Dow, Milton – Dows, Stephen Leland
Dow, Milton
merchant, was born Sept. 18, 1855, in Kansas. He received his education in the common schools of Iowa and Kansas. Since 1882 he has been postmaster in Shilili, N. M., where he is a successful merchant, and is prominently identified with the public affairs of his county and state.
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.
Dow, Neal
prohibitionist, was born March 20, 1804, in Portland, Maine. He was of Quaker parentage; was a merchant and manufacturer; and was twice elected mayor of Portland. About 1857 he became the champion of prohibitive legislation, which resulted in the passage of the celebrated Maine liquor law of 1861, in honor of which he was called the father of the Maine Liquor Law. He was elected to the state legislature; served gallantly in the union army during 1861-64; and was eight months in Libby prison. He several times visited England, lecturing on temperance. He died in 1897.
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.
Dowdall, Edward
painter, sculptor, was born May 17, 1857, in Ireland. In 1865 he emigrated to the United States.
He attended grammar school No. 24 of New York city; Cooper Institute; National Academy of Design; and the Art Students' League of New York city, of which latter institution he is a life member.
He painted the large picture of Charles the First and Cromwell, which was exhibited in 1890 at the National Academy of Design; and has painted numerous portraits of prominent people of the United States. He also modeled in clay many busts which are now exhibited in various parts of the United States.
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.
Downes, John
mathematician, author, was born Sept. 4, 1799, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a mathematician of Wasnington, and the author of Peter Parley's Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and Logarithmic Lines and Tangents; and United States Almanac Complete, or Ephemeris. He died in 1882.
Downes, William Howe
journalist, author, was born in 1854, in Connecticut. He is a Boston journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and the author of Spanish Ways and By- Ways; and The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a Kindergarten of War.
Downey, Alexander C
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 10, 1817, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1862 he accepted, as a war democrat, the nomination for the state senate on the union ticket, and was elected.
Downey, John
educator, author, was born in 1770, in Germantown, Pa. In 1817 he was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. He was the author of a series of humorous sketches under the signature of Simon the Wagoner. He compiled a work entitled The Justice's Assistant. He died July 21, 1827, in Harrisburg, Pa.
He
Downey, John G
statesman. was governor of California from 1860 to
Downey, S. W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 25, 1839, in Westernport, Md. He served in the union army during the war of the rebellion.
He removed to the territory of Wyoming in 1869; was elected a member of the territorial council in 1871, 1875, and 1877; was treasurer of the territory for three years, and was auditor of the territory at the time of his election as a delegate from the territory of Wyoming to the forty-sixth congress.
Downey, William D
merchant, was born March 18, 1834, near Princeton, Ind. In 1861 he went to Princeton, Ind., and engaged in mercantile business.
Downie, David
missionary, author, was born in 1838, in Scotland. He is a baptist missionary to India who has published a History of the Telugu Mission.
Downing, Andrew Jackson
landscape gardener, author, was born Oct. 20, 1815, in Newburg, N. Y. He was a noted horticulturist and landscape gardener of New York, who did much to popularize a knowledge of rural art. He was the author of Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Architecture of Country Houses; Cottage Residences; and Rural Essays. He died Aug. 28, 1852, near Yonkers, N. Y.
Downing, Charles
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Florida from 1837 to 1841. He died Oct. 24, 1841.
Downing, Edward C
educator, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1862, in Wooster, Ohio. He has been professor of Greek and Latin in several large colleges. In 1888 he published a volume of poems entitled Minutes With the Muses.
Downing, Finis Ewing
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1846, in Virginia, Ill. Since 1891 he has published the Virginia Enquirer. He was elected secretary of the senate in 1893 for the thirty-eighth general assembly of Illinois; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Downing, Mrs. Frances
author, poet, was born in 1835, in Portsmouth, Va. She published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after the manner of the Ingoldsby Legends; and several novels, including Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; and Five Little Girls and Two Little Boys. died in 1894, in Charlottesville, N. C.
She
Downs, Ashbel Fairchild
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 7, 1854, in New Geneva, Pa. He attended the West Virginia university; and has attained success in the profession of law at Uniontown, Pa. He is the author of Heroes and Heroic Deeds, or Uncrowned Kings; and various addresses and other papers.
Downs, Solomon W
lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1801, in Tennessee. He was United States district attorney from 1845 to 1847; a presidential elector in 1844; collector of the port of New Orleans; and from 1847 to 1853 was a senator in congress from Louisiana.
He died Aug. 14, 1854, in Orchard Springs, Ky.
Dows, Stephen Leland
contractor, state senator, was born Oct. 9, 1832, in New York city. After the war he engaged in railroad building under contract and was then rewarded for a long and patient effort by abundant success.
He has been elected several times to the state senate and was at one time considered for governor of the state of Iowa.