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Doak, Archibald A

college president, was born July 13, 1815, in Washington county, Tenn. During 1840-50, and 1853-56 he was president of Washington college, Tennessee. He died May 26, 1866, in Clarksville, Tenn.

Doak, John Whitefield

college president, was born Oct. 17, 1778, in Rockbridge county, Va. In 1818 he was elected president of Washington college, Tennessee, serving until 1820. He died Oct. 6, 1820, in Green Springs, Va.

Doak, Samuel

was president of Tusculum college, Tennessee, in 1857.

Doak, Samuel Witherspoon

college president, was born March 24, 1785, in Salem, Tenn. In 1838 he was elected president of Washington college, Tennessee, serving until 1840. He died Feb. 3, 1864, in Nashville, Tenn.

Doan, Robert E

journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born in Clinton county, Ohio. He was editor of the Wilmington Watchman in 1859 and 1860; and was appointed prosecuting attorney for Clinton county in 1862. He was elected a Garfield presidential elector for the third congressional district in 1880; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.

Doane, Augustus Sidney

physician, author, was born April 2, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He was appointed chief physician of the marine hospital. He edited Good's Study of Medicine; translated Maygrier's Midwifery; Dupuytren's Surgery; Lugol's Scrofulous Diseases; Vaylis's Descriptive Anatomy; Blandin's Topographical Anatomy; Ricord's Syphilis; Chaussier on The Arteries; and Scoutetten on Cholera. He died Jan. 27, 1852, on Staten Island, N. Y.

Doane, William

congressman, was born in Maine. Having removed to Ohio, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1843.

Doane, William Croswell

bishop, poet, author, was born March 2, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He is the first protestant episcopal bishop of Albany. He is the author of a number of poems, among which The Sculptor Boy is often quoted, and has published several works, including Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the Sundays of the Christian Year. As a theologian his place is amongst liberal high churchmen.

Doane, William Howard

musical composer, was born Feb. 3, 1831, in Preston, Conn. His works include Sabbath- School Gems; Little Sunbeams; Silver Spray; and Songs of Devotion.

Dobbin, James Cochrane

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1814 in Fayetteville, N. C. He was elected a representative in congress from his native state in 1845, and declined a re-election.

He served in the state legislature in 1848 and 1850, and during the last session officiated as speaker; and in 1852 was a presidential elector. He was secretary of the navy during the whole of President Pierce's administration. He died Aug. 4, 1857, in Fayetteville, N. C.

Dobbin, Joseph L

soldier, lawyer, was born March 11, 1845, in Manchester, Ill. He served as a private during the civil war; is president of the Union Veteran league of Minnesota; and one of the foremost lawyers of the west at Minneapolis.

Dobbin, Robert Archibald

lawyer, legislator, was born March 17, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. During 1880-82 he served as a member of the house of delegates of Maryland. Since 1893 he has been postmaster in the United States senate. During 1862-65 he was in the confederate service; and subsequently attained prominence as an able lawyer of Maryland.