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Other encounters took place on Bloody Island during its existence as a dueling ground, but the parties being comparatively unknown and not of sufficient importance to attract attention, history is silent concerning them and tradition has not preserved the par- ticulars.
The first and last duel between citizens of Illinois was fought in Belleville, St. Clair County, in 1820. The parties were Alphonse Stewart and William Bennett. As made up between the seconds, it was to be a sham duel, with Stewart in the secret. Bennett, suspect- ing the trick, slyly dropped a ball into the barrel of his pistol. Stewart, as a conse- quence, fell mortally wounded. Bennett was convicted of murder. Governor Bond would
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not yield to efforts made to secure his par- don, and Bennett was hanged in the presence of a great multitude. It is stated in a late work on duels that Bennett is the only man who has been executed for taking the life of a fellow-man in a duel since we have become a free people. In all the States of the Union, as well as in England, killing in a duel is mur- der, but here, as well as there, opinion is superior to law. In some of the States the parties have seldom ever been held to an- swer; in others the inquiries in the courts have been confined to the single question of the fairness of the fight, and, this point de- termined in favor of the survivor, acquittal has followed as a matter of course. In writ- ing of hostile meetings between prominent citizens of St. Louis, the affair between Thomas C. Reynolds and B. Gratz Brown in 1857 must not be passed over. Both have held offices of distinction in the State since that time. The quarrel grew out of personal attacks in the newspapers. Reynolds sent the first challenge to Brown, and the latter fixed the terms of meeting with rifles at sixty paces. Reynolds objected on account of near- sightedness, and kept on attacking Brown until the latter challenged Reynolds. As the challenged party he chose pistols at ten paces. Reynolds became fearful of arrest, in which case cowardice would be imputed to him as having willingly encouraged it to avoid the combat. He therefore concealed himself in the house of Mr. Isaac H. Sturgeon for sev- eral days. The parties met at sunrise on the Illinois side, opposite to Selma, about fifty miles below St. Louis. Reynolds' seconds were Ferdinand Kennett and Captain Thomas B. Hudson, with David H. Arm- strong and Isaac H. Sturgeon as advisers. The seconds of Brown were Colonel Robert M. Rennick and Colonel D. D. Mitchell. Brown was wounded in the leg between the ankle and knee. Reynolds escaped unhurt. The duel between General Lucien M. Walker and General John S. Marmaduke should also be mentioned here, as the latter was a citizen of St. Louis and died while Governor of Mis- souri. It took place on a sandbar below Lit- tle Rock in 1863. Walker was in command of the Confederate Cavalry, and Marmaduke in command of a division. The occasion which led to the meeting was this: Colonel John Bull, while in command of a brigade, was sorely pressed by the Federal forces un-
der General Steele. Colonel Bull sent an urgent request for re-enforcement to General Marmaduke. The latter called General Walker to his headquarters and requested him to issue the order, as the chief officer in command. Walker declined the responsi- bility. Hot words ensued, when Marmaduke denounced Walker as a coward. This led to a challenge and a hostile meeting at the place as above stated. The encounter was of the most deadly character. As agreed upon, the parties were to stand ten paces apart, back to back, facing outward, and at the sig- nal to wheel about and, advancing toward each other, to fire until their revolvers were emptied. Walker fell mortally wounded on the second fire. Some years after the Civil War a hostile meeting which attracted some attention took place between two St. Louis journalists, Major John N. Edwards and Ma- jor Emory Foster. The difficulty was occa- sioned by the indiscreet but well meant action of a fair committee of Winnebago, Illinois, inviting the Confederate ex-President, Jef- ferson Davis, to deliver the address. The invitation was accepted, but owing to the op- position manifested, the engagement was cancelled by the Winnebago committee. This led to the publication of some newspaper ar- ticles in denunciation and defense of the Win- nebago people by the St. Louis journalists. A challenge followed, and the parties met in Winnebago to settle the dispute by the code of honor. The seconds were Colonel Harri- son Branch and Colonel W. D. W. Barnard ; the surgeons, Dr. Morrison Munford and Dr. P. S. O'Reilly. After the exchange of one shot, without effect-said to have been a "high line shot"-the parties became recon- ciled and left the field in haste. Indictments were pending and extradition papers forth- coming, but through the influence brought to bear upon Governor Beveridge were not is- sued. St. Louis has also had among her well known citizens some who bore painful evi- dence of their compliance with the code. The Honorable Jerry Clemens, an ex-member of Congress, wounded in a Southern duel, car- ried the evidence in his incurable lameness forever after. Colonel Samuel Lowe still carries in his leg a bullet that struck him in a duel fought in Maryland while quite a young man. The bullet is buried in a muscle and can be plainly felt, yet no surgeon would recommend its removal. General John Bull
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was once a principal in an affair of honor, and has no objections to being quoted as an apologist for and in favor of the dueling code, when conducted in accordance with the rules recognized by gentlemen. General McKin- stry, who was a principal and the second in several noted duels in the unsettled and stormy days of early California history, be- lieves also that the fear of an appeal to the code has a tendency to repress crime and vulgar insolence and insult toward the moral and virtuous in society.
