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Dowse, Edward
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1819 to 1821.
Dowse, William
congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirteenth congress, but died before taking his seat, Feb. 18, 1813.
DOX, PETER MYNDERT. lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Geneva, N. Y. He was elected to the legislature in 1841; and was judge of the Ontario county courts. He removed to Alabama in 1855, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; and in 1865 was elected, as a union man, to represent Madison county in the convention called for the revision of the state constitution; and took an active part in the restoration of the state to its place in the union. He was elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a democrat.
Doxey, Charles T
congressman.
He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy.
Doyle, Edward
poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Moody Moments.
Doyle, James
gold miner, was born Dec. 20, 1868, in Portland, Maine. He holds official relations with several important concerns, and is secretary and assistant manager of the Portland Gold Mining company, president and owner of the Unita Mining and Transportation company. He is also a director in various mining companies and business enterprises; and takes an active part in public affairs of his city and state.
Doyle, John T
lawyer, was born Nov. 26, 1819, in New York city. He has been for three successive terms viticultural commissioner for the state at large, and during his last term president of the board. He has also been for over thirty years trustee of the San Francisco law library, and for several years back president of that institution.
Doyle, Richard Devereux
lawyer, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1850, in Norfolk, Va. After receiving the degree of bachelor of law at the university of Virginia, and graduating in moral philosophy and logic, he went to Indianapolis and there practiced law and edited a weekly newspaper. He lately became assistant attorney-general of the state of Indiana. He is still engaged in the practice of law in his native city, where he has filled all the high offices in the gift of his city and county. His poems have been incorporated in several standard works.
Drake, Alexander Wilson
engraver, art director, was born in 1843, in Westfield, N. J. In 1865 he established himself in the business of wood-engraving, doing work for publishers; and in 1870 he was made art superintendent of Scribner's Monthly, which in 1881 became known as the Century Magazine, and with which he has since been continuously connected.
Drake, Benjamin
journalist, author, was born in 1794, in Mason county, Ky. He was a Cincinnati journalist whose writings include Cincinnati in 1820; Tales and Sketches from the Queen City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of William Henry Harrison; anu Life of Tecumseh. He died April 1, 1841, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 4
Drake, Benjamin M
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 11, 1800, in North Carolina. He was instrumental in building the first methodist church in New Orleans; was president of Elizabeth Female academy, the first methodist school established in that state; and was also president of Centenary college. He died in 1860 in Mississippi.
Drake, Charles Daniel
lawyer, United States senator, author, was born April 11, 1811, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1859 he was elected to the Missouri legislature; and in 1861 and 1862 he took an active and conspicuous part against the secession movement. In 1863 he was elected to the Missouri state convention; was a presidential elector in 1864; and in 1865 was a member and vice-president of the convention that formed the present constitution of Missouri. In 1867 he was elected a senator in congress from Missouri for the term ending in 1873; and in 1871 was appointed chief justice of the court of claims. He was the author of a Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States; and a Life of Daniel Drake.
Drake, Daniel
physician, author, was born Oct. 20, 1785, in Plainfield, N. J.
He was a distinguished physician of Cincinnati and Philadelphia who is best known by his valuable work on The Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, which embodies a vast amount of patient research. His other works include Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami Country; History of the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera; Essays on Medical Education; Discourses; and Pioneer Life in Kentucky. He died Nov. 6, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Drake, Elias Franklin
capitalist, state senator, was born Dec. 21, 1813, in Urbana, Ohio. He was president of the Dayton and Xenia railroad, and of the Dayton and Western raiiroad. He served in the state legislature; in 1838 accepted the presidency of the Columbus Insurance company; in 1864 he built the St. Paul and Sioux City raiiroad; and in 1873 he was elected to the state senate of Minnesota. He died Feb. 14, 1892, in San Diego, Cal.
Drake, Francis Marion
soldier, merchant, lawyer, railroad president, banker, governor, was born Dec. 30, 1830, in Rushville, Ill. In 1852 he crossed the plains to Sacramento, Cal.; and while crossing Shell Creek, Neb., in command of twenty men, he had a severe engagement with three hundred Pawnee Indians, which were defeated with heavy loss in killed and wounded.
He subsequently was connected with his father, John Adams Drake, in the mercantile and milling business in Drakeville and Centerville, Iowa. In 1861 he enlisted and was commissioned captain of a company; served with distinction throughout the civil war, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. After the war he became a noted lawyer, and subsequently was engaged in the railroad and banking business. He projected, constructed and put into operation five railroads; and has been president of the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad company; president of the Albia and Centerville Railroad company; president of Centerville national bank. In 1895 he was elected governor of the state of Iowa.
Drake, Francis Samuel
author, was born Feb. 22, 1828, in Northwood, N.
H. He prepared without aid a Dictionary of American Biography, the materials for which he was twenty years in collecting.
He also published a Memorial of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (1873); Life of Gen. Henry Knox (1873); The Town of Roxbury (1873); Tea-Leaves (1884); and Indian History for Young Folks (1885). He edited Schoolcraft's History of the Indians; and contributed articles on Brighton, Watertown, and Roxbury to the Memorial History of Boston. His Dictionary of American Biography, with his latest corrections and all the materials that he had gathered for a new edition, was incorporated in Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. He died Feb. 22, 1885, in Washington, D. C.
Drake, J. Madison
soldier, journalist, author, was born March 25, 1837, in Somerset county, N. J. In 1861 he organized the first company of United States volunteers which was raised in New Jersey for three months' service; and was the first who unfurled the first federal flag on confederate soil. He was wounded and made a prisoner of war, and received a congressional medal. After the war he began the publication of the Daily Monitor at Elizabeth, N. J.; in 1889 he started The Sunday Leader, and the same year began the issue of The Daily Leader. General Drake is the author of a History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers; Fast and Loose in Dixie; Across the Continent; and other works.
Drake, James Perry
soldier, legislator, was born Sept. 11, 1797, in Robertson county, N. C. In 1832 he was appointed brigade inspector. While in Mexico he was made civil and military governor of Matamoras, and commander of all forces of the lower Rio Grande. was sent to the legislature from Marion county, and then elected treasurer of state.
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Drake, John Adams
merchant, banker, state legislator, was born in 1804, in Nash county, N. C. He was of English descent, and traced his ancestry back to Sir Francis Drake; and also to the distinguished Adams family. In 1837 he moved from Rushville, Ill., to Fort Madison, Iowa, and subsequently was probate judge of Lee county. In 1846 he moved to Davis county, where he founded Drakeville, and there built up a large mercantile, packing and milling business in connection with his two sons, John Hamilton and Francis Marion. In 1866 he commenced the banking business in Drakeville; and ten years later removed to Centerville; and was president of the Centervine National bank at the time of his death. During 1852-53 he was a member of the Iowa state legislature. He died in May, 1880, in Centerville, Iowa.
Drake, John Burroughs
hotel man, was born Jan. 17, 1826, in Lebanon, Ohio. In 1874 he leased the Grand Pacific hotel and managed the house successfully until the spring of 1895, retiring then on account of the high rent demanded. He was president of the Chicago and Joliet railroad. He died Nov. 12, 1895, in Chicago, Ill.
Drake, John R
jurist, congressman, was born in 1783. He was one of the earnest settlers in Tioga county, N. Y.; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1819. He was elected judge of Tioga county in 1833; and was a member of the New York assembly in 1834. He died March 21, 1857, in Oswego, N. Y.
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