DAMEN, Arnold, clergyman, b. in Holland about 1800. After entering the Society of Jesus, he came to the United States, and the development of the Roman Catholic church in the west is con- sidered to be largely his work. In 1857 he erected a Jesuit establisliment in Chicago ; he also built the great Church of the Holy Trinity, and founded the College of St. Ignatius in the same city. His success as a missionary has been very great. As a pulpit orator he ranks very high in the religious body to which he belongs.
D'AMICO, Carlos A. (da-am-e'-ko), Argentine
statesman, b. in Buenos Ayres in 1844. At the age
of twenty-one he was graduated in law at the uni-
versity of his native city, and opened an office in
Buenos Ayres. At the same time he took an active
part in politics, affiliating himself in the national
autonomist party, of which he is still one of the
chief supporters. In 1868, when the allied armies,
having repelled the forces of Lopez, were about to
invade Paraguay, D'Amico accepted a commission
in a regiment of national guards, was present at
all the battles of the allied armies on Paraguayan
territory, and rose to the rank of major. He then
returned to his law practice, but soon was elected
secretary of the federal senate, and in 1877 to con-
gress as member for Buenos Ayres. In October,
1880, he was appointed secretary of state of the
government of the state of Buenos Ayres, which
office he held until, in 1883, he was called to the
federal senate as senator for Buenos Ayres. At
the expiration of the term of Gov. Roeha, in 1884,
D'Amico was chosen governor of the state of Buenos
Ayres. He is, perhaps, the most popular orator of
the Argentine republic, and in the chamber of
deputies, as well as in the senate, uses his gifts to
defend the interests of his native state and the
federation in general. As minister of the state
government, he initiated measures granting in-
creased facilities for communications with Europe
and the countries of both Americas, and fostering
emigration and the public-school system. He was
one of the originators of the railroad to Mendoza,
destined to cross the Andes after traversing the
immense pampas, and to put Chili in connnunica-
tion with the Atlantic seaboard. During his term
as minister he worked incessantly for the execution
of the project to found a new capital, and, when his
idea was accepted by Grov. Roeha, the foundations
of the new city, La Plata, were laid in 1883. When
he became governor he pushed the progress of this
favorite city still more energetically, and its growth
and embellishment made rapid strides. Under his
administration were either begun or completed the
palace of the government, the ministerial buildings,
the house of congress, the progreso bank, and a
great number of public-school buildings. His term
as governor will expire in the latter part of 1887.
DAMON, David, clergyman, b. in East Sudbury
(now Wayland), Mass., 12'Sept., 1788; d. in Read-
ing, Mass., in 1843. His father was a farmer,
barely able to support his family, so that the son
was dependent for his education entirely upon his
own exertions. He prepared himself for college at
Phillips Andover academy, and was graduated at
Harvard in 1811. He was one of the founders of
the Harvard Lyceum, at Cambridge, in 1810-11,
and was the third scholar in a class of which Ed-
ward Everett and N. L. Frothingham were the
first and second. He studied theology at Andover,
but was not graduated, was licensed to preach 22
Nov., 1813, ol-dained 1 Feb., 1815, and installed as
pastor of the Unitarian church in Lunenburg,
Mass, lie occupied various parishes in New Eng-
land until 1835, when he settled in East Cambridge,
Mass. In January, 1841, he delivered the annual
sermon before the legislature of Massachusetts,
and in May of the same year the Dudleian lecture
at Harvard. The degree of D. D, was conferred
upon him by his alma mater in 1843. His death was
caused by apoplexy, which attacked him while he
was officiating at tlie funeral of his friend, Edmund
Parker. His publications consisted principally of
sermons and addresses.
DAMON, Howard Franklin, physician, b. in
Scituate, Mass., in 1833 ; d. in Boston, 17 Sept.,
1884. He was graduated at Harvard in 1858, and
at the medical department of that institution in
1861. He was physician and superintendent of the
Boston dispensary in 1862-4, and was afterward
admitting physician to the city hospital, and physi-
cian to the department of skin diseases among out-
door patients. He was a member of the American
medical association, of the Boston society for medi-
cal improvement, the Boston microscopical society,
and was corresponding member of the New York
dermatological society. He was the author of
" Leucocythasmia," a Boylston prize essay (Boston,
1864) ; " Photographs of Skin Diseases " (Boston.
1870) ; " Neuroses of the Skin " (Philadelphia, 1868) ;
"Structui-al Lesions of the Skin" (Philadelphia,
1869) ; and " Some General Remarks on the Fre-
quencv of Skin Diseases " (1870).
DAMPIER, William, navigator, b. in East Co-
ker, Somersetshire, 8 June, 1652 ; d. in St. Stephen's
Parish, London, 17 March, 1714. Early in life he
was left an orphan, when he was taken from school
and placed on board of a vessel bound for New-
foundland, and on his return he engaged as a com-
mon sailor on a vessel sailing for the East Indies.
He served in the Dutch war during 1673 under Sir
Edward Sprague, but failing health led him to
settle in the country. In 1674 he became under-
manager of an estate in Jamaica, but soon engaged
in the coasting trade, and made two voyages to the
bay of Campeachy, where he also remained for
some time with the logwood-cutters as a common
workman, and subsequently published an account
of his experiences. In 1678 he returned to Ja-
maica, and then sailed to England, but again re-
turned to the West Indies during the following
year, when he was persuaded to join a party of
buccaneers, with whom he crossed the isthmus of
Panama, and spent 1680 on the Peruvian coast,
successfully plundering several towns. After
another privateering voyage on the Spanish main,
he set out on an expedition, under Capt. John
Cook, against the Spaniards in the South sea.
They sailed from Virginia in August, 1684, cruised
along the coasts of Guinea, and then, doubling
Cape Horn, entered the Pacific. Here the expe-
dition was joined by another ship from London,
bent on a similar errand, and. after stopping at the
island of Juan Fernandez, they cruised together
up the coast of South America, capturing several
prizes. While near Cape Blanco, off the coast of
Mexico, Capt. Cook died, and was succeeded by
Capt. Davis. Here a vessel commanded by Capt.
Swan joined the expedition. Unsuccessful attacks
were made on Guayaquil, and also on a Spanish
fleet laden with treasures from Peru, but they suc-
ceeded in capturing several prizes. After a time-
Dampier left Davis and, joining Swan, set out for
the East Indies across the Pacific ocean. On reach-
ing Mindanao, the crew mutinied, and Swan, with
others, was left on the island. Dampier continued,
cruising in East Indian waters for several years,
until he landed at Bencoolen, where he acted as a
gunner in the English fort. In 1691 he sailed for
England, reaching home in September. Subse-
