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In 1877 he opened a wholesale store in New York City, which is continued as an outlet for the great variety of styles which the firm now make.
Mr. Dodge was married in Troy, N. Y., April 25, 1865, to Matilda Valentine Hins- dale. Their children are : Nathan Dane, Jr., born June 15, 1866 ; Adelaide Pearle, born January 2, 1881, and William Garnet Dodge, born August 14, 1882.
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Mr. Dodge was alderman of the city of Newburyport in 1880 ; was elected director of the First National Bank some ten years ago, which position he holds at the present time ; is also a trustee of the Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank.
The early family training of Mr. Dodge, under the influence of a sainted mother, led him early to seek church relations. He joined the church and choir at the age of seventeen, and has contributed to church service ever since. He has been a Sunday- school scholar or teacher nearly all of his life, and is now superintendent of the White- field Sunday-school. He was a member of
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the Young Men's Christian Association in Troy, N. Y., where he resided a few years. He was one of the founders of the New- buryport Association some fifteen years ago ; was elected its first president, serving as such for several years, and is at present a member of the board of directors.
DODGE, SIMEON, JR., son of Simeon and Betsey (Goodwin) Dodge, was born in Marblehead, Essex county, February 23, 1840.
He obtained his early education in the public schools of his native place.
He began business as a grocer's clerk. Later on he worked at shoemaking. His present vocation is that of farmer.
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Mr. Dodge was married in Marblehead, June 5, 1860, to Betsey, daughter of Wil- liam and Betsey (Goss) Gilley. Of this union are four children : Albert W., Re- becca F., Charles E., and Emma S. Dodge.
Mr. Dodge is president of the Wenham Mutual Benefit Association ; commander of the Wenham Veteran Association, and chair- man of the Republican town committee. He is chief engineer of the fire department. He was representative to the Legislature from the 9th Essex district, in 1889, serv- ing on the committee on manufactures.
He enlisted as private in company C, 8th regiment, Massachusetts volunteer militia, in the war of the rebellion, and fought in the service of his country.
DODGE, THEODORE AYRAULT, was born in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, in 1842, of old New England stock. His grandfather was pastor of First Church in Haverhill ; his maternal great-grandfather was General Seth Pomeroy of Bunker Hill memory, and his middle name comes from Dr. Pierre Ayrault, who migrated with the first Huguenot colony, as its physician, to Newport.
Col. Dodge was educated abroad. He is a graduate of the London University, attended lectures at Heidelberg, and re- ceived a four years' military training under General von Frohreich of the Prussian army in Berlin. What he there learned stood him in good stead when, in 1861, he caught the patriotic fever and returned home to enlist. His field service of two years under Kearney and Howard, in the army of the Potomac, was terminated at Gettysburg by the loss of a leg, he having been several times previously wounded. On recovery, he was ordered to duty in the war department, as chief of the bureau of enrollment. Here he served for a number of years, and to retain his services, Secre- tary Stanton offered him a commission in the regular army. At the time Mr. Stan- ton declined to yield up possession of the war office to President Johnson, Colonel Dodge "held the fort," under the self- willed, but in this instance orthodox, sec- retary.
Colonel Dodge has four brevets for gal- lant conduct - two volunteer, two regular. Under the act of Congress by which all wounded officers were taken from active service, Col. Dodge was placed on the re- tired list of the army, where he still holds his commission. He has since resided in his native State.
He has been connected with successful business enterprises in Boston, but enjoys
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best out-of-door pleasures and the use of his pen. He is a well-known horseman. He has been constantly in the saddle for nearly forty years, and is considered an authority in the art. Few men have rid- den so much. He estimates that he has covered over one hundred thousand miles.
He has published three military books, and a book on horsemanship, which have been highly and universally commended by the press at home and abroad. He con- tributes largely to periodical literature. He has delivered a number of military lec- tures at the Lowell Institute, Harvard Col- lege, and elsewhere, and for some years has been engaged on a history of the art of war, covering a series of volumes, of which two, bringing the subject down to the end of Hannibal's career, are now in the press.
Col. Dodge is a member, and has been one of the officers, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He belongs to the St. Botolph and Country clubs, and was president of the Papyrus Club for 1887.
He has recently purchased the old Crafts estate on the southern limits of Brookline, and has transformed it into a homestead which is aptly described by its name, " The Rocks." This definitely connects him with that town.
Circumstances have enabled Mr. Dodge to travel much. He has spent more than a dozen years in Europe, and has crossed the ocean many times.
He married, in 1865, Miss Neil, a grand- niece of Chief Justice John Marshall. He has three children living. A literary tend- ency seems to run in the family ; his father was a litterateur known to every peri- odical in the country ; his son, a senior at Cambridge, was editor-in-chief of the " Harvard Monthly."
