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Donovan, Joseph M – Doremus, Robert Ogden

Donovan, Joseph M

lawyer, author, was born April 28, 1866, in Littleton, N. H. He graduated from the Georgetown university of Washington, D. C., with the degree of A. M., and from the same institution in 1889 with the degree of LL. B. He at once took up the practice of law in Sioux Falls, S. D., where he has attained distinction as an able lawyer. He is the author of Law of Divorce and Domestic Relations, and other works.

Doolittle, Amos

engraver, was born in 1754 in Cheshire, Conn. While a volunteer at Cambridge he visited the battle ground of Lexington, and on his return to New Haven made an engraving of the action, his first attempt in that art.

He died Jan. 31, 1832, in New Haven, Conn.

Doolittle, Benjamin

clergyman, author, was born July 10, 1695, in Massachusetts. He was a clergyman of Northfield, Mass., in 1718-49, and the author of Narrative of the Mischief of the French and Indians, 1744-48; and Inquiry into Enthusiasm. He died Jan. 9, 1749.

Doolittle, Charles Camp

soldier, was born March 16, 1832, in Burlington, Vt. In 1865 he was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers, and on June 13 he was brevetted major-general. Since 1871 he has been cashier of the Merchants' national bank, Toledo, Ohio.

Doolittle, Theodore

SAND- FORD, educator, author, was born Nov. 31, 1836, in Ovid, N. Y. In 1864 he accepted the chair of rhetoric, logic and metaphysics at Rutgers, which he has since held, becoming also associate editor of the Christian at Work in 1873.

Doolittle, William Hall

lawyer, congressman, was born in Erie county, Pa. He served one term in the Nebraska legislature in 1876-77; served in that state as assistant United States district attorney; and in 1880 moved from Nebraska to Washington Territory. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Dooly, John Mitchell

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born about 1772, in Lincoln county, Ga. He was appointed solicitor-general of the western circuit of Georgia in 1802, to fill a vacancy, and in 1804 was elected to the same office by the legislature. In 1816 he was elected judge of the same circuit, and in 1822 chosen first judge of the northern circuit, to which latter place he was re-elected in 1825. He died May 26, 1827, in Lincoln county, Ga.

Dorchester, Daniel

clergyman, author, was born in 1827, in Massachusetts. He is a prominent methodist clergyman of Pittsburg, and the author of Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem in All Ages: The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United States; and Romanism versus the Public Schools.

Doremus, Charles Avery

chemist, was born Sept. 6, 1851, in New York city. He became assistant to the chair of chemistry and physics in the college of the city of New York. Meanwhile he had received the appointments in New York city of lecturer on practical chemistry and toxicology in Bellevue hospital medical college, and professor of chemistry in the American Veterinary college.

Doremus, Elias Osborn

builder, legislator, was born Jan. 17, 1831, in Orange, N. J. He engaged in the building business in Orange and successfully conducted the business for twenty-five years. In 1873 was elected a member of the legislature, and re-elected in 1874.

Doremus, Robert Ogden

chemist, was born Jan. 11, 1824, in New York city.

The cartridges patented by him require no serge envelopes, as are ordinarily used in muzzle-loading cannon, and hence no sponging of the gun after firing is necessary.