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Douglas, John Hancock, physician, horn in \V H: 



:ii is-j-i ; <lii <! in Washington, D. ('., <>et. ''. 

 Hr was graduated ut Williams College r 



I department of the University of 



. Ivniiia ill 1*17 ; spent two years in travel Mini 

 ii Kurope, settled in New York city, mid be- 

 \ idely kii"\Mi a- a specialist in tlie tn-at'in-nt 

 aint ill rout disease;-. From l(-."iii till lM!'J he 

 .tor <>f" The American Medical Monthly," iiiul 

 litcd three vohinu-s of " The New York 

 I .louniiil." During the civil war lie served in 

 :ted States Sanitary Commission, and in I.-''.".. 

 Rationed ill the Division of the Mississippi, he 

 6 intimate with (Jen. Grant. Alter the wtir he 

 1 his practice in New York. In 1884, when 

 rant's nine*- a'imcd u serious turn, Dr. For- 

 d\ec Marker, who was then lien. Grant's family phy- 

 sician, and \\:i~ about going to Europe, transferred 

 the patient to l>r. Douglas. During the nine mouths 

 of tin- general's illness Dr. Douglas was seldom ab- 

 sent from his patient, having wholly ubuudoned his 

 own larire practice. For his services he was paid 

 ', but the. constant care of his patient broke 

 down his own constitution. He sought restoration to 

 health in foreign travel, had two strokes of paralysis, 

 and tor some time suffered from the same kind of 

 cancer that caused Gen. H rant's death. 



Douglass, Henry, military officer, born in West Point, 

 N. V.. March ;i. 1S27; died in Barnegat Park, N. J., 

 . I HIM l'.'. iv.'-_>. He was a son of Major David Bates 

 Douglass, Professor of Engineering at the United States 

 Military Academy, and was graduated there in 1852. 

 He was commissioned brevet '2d lieutenant, 7th United 

 I nt'antry, on graduation ; was promoted 2d lieu- 

 tenant stli Infantry, Dee. :;i, 1853; transferred to 9th 

 Infantry, March 3, 1855 ; 1st lieutenant, Sept. 10, 1856 ; 

 captain 18th Infantry, May 14, 1861; major 3d In- 

 fantry. July 28, 1866; transferred to llth Infantry, 

 Jan. 1, 1871; lieutenant-colonel 14th Infantry. Jan. 

 10, 1876, and colonel 10th Infantry, .Inly 1, 1886; and 

 was retired March 9, 1891. He was assistant Profess- 

 or of Drawing at the Military Academy from Jan. 16, 

 1858, till July 2, 1861. He took part in the battle 

 of Hull Kun and in the Tennessee and Mississippi 

 campaigns, was wounded at the battle of Stone River, 

 and soon after that battle was taken ill with typhoid 

 fever and had to retire from the army. Before his 

 complete recovery Gov. Tod appointed him army 

 paymaster at Columbus, Ohio. After the war lie 

 returned to frontier duty, and subsequently he had 

 charge of the military arrangement of the commis- 

 sion for settling the boundary between the United 

 States and the Canadian Northwest Ho was bre- 

 vettcd major United States army for gallant and 

 meritorious service in the battle of Stone River, Dec. 

 :. and he performed his last active duty at Fort 

 Ma rev. New Mexico. 



Dow, John Melmoth, naturalist, born in Now York 

 city in 1S-J7 ; died there, Nov. 4, 1892. He began study- 

 ing law early in life, but owing to poor health he was 

 induced to make a whaling voyage, and this proved 

 ficial that he determined to follow the sea 

 as a business. When twenty -one years old he became 

 captain of a clipper ship, with which he made several 

 t'ul trips to China and Japan. In 1849 he be- 

 came General Superintendent of the Pacific Mail 

 Steamship Company on the Isthmus of Panama, and 

 had since made his residence there, visiting his family 

 in New York city once in two years. For nearly 

 thirty years he had cruised along the western coast 

 of Central and South America, in command of vari- 

 "us vessels, and during that time he made a thorough 

 exploration of that coast, giving much attention to the 

 study of marine fauna. Through his labors about 

 200 new fishes were discovered and named, and. he 

 also discovered in the highlands of Guatemala a new 

 species of tapir. A remarkable member of the orchid 

 family, found in Costa Rica, 4,000 feet above the sea, 

 is named Cattleyia Dowiana in his honor. Capt 

 Dow received the degree of Ph. D. from the Univer- 

 sity of Gottingen. 



