ENGLISH, Thomas Dunn, American au thor: b. Philadelphia, Pa., 29 June 1819; d. Newark, N. J., 1 Apnl 1902. He was gradu ated in medicine at the University of Pennsyl vania in 1839. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar. From 1844-52 and 1857-59 he engaged in journalism in New York and Washington. Froth 1852-57 he practised medicine in what is now West Virginia. During the years 1859-79 he divided his time between New York city and Fort Lee, N. J. In the latter year he removed to Newark, N. J., where he resumed the prac tice of medicine. He was a member of the New Jersey State assembly in 1863-64, and of Congress in 1891-95. During all these years he was also very active in literary work. He was the author of 'Ben Bolt,' an exceedingly popu lar ballad (1843), which after having long fal len into obscurity was revived by its employ ment in Du Maurier's novel (Trilby,' but which owed its popularity more to its sentimentality and its musical setting than to any inherent poetical merit. His published writings are (Zephaniah Doolittle: a Poem. From the Manuscripts of Montmorency Sneerlip Snags, Esq.' (Philadelphia 1838) ; Woolf e> 1842) ; (1844; or, the Power of the "S.F.' A
Tale' ; the Secret Action of Parties During the Presidential Campaign of 1844' (New York 1847) ; together with C. G. Foster, (The French Revolution of 1848, etc.' (Phila delphia 1848) ; Fecit, or, the Peer and the Printer' (New York 1867) ; Ballads' (New York 1880); Boy's Book of Battle-Lyrics' (New York 1885) ; Schuyler's Millions' (New York 1886) ; The Rules of Order Governing Public Meetings, etc.' (under the pseud. F. M. Payne, New York 1887) ; (Old Glory: A Song' (1895) ; (Fairy Stories and Wonder Tales' (New York 1897) ; (The Little Giant, the Big Dwarf and Two Other Wonder Tales, etc.' (Chicago 1904). During the period of his New York residence he also wrote about 20 plays for Palmo's Opera House, later Burton's Theatre, on Chambers street, New York, of which only one, Mormons; or, Life at Salt Lake City, A Drama in Three Acts,' has been published (New York 1858). Consult Noll, A. H. (Thomas Dunn English' (in Midland Monthly, Vol. VII, p. 3, Des Moines 1897).