fliid chief justice of the state. He delivered a charge to the grand jury of Charleston on 22 April, in wnich he declared that the king had abdicated the government, and had no more authority over the people of South Carolina. On 15 Oct., 1776, and in October, 1777, he delivered other charges bearing on the question of independence, which had a powerful effect both in this country and Great Britain. During the absence of John Rut- ledge in 1777 the duties of president of the state devolved upon him, and in 1778 he was elected a -delegate" to the Continental congress, of which he continued an active member till his death. He strongly opposed, in a pamphlet, the propositions of conciliation presented by Lord Howe, and on 12 July, 1778, was appointed, with John Hancock and William Duer, to conduct the French minister to Philadelphia. He left a narrative of the events of the Revolution, which was edited and published by his son, Gov. John Drayton, under the title "Memoirs of the American Revolution " (2 vols., Charleston, 1821). — His only son, John, governor of South Carolina, b. in South Carolina in 1766; d. in Charleston, S. C, 22 Nov., 1822, was educated at Princeton, under Dr. Witherspoon, and in Eng- land. He was admitted to the bar, began practice in Charleston, and was elected lieutenant-governor in 1798, becoming governor by the death of Gov. Edward Rutledge, 23 Jan., 1800. He was elected to the office in December, served two years, and was again elected for the term of 1808-'10. While governor in 1801, he used his influence for the establishment of South Carolina college. On 7 May, 1812, he was appointed by President Madison U. S. judge for the district of South Carolina, and served till his death. Besides his father's memoirs. Gov. Drayton published "• Letters written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States " (1794), and "A View of South Carolina" (1802).
DRESSER, Horace, lawyer, d. 27 Jan., 1877.
He was graduated at Union in 1828. Mr. Dresser
was one of the first lawyers who spoke in the New
York courts in behalf of the negro race, and his
best energies were devoted to defending and assisting
fugitive slaves. He wrote much on constitutional
questions, and published “The Battle
Record of the American Rebellion” (New York,
1863), and “Internal Revenue Laws as Amended
to July, 1860” (New York, 1866).
DREUILLETTES, Gabriel, Jesuit, b. m
France in 1593 ; d. in Quebec in 1681. He came
to this country in August, 1643, and was sent the
next year to winter among the Algonquins. Here
he lest his sight, which he recovered in an extraor-
-dinary manner — miraculously, as he supposed. In
1650 he was sent to Boston to propose a per-
petual alliance between the French and English
-colonies independent of any wars between the
sovereigns of England and France. From some of
the writings of Father Dreuillettes it would appear
that a proposal to this effect had come from the
elder Winthrop. Dreuillettes set out in August,
1650, and after much suffering reached Coussinook
(Augusta) and presented his credentials to John
Winthrop, the Plymouth agent, who went with
him to Boston. There he saw Gov. Dudley, of
Massachusetts, who referred him to Plymouth, as
Kennebec was under the jurisdiction of that col-
ony. He was received favorably by Gov. Bradford,
but found that only the commissioners of the
United colonies had power to enter into any treaty.
After many unsuccessful efforts to influence the
delegates of the colonies, he returned to Kennebec,
visiting the English missionary John Eliot on
the way, and then went to Quebec. Full details of
his journey are given in his " Narre du A'oyage
faict pour les missions," and in his " Epistola ad
Doin. Joannem Winthrop." He was next placed
among the Montagnais, Kristineaux, Papinachois,
and Abnakis. He accompanied a French expedi-
tion to the west in 1656, and made an unsuccessful
attempt to reach Hudson's bay by land in 1661.
After instructing Marquette in the Indian dialect,
he followed him to the west, and, although broken
by age and infirmities, he labored at Sault St. Marie
up to 1679, when he returned to Quebec.
DREW, Daniel, capitalist, b. in Carmel, Putnam
CO., N. Y., in 1788 ; d. in New York city, 19 Sept.,
1879. He began active life as a cattle-dealer, but
soon became connected with steamboat-building,
and constructed many of the Hudson river boats.
Still later he became identified with railroad enter-
prises, and was a prominent speculator in Wall
street. When in the height of prosperity his
fortune was estimated at from $5,000,000 to"fl5,-
000,000. In 1866 he was treasurer of the Erie
railroad company, to which he lent the sura of
$3,500,000, receiving as security $3,000,000 of
shares of unused stock and $3,000,000 of bonds
convertible into stock. He began to sell the stock
" short " at the prevailing high price, Cornelius
Vanderbilt and his adherents being the purchasers.
When the contracts matured Drew converted the
bonds into stock and threw into the market the
58,000 shares of stock that he possessed. The
matter resulted in litigation, which drove Drew
and his party to New Jersey, where they remained
until the case was settled. Drew afterward lost
heavily, and when the firm of Kenyon, Cox & Co.,
of which he was a partner, failed, he was compelled
to make an assignment and ultimately to go into
bankruptcy. He gave liberally to Methodist edu-
cational institutions, founding the " Drew ladies'
seminary" at Carrael, and giving large sums to
Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn. In 1866
he gave $250,000 to found the Drew theological
seminary of Madison, N. J., and increased this sum
by successive donations to nearly $1,000,000.
DREW, George Alexander, Canadian jurist,
b. near the village of Williamstown, Glengarry co.,
Ont., 28 Feb., 1827. He is descended from Scotch
loyalists who settled in Canada at the time of the
American Revolution. He was educated at the
grammar-schools in Williamstown and Cornwall,
studied law under the late John Sandfield Mac-
donald at Cornwall, and was called to the bar of
Upper Canada in 1854. In 1855 he settled in
Flora, in that province, and practised his profes-
sion. In 1867 he was elected to parliament for
North Wellington, and was re-elected for the same
constituency in 1878. At the dissolution of parlia-
ment in 1882 he retired from politics, and was ap-
pointed judge of the county of Wellington, and
afterward local judge of the high court of justice.
DREW, John, actor, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 3 Sept., 1825 : d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 21 May, 1862. He made his first appearance on the stage at the Bowery theatre, New York, in 1845, as Dr. O'Toole in " The Irish Tutor." After acting for several seasons at the Albany, N. Y., museum, he visited Philadelphia, and at once became a favorite, appearing there for the first time at the Chestnut street theatre, 28 Aug., 1852, as Trapanti in "She Would and She Would Not." In 1853, in conjunction with William Wheatley, he became manager of the Arch street theatre in the same city. After acting throughout the United States, he visited
England in 1855, California in 1858, and Australia in 1859. He returned to this country in 1862, and made his last appearance on any stage on 9 May of
