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DURRIE, Daniel Steele, antiquarian, born in Albany, New York, 2 January 1819. He was educated in the schools of that City, and in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He became a bookseller at Albany in 1843, removed to the west in 1850, resumed that business at Madison, Wis., in 1852, and followed it till 1857. In 1858 he became librarian of the State historical society of Wisconsin. He has been superintendent of public schools at Roxbury, and secretary of the Madison board of education. Among his publications are genealogical histories of the Steele and Holt families (Albany, 1862 and 1864);" Bibliographica Genealogica Americana, or Index to American Pedigrees" (3d ed., 1886); "History of Madison, Wis., and the Four Lake Country" (Madison, 1874); with W. B. Davis, "History of Missouri" (St. Louis, 1875); and " Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary."
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