TRIUMPHAL ARCH ERECTED IN NEW YORK CITY TO CELEBRATE DEWEY'S RETURN. ly purchased supply ships. The Spanish the chief city of the Philippines at his squadron consisted of the Reina Christina, mercy, but made no attempt to occupy steel cruiser; the Castilia, wooden cruiser; that city. There ensued a period of masthe Don Antonio de Ulloa, iron cruiser; terful diplomacy, which won for the victor the Don Juan de Austria, iron cruiser; the high commendation. Between the imIsla de Cuba, steel protected cruiser; the minent dangers of foreign complications Isla de Luzon, steel protected cruiser; and the operations of the native insurthe Isla de Mindanao, auxiliary cruis- gents under AGUINALDO (q. v.), he er; the gunboats General Lezo, El Cano, acquitted himself with rare judgment. and Marques del Duero, and two After the occupation of MANILA (q. v.) torpedo - boats. Early on Sunday morning, May 1, Dewey attacked the Spanish squadron, under command of Admiral Montojo. Two engagements were fought; during the interval between them the American ships drew off to the east side of the bay, that the men might rest and have breakfast. The fight lasted two hours, and resulted in the destruction of the Spanish squadron, by fire and sinking, without the loss of an American ship or man. Immediately after the receipt of Dewey's brief message of victory, the President promoted him to rear-admiral, and Congress voted him the thanks of the country and a sword. Subsequently, the grade of admiral was revived, and the President conferred it on him. Holding the bay of Manila and the Cavité works, he had by the American troops, he was granted leave to return home, whenever and however it should suit his convenience; and, sailing in his battle-scarred flag-ship, he reached New York on Sept. 26, 1899, and was given the grandest reception ever accorded a public officer, the demonstrations comprising a naval parade up the river to General Grant's tomb, on the 29th, and a land parade on the following day. Subsequently, he established his residence in Washington, D. C., in a dwelling presented to him by popular subscription. Dewey, MELVIL, librarian; born in Adams Centre, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1851; graduated at Amherst in 1874; edited the Library Journal in 1876-81; became director of the New York State Library in 1888; is author of Decimal Classification and Relative Index; Library School Rules, It is of him that the story is told that etc. he sent a lot of warming-pans to the West Indies, which he disposed of at a large profit to the sugar manufacturers for use as skimmers. He died in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 26, 1806. De Zeng, FREDERICK AUGUStus, Baron, Diamond State. A name applied to the State of Delaware because of its small size, its wealth, and its importance. De Witt, SIMEON, surveyor; born in Ulster county, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1756; graduated at Queen's (now Rutgers) College in 1776; joined the army under Gates; and was made assistant geographer to the army in 1778, and chief military officer; born in Dresden, Saxony, geographer in 1780. He was surveyor- in 1756; came to America in 1780 as capgeneral of New York fifty years (1784- tain in one of the Hessian regiments; and 1834). In 1796 he declined the appoint- at the end of the Revolutionary War marment of surveyor-general of the United ried an American lady and settled in Red States. He was regent, vice-chancellor, Hook, N. Y. He was naturalized in 1789, and chancellor of the State of New York, and became intimate with Chancellor ruember of many learned societies, and Livingston, Governor Clinton, General author of Elements of Perspective (1835). Schuyler, and others, and was greatly inHe died in Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1834. terested in the opening of canals and in Dexter, HENRY MARTYN, clergyman; the navigation of the interior waters and born in Plympton, Mass., Aug. 13, 1821; lakes. He died in Clyde, N. Y., April 26, graduated at Yale in 1840; became pas- 1838. tor of the Congregational Church in Manchester in 1844; removed to Boston as pastor of the Berkeley Street Church in 1849. He is the author of Congregationalism of the Last 300 Years; As to Roger Williams and his Banishment from the Massachusetts Colony; History of Old Plymouth Colony; and the editor of Church's Eastern Expeditions; Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip's War. He died in New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 13, 1890. Dexter, SAMUEL, jurist; born in Boston, May 14, 1761; graduated at Harvard in 1781; studied law at Worcester, and became a State legislator, in which place he was distinguished for intellectual ability and oratory. President Adams appointed him, successively, Secretary of War (1800) and of the Treasury (1801), and for a while he had charge of the State Department. On the accession of Jefferson (1801) he resumed the practice of law. He declined foreign embassies offered by Adams and Madison. Mr. Dexter was a Federalist until the War of 1812, when, being in favor of that measure, he separated himself from his party. He was the first president of the first temperance society formed in Massachusetts. He died in Athens, N. Y., May 4, 1816. Dexter, TIMOTHY, merchant; born in Malden, Mass., Jan. 22, 1743. Inordinate vanity and extraordinary shrewdness were combined in him with almost imbecility in all matters excepting those of trade. Diaz del Castillo, BERNAL, military officer; born in Médina del Campo, Spain, about 1498; came to America as an adventurer in 1514, joining the expedition of Cordova in 1517, and of Grijalva in 1518. He served Cortez faithfully and valiantly. During his adventurous career he was engaged in 119 battles and skirmishes, and was wounded several times. He wrote a history of the conquest of New Spain, which he completed in 1568, intended to correct the misstatements of Gomara's Chronicle of New Spain, in which nearly all the glory of its conquest was given to Cortez. Diaz was a rough, unlettered soldier, and his history has been pronounced a I collection of fables." He died in Guatemala, about 1593. 