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Dow, Moses A – Dowling, Lee
Dow, Moses A
publisher, was born in 1810, in Littleton, N. H. In 1850 he began the publication of the Waverly Magazine, the circulation of which for many years was 50,000 copies. He died June 22, 1886, in Charlestown, Mass.
Dowd, Charles Ferdinand
educator, was born April 25, 1825, in Madison, Conn. He was president of Temple Grove seminary of Saratoga Springs, N.
Y. He conceived the idea of adopting one standard for railway time, and after submitting it to a railway convention in New York city in October, 1869, he devised a complete plan, which he published with a map in 1870.
Dowd, Clement
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1832, in Moore county, N. C. He was mayor of Charlotte from 1869 to 1871. He was elected president of the Commercial National bank of that city in 1871, and continued in that position. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.
Dowd, Daniel L
educator, inventor, was born Jan. 23, 1854, in Cazenovia, N.
Y. In 1883 he moved to New York city, where he opened a school for physical and vocal culture, the only school of its kind in the country. He has invented a number of health exercise machines, which he has manufactured on a large scale.
Dowd, Mary Alice
educator, poet, was born Dec. 16, 1855, in Frankfort, W.
Va. She is an educator of Stamford, Conn., and the author of a volume entitled Vacation Verses.
Dowdell, James F
lawyer, planter, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1818, in Jasper county, Ga. He moved to Alabama in 1846, and took charge of a female college for one year. In 1848 he was a presidential elector; and was a representative from Alabama in the thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
Dowdney, Abraham
soldier, contractor, builder, congressman, was born in October, 1840, in Ireland. He served in the union army during the civil war as captain in the one hundred and thirtysecond regiment New York volunteers. He was chairman of the board of school trustees of the nineteenth ward of New York city from 1882 to 1885; and in 1885 was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress. He died Dec. 10, 1886, in New York city.
Dowell, Greensville
physician, author, was born Sept. 1, 1822, in Albemarle county, Va. He originated the Dowell system for the treatment of hernia; and was the author of several books on that subject and yellow fever. He died in 1881 in Galveston, Texas.
Dowler, Bennet
physician and physiologist, was born April 16, 1797, in Moundsville, Ohio. In 1854 he began in New Orleans the Medical and Surgical Journal. He was noted for his experiments upon the human body soon after death, the results of which were given to the world in a series of essays in 1843-44.
Dowling, John
clergyman, author, was born May 12, 1807, in England. He was a baptist clergyman of New York city, whose writings had a large circulation. He was the author of Vindication of the Baptists; History of Romanism; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures; Power of Illustration; Nights and Mornings; Judson Offering; and Exposition of the Prophecies Concerning the Second Coming of Christ. He died July 4, 1878, in Middletown, N. Y.
Dowling, Lee
clergyman, physician, author, poet, was born May 18, 1844, in Bellville, Ohio. During the civil war he was the youngest chaplain in the service.
For many years he was a professor of physiology in medical colleges. He is the author of The Crown of Sunday School Songs; The Psalm of Victory; and other music books that have attained a wide circulation.