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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DODD DUNTON.) 



lature in 1861, 1862, and 1863, and in the last 

 year was chosen Speaker. Removing to Lewis- 

 ton, he was re-elected to the Legislature in 18b4, 

 1805, 1868. and 1873, and was again Speaker m 

 1864, declining a re-election to that office in 1865. 

 In 1873 he was elected Governor of Maine by a 

 majority of about 10,000, and in 1874 was re- 

 elected with a majority of about 11,000. He de- 

 clined a renomination in 1875. During the next 

 six years his political work was chiefly in the 

 interest of the Republican party in his State. 

 He was first elected to Congress to fill the va- 

 cancy caused by the promotion of William P. 

 Frye to the United States Senate, Sept. 12, 1881, 

 and he held the seat by successive re-elections 

 till his death. In this service he performed ef- 

 fective work as a member of the Committees on 

 Banking and Currency, on American Shipbuild- 

 ing and Shipowning Interests (select), on Mer- 

 chant Marine and P'isheries, and, above all, on 

 Ways and Means. From the beginning of his 

 congressional career he was conspicuous as a 

 defender of the principle of protection. He 

 strongly opposed the Mills tariff bill in 1888, 

 aided in the drafting of the McKinley bill in 1890, 

 opposed the Wilson bill in 1894, and as chairman 

 of the Committee on Ways and Means had charge 

 of the bill of 1897 that bears his name. When 

 President McKinley was forming his Cabinet he 

 was anxious that Mr. Dingley should accept the 

 office of Secretary of the Treasury, but the latter 

 believed he could serve the country and party 

 best by retaining the leadership of the House. 

 In 1898 President McKinley appointed him a 

 member of the Joint High Commission on the 

 controversies between the United States and 

 Canada. Mr. Dingley received the degree of 

 LL. D. from both Bates and Dartmouth Colleges. 



Dodd, Moses Woodruff, publisher, born in 

 Bloomfield, N. J., Nov. 11, 1813; died in New 

 York city, April 8, 1899. He was graduated at 

 Princeton College in 1837, and immediately en- 

 tered its theological seminary, but failing health 

 soon caused the abandonment of his plans. In 

 1839 he entered into partnership with John S. 

 Taylor, then one of the foremost publishers of 

 religions books in New York city. In the follow- 

 ing year Mr. Taylor withdrew, and for thirty 

 years the business was continued in the name of 

 M. W. Dodd. He continued in active business till 

 1870, when, on retiring, he was succeeded by a 

 son and a nephew, under the firm name of Dodd 

 & Mead. This name was subsequently changed 

 to Dodd, Mead & Co., as at present. Mr. Dodd 

 was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for fifty 

 years. He was a remarkably well-preserved man, 

 and to his last days had an absorbing interest in 

 church music and painting, as well as in the fine 

 arts generally. 



Dodge. Reuben Rawson, genealogist, born in 

 East Sutton, Mass., April 3, 1819; died in Saun- 

 dersville. Mass., Aug. 24, 1899. He was brought 

 up on his father's farm, and followed the car- 

 penter's trade for twenty years. He belonged to 

 three large and well-known families, and spent 

 much of the past sixty years in compiling gene- 

 alogies of them. In 1838 he published his Geneal- 

 ogy of the Rawson Family, and in 1879 his Geneal- 

 ogy of the Dodge Family. He discovered in Anti- 

 quarian Hall, Worcester, in 1873. the manuscripts 

 relating to the early history of Sutton, which 

 were afterward edited by the Rev. W r . A. Bene- 

 dict. In 1897 he published An Historical Sketch 

 of the Leland Hill and Old Stone School Dis- 

 tricts in Sutton, and in 1898 a pamphlet contain- 

 ing the names and inscriptions on more than 

 1,100 gravestones in six Sutton cemeteries. His 



Rawson and Dodge genealogies have passed 

 through several editions. 



Doerflinger, Augustus, civil engineer, born 

 in Baden, Germany, in 1845; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Nov. 24, 1899. In 1849 he came to the 

 United States. He was graduated at Cornell Uni- 

 versity in 1871 with the degree of C. E., entered 

 the service of the United States Government, and 

 was assigned to the Atlantic coast division of 

 the engineering department. He was employed 

 for a long time on the work at Hell Gate, and, 

 in conjunction with J. H. Strietinger, invented 

 a method of simultaneous explosion. The French 

 Government awarded him a gold medal at the 

 French exposition. After the completion of the 

 work at Hell Gate he was in charge of the con- 

 struction of the Harlem river ship canal, and later 

 ^he worked on the channels at the entrance to 

 New York harbor. He directed the placing of 

 the land batteries on Sandy Hook at the begin- 

 ning of the Spanish-American War. He was con- 

 sulting engineer of the Grant monument. 



Dow, Lorenzo, .inventor, born in Paris, Me., 

 July 10, 1825; died in New York city, Oct. 12, 

 1899. He was graduated at Wesley an University 

 in 1848, spent four years in mining in California 

 and Nevada, and, after a brief residence in New 

 York, settled in Topeka, Kan., of which he be- 

 came the first mayor. In the early part of the 

 civil war he invented improvements in ammuni- 

 tion, including the waterproof cartridge bearing 

 his name, and manufactured such supplies for 

 the Government. After the war he spent several 

 years in South America, working valuable in- 

 terests in gold mines and hard lumber that he 

 had acquired in Colombia. On his return to the 

 United States he settled in Colorado, where he 

 aided in developing the towns of Silverton and 

 Gladstone. He became interested in the problem 

 of irrigating the arid lands, and through his in- 

 ventive skill and wide experience was of much 

 service in establishing the present system of irri- 

 gation. During the last fifteen years of his life 

 he had applied himself almost wholly to making 

 and perfecting the typesetting machine that bears 

 his name in New York. 



Duggan, James, clergyman, born in Dublin, 

 Ireland, in 1825; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 

 27, 1899. He came to the United States in early 

 life, and was ordained in the Roman Catholic 

 Church at St. Louis in 1847. His first appoint- 

 ment was as superior of the St. Louis Theological 

 Seminary at Carondelet, in which he also became 

 a professor. In 1850 he was attached to the 

 cathedral in St. Louis, and in 1854 was appointed 

 vicar general of the diocese and pastor of the 

 Church of the Immaculate Conception. In 1857 

 he became Bishop of Gabala and coadjutor of St. 

 Louis. Two years later he was made Bishop of 

 Chicago. His health soon gave way under the 

 burdens of his new post, and he made a trip to 

 . Europe. While he was there complaints were 

 made against his administration, and, returning 

 to his diocese, he removed some of the remdn- 

 strants. An appeal w r as made to Rome, and the 

 trouble was referred to the Archbishop of St. 

 Louis. As none of the accusers appeared, their 

 charges w r ere dismissed. About this time it be- 

 came evident to the bishop's friends that his 

 mind was seriously affected. He sought medical 

 advice and traveled in Europe, but his once bril- 

 liant intellect soon became a blank, and in 1870 

 he was placed in an asylum. 



Dunton, Larkin, educator, born in Concord, 

 Me., July 22, 1828; died in Allston. Mass., Oct. 

 30, 1899. He was graduated at Waterville Col- 

 lege in 1855,, and was admitted to the bar at 