Despite his loss of a leg, Col. Dodge is so active as to make all his friends forget that he is disabled, and promises to play the part of a veteran of our civil war for many years. As he was one of the youngest officers in service, he is still in the prime of life. He has taken up mili- tary history and criticism as his favorite pursuit, and will probably add materially to the existing literature of this topic.
DOHERTY, PHILIP J., son of Philip and Ellen (Munnegle) Doherty, was born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, Janu- ary 27, 1856.
He received his school training in the common schools and high school of Charles- town ; was three years in the Boston Uni- versity law school, from which he was
graduated LI. B. in the class of 1876 ; was admitted to the bar, June 4, 1877, and has since been engaged in the practice of law in Boston, as member of the law firm of Doherty & Sibley.
Mr. Doherty was married in Charles- town, August 16, 1878, to Catherine A., daughter of John and Catherine (Doyle) Butler. Of this union are four children : Philip, Mary, Eleanor, and Alice Doherty.
In 1883 Mr. Doherty was elected mem- ber of the House of Representatives, and served three years ; was a member of the committees on drainage, rules, judiciary, joint special committee on investigation of state house expenditures, and joint special committee on the revision of the judicial system. In 1886 he was Democratic can- didate for speaker of the House. In 1887 he was elected on a non-partisan platform by a coalition of the Republicans and Dem- ocrats as a member of the Boston board of aldermen.
He was elected in 1888 a delegate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis. He took a prominent part in the citizens' movement in Boston in 1888, and made the speech at the citizens' convention, placing Hon. Thomas N. Hart in nomina- tion for mayor of Boston. During 1889 he was chosen a member of the Boston water board for the term expiring in 1891.
DOLBEAR, AMOS EMERSON, son of Samuel and Eliza (Godfrey) Dolbear, was born in Norwich, New London county, Conn., November 10, 1837.
He attended the public schools at New- port, R. I., till he was ten years of age, after which his school education consisted of a few weeks each year until he reached the age of sixteen. He then entered a machine shop in Worcester, where he worked for two years. He next went into southwest Missouri, where he taught school for four years.
In 1859 he returned to Massachusetts and resumed work in a machine shop in Taunton, where he finished his trade. Later on he obtained a situation in the armory at Springfield. While there he was drafted for the Union army, but was un- able to pass the medical examination. His health failing him, he was obliged to give up his work. In the meantime he had fitted himself for college, and in 1863 entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1866. He then took a post-graduate course at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received the degrees A. M. and M. E. In 1883 he was made a doctor of philosophy by Michigan University.
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He was appointed assistant professor of natural history in Kentucky University, Lexington, where he remained one year. He then accepted the chair of natural science at Bethany College, West Virginia. Here he remained six years, during which he showed his inventive powers in a marked degree. He received his present appoint. ment, that of professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts College, in 1874.
Ile is the author of several standard scientific works a Hand book of Chemical Analysis, a Treatise on Projection, a Man- nal of Experiments in Physics, Chemistry and Natural History, with the Porte Lu- mière and Magic Lantern, and one on the telephone.
He has published several pamphlets on the speaking telephone, and has been an active contributor to scientific journals. Ile claims to have invented the speaking telephone which is now in general nsc. He made and exhibited in October, 1876, a Telephone operated by a permanent magnet. In 1879 he invented the static telephone, entirely different in principle from the earlier one,
Ile is also the inventor of a system of telephony and telegraphy without wires, and a new system of incandescent lighting.
Professor Dolbear is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a silver medal for his inventions and contri- butions to science at the Paris Exhibition, and a gold medal at the Crystal Palace Exhibition at London, in 1882.
Ile was one of the examiners of the Electrical Exhibition, Philadelphia, and is everywhere recognized as an electrical expert.
Prof. Dolbear was married in 1869 to Alice, daughter of Phineas and Jeanette (Needham) Hood, of Milford, N. 11. They have tive children: Clinton, Katie, Mary, Samuel and Benjamin Dolbear,
DONNELLY, CHARLES FRANCIS, Son of Thigh and Margaret (Conway) Don nelly, was born at Athlone, county Ros common, Ireland, October 14. 18.30, his parents emigrating to British America in 1837, and thence to Rhode Island in 1848, On his paternal side his ancestry are of the old Irish septs of the North, and his moth- er's family are of Welsh Irish stock, of the west of Ireland.
