Dixon, Joseph – Dockery, Oliver H
Dixon, Joseph
merchant, jurist, congressman, was born April 29, 1828, in Greene county, N. C. He has been a magistrate and judge of the county court; and was a member of the state legislature in 1868 and 1869. He was elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy.
Dixon, Joseph Henry
congressman. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1799 to 1801.
Dixon, Luther C
jurist. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Wisconsin; and was appointed a justice of the United States court for the territory of Wisconsin.
Dixon, Nathan Fellows
lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1774, • in Plainfield, Conn. In 1813 he was elected a member of the general assembly of that state, and continued to serve in that capacity for seventeen years; and from 1839 to 1842 was a senator of the United States. He died Jan. 29, 1842, in Washington, D. C.
Dixon, Nathan Fellows
lawyer, congressman, was born May 1, 1812, in Westerly, R. I. He was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the thirty-first congress. He was again elected to the general assembly of his state in 1851, and with the exception of two years held the office until 1859. In 1863 he was elected to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses.
Dixon, Nathan Fellows
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 28, 1847, in Westerly, R. I. In 1877 he was appointed United States district attorney for the district of Rhode Island; and was reappointed in 1881. In 1885 he was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the forty-eighth congress, to fill a vacancy; and was elected in 1889 to the United States senate.
Dixon, Sam H
author. He published a collection of poems with biographies, entitled Poets and Poetry of Texas.
Dixon, William Wirt
lawyer, congressman, was born June 3, 1838, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a member of the legislative assembly of Montana territory in 1871-72; was a member of the constitutional conventions of Montana of 1884-89; and has held no other office. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Doak, Archibald A
college president, was born July 13, 1815, in Washington county, Tenn. During 1840-50, and 1853-56 he was president of Washington college, Tennessee. He died May 26, 1866, in Clarksville, Tenn.
Doak, John Whitefield
college president, was born Oct. 17, 1778, in Rockbridge county, Va. In 1818 he was elected president of Washington college, Tennessee, serving until 1820. He died Oct. 6, 1820, in Green Springs, Va.
Doak, Samuel
was president of Tusculum college, Tennessee, in 1857.
Doak, Samuel Witherspoon
college president, was born March 24, 1785, in Salem, Tenn. In 1838 he was elected president of Washington college, Tennessee, serving until 1840. He died Feb. 3, 1864, in Nashville, Tenn.
Doan, Robert E
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born in Clinton county, Ohio. He was editor of the Wilmington Watchman in 1859 and 1860; and was appointed prosecuting attorney for Clinton county in 1862. He was elected a Garfield presidential elector for the third congressional district in 1880; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.
Doane, Augustus Sidney
physician, author, was born April 2, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He was appointed chief physician of the marine hospital. He edited Good's Study of Medicine; translated Maygrier's Midwifery; Dupuytren's Surgery; Lugol's Scrofulous Diseases; Vaylis's Descriptive Anatomy; Blandin's Topographical Anatomy; Ricord's Syphilis; Chaussier on The Arteries; and Scoutetten on Cholera. He died Jan. 27, 1852, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Doane, George Hobart
prelate, author, was born Sept. 5, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He has been a prelate of the papal household at Rome since 1886, with the title of monsignore. He is the author of First Principles; Exclusion of Protestant Worship from Rome; and Manual of Instructions and Prayers.
Doane, George Washington
bishop, author, poet, was born May 27, 1799, in Trenton, N. J. He was the second protestant episcopal bishop of New Jersey; and was consecrated bishop in 1832. He was the author of Songs by the Way; and Sermons on Various Occasions.
The familiar hymn beginning Softly now the light of day is one of his most noted poems. He died April 27, 1859.
Doane, William
congressman, was born in Maine. Having removed to Ohio, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1843.
Doane, William Croswell
bishop, poet, author, was born March 2, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He is the first protestant episcopal bishop of Albany. He is the author of a number of poems, among which The Sculptor Boy is often quoted, and has published several works, including Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the Sundays of the Christian Year. As a theologian his place is amongst liberal high churchmen.
Doane, William Howard
musical composer, was born Feb. 3, 1831, in Preston, Conn. His works include Sabbath- School Gems; Little Sunbeams; Silver Spray; and Songs of Devotion.
Dobbin, James
D. D., rector of Shattuck school of Faribault, Minn., was born June 29, 1833, in Salem, N. Y. He received his education at the Salem Washington academy, the Argyle academy; and in 1859 graduated from Union college with the degree of A. B. The same year he moved to Faribault as assistant in the mission school established by Dr. Breck the previous year.
Returning to New York in 1860 he had charge successively of the academies of Argyle and Greenwich until 1864. He then returned to Faribault for the purpose of studying for orders; resumed his old place as assistant to Dr. Breck, and in 1867 succeeded him as resident head of this combined institution; and a year later was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Whipple.
Bishop Whipple. The upbuilding of Shattuck school has been his life work.
He has administered its affairs almost from the beginning with such great foresight and executive ability that after thirty-one years of incessant labor on his part this great institution of learning has become one of the largest and most successful schools in America. In 1888 he received the degree of D. D. from Trinity college of Hartford.
Dobbin, James Cochrane
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1814 in Fayetteville, N. C. He was elected a representative in congress from his native state in 1845, and declined a re-election.
He served in the state legislature in 1848 and 1850, and during the last session officiated as speaker; and in 1852 was a presidential elector. He was secretary of the navy during the whole of President Pierce's administration. He died Aug. 4, 1857, in Fayetteville, N. C.
Dobbin, Joseph L
soldier, lawyer, was born March 11, 1845, in Manchester, Ill. He served as a private during the civil war; is president of the Union Veteran league of Minnesota; and one of the foremost lawyers of the west at Minneapolis.
Dobbin, Robert Archibald
lawyer, legislator, was born March 17, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. During 1880-82 he served as a member of the house of delegates of Maryland. Since 1893 he has been postmaster in the United States senate. During 1862-65 he was in the confederate service; and subsequently attained prominence as an able lawyer of Maryland.
Dobbins, Daniel
naval officer, was born July 5, 1776, in Mifflin, Pa. He was of great service in fitting out Perry's fleet on Lake Erie, and was with the expedition under Commodore Sinclair that attempted to recapture Mackinaw. He died Feb. 29, 1856, in Presque Isle.
Dobbins, Samuel A
farmer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 14, 1814, in Burlington county, N. J. He was high sheriff of Burlington county from 1854 to 1857; was a member of the state legislature from 1859 to 1862; and was elected to the forty-third and the forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Dobbs, Arthur
governor, author, was born in 1684 in Ireland. He was the author of An Account of the Countries Adjoining Hudson's Bay; Trade and Improvement of Ireland; and Captain Middleton's Defense. In 1744 he emigrated to North Carolina; and was chosen governor in 1754, serving until his death. He died March 28, 1765, in Town Creek, N. C.
Dockery, Alexander Monroe
physician, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1845, in Daviess county, Mo. In 1874 he moved to Gallatin, Mo., and assisted in organizing the Farmers' Exchange bank, of which organization he was cashier until elected to congress. He was one of the curators of the university of Missouri from 1872 to 1882, and in 1870, 1871 and 1872 president of the board of education of Chillicothe, Mo. He was a member of the city council of Gallatin for the five years previous to April, 1883, serving the last two years as mayor. He was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Dockery, Alfred
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1851 to 1853; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1868.
Dockery, Oliver H
farmer, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1830, in Richmond county, N. C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1858 and 1859; was a presidential elector in 1860; and in 1868 was elected a representative from North Carolina to the fortieth congress.
He was re-elected to the forty-first congress.