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D. Bethune Duffield (August 29, 1821–March 12, 1891) was an American poet and attorney in Detroit, Michigan.

Divie Bethune Duffield was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His father was the Reverend George Duffield D.D., a prominent minister in the Presbyterian Church, and his mother was Isabella Graham (Bethune) Duffield, the granddaughter of Isabella Graham (1742–1814), who founded multiple schools for girls in New York. An estimated 50,000 copies of her memoir, The Power of Faith, were printed by the mid-19th century.

D. Bethune Duffield was first cousin to missionary physician Divie Bethune McCartee, as Duffield's mother, Isabella Graham (Bethune), and McCartee's mother, Jessie Graham (Bethune), were both daughters of Divie Bethane and Joanna (nee Graham). A son of Divie and Joanna was the Calvinist preacher George Washington Bethune.

Duffield had four brothers and one sister. D. Bethune's elder brother George (1818–1888), like his father George, was also ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church. The younger George wrote the well-known hymn Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus. A younger brother, General William Ward Duffield (1823–1907) was by training a civil engineer and also fought in the Mexican-American War and Civil War. Other younger brothers were Dr. Samuel Pierce Duffield and General Henry Martyn Duffield, who also served in the with distinction in Civil War. His sister, Isabella Graham married Dr. Morse Stewart.

In 1844, Duffield began a law partnership with George V. N. Lothrop, who later served as Michigan's Attorney General, 1848–51.

In 1861, Duffield composed the Volunteers' Flag Song, which was adopted as a Camp Chorus by the Michigan Regiments during the American Civil War.

Duffield published a book of poetry, Stray Songs of Life in 1889.

The Divie B. Duffield Branch Library of the Detroit Public Library, a Carnegie Library that opened in 1916, is named after a nephew of Duffield (1870-1935) with the same name, a son of General Henry Martyn Duffield. The younger Divie Bethune was a member of the the Detroit Library Commission.

Potential resources for this or other articles

 * mostly about brother George
 * the following section is about their uncle George Washington Bethune
 * the following section is about their uncle George Washington Bethune


 * about Divie Bethune McCartee
 * about Divie Bethune McCartee


 * about grandmother of D. Bethune Duffield, Joanna Bethune
 * about grandmother of D. Bethune Duffield, Joanna Bethune


 * http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/d/ed_duffieldGthree.htm
 * about George Duffield (1794-1868), the father


 * http:// www. famousamericans. net/ georgeduffield/ (stupid frakking spam filter)
 * Appleton's Cyclopedia entry on George Duffield (1732-1790), the grandfather and descendants


 * http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJL7829
 * Book by D. Bethune Duffield


 * http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJL7829
 * poem by D. Bethune Duffield


 * http://books.google.com/books?id=BwyqRbA-2ykC&pg=PA574&lpg=PA574&dq=Divie+Bethune+Duffield&source=bl&ots=InSpWfP2mi&sig=ZzZJOXelrxmU6STA5onz_CerhgI
 * Directory entry for Duffield's sons, brother, and nephews


 * http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;q1=Bethune%20Duffield;rgn=full%20text;idno=APK6141.0001.001;didno=APK6141.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000358
 * General HM Duffield p. 214


 * http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;q1=Bethune%20Duffield;rgn=full%20text;idno=bad1137.0001.001;didno=BAD1137.0001.001;view=image;seq=338;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset;
 * Rev. George Duffiel (b. 1794), the father


 * http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;q1=Bethune%20Duffield;rgn=full%20text;idno=bad1412.0001.001;didno=BAD1412.0001.001;view=image;seq=154;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset
 * Directory with Duffield's sons and nephews


 * http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/duffield/index_duffield.htm
 * Divie Bethune Duffield Branch Library


 * http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple;c=micounty;rgn=full%20text;q1=Bethune%20Duffield;view=reslist;cc=micounty;subview=detail;sort=occur;start=1;size=25;didno=4602560.0001.001
 * About some of the Duffield residences in Grosse Pointe