Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . N, Alexander S., lawyer, b. in Catherine,Tioga co., N. Y., 15 Feb., 1809. He received anacademical education, and studied law. Afterhis admission to the bar he settled in Elmira, andacquired a large practice. He was elected a statesenator in 1858, and then was sent to congress as aRepublican, serving from 4 July, 1861, till 3 March, 1863. Soon afterward he entered the volunteerarmy, becoming captain in May, 1863, and rose tillhe was made brevet brigadier-general in August, 1864. In January, 1865, he resigned his commissionand returned to Elmira. Su
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . N, Alexander S., lawyer, b. in Catherine,Tioga co., N. Y., 15 Feb., 1809. He received anacademical education, and studied law. Afterhis admission to the bar he settled in Elmira, andacquired a large practice. He was elected a statesenator in 1858, and then was sent to congress as aRepublican, serving from 4 July, 1861, till 3 March, 1863. Soon afterward he entered the volunteerarmy, becoming captain in May, 1863, and rose tillhe was made brevet brigadier-general in August, 1864. In January, 1865, he resigned his commissionand returned to Elmira. Subsequently he becamevice-president of the Erie railway company. DIVOL, Ira, instructor, b. in Topham, Vt., inOctober, 1820; d. in Baraboo, Wis., 22 June, lost both parents while still a child, and wasfitted for college by an elder brother. He wasgraduated at the University of Vermont in 1847,and, going to New Orleans, became principal of agrammar-school. In 1852 he turned his attentionto law, but removed to St. Louis in 1855, and was. ffltsi-e^r (fQiJCur elected superintendent of the public schools, hold-ing this office for eleven year-, when failing healthcompelled his withdrawal. He was ;elected state superintendent of public schools. His firm policy carried the schools safely through the dangers oi the civil war, and prevented their dis-integration. He also laid the foundation of thepubllC-SChoo] library, which afterward became thepublic library in St. Louis. DIX, Dorothea Lynde, philanthropist, b. inWorcester, Mass., about 1704; d. in Trenton. ,10 July, 1887. After the death, in 1821. of \^-,rfather, a merchant in Boston, she established aschool for girls in that city. Hearing of tie- neg-lected condition of the convicts in the state prison,she visited them,and became interested in the wel-fare of the unfortunate classes, for whose eleva-tion she labored until 1834, when, her health be-coming impaired, she gave up her school andvisited Europe, having inher
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