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Dowling, John William, |>)iyi>ician, bom in New York 

 city. AiiLf. M. 1887; died in (io-hen, N. V., ,(un. 14, 

 He \\ius a son of the i:.-v. .lohn Dowlinj.', D. D.. 

 author of the well-know n " History <>f Ilomaiii.-m," 

 was educated at [/ewisbnrg College, ivun-yl \ania, and 

 was graduated at the llalinemann Medical (',; 

 Philadelphia in 18">7. In the following year he wa 



itcd with Abraham D. \S ilson, M. D.. 

 York, one of the pioneers of the new school of homo-- 

 opathy ; in 1S70 he wa> appointed Professor of Theory 

 and Practice in the New York Homeopathic Medical 

 College. In 1871 was elected registrar, al 1 from ]s7-j 

 till 1SS4 was dean of the college. In is; 1 .'. ,,), 

 tablishmetit of the special chair of Physical Diagnosis 

 and Diseases of the Heart and Lungs in the college, 

 he was appointed to till it, lie was elected l'i. 

 of the American Institute of Hoinceopathy in 1880. 

 The founding of the New York Surgical College was 

 due in a large measure to his work with the Legisla- 

 ture to secure :i charter. 



Drake, Charles Daniel, jurist, born in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, April 11, 1811; died in Washington, I). ('., 

 March 31, 1892. He studied in St. Joseph's College, 

 Kentucky, and at Partridge's Military Academy in 

 Connecticut In 1827 he was appointed a midshipman 

 in the United States navy, where he served three 

 years, beginning the study of law while so employed. 

 He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in May, 

 1833j practiced in St. Louis, Mo., in 1834-'47, and in 

 Cincinnati 1847-'50, and then returned to St. Louis. 

 In 1859 he was elected to the Legislature, where he 

 subsequently opposed the secession movement; in 



1863 he was a member of the State Convention, and in 



1864 Vice- President of the State Constitutional Con- 

 vention. He was elected a United States Senator in Jan- 

 uary, 1867, but resigned his seat in December, 1870, 

 on Being appointed Chief Justice of the United States 

 Court of Claims, which office he held until January, 

 1885. He was a conspicuous member of the Presby- 

 terian Church in the West, was a member of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly (O. S.), 1869, served on the Committee 

 of Conference on Reunion, and was chairman of the 

 committee by which the long-standing controversy 

 regarding the Theological Seminary in the North- 

 west was settled. In 1854 he published " A Treatise 

 on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United 

 States," and in 1880 presented a paper on ''Christian- 

 ity the Friend of trie Working Classes " before the 

 second General Council of the Presbvterian Alliance. 



Dunn, Michael, reformer, born in \fanchester, Eng- 

 land, Sept 15, 1826; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 

 22. 1892. Ho was brought up in ignorance, began a 

 thieving career while a boy. and continued it until 

 late in life. His criminal experiences included till- 

 tapping, pocket picking, burglary, garroting, and 

 dealing in counterfeit money. Before he was twelve 

 years old he had served five terms in prison, and dur- 

 ing his life he had been a prisoner in Van Diemen's 

 Land, London, Manchester, Western Australia, Gibral- 

 tar, Montreal, Philadelphia, Boston, and Sing Sing. 

 He once escaped from the Penitentiary on Bladcwcll's 

 Island by swimming to the Long Island shore. While 

 serving his last term in Sing Sing for burglary he 

 was converted to religion, and on his release, in i>7'.', 

 he established an industrial home for convicts in Wa- 

 ter Street. New York, and afterward supplemented it 

 with similar institutions in Chicago, San Francisco, 

 Philadelphia, and other cities. At the time of his 

 death he was preparing his largest enterprise in this 

 direction, in Brooklyn, and exacted soon to oi>cii a 

 larger home in New York city. In all the Dunn 

 homes the manufacture of brooms was carried on, to 

 aid in supportinir them. 



Dwight, Theodore William, educator, born in Catskiil, 

 N. Y., Jul\ KS, is-J-J; died in Clinton, N. Y., June 89, 

 He was graduated at Hamilton College in 

 1840, studied law at Yale in 1841-'42; was tutor in 

 Hamilton College in 1842-'46, and professor there of 

 Law, History, Civil Polity, and Political Economy in 

 1846-'58. In the latter year he was elected Professor 

 of Municipal Law in Columbia College, and he held 