WILLIAM FAYEL.
Duenweg .- A town in Jasper County, on the Missouri Pacific, and the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railways, eight miles southwest of Carthage, the county seat. It has a school and several business houses. January 1, 1900, the estimated population was 400. In 1899 lead and zinc mines in the vicinity produced ore to the value of $418,013.
Dug Springs, Battle of .- After the battle of July 5, 1861, near Carthage, between the Union forces under Colonel Sigel and the State troops under Governor Jackson, Gen- eral Rains, General Parsons and Colonel Weightman, the hostile forces began to con- centrate for the decisive battle which both knew must come, Lyon with Sigel and Sturgis at Springfield, and Price and McCul- lough at Cassville, in Barry County. In the latter part of July, General Lyon learning of the Confederates' presence at Cassville, de- termined to march against them. Accord- ingly late in the afternoon of August Ist he left Springfield with his entire army and be- gan the marches and movements which ended in the battle of Wilson's Creek and his own death on the 10th of August in the same year. On the first night out from Springfield the army bivouacked on Cave Creek, and early on the morning of the 2d resumed the march, the weather being hot and dry and the troops suffering from thirst. The next lialt was at Dug Springs, in Stone County. It was in a valley several miles long, and they could plainly see a cloud of dust which betokened the approach of a hostile force at the other end. It proved to be a body of State troops under General James R. Rains. The Union forces advanced in line of battle with Cap- tain Steele's company of regular infantry in advance, supported by a company of the
Fourth Regular Cavalry under Captain Stan- ley. In this order they were suddenly attacked by a body of State troops who at- tempted to cut off Steele's advance infantry, but the movement was defeated by the prompt action of Stanley's cavalry, which opened fire with their carbines. It was not intended to bring on a general engagement, but a subordinate officer in Stanley's cavalry shouted "Charge"-and the horsemen rode against the opposing line with their sabers. The Confederates broke and fled, and then Captain Totten opened with his guns upon a body of Confederate cavalry just emerging from the woods, frightening their untrained horses and throwing them into confusion. This forced the Confederates to retreat and the fight was over. The loss on the Union side was eight killed and thirty wounded, and on the Confederate side forty killed and forty wounded.
Dulany, Daniel Maupin, pioneer manufacturer, was born July 27, 1816, in Madison County, Kentucky, son of Joseph S. and Sarah (Maupin) Dulany. The elder Dulany was born August 26, 1788, in Cul- peper County, Virginia, and came with his parents from that State to Madison County, Kentucky, in 1799. There he married, in 1812, Miss Sarah Maupin, who was born in Madison County, March 17, 1797, and who was the daughter of Captain Daniel Maupin, a native of Loudoun County, Virginia, and a captain in the Revolutionary War. The paternal grandfather of Daniel M. Dulany, whose name was Joseph Dulany, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, May 6, 1744, and came of French ancestry. He died in Madison County, Kentucky, July 20, 1814. In September of 1816 Joseph S. Dulany re- moved with his family from Kentucky to Missouri, and settled in what is now Howard County. The winter of 1816-7 he passed in what was known as Fort Cooper, residence there being necessary to protection against the Indians. Until 1830 he was engaged in farming in Howard County, and then became a resident of Monroe County, Missouri, where he died in 1861. His wife died in the same county in 1832. Daniel M. Dulany grew up among the pioneers of Missouri and received a limited education in the old time country schools. One of his first teachers was John T. Cleveland, who was an uncle of
