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Douglas, Silas Hamilton – Dow, Milton

Douglas, Silas Hamilton

educator, author, was born Oct. 16, 1816, in Fredonia, N. Y. He was a professor of chemistry at the university of Michigan in 1844-79, and is the author of Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

Douglass, Benjamin F

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born July 22, 1820, in Shenandoah county, Va. In 1857 he was elected as representative to the state legislature from Harrison county, Ind.

Douglass, David Bates

civil engineer, was born March 21, 1790, in Pompton, N. J. In 1814 he commanded a company on the northern frontier, and was brevetted captain. His introduction of inclined planes in place of locks for canal navigation proved a success in the Morris canal, of which he was chief engineer. In 1833 he began his surveys for supplying New York with water; and in his report showed how to obtain it from the Croton river.

Douglass, John W

lawyer. He has attained success as a lawyer, and has a large practice in Washington, D. C.

DOUGLASS, MARGARET CRITTEN- DEN, educator, was born in Washington, D. C. She opened a school for the instruction of colored children, but it was broken up by the authorities in 1853, and she herself was imprisoned for a month in the common jail. She published a Personal Narrative, relating her experiences.

Douglass, Myra

poet, was born in 1844, in Adrian, Mich. Since her childhood she has written stories and verse for the Waverly and Ballou Magazines of Boston, and other prominent periodicals.

Her poems are included in nearly all standard collections of American verse.

Douglass, Samuel J

jurist. He was an emigrant to Florida while yet a territory; and in 1842 was appointed one of the judges of the United States for that district.

Douglass, William

physician, author, was born about 1691, in Scotland. He was a Scottish physician who came to America and settled in Boston in 1718.

His principal work is a Summary, Historical and Political, of the British Settlements in America. Others of less note are Mercurius Novanglicanus. He died Oct. 21, 1752, in Boston, Mass.

Dow, Daniel

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1772, in Ashford, Conn. He congregational clergyman of Thompson, Conn., and the author of Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; The Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covenants; and Free Inquiry Recommended on the Subject of Free Masonry. He died July 19, 1849, in Thompson, Conn.

Dow, Lorenzo

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1777, in Coventry, Conn.

He was an eccentric methodist traveling preacher, especially vehement against the Jesuits. He was the author of Polemical Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow; A Short Account of a Long Travel; Journal and Miscellaneous Writings; and History of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic work. He d.ed Feb. 2, 1834, in Georgetown, D. C.

Dow, Mary E. H. G

business woman, was born Dec. 15, 1848, in Dover, N. H.

She attended the Dover academy and graduated from the high school in Charlestown, Mass. She is the first woman president of a street railroad, having been president of the Dover Street Railway company. She is now engaged in real estate, and manages her own real estate.

Dow, Milton

merchant, was born Sept. 18, 1855, in Kansas. He received his education in the common schools of Iowa and Kansas. Since 1882 he has been postmaster in Shilili, N. M., where he is a successful merchant, and is prominently identified with the public affairs of his county and state.