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Latin School and began business life with Messrs. Hodges & Silsbee, manufacturers of chemicals, re- maining with them for three years. In 1867 he was appointed junior clerk to the city auditor, rising to be chief clerk in 1873. In June, 1881, he was ap- pointed to the chief position, for which he is peculiarly fitted. Mr. Dodge has been secretary of the sinking-fund commission since July, 1881. During the Civil War he served in the army for three months.
DOGGETT, FREDERICK FORBES, M.D., son of The- ophilus Pipon and Elizabeth (Bates) Doggett, was born in Barnstable, Mass., Feb. 22, 1855. His education was attained in Phillips (Exeter) Acad-
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member of the State committee of the Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Society, and gave a course of lectures for the society before the Boston police and others; and in 1888 he was fleet surgeon of the South Boston Yacht Club. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; was treasurer of the Harvard Natural History Society, 1874-5 ; a member of the Bolyston Medical Society, Harvard University, 1878-1880; and a member of the In- ternational Medical Congress in London in ISSI. Dr. Doggett has published and read before societies a number of important articles on professional sub- jects, among them papers entitled " Anæesthetics in Vienna," " Boston Medical and Surgical Jour- nal," 1880-1 ; " Metallic Poisoning from Canned Tomatoes," " Medical and Surgical Journal," 1884- 5 ; and " Abuse of Medical Charity," read June 8, 1886, before the Massachusetts Medical Society, and published in pamphlet form. Dr. Doggett was married July 7, 1880, in Halifax, N.S., to Miss Mary Chipman DeWolf; they have four children : Elizabeth DeWolf, Arthur Latham, Ellen, and Leonard Allison Doggett.
DOHERTY, PHILIP J., son of Philip and Ellen (Munnegle) Doherty, was born in Charlestown Jan. 27, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of the Charlestown district, graduating from the High School, and studied three years in the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1876 with the degree of LL.B. In June, 1877, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in Boston as a member of the law firm of Doherty & Sibley. In 1883 he was elected to the lower house of the Leg- islature and twice returned, serving on the com- mittees on drainage, rules, and the judiciary, and on the joint special committee on the revision of the judicial system. At the opening of his third term, in 1886, he was the Democratic candidate for speaker of the House. In 1887 he was elected on a non-partisan platform by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans to the Boston board of aldermen. In 1888 he was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis. In 1889 he was appointed a member of the Boston water board, which position he held until 1891. Mr. Doherty was married in the Charlestown district, Aug. 16, 1878, to Miss Catharine A., daughter of John Butler; they have four children : Philip, Mary, Eleanor, and Alice Doherty.
emy, from which he graduated in the class of 1873, and Harvard College, class of 1877. He studied medicine in the Harvard Medical School, graduat- ing in 1880, and as a special student in the Uni- versity of Vienna, 1880-1 ; École du Médecine in Paris, ISS1 ; and Guy's Hospital, London, 1881. He began the practice of his profession in the spring of 1882 in Boston, at No. 805 Broadway, and has continued there to the present date. From 1883 he has been medical examiner for the John Han- cock and Equitable Mutual Life Insurance Com- panies, the Golden Cross, and the Order of Ægis ; from 1882 to 1886 he was district physician to the DONNELLY, CHARLES F., son of Hugh and Mar- Boston Dispensary ; from 1885 to 1886 he was a garet (Conway) Donnelly, was born in Athlone,
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county Roscommon, Ire., Oct 14, 1836. His ancestors on the paternal side were of the old Irish sept of the north, and on the maternal side Welsh-Irish of the west of Ireland. His parents came to British America when he was a year old, and thence to Rhode Island in 1848. His early training was for the Catholic priesthood, but when still a youth he determined to enter the legal pro- fession .. To this end he began his studies in the office of Hon. A. A. Ranney in 1856, and entered the Harvard Law School. He graduated with the degree of LL.B., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. Early becoming a leading member, he has had many important cases, notably several civil cases instituted against the archbishop and other Catholic ecclesiastics in Massachusetts, and he has been conspicuous in the arguments showing the harmonious relation of Catholic ecclesiastical or canon law with the spirit of American law and American institutions. His services in these and other directions have been recognized by St. Mary's College of Maryland, the oldest Catholic seat of learning in the country, "which conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. In 1875 Mr. Donnelly was appointed a member of the State board of charities, and in its work he has taken a leading and important part. For several years he has been chairman of the board. When, in 1884, the Legislature referred the question of the treatment of inebriates to the board for consideration, Mr. Donnelly, as chairman, drafted and proposed a bill subjecting dipsomaniacs to the same restraint and treatment as lunatics. This was adopted by the next Legislature, and Massachusetts was the first State having such legal remedy for the offence of habitual drunkenness. In 1889 the Legislature gave further effect to the new law by authorizing the erection of a hospital for those coming under its provisions, and the establishment of a board of trustees for the management of the institution. Mr. Donnelly is a member of the Charitable Irish Society, and was for a long time its president. He is the senior in membership of the Catholic mem- bers of the bar in New England.
