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Dobbins, Daniel – Dodds, Ozro J

Dobbins, Daniel

naval officer, was born July 5, 1776, in Mifflin, Pa. He was of great service in fitting out Perry's fleet on Lake Erie, and was with the expedition under Commodore Sinclair that attempted to recapture Mackinaw. He died Feb. 29, 1856, in Presque Isle.

Dobbins, Samuel A

farmer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 14, 1814, in Burlington county, N. J. He was high sheriff of Burlington county from 1854 to 1857; was a member of the state legislature from 1859 to 1862; and was elected to the forty-third and the forty-fourth congresses as a republican.

Dockery, Alfred

congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1851 to 1853; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1868.

Dockery, Oliver H

farmer, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1830, in Richmond county, N. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1858 and 1859; was a presidential elector in 1860; and in 1868 was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortieth congress.

He was re-elected to the forty-first congress.

Dod, Albert Baldwin

clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1805, in Mendham, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman and professor of mathematics at Princeton college in 1830-45. Theological Essays was his only published work. He died Nov. 20, 1845, in Princeton, N. J.

Dod, Daniel

mechanician, was born Sept. 28, 1788, in Virginia. He removed, in 1821, to New York city, where he was reputed the most successful engine builder in the United States. He died May 9, 1823, in New York city.

Dodd, Amzi

lawyer, jurist, was born March 2, 1823, in Bloomfield, N. J. He served one term from Bloomfield, N. J., in the assembly of the state legislature; in 1871 he filled the office of vice chancellor; in 1878 was judge of the court of errors and appeals; and in 1882 became president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company of Bloomfield, N. J.

Dodd, James B

mathematician, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He was chosen professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in Centenary college, Mississippi, in 1841; and in Transylvania university in 1846, of which institution he was acting president from 1849 till 1855. He died March 27, 1872, in Greensburg, Ky.

Dodd, Mary Ann Hanmer

poet, was born March 5, 1813, in Hartford, Conn. Among her best poems were The Lament; The Dreamer; The Mourner; and To a Cricket. A volume of her poems was published in Boston in 1843.

Dodd, Stephen

clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1777, in Bloomfield, N.

J. He was a founder and trustee of the Connecticut theological institution at East Windsor, and gave it his valuable library. He published a History of East Haven (1824); Family Record of Daniel Dodd; and Revolutionary Memorials. He died Feb. 5, 1856, in Morristown, N. J.

Doddridge, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born in 1769 in Pennsylvania. He was an episcopal clergyman of western Virginia, and the author of Logan, a drama; and Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83. He died in November, 1826, in Wellsburg, Va.

Dodds, Ozro J

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 22, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the first Alabama cavalry. After the war he studied law and was admitted to practice. He was elected to the legislature of Ohio in 1869; and was elected to the forty-second congress.