Dodge, Ossian Euclid – Dolph, Joseph Norton
Dodge, Ossian Euclid
vocalist, was born Oct. 22, 1820, in Cayuga, N. Y.
He was the first to take a company overland from New York to San Francisco, and was the first manager that ever gave an entertainment in the Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake City. He died Nov. 4, 1876, in London, England.
Dodge, Richard Irving
soldier, author, was born May 19, 1827, in Huntsville, N. C. He is a colonel in the United States army who saw much service in Indian campaigns, and made careful study of the Indian character. He was the author of The Black Hills; The Plains of the Great West: Our Wild Indians; and A Living Issue. He died in 1895.
Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
soldier, author, was born May 28, 1842, in Pittsfield, Mass. He is a captain and brevet lieutenant-colonel in the United States army, and prominent as a military historian. He is the author of The Campaign of Chancellorsville; A Bird's-Eye View of our Civil War; Great Captains; Alexander, a History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B. C. 301, with a detailed account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian; Hannibal; Cæsar; Gustavus Adolphus; Patroclus and Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle; and Riders of Many Lands.
Dodge, Thomas H
lawyer, inventor, philanthropist, author, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in Eden, Vt. He published in 1850 a book entitled A Review of The Rise and Progress and Present Importance of the Cotton Manufactures of the United States. He made several valuable inventions, including a printing press. He became interested in the large manufacturing enterprises of Worcester, Mass.
Dodge, Walter Phelps
author, was born in 1869. He is a littérateur now living in London, and practicing at the English bar. He is the author of Three Greek Tales; As the Crow Flies from Corsica to Charing Cross; and A Strong Man Armed.
Dodge, William Earle
merchant, congressman, philanthropist, was born Sept. 4, 1805, in Hartford, Conn. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress. He was also a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. He died Feb. 9, 1883.
Dodge, William Wallace
banker, state senator, was born April 25, 1854, in Burlington, Iowa: In 1876 he graduated from the law department of the state university of Iowa, and was awarded the literary prize for the best written argument on a given thesis of law. He has since won distinction as a brilliant lawyer of his native city, where he is in partnership with his brother, under : the firm name of Dodge and Dodge. During 1885-93 he served with distinction for eight years as a member of the state senate of the Iowa state legislature. He has taken an active part in the political affairs of his state, and has been a delegate to various local and state conventions.
While a member of the state senate he was instrumental in passing a bill creating the first Monday in September as a legal holiday, to be known as Labor Day; and consequently he is known throughout the state of Iowa as the Father of Labor Day.
Dods, John Bovee
clergyman, author, was born in 1795 in New York city. He was a clergyman of New York city whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism; Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant; and Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained. He died March 21, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dodworth, Thomas
musician, was born in 1790 in England. He came to the United States in 1826, and organized in New York the city band, which became by his efforts the national brass band, and was the first independent military band of music in the city. He died April 30, 1876, in Morrisania, N. Y.
Doe, Charles Henry
journalist, author, was born Nov. 28, 1838, in Charlestown, Mass. He is a journalist of Worcester, Mass., and the author of Buffets, a novel.
Doe, Nicholas B
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from that state to the twenty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy.
Doggett, David Seth
bishop, author, was born in 1810 in Virginia. He was a methodist bishop who lived at Richmond, Va., and published The War and its Close. He died Oct. 27, 1880, in Richmond, Va.
Doggett, Kate
reformer, was born Nov. 5, 1828, in Castleton, Vt. She was elected a member of the academy of science in 1869, and given charge of its herbarium. She translated the Grammar of Painting and Engraving. She died March 12, 1884, in Cuba.
Doig, Andrew W
educator, surveyor, congressman, was born in Washington county, N. Y. In 1832 he was in the state assembly; and held the office of surrogate from 1835 to 1840. He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1843.
Dolan, Thomas
manufacturer, was born Oct. 27, 1834, in Montgomery county, Pa. In 1866 he became a pioneer in the use of the finest worsted yarns in his fabrics, especially in Berlin shawls. The goods of the Keystone Knitting mills which he founded attained celebrity. He is president of The Quaker City Dye works; and The United Gas Improvement company.
DOLBEAR AMOS EMERSON, physicist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. He has been a professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts college since 1874, and is the author of The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; and Sound and its Phenomena, Matter, Ether, and Motion.
Dole, Charles Fletcher
clergyman, author, was born in 1845 in Maine.
He is a unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the author of The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; and The American Citizen.
Dole, Edmund Pearson
lawyer, author, was born in 1850 in Maine. He is assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands, and the author of Talks About Law.
Dole, Nathan Haskell
author, poet, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts.
He is a littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations from the Russian of Tolstoi and other writers, is the author of A Score of Famous Composers: The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems; Not Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; and Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Doles, George Pierce
soldier, was born May 14, 1830, in Milledgeville, Ga. His commission as brigadier-general bore date of Nov. 2, 1862. During the overland campaigns he commanded a division in General Ewell's corps, and was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor. He died June 2, 1864, in Cold Harbor, Va.
Dolge, Alfred
manufacturer, was born Dec. 22, 1848, in Germany. He is now the head of the great firm of Alfred Dolge and Son; a partner in C. F.
Zimmerman and Co., manufacturers of autoharps; and Daniel Green and Co., second vice-president of The Little Falls and Dolgeville railroad, and in New York city, trustee of The German Savings bank. The village of Dolgeville, founded by him, has become the model industrial town of American origin, both in its social and economic aspects.
Dollard, Robert
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born March 14, 1842, in Fall River, Mass. He entered the union army from Massachusetts with the fourth regiment of that state, which composed in part what is known as the minute men of that period who were the first to respond to the call for troops to save the union. He served with credit and distinction throughout the war, rising to the rank of major and the command of his regiment. He was a member of the constitutional conventions of South Dakota of 1883 and 1885; was district attorney; member of the legislature of Dakota territory in 1889; state senator in 1893; and a member of the state legislature in 1897.
Dolliver, Jonathan P
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1858, in Kingwood, Va. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Dolph, John Henry
artist, was born April 18, 1835, in Fort Ann, N. Y.
His works include Knickerbocker Farm- Yard (1869); The Season of Plenty; The Antiquarian; The Rehearsal (1878); Princess; and A June Day (1886).
Dolph, Joseph Norton
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 19, 1835, in Schuyler county, N. Y. He practiced his profession in Schuyler county during the winter of 1861- 62, and in 1862 enlisted in Captain M.
Crawford's company, known as the Oregon Escort, raised under an act of congress for the purpose of protecting the emigration of that year to the Pacific coast against hostile Indians, filling the position of orderly sergeant. He settled in Portland, Ore., in 1863; and in 1864 was elected city attorney of the city of Portland, and the same year was appointed by President Lincoln district attorney for the district of Oregon. He held both positions until he resigned them to take his seat in the state senate of Oregon. He was a member of the state senate in 1866- 74. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican in 1883, and was re-elected in 1889.