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Dorsey, Clement – Doubleday, Ulysses F

Dorsey, Clement

congressman, was born in Anne Arundel county, Md.

He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1831. He died Aug. 6, 1846.

Dorsey, Ella Loraine

author, was born in 1856, in Washington, D. C.

She is a Washington writer of stories for boys, and the author of Midshipman Bob; Saxty's Angel; and The Two Tramps.

Dorsey, Godwin Volney

physician, was born Nov. 17, 1812, in Oxford, Ohio. He was for many years president of the Miami county medical society. He was an elector on the democratic presidential ticket in Ohio in 1848; and a member of the Ohio constitutional conventions of 1850 and 1873.

Dorsey, James Owen

ethnologist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1848, in Baltimore, Md. He was an ethnologist who for a time was an episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the bureau of ethnology. He was the author of Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; and The Dhegiha Language.

Dorsey, Stephen W

soldier, railroad president, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1842, in Benson, Vt. He was elected president of the Arkansas Central Railway company; and, removing to Arkansas, was chosen chairman of the republican county and state committees.

He was elected United States senator from Arkansas for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879.

Doten, Lizzie

author, poet, was born April 1, 1829, in Plymouth, Mass.

She is a Boston spiritualist trance medium, whose verses are claimed to be inspired by the spirits of Shakespeare, Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past.

She is the author of Poems of Progress; and Poems from the Inner Life.

Doton, Hosea

educator, author, was born Nov. 29, 1809, in Pomfret, Vt. From 1866 till his death he was chief engineer of the Woodstock railroad. He was a member of the state senate in 1865-66, and in the latter year the legislature established his method of computing interest, known as the Vermont rule. died Jan. 19, 1886, in Woodstock, Vt.

He

Doty, Alice

musician, was born Jan. 10, 1862, in Plano, Ill. She studied music in America, and in Berlin, Germany; and in 1888 passed the associated examination of the American College of Musicians.

She has attained success as an organist and concert pianist. She is also a successful teacher in Aurora, Ill.; and has a studio in ne Auditorium of Chicago.

Doty, Lockwood Lyon

lawyer, was born May 15, 1827, in Groveland, N.

Y. He founded the state military bureau at Albany, which collected the histories of the volunteer regiments and provided for the care of the sick and wounded.

In 1871 he was appointed pension agent in New York city. He died Jan. 18, 1873, in Jersey City, N. J.

Doubleday, Abner

soldier, author, was born June 26, 1819, in Ballston Spa, N. Y. He was a colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army, who retired from active service in 1873. He is the author of Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; and Gettysburg Made Plain. He died Jan. 27, 1893, at his home Morristown, N. J. at Mendham, near

Doubleday, Charles

WILLIAM, soldier, author, was born Jan. 28, 1829, in England. He was a soldier who accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition, and later served as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. He is the author of Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in America.

Doubleday, Ulysses F

journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 15, 1792, in New Lebanon, Conn. For twenty years he edited a journal in the city of Auburn; and was elected a representative to congress in 1831, and was again elected in 1835. He died March 11, 1866, in Belvidere, Ill.