DOOGUE, WILLIAM, was born in Brocklaw Park, Stradbally, Queen's county, Ireland, May 24, 1828. He came to this country with his father's family in 1840, who settled in Middletown, Conn. After graduating from the high school there in 1843, he was apprenticed to George Affleck & Co., Hart- ford, Conn., and while engaged in their extensive nurseries he studied horticulture, floriculture, and landscape gardening. His term of apprenticeship
lasted five years, at the end of which time he was admitted to the firm, remaining a partner for five years. The three years following he studied botany with Prof. Comstock, of Trinity College, Hartford, and in 1856 he came to Boston, where he assamed the management of the floricultural business of the late Charles Copeland, at Boston and Melrose. About thirty years ago he established himself in Floral place, off Washington street, where he con- ducted a flourishing business for many years. Since 1878 Mr. Doogue has been superintendent of the public grounds, and through his efforts the parks of the city have been yearly increasing in beauty. The floral displays annually made in the spring and autumn in the Public Garden are samples of Mr. Doogue's skill and taste, and are famous throughout the country. In art gardening his advice is much sought and is always given, not only gratuitously, but with pleasure. Twice he has been prominently brought before the public, the first time being in 1876, when he made a tropical and sub-tropical display in Fairmount park, Philadelphia, during the Centennial Exhibition, for which he was awarded two gold medals, two silver medals, and diplomas. The second occasion was during the year 1887, when the Massachusetts Horticultural Society endeavored to have the city government erect a building on the Public Garden " to be devoted to the study and advancement of floriculture." This project was ably furthered by influential men, but Mr. Doogue was so vigorous and determined against the inno- vation that he aroused public sentiment, and the scheme was abandoned. His floral display of army and navy, Grand Army, and other badges in the Public Garden on the occasion of the meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic in Boston in August, 1890, brought him many compliments from visiting posts and others. The medals and votes of thanks which several organizations sent him after their return to their homes are preserved among his treasures.
DORE, JOHN P., was born in county Cork, Ire., Oct. 30, 1832. He was educated there in the national schools, under the tuition of the Christian Brothers. He came to this country when a lad of seventeen, in 1849. In 1856 he started in business as a retail boot and shoe merchant in Boston, and continued in the trade for twenty-six years, when, in 1882, he was elected to the board of street com- missioners. In 1887 he was made chairman of the board - a position which he still holds ( 1892). In 1879 he was elected to the board of overseers of the poor. He is a member of the Massachusetts Cath-
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olic Order of Foresters, the Knights of St. Rose, in 1888 was reappointed by him for the full term of the Good Fellows, and numerous other societies. His home is in the Roxbury district.
DORR, JONATHAN, son of Ralph S. Dorr, was born in Louisville, Ky., 1842. His father was a Massa- chusetts man, but for many years in business in San . Francisco. He graduated from Harvard in 1864, and studied law in the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1874. His practice is mostly corporation and trusts. He is a Repub- lican in politics. He resides in the Dorchester dis- trict.
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Dow, JAMES A., M.D., son of Jonathan and Abbie (Towne) Dow, was born in Bath, N.H., Dec. 18, 1844. He was educated in the Lisbon Academy, Lisbon, N.H., and the Vermont Conference Semi- nary, Newbury, Vt. He began the study of medi- cine in the offices of Dr. Watson, of Newbury, and Dr. Leonard, of Haverhill, N.H., and then took a course in the medical department of the University of Vermont, graduating therefrom in 1867. He immediately began practice, establishing himself in Windsor, Vt., where he remained until 1871, when he moved to Cambridge, Mass., which city has since been his home. He is now visiting physician to the Cambridge Hospital, and examining physician for the Massachusetts Mutual Benefit Association and the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Cambridge Med- ical Improvement Association, and the American Medical Association. He is also connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. Dr. Dow was married March 26, 1868, to Miss Alice L. Lincoln, of Windsor, Vt .; they have had four chil- dren : Esther A., Clifford W., George L., and Arthur Dow (deceased).
