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DIX, Beulah Marie, (Mrs. George H. Flebbe), American novelist and playwright: b.
Kingston, Mass., 25 Dec. 1876. She has pub lished 'Hugh Gwyeth' (1899) ; 'Soldier Rig dale) (1899) ; 'The Making of Christopher Fer ringham> (1901) ; 'The Beau's Comedy) (with C. A. Harper, 1902) ; 'A Little Captive Lad' (1902) ; 'Blount of Breckenhow) (1903) ; 'The Fair Maid of Graystons> (1905) ; 'Merrylips' (1906) ; 'Allison's Land) (1910) ; 'Betty-Bide at-Home) (1912) ; 'Mother's Son' (1913) ; 'Little God Ebisti) ; 'Maud Melicent' (1914) ; 'Battle Months of George Daurella>; 'Blithe McBride) (1916) ; and is author of two plays, 'Across the Border) (1914) ; 'Moloch) (1915).
DIX, Dorothea Lynde, American philan thropist: b. Hampton, Me., 4 April 1802; d. Trenton, N. J., 17 July 1887. In her youth she supported herself by teaching in Worcester, Mass., but in 1830 fell heir to some property, after which she devoted her life to the relief and betterment of lunatics, paupers and crim inals. She visited the prisons, asylums and alms houses of nearly every State in the Union, and by her efforts contributed largely to the estab lishment of lunatic asylums in those States which had none. She also traveled,extensively in Europe in the same service, and'her efforts materially improved the condition of the insane there likewise. She published several children's books and in 1845 'Prisons and Prison Disci pline.) In 1903 a bill was favorably received in Congress appropriating $10,000 for a monument to her at her The report of the House committee declares: ((Miss Dix oecupies a conspicuous place in history as a philanthro pist. Certainly no other woman in modern times has done more to earn the gratitude of the people of this country than this self-sacri ficing and devoted woman. Her services dur the Civil War as chief of the hospital nurses of the United States and her wonderful success in establishing institutions for the insane — over 30 in number—in the South and West and else where in the country, place her among the noblest examples of humanity in all history.* Consult Tiffany, 'Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix) (Boston 1890).
DIX, John Adams, American statesman and soldier : b. Boscawen, N. H., 24 July 1798; d. New York, 21 April 1879. In 1812 he was ap pointed a cadet in the United States army and in 1813 ensign. He took part in the operations on the Canadian frontier during the War of 1812, afterward studied law and was admitted to the bar in Washington. In 1826 he was sent as a special messenger to the court of Denmark. He resigned from the army in 1828 and began practising law in Cooperstown, N. Y. Later he was secretary of State and adjutant-general of New York and was prominently associated with the "Albany Regency,* the controlling power of the Democratic party. In 1841 he was elected to the State assembly and in 1845-49 was a United States senator. In 1861 he was appointed Secre tary of the Treasury by President Buchanan. At this time there were two revenue cutters at New Orleans and he ordered them to New York. The captain of one refused to obey his
order and Dix telegraphed to put him under arrest, adding the statement which has made him famous, "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.* At the outbreak of the Civil War he was elected president of the Union Defense Committee and organized 17 regiments. He was commissioned a major-general of volunteers and through his active measures saved Maryland to the Union cause. In May 1862 he was sent to Fortress Monroe and after the New York Draft Riots in July 1863 he was appointed commander of the Department of the East at New York and re mained in this relation until July 1865, when he returned to civil life. He was United States Minister to France from 1866 to 1869. He was elected governor of New York in 1872, but was defeated on a renomination in 1874. His publi cations include 'Resources of the City of New (1827) ; 'Decisions of the Superintend ents of Common Schools of New York, and Laws Relating to Common Schools) (1837) ; 'A Winter in Madeira and a Summer in Spain and Florence) (1850) ; 'Speeches and Occa sional Addresses) (2 vols., 1864). Consult Dix, Morgan, 'Memoirs of John A. Dix) (New York 1883).
DIX, John Alden, American statesman: b. Glens Falls, N. Y., 25 Dec. 1860. He was gradu ated at the Glens Falls Academy in 1879 and at Cornell University in 1883. Entering the lumber and paper-making business he became president of the Iroquois Paper Company, treasurer of the American Wood Board vice president of the Blandy Paper Company and of the First National Bank of Albany. He was also manager of the Moose River Lumber Com pany and director of the Albany Trust Com pany, the Glens Falls Trust Company and other corporations. He was delegate to the Demo cratic National Convention at Saint Louis in 1904, received 17 votes for the gubernatorial nomination in 1906 and was Democratic nominee for lieutenant-governor in 1908. He was chair man of the Democratic State committee in 1910 and was governor of New York for the term 1911-12.
DIX, Morgan, American Episcopal clergy man: b. New York, 1 Nov. 1827; d. there, 29 April 1908. He was a son of J. A. Dix (q.v.). He was graduated from Columbia College in 1848 and from the General Theological Semi nary in 1852. He then took orders in the Episcopal Church and after serving for a few in assistant in Trinity Church, New York, e in 1862 the rector of Trinity parish. In November 1902 the 40th anniversary of his rectorship was celebrated. Prior to 1901 he was president of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies in many successive general conventions of the Episcopal Church. He published 'Com mentary on the Epistle to the Romans' (1864) ; 'Exposition of the Epistles to the Galatians and Colossians) (1865) ; 'Lectures on the Pan theistic Idea of an Impersonal Substance Deity) (1865) i 'Lectures on the Two (1872) ; 'Memoirs of John A. Dix) (1883) ; 'History of the Parish of Trinity Church) (4 vols., 1898 1906).