[Edward Duffield]. American educator and author, born in Philadelphia on the 9th of August 1823; graduated at Amherst in 1842; studied theology at Andover, and occupied several important pulpits. From 1858 to 1861 he was superintendent of schools for the state of Minnesota and chancellor of the State University; from 1873 to 1884, president of Macalester College, Minneapolis. In 1884 he became professor of history and English literature in the same institution. Dr. Neill wrote several important historical works, contributed several articles to the historical magazines, and was prominent in the work done by the Minnesota Historical Society. He published Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society (1856); History of Minnesota (1858); Terra Mariæ; or, Threads of Maryland Colonial History (1867); The Fairfaxes of England and America (1868); History of the Virginia Company (1869); English Colonization of America during the Seventeenth Century (1871); Founders of Maryland (1876); Virginia Vetusta (1885); Virginia Carolorum (1886); and Concise History of Minnesota (1887).