DOWSLEY, JOHN F., was born in St. John's, New- foundland, Feb. 14, 1854. He attended St. Bona- venture's College until 1868, when the sudden and tragic death of his father necessitated his withdrawal from school and the removal of the family to Bos- ton. Here he worked for several years as an oper- ator with the Western Union Telegraph Company, pursuing his studies at an evening school. He be- gan the study of dentistry in 1880, entering Boston Dental College in 1882, which he attended one year. In . 1884 he graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery with the degree of D.D.S. Returning to Boston, he was appointed by Governor Ames a member of the Massachusetts board of registration in dentistry for one year (1887), and
three years. In 1891 he was again reappointed by Governor Russell for three years. Dr. Dowsley is a member of the Massachusetts, New England, and Connecticut Valley Dental Societies.
DRAPER, HARRY S., was born in Cambridge July 15, 1863. He moved with his parents to Boston in 1870, and obtained his education in the public schools. He graduated from the English High School in 1879, winning the Franklin medal. His professional studies were begun in 1880 with Dr. R. L. Robbins, and continued in the Boston Dental College. He completed his course at that institu- tion in 1882, taking the first prize each year, but, not being of age to graduate, he did not receive his degree of I).D.S. until 1884. During the two years succeeding his graduation Dr. Draper was a clinical instructor in the college. He is an active member of the New England Dental Society, the Massachu- setts Dental Society, and the American Academy of Dental Science. He is at present in successful practice at the Evans House building in this city and resides in Greenwood, a suburb of Boston.
DRISKO, ALONZO S., was born in Addison, Me., Oct. 2, 1829. He came to Boston in 1850, and be- gan business as a builder in 1864, - having worked for the four previous years with prominent builders in the city, - forming the firm of Laming & Drisko. This was continued until 1881, when he succeeded to the business. Mr. Drisko has done a large amount of domestic work, and has had an extended experience in the building of family hotels and resi- dences, furnishing his own plans for many of them. He built the Globe Theatre after the great fire of 1872. His firm had built fifty-one of the buildings which were burned down in that fire, and afterwards rebuilt thirty-six of them. They had charge of the interior work of the Rialto Building, Hotel La- fayette, Clifford House, and many other prominent buildings. Mr. Drisko's latest work is seen in the large Emerson Piano Building ; and in a number of fine residences in suburban districts, that built for S. S. Rowe at Roxville Park, from plans drawn by Mr. Drisko, being especially unique, attractive, and roomy, although erected on a triangular lot. Mr. Drisko is also secretary and manager of the Rogers Water Meter Company.
DUANE, JOHN H., street commissioner, was born in Calais, Me., July 1, 1842, and, coming to Boston when a boy, was educated in the Lyman School, winning the Franklin medal in 1856. He has lived
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most of his life in East Boston, and has been in the was assistant to the professor of medical chemis- grocery and provision business there since 1866. try. After graduation he was surgical house doctor at the Massachusetts General Hospital for sixteen months, and was the assistant of Dr. Henry I.
For fifteen years he was in the assessors' depart- ment, nearly all that time first assistant assessor for Ward 2, East Boston. In 1872 he was secretary of Bowditch, with whom he was associated in the com- the Democratic city committee. pilation of the latter's work on consumption. After-
DUDLEY, SANFORD HARRISON, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, natives of Maine, and a lineal descendant of Thomas Dudley, the second governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was born in China, Me., Jan. 14, 1842. He came to Massachusetts with his parents in 1857, residing first in Fairhaven, and afterwards in New Bedford, until 1870; then he moved to Cambridge, his present home. He graduated from Harvard College in 1867, and from the Harvard Law School in 1871, having received from his Alma Mater the degrees of A.B., A.M., and LL.B. After graduation he taught for three years in the New Bedford High School, having charge of the classics and mathematics, meantime reading law with Eliot & Stetson, an eminent' law-firm of that city. Immediately upon receiving his degree from the law school he was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar, and has continued in the practice of his profession ever since. His office is in the Mutual Life Insurance Building, No. 95 Milk street. He has been Republican in politics, and for many years was connected with the organizations of his party in his city ; but he has latterly acted in- dependently, though preferably with the Republican party. He was for a time a member of the city government of Cambridge. He is one of the orig- inal members of the Cambridge Club. He is a member of the Universalist Church at North Cam- bridge, and takes an active interest in religious matters, both in church and Sunday-school. He is also president of the Universalist Club, the repre- sentative lay organization of the Universalist denom- ination in the Commonwealth. Mr. Dudley was married in 1869, to Laura Nye Howland, daughter of John M. Howland, of Fairhaven, and has three children, a son and two daughters.