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ex-President Grover Cleveland. His school days ended when the family removed to Mon- roe County, where the country was too sparsely settled to support schools. At six- teen years of age he began making his own living, working for small wages, but carefully hoarding his earnings. He engaged in his first business venture in 1845, when, in com- pany with his younger brother, William H. Dulany, he started a small tobacco factory in Paris, Missouri. They conducted this enter- prise successfully until the beginning of the Civil War, when business conditions in this State became so unsettled that they removed their factory to Quincy, Illinois. Theirs was the first tobacco factory established there, and they operated it until 1867, when they returned to Missouri and engaged in the lumber business at Hannibal. There they formed a partnership with J. H. McVeigh, under the firm name of Dulany & McVeigh. In 1881 Daniel M. Dulany was one of the incorporators, and became president, of the Empire Lumber Company, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. At that time, and afterward, he was also interested in numerous other lumber manufacturing corporations, among them be- ing the Rice Lake Lumber Company, of Rice Lake, Wisconsin; the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company, of Chippewa Falls, Wiscon- sin; The Standard Lumber Company, of Dubuque, Iowa ; the Gem City Sawmill Com- pany, of Quincy, Illinois; the Hannibal Saw- mill Company, the R. J. Hurley Lumber Company, of Kansas City, of which he was president ; the Hannibal Door & Sash Com- pany, of which he was also president, and the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, of Grandin, Missouri. Mr. Dulany was elected president of the Bank of Hannibal at the first meeting of its board of directors, and held that position continuously until his death, which occurred at his home in Han- nibal, Missouri, June 2, 1897. His entire life was devoted to business affairs, and only in the earlier years of his career did he find time to hold public office. In 1846 he was appointed deputy sheriff and collector of Monroe County, and in 1848 he was elected sheriff of that county, and through re-election held that office two terms. Later he was elected judge of the county court and filled that office for five years. In politics he was an ardent Democrat of the old school, and his religious affiliations were with the Chris-
tian Church, of which he was an elder and in which he was always a leader of great influence and usefulness. In 1841 Mr. Dulany married Miss Carintha Maupin, of Paris, Mis- souri, who died two years later. In 1846 he married Miss Mary Thompson, of Monroe County, who died the same year. In 1851 he married Miss Ann E. Craig, who died in 1853. In 1856 he married Mrs. Mary Wil- liams, daughter of Pleasant M. Burgess, Esq., of Virginia. Of this marriage was born one daughter, Mary Ida Dulany, who is now the wife of George A. Mahan, a prominent at- torney of Hannibal, Missouri. Although he had reached an advanced age at the time of his death, Mr. Dulany was mourned by the people among whom he had lived for many years as one of the most useful citizens of that community. He was a liberal benefac- tor of the poor and afflicted, and was chiefly instrumental in founding the Home for the Friendless at Hannibal. He donated large sums to charitable institutions, including vari- ous orphan schools of the State, and was one of the principal builders of a large and hand- some church at Hannibal, to the cost of which he contributed more than one-third, beside giving his time to the work. He was espe- cially loved and honored by his fellow church- men of this congregation, who will always remember him as the generous, benevolent and kindly Christian gentleman. His be- quests to public institutions, such as colleges, libraries, orphan schools, homes for indigent children and his church were on a broad and liberal scale and evidenced his kindly instincts and generous nature. Courtly, genial and companionable, he was truly one of "nature's noblemen."
Dulany, William Henry, pioneer and man of affairs, was born January 9, 1818, in what is now Howard County, Missouri. His parents were Joseph Stanton and Sarah (Maupin) Dulany, and in the sketch of his elder brother, which appears in this connec- tion, somewhat extended mention is made of his paternal and maternal ancestors. Until he was fourteen years of age Mr. Dulany lived in Howard County, and in the primi- tive schools of that region he received all the education which he obtained in school. Like his elder brother, he was a pupil of John T. Cleveland, who was an uncle of ex- President Grover Cleveland, and Mr. Cleve-