Mr. Donnelly's carly training was for the Cathohe priesthood, but he found his avocation in the law, and commenced bis studies in the office of Hon, A. A. Raney,
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of Boston, in 1856; was graduated from Harvard University law school with the degree of LL .. B., and was admitted to the Boston bar in 1858. He is the senior in membership of the Catholic members of the bar of New England, and became at an early age president of the oldest exist- ing Irish-American Society in that sec- tion, namely, the Charitable Irish Society, founded at Boston, in 1737.
In 1875 he was appointed a member of the state board of charities, taking the posi- tion from which the philanthropist, Dr. S. 6. Howe, resigned, and he continues to be a member of that body. For four years Mr. Donnelly was chairman of the board.
Ile has always declined to be a candidate for any political office, devoting his time to the general practice of his profession, and to the work of public and private charities -although at times entering into political discussions with much interest.
In 1883 the state board of health, luna- cy and charity had a long politico-legal correspondence with General B. F. Butler, commenced by the latter in his capacity as governor of the State. The letters on each side attracted public attention, and assisted in giving force and direction to the canvass against General Butler in that year. Mr. Donnelly was the anthor of the letters written in behalf of the state board.
Hle distinguished himself before the Leg- islature as counsel for the Catholic body in 1888 and '89, in their remonstrance against the proposed legislation to oppose the Catholic view of the school question in the State. Ile has been also conspicuous as connsel in several leading civil cases, in- stituted against the archbishop and other Catholic ecclesiasties in Massachusetts, within the past twenty years, especially in the arguments showing the harmonious re- lation of Catholic ecclesiastical, or canon law with the spirit of American law and American institutions, His able services we're recognized by his being honored with the degree of 1 ... D., from the oldest. Catholic seat of learning in the country St. Mary's College, of Maryland.
When the Legislature of ISS4 referred the question of the treatment of inebriates to the state board of charities, to consider and report, Mr. Donnelly, as chairman, proposed and drafted a unique act, adopted by the Legislature of 1885, subjecting dipsomaniacs to the same restraint and treatment as Inaties, and Massachusetts is the only state having such legal remedy for the offence of habitnal drankenness, In ISSo Mr. Donnelly had the satisfaction of
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seeing the Legislature give further effect to the law, by authorizing the crection of a hospital for those coming under the pro- visions of the act, and the appointing of a board of trustees for the management of the hospital.
DONOHOE, MICHAEL T., the son of Owen M. and Mary (Cassidy) Donohoe, was born at Lowell, Middlesex county, November 22. 1838. His paternal ances- lors came originally from County Cavan, Ireland, his father being one of the carli- est settlers in Lowell.
Michael T. Donohoe was educated at the public and high schools of Lowell and at Holy Cross College, Worcester. Upon leaving college in 1855 he took a situation in the Merrimack Mills, where he remained until 1859, when he went to Manchester, N. H., to enter a clothing store.
Upon the breaking ont of the war in 1861, he enlisted in a company which afterwards became company (, 3d New
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Hampshire regiment, of which he was elected captain. He took part in Sher- man's expedition to South Carolina, in which he was honorably mentioned in general orders.
On June 16, 1862, he returned home to New Hampshire, and with the aid of other officers succeeded in raising a regiment
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for the service (roth regiment N. 11. vol unteers), of which he was appointed colonel, and with the regiment lett the state for the seat of war. September is, 1863, They joined the oth corps and served until March, 186%. participating in the battle of Fredericksburg. They were sent to the 18th corps, and while at Fort Harrison on September 20, 1861, Colonel Donohoe had a horse shot from under him, and later on the same day received a severe gunshot wound in the right hip, and was specially mentioned in general orders for gallant conduct in the field. Colonel Donohoe subsequently served in General Devens's division of the sith corps, and during the last year of the war was brey elted brigadier general for gallant conduct in the field.
At the close of the war General Dono hoe entered the railroad service of the Concord and Boston & Lowell Railroads, subsequently changing to the Lake Shore & Ber Lines, after which he was appointed inspector of the post office department, which post he held until appointed clerk of commissioners of public institutions at Boston, a position he still most acceptably tills.
General Donohoe resides at Dorchester. He was married August 21, 1862, to Eliza- beth I, the daughter of John and Isabella (McCaffrey) Mc Anulty, Mr. MeAunity was also one of the earliest settlers of the town of Lowell. General Donohoe has five chil dren : Francis E., Maybelle, Adelaide, George J., and Ellie Donohoe.
DONOVAN, JOHN J., son of Jeremiah and Catharine ( Lawler) Donovan, was born July 28, 1843, in Yonkers, Westchester county, N. Y.
The public schools of Lowell, where his family settled in .846, gave him his carly educational training. Ile was graduated from the Lowell high school at fifteen years of age, Ile was also graduated from the Farnsworth Mercantile Academy.