DENN, WILLIAM A., M.D., was born in Boston Sept. 6, 1852. His early education was acquired in the Boston public schools. At the age of thirteen he graduated a Franklin-medal scholar from the Eliot School; then he went through the English High School, and subsequently entered Boston Col- lege, from which he duly graduated, after receiving in his last year the three silver medals and the gold prize for dramatic reading. Next he took the regular course in the Harvard Medical School, and
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wards, for a year, he was assistant to Dr. John G. Blake. Then he established himself in his own office on Chambers street, and his practice soon became extensive. In 1876 he was professor of chemistry at Boston College, and later taught phys- iology there. In 1878 he went abroad with his friend George Crompton, the famous inventor, of Worcester, Mass., and there further pursued his medical studies. In 1882 he was appointed assist- ant surgeon to Carney Hospital, and in 1884 he was made one of the visiting surgeons. He is at present consulting surgeon. For several years he was surgeon of the First Battalion of Cavalry, Second Brigade of the Militia. He was a member of the school committee from 1886 to 1889, and was re- elected in 1890 to serve for three years. He is one of the trustees of the Institution for the Feeble- minded, and trustee of the Union Institution for Savings. He is a life member of the Young Men's Catholic Association ; ex-president of the Alumni Association of Boston College ; a member of the Eliot School Association ; of the Algonquin, Ath- letic, University, Puritan, and Clover clubs ; of the
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Bostonian Society, and of various medical societies, the Ist of March, 1863, he was promoted to the including the American Medical Association and position of surgeon to the Fortieth Massachusetts In- the Boston Society for Medical Observation. He fantry (Colonel Henry), and ordered to report at has contributed much to the medical journals, and he has published pamphlets on the " Therapeutics of Venesection," and on the " Use and Abuse of Ergot."
DURGIN, SAMUEL HOLMES, M.D., was born in Parsonsfield, Me., July 26, 1839. His education was acquired in the Parsonsfield, Effingham, and Pittsfield Academies. Then he taught school for three years in the towns of Alton and Northwood, N. H. Early in life developing a marked taste for the study of medicine, he entered the Harvard Medical School, and graduated therefrom in 1864. During the latter year he received a commis- sion as assistant surgeon in the First Massa- chusetts Cavalry, went to the front and served until the close of the Civil War. Returning to Boston he began the practice of his profession, and has since remained in this city. In 1867 Dr. Durgin was appointed resident physican at the institutions on Deer Island, and port physician of the city of Boston, which offices he held until January, 1873. He was then appointed a member of the Boston board of health, and since 1877 has been chair- man of that board. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, the Boston Society for Medi- cal Improvement, and the American Public Health Association. Since 1885 he has been lecturer on hygiene at Harvard Medical School.
