Dolan, Thomas
manufacturer, was born Oct. 27, 1834, in Montgomery county, Pa. In 1866 he became a pioneer in the use of the finest worsted yarns in his fabrics, especially in Berlin shawls. The goods of the Keystone Knitting mills which he founded attained celebrity. He is president of The Quaker City Dye works; and The United Gas Improvement company.
DOLBEAR AMOS EMERSON, physicist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. He has been a professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts college since 1874, and is the author of The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; and Sound and its Phenomena, Matter, Ether, and Motion.