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Doucet, Edward – Douglas, Orlando Benajah

Doucet, Edward

college president, was born March 12, 1825, in Canada. In 1863 he was elected president of St. Johns college. He died Dec. 9, 1850, in Fordham, N. Y.

Dougherty, Charles

state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1850, in Athens, Ga. In 1876 he was elected a representative in the Florida legislature; was re-elected in 1878, and was elected speaker of the house. He was again re-elected in 1880 and 1882, and in the latter year was again elected speaker. He resigned in 1884 on being elected a representative from Florida to the forty-ninth congress; and received the re-election to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Dougherty, Daniel

lawyer, orator, was born Oct. 15, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He attained prominence in New York as a successful lawyer, and was also a noted orator, being known throughout the country as the Silvertongued Orator. He died Sept. 5, 1892, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dougherty, John

business man, was born April 8, 1840, in Ireland. In 1888 he became general manager of the Colorado Coal and Iron company of Pueblo, Colo.; and has been director and trustee of numerous railroad corporations of New York city.

Doughty, Thomas

artist, was born July 19, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one of the earliest American artists to make evident the charm of what is called the silvery tone, and to reproduce autumnal effects with genuine grace and emphasis. His works include A Peep at the Catskills; View on the Hudson; Lake Scene; Old Mill; Delaware Water-Gap; and Scene on the Susquehanna. He died July 24, 1856, in New York city.

Doughty, William Henry

surgeon, was born Feb. 5, 1836, in Augusta, Ga. From 1867 till 1875 he three times held the professorship of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical college of Georgia (now the medical department of the state university).

Douglas, Alice May

educator, author, poet, was born June 28, 1865, in Bath, Maine. She is a writer of poetry and juvenile tales, whose home is at Bath, Maine. Her poems include Phlox; May Flowers; and Gems Without Polish.

Jewel Gatherers; The Peacemaker; and Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her tales for young readers.

Douglas, Amanda Minnie

author, was born July 14, 1838, in New York city.

She is a popular novelist of Newark, N. J., whose more than thirty works of fiction have obtained a wide circulation. Among them them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; Claudia; With Fate Against Him; Sherburne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven Daughters; Larry; and Hope Mills. are

Douglas, Benjamin

manufacturer, inventor, governor, was born April 3, 1816, in Northford, Conn. William Douglas died in 1858, and in 1859 a company was formed of which Benjamin became president. He was mayor of Middletown for several years, a republican presidential elector in 1860, and lieutenant-governor of the state in 1861-62.

Douglas, Marion

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 29, 1854, in Dixfield, Maine. In 1876 he graduated from the Bates college; and was admitted to the bar in 1874. During 1876-79 he was principal of the normal school; moved to Dakota territory in 1880; and the same year was elected judge of probate court of Brown county. In 1886 he moved to Duluth, Minn., where he has since practiced law continuously with eminent success.

Douglas, Orlando Benajah

physician, was born Sept 12, 1836, in Cornwall, Vt. In 1885 he was elected surgeon and director of the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital; and in 1888 was elected professor of diseases of the nose and throat in the Post-Graduate Medical school and hospital. He is the author of a work entitled Is the Cure of Chronic Nasal Catarrh as Difficult as has been Supposed?