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Doddridge, Philip

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1772, in Brooke county, Va. He was a delegate from Brooke county to the legislature of Virginia in 1815, and was a member for some years. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1832.

He died Nov. 19, 1832, in Washington, D. C.

DODDRIDGE, WILLIAM BROWN, railroad manager, was born Oct. 19, 1848, in Circleville, Ohio. In 1884 he was engaged in the Anaconda Copper Smelting company, as business manager. In 1886 he became superintendent of the Central branch Union Pacific railroad of Atchison, Kan.; and in 1889 was appointed general manager of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas railroad.

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