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Dods, John Bovee

clergyman, author, was born in 1795 in New York city. He was a clergyman of New York city whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism; Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant; and Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained. He died March 21, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dodworth, Thomas

musician, was born in 1790 in England. He came to the United States in 1826, and organized in New York the city band, which became by his efforts the national brass band, and was the first independent military band of music in the city. He died April 30, 1876, in Morrisania, N. Y.

Doe, Charles Henry

journalist, author, was born Nov. 28, 1838, in Charlestown, Mass. He is a journalist of Worcester, Mass., and the author of Buffets, a novel.

Doe, Nicholas B

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from that state to the twenty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy.

Doggett, David Seth

bishop, author, was born in 1810 in Virginia. He was a methodist bishop who lived at Richmond, Va., and published The War and its Close. He died Oct. 27, 1880, in Richmond, Va.

Doggett, Kate

reformer, was born Nov. 5, 1828, in Castleton, Vt. She was elected a member of the academy of science in 1869, and given charge of its herbarium. She translated the Grammar of Painting and Engraving. She died March 12, 1884, in Cuba.

Doig, Andrew W

educator, surveyor, congressman, was born in Washington county, N. Y. In 1832 he was in the state assembly; and held the office of surrogate from 1835 to 1840. He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1843.

Dole, Charles Fletcher

clergyman, author, was born in 1845 in Maine.

He is a unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the author of The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; and The American Citizen.

Dole, Edmund Pearson

lawyer, author, was born in 1850 in Maine. He is assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands, and the author of Talks About Law.

Dole, Nathan Haskell

author, poet, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts.

He is a littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations from the Russian of Tolstoi and other writers, is the author of A Score of Famous Composers: The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems; Not Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; and Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Doles, George Pierce

soldier, was born May 14, 1830, in Milledgeville, Ga. His commission as brigadier-general bore date of Nov. 2, 1862. During the overland campaigns he commanded a division in General Ewell's corps, and was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor. He died June 2, 1864, in Cold Harbor, Va.

Dolliver, Jonathan P

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1858, in Kingwood, Va. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.