Doolittle, James Rood – Dorsey, James Owen
Doolittle, James Rood
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1815, in Hampton, N. Y. He was for several years district attorney in Wyoming county, N. Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1851; was chosen judge of the first judicial circuit of that state in 1853; and resigned in 1856. In 1857 he was elected a senator of the United States for six years. He was a member of the peace congress of 1861; and in 1863 was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1869.
Doolittle, Lelon Ansil
lawyer, was born July 22, 1853, in Russell, N. Y.
During 1879-85 he practiced law in Neillsville, Wis.; and since 1885 has practiced his profession in Eau Claire. He has been president of the board of directors of the Eau Claire public library; of the Eau Claire republican club; and other institutions. at
Doolittle, Mary Antoinette
lecturer, was born Sept. 8, 1810, in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1873-75 she edited, with Frederick W. Evans, the Shaker and Shakeress, a periodical published Mt. Lebanon college, and is author of an Autobiography and of a series of remarkable inspirational songs. She died Dec. 31, 1886, in Lebanon, N. Y.
Doolittle, Theodore
SAND- FORD, educator, author, was born Nov. 31, 1836, in Ovid, N. Y. In 1864 he accepted the chair of rhetoric, logic and metaphysics at Rutgers, which he has since held, becoming also associate editor of the Christian at Work in 1873.
Doolittle, William Hall
lawyer, congressman, was born in Erie county, Pa. He served one term in the Nebraska legislature in 1876-77; served in that state as assistant United States district attorney; and in 1880 moved from Nebraska to Washington Territory. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Dooly, John Mitchell
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born about 1772, in Lincoln county, Ga. He was appointed solicitor-general of the western circuit of Georgia in 1802, to fill a vacancy, and in 1804 was elected to the same office by the legislature. In 1816 he was elected judge of the same circuit, and in 1822 chosen first judge of the northern circuit, to which latter place he was re-elected in 1825. He died May 26, 1827, in Lincoln county, Ga.
Dorchester, Daniel
clergyman, author, was born in 1827, in Massachusetts. He is a prominent methodist clergyman of Pittsburg, and the author of Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem in All Ages: The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United States; and Romanism versus the Public Schools.
Doremus, Charles Avery
chemist, was born Sept. 6, 1851, in New York city. He became assistant to the chair of chemistry and physics in the college of the city of New York. Meanwhile he had received the appointments in New York city of lecturer on practical chemistry and toxicology in Bellevue hospital medical college, and professor of chemistry in the American Veterinary college.
Doremus, Elias Osborn
builder, legislator, was born Jan. 17, 1831, in Orange, N. J. He engaged in the building business in Orange and successfully conducted the business for twenty-five years. In 1873 was elected a member of the legislature, and re-elected in 1874.
Doremus, Robert Ogden
chemist, was born Jan. 11, 1824, in New York city.
The cartridges patented by him require no serge envelopes, as are ordinarily used in muzzle-loading cannon, and hence no sponging of the gun after firing is necessary.
Doremus, Sarah Platt
philanthropist, was born Aug. 3, 1802, in New York. In 1842, with Miss Catherine Sedgwick, she established a home for women from prison, now called the Isaac T.
Hopper Home. She was also one of the founders of the House and School of Industry. She died Feb. 5, 1877.
Doren, Dennis
constructor of telegraph lines, was born Feb. 10, 1830, in Wooster, Ohio. He was appointed general superintendent of construction of the Western Union Telegraph company's entire system; was president of the American Cable Construction company; and is a stockholder and director in various corporations of New York city..
Dorgan, John Aylmer
lawyer, poet, was born Jan. 12, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer and verse writer of Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled Studies. He died Jan. 1, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Dorhman, Arnold Henry
merchant, was born in 1748, in Portugal. In view of his services and the losses he had sustained in his devotion to the young republic, congress voted him a money compensation and a western township, besides appointing him United States agent in Lisbon. He died March 21, 1813, in Steubenville, Ohio.
Dorman, Allen
poet, was born Sept. 9, 1857, in Field's Creek, Mo. He is the author of a volume of poems published by the American Publishers' association of Chicago, containing over five hundred pages. He is prominent in the public affairs of his county and state, and was honored as a candidate for congress from the sixth district of Missouri.
Dormer, Mrs. L. Isabelle
poet, was born July 9, 1854, in Lee county, Iowa. She is the author of numerous prose articles and stories; and is a well known poet and writer of Stockton, Cal.
Dorr, Benjamin
clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1796, in Salisbury, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman who was rector of Christ church, Philadelphia, in 1837-69; and was the author of The Churchman's Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Sunday-School Teacher's Encouragement; Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the East; and Memoir of John Fanning Watson.
Dorr, Charles Philip
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1852, in Monroe county, Ohio. He began the practice of law in West Virginia in 1874, where he has since resided. He was elected a member of the West Virginia house of delegates from the fourth delegate district in 1884, and again in 1888, and was chosen sergeant-at-arms of that body in the intervening session of 1887.
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Dorr, Ebenezer Pearson
sea captain, was born March 13, 1817, in Hartford, Vt. He was the first to organize a regular system of wreckage on the lakes, and did much to improve the condition of seamen and to obtain recognition of their acts of heroism. He died April 29, 1881, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Dorr, Mrs. Julia Caroline
author, poet, was born Feb. 13, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. She is a poet and novelist of Rutland, Vt. Her verse, much of which reaches a high degree of excellence, includes Daybreak, an Easter poem; Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; Legend of the Baboushka; and Poems.
Her other writings comprise four novels, Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower of England's Face; and A Cathedral Pilgrimage.
Dorrance, Gordon
clergyman, author, was born in 1765, in Sterling, Conn. He was pastor of the congregational church at Windsor, Mass., in 1795-1834, and afterward preached in Sunderland, Mass., and its vicinity. He published a History of Windsor, He died in 1846, in Attica, N. Y.
Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson
author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1815, in Georgetown, D. C. She was a prolific writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman catholic Among her works are May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra; Palms; and Warp and Woof.
She died in 1896.
Dorsey, Clement
congressman, was born in Anne Arundel county, Md.
He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1831. He died Aug. 6, 1846.
Dorsey, Ella Loraine
author, was born in 1856, in Washington, D. C.
She is a Washington writer of stories for boys, and the author of Midshipman Bob; Saxty's Angel; and The Two Tramps.
Dorsey, George W. E
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1842, in Loudon county, Va. He recruited a company and entered the union army in 1861 as first lieutenant, sixth West Virginia infantry; and was promoted to the rank of captain and of major, and was mustered out with the army of the Shenandoah in 1865. He moved to Nebraska in 1866; and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He was a member of the board of trustees of the insane hospital; a member and vice-president of the state board of agriculture of Nebraska; and was also chairman of the republican state central committee of Nebraska. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican.
Dorsey, Godwin Volney
physician, was born Nov. 17, 1812, in Oxford, Ohio. He was for many years president of the Miami county medical society. He was an elector on the democratic presidential ticket in Ohio in 1848; and a member of the Ohio constitutional conventions of 1850 and 1873.
Dorsey, James Owen
ethnologist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1848, in Baltimore, Md. He was an ethnologist who for a time was an episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the bureau of ethnology. He was the author of Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; and The Dhegiha Language.