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running a sawmill and wooden bowl factory ; in 

 1862 joined four brothers in operating oil wells in Oil 

 Creek, Pa. ; in 1866 began to manufacture oil tanks 

 for transportation by railroad according to an original 

 invention ; was associated with his brother James in 

 inventing the present Remington typewriter; and, 

 after receiving royalties thereon till 1886, sold out 

 his interest, and introduced the Densmore typewriter, 

 of which he was the principal inventor. 



Dodge, John Wood, painter, born in New York city, 

 in 1806 ; died in Pomona, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1893. In 

 early life he became a painter of miniature portraits 

 on ivory, and he followed that art till it was super- 

 seded "by photography. During this period he 

 painted portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, 

 and other public men. For several years prior to the 

 civil war he was engaged in the nursery business in 

 the Cumberland mountain region of Tennessee ; but 

 his Union sentiments made that locality inhospitable 

 during the war, and he removed to New York city, 

 and when nearly sixty years old resumed painting. 

 Two years afterward he settled in Chicago, where he 

 remained till his return to his old Southern home. 

 After many years of miniature work, he undertook 

 larger portraits in oil, and his last canvas exhibited at 

 the National Academy of Design was a life-size por- 

 trait of Henry Bergh. His last work, a unique com- 

 posite picture, was finished in his eighty-eighth year, 

 and is now in the collection of William Ziegler, 01 

 New York city. 



Doolittle, Theodore Sanford, educator, born in Ovid, 

 Seneca County, N. Y., Nov. 30,1836; died in New 

 Brunswick, N. J., April 18, 1893. He received his 

 preliminary education at Ovid Academy, and was 

 graduated at Rutgers College in 1859, and at the New 

 Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1862. After 

 spending two years as pastor of the Eeforrned Church 

 in Flatbush, Long Island, he became Professor of 

 Rhetoric, Logic, and Metaphysics in Rutgers College in 

 1864, and held the chair till his death. He had also 

 been vice-president of the institution since 1890, and 

 several times acting president. He received the de- 

 gree of D.D. from Wesley an University in 1872, and 

 LL. D. from Union College in 1891. Dr. Doolittle 

 was one of the founders of" The Rutgers Quarterly," 

 now " The Targum"; was an editor of "The Chris- 

 tian at Work," and its regular expounder of the Inter- 

 national Sunday-school Lessons ; hadpublished " An 

 Account of the Centennial Celebration at Rutgers 

 College" (1870); a "History of Rutgers College" 

 ( United States Bureau of Education), and " Across 

 the Continent," and left a more extended history of 

 the college in manuscript. 



Doubleday, Abner, military officer, born in Ballston 

 Spa, N. Y., June 26, 1819; died in Mendham, N. J., 

 Jan. 26, 1893. He was graduated at the United States 



Military Academy 

 and appointed a 

 brevet 2d lieuten- 

 ant in the 3d 

 United States Ar- 

 tillery in 1842 ; 

 was promoted 2d 

 lieutenant 1st Ar- 

 tillery, Feb. 24, 

 1845 ; 1st lieuten- 

 ant, March 3, 1847 ; 

 captain, March 3, 

 1855 ; major 17th 

 Infantry, May 14, 

 1861 ; lieutenant- 

 colonel, Sept. 20, 

 1863; colonel 35th 

 Infantry, Sept. 15, 

 1867 ; assigned to 

 the 24th Infantry, Dec. 15, 1870; and was retired 

 Dec. 11, 1873. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, 

 Sept. 17, 1862 ; colonel, July 2, 1863 ; and brigadier- 

 general and major-general, March 13, 1865. His first 

 active service was with the 1st Artillery, with which 

 he was connected through the Mexican War, and 



distinguished himself in the battle of Monterey and 

 in the operations preceding and during the battle 

 of Buena Vista. In 1852 he was appointed by the 

 United States Senate a commissioner to go to Mex- 

 ico and investigate an alleged fraudulent claim, 

 and on his return was voted the thanks of Congress. 