66 Dickerson, MAHLON, statesman; born in Hanover, N. J., April 17, 1770; graduated at Princeton in 1789; practised law in Philadelphia, where he became recorder of the city court. He returned to New Jersey, was elected a member of the legislature in 1814, governor of the State in 1815, and United States Senator in 1816. He was Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. He died in Succasunna, N. J., Oct. 5, 1853. Dickinson, ANNA ELIZABETH, reformer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 28, 1842; made her first appearance among public speakers in 1857, and spoke frequently on May of that year. He was successively temperance and slavery. During the Civil president of the States of Delaware and War she was employed by Republican com- Pennsylvania (1781-85), and a member mittees to make addresses, and after its of the convention that framed the naconclusion she lectured on reconstruction tional Constitution (1787). Letters from and on woman's work and wages. She his pen, over the signature of " Fabius," was an ardent advocate for woman's suf frage. Dickinson, CHARLES WESLEY, inventor; born in Springfield, N. J., Nov. 23, 1823; became a machinist, and gave his attention to fine machinery. He perfected the banknote engraving lathe, first used by the national government in 1862; and invented a pantograph tracer, improved typesetting and type distributing machines, etc. He died in Belleville, N. J., July 2, 1900. Dickinson, DON M., lawyer; born in Port Ontario, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1846; settled in Michigan in 1848; graduated at the Law Department of the University of Michigan in 1866; began practice in Detroit; member of the Democratic National Committee in 1884-85; served as Postmaster-General of the United States in 1888-89. He was appointed senior counsel for the United States before the Bering Sea Claims Commission in 1896. JOHN DICKINSON. advocating the adoption of the national Constitution, appeared in 1788; and an other series, over the same signature, on our relations with France, appeared in 1797. Mr. Dickinson assisted in framing the constitution of Delaware in 1792. His monument is DICKINSON COLLEGE (q. v.), at Carlisle, Pa., which he founded and liberally endowed. He died in Wilmington, Del., Feb. 14, 1808. Dickinson, JOHN, publicist; born in Maryland, Nov. 13, 1732; son of ChiefJustice Samuel D. Dickinson; studied law in Philadelphia and at the Temple in London, and practised his profession in Philadelphia. In the Pennsylvania Assembly, to which he was elected in 1764, he showed great legislative ability, and was a ready and vehement debater. At the same time, he wrote much on the subject of British infringement on the liberties of the colonies. The most noted of these writings were papers (twelve in number) entitled Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, etc., published in the Pennsylvania Chronicle in 1767. Mr. Dickinson was a member of the first Continental Congress, and wrote several of the state papers put forth by that body. Considering the resolution of independence unwise, he voted against it and the Declaration, and did not sign the latter document. This made him unpopular. In 1777 he was made a brigadier-general of the Pennsylvania militia. He was elected a representative in Congress from Delaware in 1779, and wrote the Address of Washington. He died near Trenton, to the States put forth by that body in N. J., Feb. 4, 1809. Dickinson, PHILEMON, military officer; born in Croisedore, Md., April 5, 1739; settled near Trenton, N. J. In July, 1775, he entered the patriot army; in October of the same year was promoted brigadiergeneral; in 1776 was a delegate to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey; in 1777 was promoted major-general of the New Jersey troops; in October of that year marched against the British on Staten Island, for which he received the thanks of Washington; and served with marked distinction during the remainder of the Revolutionary War. In 1784 he served on the commission to choose a site for the city Dickinson College, a co-educational to the bar there in 1856; and in the last institution in Carlisle, Pa.; under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church; organized in 1783; reported at the end of 1900, thirty professors and instructors, 480 students, 45,000 volumes in the library, 3,951 graduates, and $375,000 in productive funds; president, George E. Reed, S.T.D., LL.D. Dickson, JOHN, statesman; born in Keene, N. H., in 1783; graduated at Middlebury College in 1808; practised law in Rochester, N. Y., in 1813-25; member of Congress in 1831-35. He is credited with having delivered "the first important anti-slavery speech ever made in Congress." He published Remarks on the Presentation of Several Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade in the District of Columbia. He died in West Bloomfield, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1852. Dieskau, LUDWIG AUGUST, BARON, military officer; born in Saxony in 1701; was lieutenant-colonel of cavalry under Marshal Saxe, and was made brigadier-general of infantry in 1748, and commander of Brest. In 1755 he was sent to Canada with the rank of major-general; and in an attack upon the fortified encampment of Gen. William Johnson at the head of Lake George (Sept. 8, 1755) he was so severely wounded that he died in Surenne, near Paris, Sept. 8, 1757. Digges, EDWARD, colonial governor; born in England in 1620; came to America and introduced the silk-worm into Virginia; became governor of that colony in 1655, but before the close of the year resigned and became the bearer of a letter from the Virginia Assembly to Cromwell. He died in Virginia, March 15, 1675. Dimick, JUSTIN, military officer; born in Hartford county, Conn., Aug. 5, 1800; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1819; served in the war with Mexico, and greatly distinguished himself at Contreras and Churubusco. In 1861-63 he commanded the depot of prisoners at Fort Warren, Mass. He was retired in 1863; received the brevet of brigadier-general, U. S. A., in 1865. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 13, 1871. Dingley, NELSON, legislator; born in Durham, Me., Feb. 15, 1832; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1855; studied law in Auburn and was admitted mentioned year became editor and proprietor of the Lewiston Journal, a connection he retained till his death. From 1861 till 1873 he was a member of the State legislature, and in 1873 and 1875 was elected governor of Maine. In 1881 he was elected to Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the election of William P. Frye to the United States Senate, and by re-elections held the seat till his death. NELSON DINGLEY. From the opening of his congressional Dinwiddie, ROBERT, colonial governor; born in Scotland about 1690. While acting as clerk to a collector of customs in the West Indies he discovered and exposed enormous frauds practised by his principal, and was rewarded with the |