Dillon Wallace II (1863-1939) was born in Craigsville, New York, to Dillon Wallace and Rachel Ann Ferguson. His early education and work experience was in New York and in 1896 he graduated from the New York Law School with a Bachelor of Laws degree. He then went to work with the firm McLaughlin and Stern. He married Jennie E. Currie in April 1897, who died three years later of "consumption". He is the author of Lure of the Labrador Wild (1905), an account of a 1903 expedition to the Labrador interior with Leonidas Hubbard Jr., editor of the magazine, OUTING, and their native guide, George Elson. They had intended to travel the Naskaupi River to Lake Michikamau and then northwards to the George River and Indian House Lake to witness the annual Naskaupi caribou hunt. They started on their exploration route late in the summer season and soon lost their way. The trio entered the uncharted interior of Labrador without sufficient supplies and knowledge of the area. Consequently Hubbard died of starvation, and Wallace and Elson were near death when rescued by fur trappers. Wallace made two more journeys into the Labrador interior in 1905 and 1913. The 1905 trip turned into a race between he and Mina Hubbard, Leonidas Hubbard's widow, through the Labrador interior. Wallace's wilderness experiences launched him into a literary career. He authored twenty-eight books, and several serialized publications. In 1917, Wallace married Leila Greenwood Hinman of Cleveland, Ohio. They had two children: Leila Ann and Dillon III. Wallace retired from his law practice in 1918 and concentrated on his writing and volunteer activities including the Boy Scout movement. Dillon Wallace died on September 28, 1939 at the age of seventy-six in Beacon, New York.
Herbert R. Dewling (1923-1998), arena manager, was born in 1923. He died on 6 Nov. 1998 and is buried in Anglican cemetary, St. John's.
Dewling began working for the St. John's Memorial Stadium Commission in Sept. 1959. By 1964 he was stadium manager, continuing in this position until his retirement in 1983. Dewling was the founding president of the Newfoundland Arena Managers Association and was active in that organization for a number of years.
Nicholas Devereux (1778-1845), Catholic priest, was a native of County Wexford, Ireland. It was assumed that he was born in the Bannow area in 1778. He was ordained a deacon in Ireland and arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland in 1816.
Devereux was ordained a priest in the old Cathedral on Henry Street by Bishop Thomas Scallan, becoming the first Catholic priest ordained in Newfoundland. Bishop Scallan described Rev. Devereaux as a "good, moral, and studious" young man.
Devereux's first pastoral appointment was as a curate in Sacred Heart Parish, Placentia, under Rev. Andrew Cleary, parish priest. In 1819, he was appointed a curate in Immaculate Conception Parish, Harbour Grace, where he ministered until 1830. That year, Devereux was appointed the first parish priest at Burin and he remained there for two years. In 1832, he was named parish priest of the ecclesiastical district of Bonavista Bay, with residence at King's Cove. His ministry included pastoral visitations to the northern areas of Bonavista Bay, including Tilting Harbour. He held that appointment from 1832 to 1845.
Rev. Devereux died at the parochial house, King's Cove, Bonavista Bay, on 25 April 1845, after a long and painful illness. He was buried in the parish cemetery at King's Cove.
Thomas Joseph Devereaux (1887-1918), Catholic priest, was born at Ferryland, Newfoundland, on 12 March 1887, the son of Mary Joseph (Walsh) and James Devereaux. He died at Argentia on 15 October 1918. Devereaux was buried in the Parish cemetery at Ferryland on 17 October 1918.
Devereaux attended the parish schools at Ferryland and received his high school education at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's (1906-09). He pursued his studies for the priesthood in All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the National University, Dublin. He was ordained a priest in All Hallows College Chapel on 17 June 1917 by Dr. Cohalal, Bishop of Cork, Ireland.
After Rev. Devereaux's return to Newfoundland he served as the administrator of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Bride's (1917-18). He was transferred to Holy Rosary Parish, Argentia in 1918 only a a few months before his death.
Richard Derby (1712-1783) was the wealthiest merchant in Salem, Massachusetts, during the middle decades of the eighteenth century. He owned numerous sloops, schooners, and brigantines, which he employed in the cod fisheries and in overseas trading voyages to Southern Europe and the West Indies
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