 He was also president of an important military 

 commission in Philadelphia ordered oy the War De- 

 partment. During 1856-'58 he was in the Seminole 

 campaign in Florida, and in 1861 was second in com- 

 mand in Fort Sumter during its first bombardment, 

 and was given by Major Andfcson the honor of sight- 

 ing and tiring the first gun in its defense. After the 

 evacuation and his transfer to the infantry, he served 

 first in the Shenandoah Valley and then in the de- 

 fense of Washington, where he commanded the forts 

 and batteries on the Potomac. In the early part of 

 1862 he commanded a brigade on the Rappahannock, 

 and from May till Septemoeronein the northern Vir- 

 ginia campaign, including the second battle of Bull 

 Run. In the battle of Antietam he was at the head 

 of the division which held the extreme right of the 

 line, opened the battle, and captured 6 flags. He was 

 commissioned a major-general of volunteers, Nov. 



29, 1862. At the battle of Chancellorsville he suc- 

 ceeded Gen. John F. Reynolds as commander of the 

 1st Army Corps, when that officer was appointed to the 

 head of the right wing. At Gettysburg, on the first day, 

 he was ordered to re-enforce Gen. Buford's cavalry on 

 the ridge west of the seminary, and when Gen. Rey- 

 nold's was killed Gen. Doubledav took his place tem- 

 porarily, and under him the 1st Corps captured Arch- 

 er's brigade and the greater part ot Davis's brigade, 

 and almost annihilated that of Iverson. On the second 

 day he assisted in regaining an important position 

 the enemy had captured, together with 6 guns. On 

 the third day, when Gen. Pickett was making his 

 great charge. Gen. Doubleday's front line suddenly 

 wheeled and covered a vulnerable point so effectively 

 that the advance of the Confederates was repulsed. 

 After the war he was in command at Galveston, and 

 superintendent of the general recruiting service in 

 San Francisco. In April, 1865, on invitation from 

 the War Department, he accompanied the expedition 

 that raised over Fort Sumter the same flag that had 

 floated there during the first bombardment. Gen. 

 Doubleday published several works on military and 

 sanitary matters, including " Reminiscences of Forts 

 Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61," and "Chancellors- 

 ville and Gettysburg." He was an accomplished 

 French and Spanish scholar, and had become deeply 

 interested in the study of Sanskrit. 



Douhleday, Ulysses, military officer, born in Auburn, 

 N. Y., Aug. 31, 1824; died in Tryon, N. C., Feb. 11, 

 1893. He was a brother of Gen. Abner Double- 

 day ; received an academical education ; and entered 

 the banking business in New York city. At the be- 

 ginning of the civil war he went to the field with the 4th 

 New York Artillery, of which he was commissioned 

 major in January, 1862. On Sept. 15, 1863, he was 

 appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 3d United States 

 Colored Infantry, and on Oct. 8, 1864, colonel of the 

 45th Colored Infantry. He commanded a brigade in 

 the battle of Five Forks, and for distinguished gal- 

 lantry there was brevetted brigadier-general on 

 March 11, 1865. After the war he was a member of 

 the Stock Exchange in New York city till 1882, when 

 he removed to the pine region of North Carolina for 

 his health, and there engaged in lumbering and 

 building. He contracted his fatal illness while attend- 

 ing his brother's funeral. He built a portion of the city 

 of Asheville, which is named Doubleday after him. 



Drexel, Anthony Joseph, banker, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., in 1826 ; died in Carlsbad, Bohemia, June 



30, 1893. He was the second son of Francis Martin 

 Drexel, founder of the banking house of Drexel & 

 Co., in Philadelphia; was educated in his father's 

 counting room ; and on the death of the elder Drexel, 

 in 1863, Anthony Joseph and his oldest brother 

 Francis succeeded to the management and greatly 

 enlarged the scope of the business. The firm have 



