1875.
- Modern Revivalism. Oscaloosa,
Iowa, 1876.
- Our Plea and Our Mission; or, Is There Sufficient Reason for
Our Existence as a Separate Religious Body? Oscaloosa,
Iowa, 1876.
- Modern Phases of Skepticism. 1877.
- Rum and Ruin; the Remedy Found. Oscaloosa,
Iowa, 1879.
- Chang Foo; or, the Latest Fashions in Religion.
Cincinnati, 1885.
- Mistakes of Ingersoll about Moses. St.
Louis, n.d.
- Sabbath or Lord's Day? St.
Louis, n.d.
- Moses, the Man of God. St.
Louis, 1899.
- Rosa Gray. Cincinnati, 1904.
- Tour Through Bible. 1908.
- Outline Studies in the Life of Christ. Des
Moines, 1909.
DUNN, JACOB PIATT: 1855-1924.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., in 1855, Jacob Piatt Dunn graduated from Earlham College in 1874 and attended the University of Michigan.
For about ten years he engaged in newspaper work in Colorado , being connected with various papers in that state. In 1888 he returned to Indiana , where he was associated with the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL and the literary bureau of the Democratic State Central Committee. He became Indiana State Librarian in 1891, and during this service wrote regularly for the INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. He was also an editorial writer for the INDIANAPOLIS STAR.
Mr. Dunn died in Indianapolis in 1924.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Massacres of the Mountains: History of the Indian Wars of the
Far West. New York, 1886.
- Indiana, a Redemption from Slavery. New
York, 1888.
- Manual of the Election Law in Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1889.
- New Tax Law of Indiana and the Science of Taxation.
Indianapolis, 1892.
- Libraries of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1893.
- Slavery Petitions and Papers.
Indianapolis, 1894.
- Documents Relating to the French Settlements on the
Wabash. Indianapolis, 1894.
- The World's Silver Question (withMrs. S. A. Wrigley). Indianapolis, 1894.
- Fallacy and Fraud of the Overstreet Bill.
Indianapolis, 1898.
- The Mission to the Ouabache.
Indianapolis, 1902.
- Negro Issue. Indianapolis, 1904.
- Father Gibault, the Patriot Priest of the Northwest.
Springfield, Ill., 1905.
- The Word Hoosier; and John Finley (withMrs. S. A. Wrigley). Indianapolis, 1907.
- True Indian Stories, with Glossary of Indiana Indian
Names. Indianapolis, 1908.
- Greater Indianapolis: the History, the Industries, the
Institutions, and the People of a City of Homes.
Chicago, 1910. 2
vols.
- Proposed Constitution of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1911.
- Memorial and Genealogical Record of Representative Citizens
of Indiana. Indianapolis, 1912.
- Memorial Record of Distinguished Men of Indianapolis and
Indiana. Chicago, 1912.
- The Unknown God, and Other Orthodox Essays.
Indianapolis, 1914.
- History of Indiana. Supplement to Gordy's History of
the United States. New York, 1916.
- Indiana and Indianans, a History of Aboriginal and
Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood.
Chicago, 1919. 5
vols.
- Constitutional Amendments and the Democratic Party.
Greenfield, Ind., 1921.
DYE, CHARITY: 1849-1921.
Born in Mason County, Ky., in 1849, Charity Dye spent most of her life in Indiana . She was educated in the county schools, May's Lick Academy (Ky.), and the McClain Institute at Indianapolis . She graduated from the Normal School at Indianapolis and received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1900.
Miss Dye taught in the public schools of Indianapolis and was a member of the Indiana Historical Commission. She edited and compiled several books besides those listed.
Miss Dye died in Indianapolis in 1921.
page: 95[View Page 95]Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Story Teller's Art: a Guide to the Elementary
Study of Fiction. Boston, 1898.
- Letters and Letter Writing as Means to the Study and Practice
of English Composition. Indianapolis, 1903.
- Historical Pageant, Closing the Centennial Celebration, June
6-13, 1914, of the Founding of New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814 …
Indianapolis, 1914.
- Pageant Suggestions for the Indiana Statehood Centennial
Celebration. Indianapolis, 1916.
- Some Torch Bearers in Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1917.
DYE, JOHN T.: 1835-1913.
John T. Dye , Indianapolis attorney, was born in Kentucky in 1835. A member of the firm of Dye and Harris, from which he later withdrew to enter railway practice, he was the first president of the Indianapolis Bar Association (1878). His wife was Annie Glenn Holton Dye.
Mr. Dye was the author of some works on law, besides the book listed here.
He died in 1913.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Ideals of Democracy: Conversations in a Smoking Car.
Indianapolis, 1908.
DYER, SIDNEY M.: 1814-1898.
Sidney M. Dyer , father of Mattie Dyer Britts, was born in Cambridge, N. Y., on Feb. 11, 1814. Although he attended Amity Street Classical School in New York City for a time, he was chiefly self-taught. In 1836 he began the study of theology, and he was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1842.
After serving as a missionary among the Choctaw Indians and as secretary of the Indian Mission Board in Louisville , he came, in 1852, to Indianapolis as pastor of the First Baptist Church. He remained there for about seven years before going to Philadelphia as district secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society. He died in 1898.
He is principally remembered for his songs–he composed the lyrics for a great many–but he was also the author of several books.
Information from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, and Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Voices of Nature, and Thoughts in Rhyme.
Louisville
1849.
- Dyer's Psalmist; a Collection of Hymns and Sacred
Songs for the Use of Baptist Churches.
Louisville, 1851.
- An Olio of Love and Song Delivered Before the Athenian
Society of Indiana University, July 31, 1855.
Indianapolis, 1855.
- Songs and Ballads. New York,
1857.
- The Drunkard's Child. New
York, 1865.
- Home and Abroad; or, the Wonders of Familiar Objects.
Philadelpkia, 1872.
- Black Diamonds; or, the Curiosities of Coal.
Philadelphia, 1873.
- Great Wonders in Little Things.
Pkiladelphia, 1874.
- Boys and Birds; or, Miss Truat's Mission.
Philadelphia, 1874.
- Hoofs and Claws. Pkiladelpkia,
1875.
- Ocean Gardens and Palaces; or, the Tent on the Beach.
Philadelphia, 1876.
- Elmdale Lyceum; or, God's Mighty Workers.
Philadelphia, 1877,.
- The Beautiful Ladder; or, the Two Students.
Philadelphia, 1881.
DYER, W. LINCOLN: ?-
Mr. Dyer was a resident of Cloverdale, Ind. The introduction to his book of verse (written by John Clark Ridpath) refers to it as "the work of a beginner, whose mind, without the discipline of learning, seeks expression for its moods and emotions and hopes in the form of verse." Information from the Greencastle Public Library and the Indiana State Library.
- Rhymes of a Radical.
Indianapolis, 1890.
