De Forest

John William, an American novelist; born in Hum- EE a ga Conn., March 31, 1826. ‘Without entering college he pa ed many years in independent study and. foreign travel, becoming a proficient in several languages; entered the army as captain at the outbreak of the Civil War, and rose to major; and after 1850 was a fertile writer of es. says, short stories, and novels for the leading magazines, taking prominent rank among American novelists. He died July 17, 1906.! Deformities, variations in the form of the body as a whole, or in one or more of its parts, constituting a. departure from the normal conditions of structure, and usually implying a corresponding divergence from natural and healthy functions.