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land was his first teacher. The family re- moved to Monroe County, Missouri, in 1830, and two years later Mr. Dulany's mother died. He and his elder brother, Daniel M. Dulany, then set out to make their own way in the world, neither of them having a cent of money in his pocket and barely a change of clothing. They were, however, cour- ageous, honest, manly and industrious boys, and inherited a genius for hard work, and superior intelligence, and were deter- mined to overcome all obstacles and make a success of life. William secured a job with one of the pioneer settlers, with whom he remained three years, aiding him to clear up new land and bring it under cultivation. For this he received a compensation of $100 dollars per year. At the end of this three years' term of service he went to work for Colonel A. W. Reed, on Coon Creek, at $10 per month. Here he worked for two years; then he and his brother Daniel began doing various kinds of farm job work, such as split- ting rails, hewing logs, building log cabins, etc. About 1843 William obtained employ- ment in a tobacco factory at Glasgow, Mis- souri, and continued this work until 1845, gaining in the meantime a considerable knowledge of the business. By this time both he and his brother Daniel had saved some money, and uniting their earnings, they started a tobacco factory at Paris, in Monroe County, Missouri. Here they pros- pered until the beginning of the Civil War, and the disturbed conditions incident thereto caused them to remove their manufacturing plant to Quincy, Illinois. William continued to be connected with what was the pioneer tobacco factory of that city until 1849, when the discovery of gold in California attracted him to the Pacific Coast. Crossing the plains with mule teams, he reached the gold fields and remained there until 1842, when he re- turned to the States much better off finan- cially than he was when he left Illinois. After that the tobacco business was largely ex- tended, and proved very profitable. In 1865 he purchased a valuable farm in Randolph County, Missouri, and lived there for a year and a half. He then went to Hannibal, Mis- souri, and joined his brother Daniel and J. H. McVeigh in the establishment of the lum- ber business conducted under the name of Dulany & McVeigh. This proved a pros- perous enterprise, and was continued for
many years. In 1881 the Empire Lumber Company was formed, and Mr. Dulany be- came vice president of this corporation. Later he was interested in the Rice Lake Lumber Company, of Rice Lake, Wiscon- sin; the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Com- pany, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; the Standard Lumber Company, of Dubuque, Iowa; the Gem City Sawmill Company, of Quincy, Illinois; the Hannibal Sawmill Com- pany; the R. J. Hurley Lumber Company, of Kansas City, of which he was vice presi- dent ; the Hannibal Door & Sash Company, and the Missouri Lumber & Mining Com- pany, of Grandin, Missouri. In the conduct of these various important enterprises he has taken a prominent part, and he has long been recognized as one of the most capa- ble and sagacious business men in northern Missouri. As a boy he struggled manfully to obtain a foothold in the business world, and the fortune which he has accumulated has come to him as the result of intelligent and well directed effort, strict integrity in all his dealings, and sagacious management of his business affairs. In early life Mr. Dulany was a member of the Whig party, but in later years he has allied himself with the Prohibition party, of the principles of which he has been an ardent and consistent sup- porter. In everyday life he is a genial, kindly and companionable gentleman of benevolent and philanthropic instincts, devoted to his family and friends and enjoying the respect of all who know him. He is a consistent member of the Christian Church, and a gen- erous and helpful friend of the church and kindred institutions. November 14, 1847, Mr. Dulany married Miss Susan Isabelle Van Zandt, daughter of Isaiah and Cynthia (Til- ford) Van Zandt, residents at that time of Jacksonville, Illinois, but natives of Ken- tucky, where their daughter was born April 2, 1826. Mrs. Dulany died at Paris, in Mon- roe County, Missouri, January 4, 1861. Their children were Mary T. Dulany, who married T. G. Dulany ; Daniel M. Dulany, Jr .; George W. Dulany, William Dulany, Kate Dulany, who died in infancy, and Isabelle Dulany, who became the wife of Dr. John H. Dun- can, of St. Louis. Mr. Dulany was again married November 30, 1862, to Mrs. Tilitha Bodins, daughter of Rev. Anderson Woods, a distinguished minister of the Baptist Church. One son, James G. Dulany, was
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born of this marriage. James Woods, the grandfather of Mrs. Dulany, was an officer in the Revolutionary Army. He was com- missioned November 12, 1776, and his regi- ment was known successively as the Fourth, Eighth and Twelfth Virginia Regiment. James Woods died in Kentucky, September II, 1822.
