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Doremus, Sarah Platt – Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson

Doremus, Sarah Platt

philanthropist, was born Aug. 3, 1802, in New York. In 1842, with Miss Catherine Sedgwick, she established a home for women from prison, now called the Isaac T.

Hopper Home. She was also one of the founders of the House and School of Industry. She died Feb. 5, 1877.

Doren, Dennis

constructor of telegraph lines, was born Feb. 10, 1830, in Wooster, Ohio. He was appointed general superintendent of construction of the Western Union Telegraph company's entire system; was president of the American Cable Construction company; and is a stockholder and director in various corporations of New York city..

Dorgan, John Aylmer

lawyer, poet, was born Jan. 12, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and verse writer of Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled Studies. He died Jan. 1, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dorhman, Arnold Henry

merchant, was born in 1748, in Portugal. In view of his services and the losses he had sustained in his devotion to the young republic, congress voted him a money compensation and a western township, besides appointing him United States agent in Lisbon. He died March 21, 1813, in Steubenville, Ohio.

Dorman, Allen

poet, was born Sept. 9, 1857, in Field's Creek, Mo. He is the author of a volume of poems published by the American Publishers' association of Chicago, containing over five hundred pages. He is prominent in the public affairs of his county and state, and was honored as a candidate for congress from the sixth district of Missouri.

Dormer, Mrs. L. Isabelle

poet, was born July 9, 1854, in Lee county, Iowa. She is the author of numerous prose articles and stories; and is a well known poet and writer of Stockton, Cal.

Dorr, Benjamin

clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1796, in Salisbury, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman who was rector of Christ church, Philadelphia, in 1837-69; and was the author of The Churchman's Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Sunday-School Teacher's Encouragement; Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the East; and Memoir of John Fanning Watson.

Dorr, Charles Philip

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1852, in Monroe county, Ohio. He began the practice of law in West Virginia in 1874, where he has since resided. He was elected a member of the West Virginia house of delegates from the fourth delegate district in 1884, and again in 1888, and was chosen sergeant-at-arms of that body in the intervening session of 1887.

He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Dorr, Ebenezer Pearson

sea captain, was born March 13, 1817, in Hartford, Vt. He was the first to organize a regular system of wreckage on the lakes, and did much to improve the condition of seamen and to obtain recognition of their acts of heroism. He died April 29, 1881, in Buffalo, N. Y.

Dorrance, Gordon

clergyman, author, was born in 1765, in Sterling, Conn. He was pastor of the congregational church at Windsor, Mass., in 1795-1834, and afterward preached in Sunderland, Mass., and its vicinity. He published a History of Windsor, He died in 1846, in Attica, N. Y.

Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson

author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1815, in Georgetown, D. C. She was a prolific writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman catholic Among her works are May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra; Palms; and Warp and Woof.

She died in 1896.