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Mcdougal, David

naval officer, was born Sept. 27, 1809, in Ohio. He was appointed midshipman in 1828, past midshipman in 1834, and commodore in 1869. He died Aug. 7, 1882, in San Francisco, Cal.

MCDOUGAL, MRS. FRANCES HAR- RIET [WHIPPLE] [GREENE], author, was born in 1805 in Rhode Island. She was a Rhode Island writer who resided in California in 1862; and was the author of The Original; The Mechanic; Might and Right, a History of the Dorr Rebellion; Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; The Dwarf Boy, and Minor Poems; and Beyond the Veil. She died in 1875.

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