Dulle, Henry J., manufacturer and public official, was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, June 7, 1848. His parents were Gerhard H. and Anna Mary (Haake) Dulle, natives of Hanover, Germany, who immi- grated to America in 1837, locating in Cole County. The father was engaged in farm- ing until 1854, when he built the "Capitol" mill, which was the pioneer flouring mill in Jefferson City, and from which has grown the present extensive plant of the G. H. Dulle Milling Company. He was a man of strict integrity and a progressive citizen. His benefactions were many and liberal. He was constant in his devotion to St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, of which he was a member, and, in association with his sons, established a brick yard near the site of the present edifice for the sole purpose of making brick for the church and school buildings, donat- ing upwards of 800,000 for the purpose. Not a brick was sold, those remaining being utilized by the family for their own purposes. He died in 1884. The mother, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-eight years, is yet liv- ing with her son. Henry J. Dulle, the younger, was educated in the public schools in Jefferson City, and after completing his studies, entered the mill established by his father, acquiring a thorough practical knowl- edge of every department of the business. His identification with this important indus- try has been continuous for upward of thirty years. In 1869, soon after he began work with his father, the "Capital" mill, established by the latter, near the Executive Mansion, was succeeded by a modern and completely equipped building, standing on the site of the present establishment, which was ope- rated under the firm name of G. H. Dulle & Sons. This management continued until the death of the father, in October, 1884. January 25th following the heirs incorpo- rated as the G. H. Dulle Milling Company, all the shareholders being of the family. The organization then effected continues to the
present time, Henry J. Dulle being president ; Bernhard Dulle, vice president, and John W. Schulte, secretary and treasurer. In 1895 the mill was destroyed by fire, but was at once replaced with the present extensive buildings, with the most improved modern machinery, capable of a daily production of 500 barrels. Mr. Dulle is also largely inter- ested in other important enterprises, being vice president of the J. B. Bruns Shoe Com- pany, and a director in the First National Bank and the Jefferson City Building & Loan Association. His standing as a citizen and man of affairs is attested in his election to various public positions for unusual pe- riods of time. For eight years, ending in 1892, he was collector of Cole County, and he was presiding judge of the Cole County Court for four years, ending in 1898. In politics he is a Republican, earnest in his support of the principles of the party, but taking lit- tle part in party management. He is a mem- ber of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, and has for many years served as trustee and treasurer, occupying these positions when the present splendid church and school edifices were erected. He is ever liberal in support of the church, and his benefactions extend to all worthy objects appealing to the community. He holds membership with the Catholic Knights of America. He was mar- ried, October 3, 1871, at Jefferson City, to Miss Theresa Peschel. Of this union have been born a most interesting and useful fam- ily of children. Edward H. Dulle is a stock- holder in and bookkeeper for the Bruns Shoe Company, Theodore W. is a bookkeeper in the First National Bank, Mamie is the wife of J. H. Bruns, manager of the Bruns Shoe Company; Emma and Ida are at home; Annie, Henry J., Jr., Joseph B. and Rose Dulle are students in St. Peter's School. Mr. Dulle is in the full vigor of life, active in his business and quick to advance every public interest. He is one of the most sub- stantial citizens of his native city, and is re- garded with the highest esteem by all classes. of the community.
Duncan, Robert Dudley, for nearly twenty years identified with the financial in- terests of Missouri, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1858. His father, John S. Duncan, was a native of Culpeper County, Virginia, and his mother, Mary A. Curran,.
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a daughter of Stephen B. Curran, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky. Mr. Dun- can's parents left Kentucky in 1870, and re- moved to Platte County, Missouri, locating at Camden Point. The young man received his primary education in the public schools of that county and passed his boyhood days there after the age of twelve. He entered William Jewell College, at Liberty, Missouri, and after taking a thorough course in that institution graduated in the year 1879. So high did he stand in the college and in such a degree of esteem was he held by the grad- uates of the school that he was elected presi- dent of the Alumni Association for three successive years, serving with marked dig- nity and ability. After completing his college course Mr. Duncan entered at once upon a business career by going into the Exchange Bank of Wells & Co., at Platte City, Mis- souri. In 1885 he was elected a director of the Saxton National Bank, of St. Joseph, Missouri. His experience along this line included practical service in every department of a banking institution, from the position of bookkeeper up to that of assistant cash- ier, in steady line of promotion. He has served as general bookkeeper and teller, and during years of actual contact with the vari- ous departments of a bank, mastered the workings with practical completeness. In 1894 Mr. Duncan was chosen cashier of the Central Savings Bank, of St. Joseph, Mis- souri, and held that position until January, 1896. From that time until June, 1897, he served as secretary of the St. Joseph Young Men's Christian Association. In 1897, fore- seeing a profitable field in the live stock commission business at Kansas City, he re- moved to that place and organized the Mis- souri . Live Stock Commission Company. Upon the enlargement of the stock yards at St. Joseph, Missouri, he opened a branch office of the company there, and in April, 1900, established another branch office at Chicago, Illinois. These three offices are under the personal direction of Mr. Dun- can, who spends a portion of his time at each. His company, of which he is president and manager, has advanced to a position of importance and commercial strength, and makes a specialty of handling cattle loans as well as engaging in the regular live stock commission business. Mr. Duncan resides in Kansas City, where he is popular socially
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