DUTTON, SAMUEL LANE, M.D., son of Solomon Lane and Olive Charlotte (Hutchinson) Dutton, was born in Acton, Mass., July 15, 1835. He was educated in Acton, in Appleton Academy of New Ipswich, N.H., Appleton Academy, Mount Vernon, N.H., the academy at Francestown, N.H., and the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in the class of 1860. He first settled in Derry, N.H., and practised his profession there two and a half years following his graduation. Then he en- tered the United States service, Aug. 11, 1862, as as- sistant surgeon, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Col. William B. Green commanding. He was first ordered to join the command in the defences of Washington. The following winter he was in charge of the hospital at Fort Tillinghast, Va., and in July, 1863, was ordered by the secretary of war to the charge of troops on Maryland Heights, opposite Harper's Ferry. In December he was ordered back to the defences of Washington. On
Boston ; and from this city he was ordered to join his new command, then serving in Florida. Thence he was ordered with his regiment to Fortress Mon- roe, the command now becoming a part of the Army of the James, and with it took part in the engagements of Drury's Bluff, Chester Station, Bermuda Hundreds, Mine Explosion, Darbytown Road, etc. He was surgeon-in-chief of the Third Brigade, First Division of old fighting Eighteenth Army Corps. Dr. Dutton returned to civil life after the fall of Richmond, having served a little less than three years. The hardships of army life had so impaired his health that it was not until the follow- ing September that he was able to resume practice, at which time he established himself in Boston. Subsequently, with gradually increasing duties, his. health failed because of the old army trouble con- tracted at the front. After repeated and long sick- nesses, confining him to his bed for months at a time, and · finally necessitating the amputation of part of the right hand as a consequence of war experience, he was obliged to give up general prac- tice. A long time was spent in California and
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other distant sections of the country, but the exact- ing duties of his profession were found to be too great to resume, and with much disappointment
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they were finally abandoned, and Dr. Dutton's en- the Suffolk Dispensary, in the nose and throat de- tire attention is now devoted to the performance partment. He is a member of the Massachusetts of the duties of medical director-in-chief of the Medical Society, president of the Massachusetts Massachusetts Benefit Life Insurance Company. Dr. Dutton has been examining surgeon for State aid, and United States examining surgeon for pen- sions, Boston district. He is a member of the E. W. Kinsley Post 113, G.A.R., and has been its surgeon. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Massachusetts Commandery, of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the Norfolk District Medical Society. He was one of the founders of the Gynæcological Society of Bos- ton, and a former member of the Boston Society for Medical Observation. He has been visiting and consulting physician to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and was for many years medical examiner for the Penn Mutual and the Provident Life Insurance Companies of Philadelphia. Dr. Dutton was mar- ried Sept. 25, 1860, at North Chelmsford, Mass., to Miss Surviah Parkhurst Stevens, of that town ; they have had four children : Edgar Fulton, who was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the class of 1888, as electrical en- gineer, Grace Stevens (died in 1880, at the age of twelve), Bertha Hutchinson, and Mary Elizabeth Dutton.
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E AMES, GEORGE FRANK, M.D., D.D.S., was born Dental Society, and a member of the American Academy of Dental Science. He is a graduate of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. in Swanville, Me., May 26, 1854. He was educated in the Belfast, Me., city schools. In his eighteenth year he began teaching in public schools, and this, with attendance at the Eastern State EnDy, Oris, son of Darius and Lydia Otis (Her- sey) Eddy, was born in Boston Oct. 15, 1843. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and when a young man entered the establishment of Messrs. Ballard & Stearns, house furnishers. Later he established himself in the lumber business, with which he is still connected. He was a member of the common council in 1881, 1882, and 1883, and of the board of aldermen 1888-9. He is worshipful master of Union Lodge, Free Masons, and an officer in the Boston Commandery, Knights Templar. Mr. Eddy was married April 29, 1869, to Miss Mary C. Willard. They have no children. Normal School at Castine, occupied his time until May, 1875, when he was graduated from that insti- tution. After a private pupilage with G. W. Stod- dard, D.D.S., of Belfast, Me., and Prof. D. D. Smith, of Philadelphia, he graduated from the Philadelphia Dental College in 1877 and the Jefferson Medical College in 1882. While in the latter college he was a member of Professor Bartholow's private class in experimental therapeutics, and had charge of the out-patients department of the Philadelphia Medi- cal Mission. He began the practice of dentistry in Bucksport, Me., and while there was elected to the chair of natural science in the East Maine Con- ference Seminary, which position he held until he EDGEREY, MARTIN V. B., son of Samuel J. and Eliza ( Bickford) Edgerly, was born in Barnstead, N. H., Sept. 26, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Manchester, N.H., and in that city began work as an employe in the shop and mills of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. At this occupation, however, he did not continue came to Boston in 1883. In 1888 he was appointed professor of pathology and the practice of dental medicine in the Boston Dental College, and at the same time he was engaged to give the " Emergency Course " of lectures at the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, both of which positions he holds at the present time. He is also physician to long. In 1859 he went to Pittsfield and engaged
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