Upon leaving school he entered the em- ploy of David Gove, Lowell, and was admitted as a partner upon reaching his majority. For a number of years he was interested in the manufacture of Manila paper.
He constructed all the lines of the Atlan tic Telegraph Company cast of Boston, doing business in connection with the Bal fimore & Ohio Telegraph Company. He was the promoter of this company, and is at present its treasurer,
Mr. Donovan was married in Lowell, May 6, 1869, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter
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of Augustine and Sarah (Crowley) Seede. Of this union are five children : Katharine Seede, John Augustine, Sarah Elizabeth, Grace Dorothy, and Marianna Donovan.
Mr. Donovan has held many positions of honor and trust ; has been member of board of overseers of the poor ; was elected as a Democratic mayor of Lowell in 1882,
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and was re-elected the next year, refusing a re-nomination at the expiration of his term. In 1886 he was nominated for con- gressional honors in the 8th congressional district, in which election the usual Repub- lican majority was reduced to a very nar- row margin. He was president of the Democratic state convention in 1888, and his address upon that occasion was strong, able and eloquent. It confirmed his repu- tation for oratorical ability, and several thousand copies of the address were pub- lished and distributed in the New England States. The oration at the Washington centennial in Huntington Hall, Lowell, and his memorial address before the G. A. R. posts the present year, were received with especial favor.
Although engaged in active business, he still finds time to indulge his literary tastes, and has been frequently heard upon the lecture platform. Some of his lectures have been of exceptional merit, especially
his "Orators and Oratorical Culture," " Life and Times of Robert Emmett," and "Germany ; Its Growth and Influence."
Mr. Donovan applies himself energetic- ally to every movement that promises to advance the interests of the people who have honored him in the past, and who appreciate his worth to-day.
DORCHESTER, DANIEL, son of Rev. Daniel and Mary (Otis) Dorchester, was born in Duxbury, Plymouth county, March II, 1827.
He received his educational training from the common schools, Norwich Acad- emy, and the Wesleyan University, Middle- town, Conn., from which institution he re- ceived the degrees of A. M. and D. D.
He has given his life to the work of the church and kindred elevating and educa- ting institutions. He entered the minis- try of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his father was an honored clergyman for many years. He has been conspicuous in the temperance reform, and in statistical studies, particularly in the ecclesiastical and reformatory departments of inquiry. He is an acknowledged authority, not only in religious statistics, but the religious his- tory of the United States, to which he has devoted great attention. His " Christian- ity in the United States " has been adopted as a text-book for young students for the ministry, and his " Problem of Religious Progress " has given him a world-wide fame.
He was married, first in Dudley, April 12, 1850, to Mary P., daughter of Henry and Matilda Davis of Dudley. His second marriage occurred October 12, 1875, with Marial A., daughter of Matthew and Diantha Whipple, of Charlestown, N. H. Of the first marriage were seven children : Daniel, Jr. (professor in Boston Univer- sity), Henry Davis (deceased), Sarah C. (Woods), Ernest D., Liverus H. (clergy- man at Springfield), Wesley (deceased), and Chester O. Dorchester.
In 1854 he was elected to the Connecti- cut state Senate from the 14th senatorial district. In 1854 and '55 he was chairman of the commission appointed by the Con- necticut Legislature to investigate the con- dition and improvability of idiots. In 1882 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legis- lature from the town of Natick.
He has written and spoken much upon po- litico-religious and reformatory questions. He is widely known as a man of ideas and opinions which he has evolved, and for which he stands, in a progressive, conserva- tive way.
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Entering the ministry in 1847, he has never wavered in his allegiance to his chosen vocation. He has filled some of the most important appointments in the various conferences in which he has labored, and the leading cities of the State have been favored with his ministration. He served three terms of four years each as presiding elder in the Worcester, North Boston and Lynn districts ; has been active in the advanced temperance and prohibition movements, holding the position of chairman of the Massachu- setts constitutional prohibitory amendment committee, and president of the national league for the suppression of the liquor traffic.
Besides his numerous review and news- paper articles, he is the author of "Con- cessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy," " Problem of Religious Progress," "The Liquor Problem in All Ages," "The Why of Methodism," "Christianity in the Uni- ted States, from the First Settlement down to the Present Time," " Romanism versus the Public School System," " History of the First M. E. Church in Lowell," "Giving and Worship," " Latest Drink Sophistries versus Total Abstinence," "Non-partisan- ship in Temperance Effort," and " The In- dictment of the Drink Traffic."
The latest tribute to the recognized ability and moral standing of Dr. Dor- chester is his recent unsolicited appoint- ment, by President Harrison, as superin- tendent of Indian schools. This is a very important office, affecting the education of all the uncivilized tribes.
DOTEN, CHARLES CARROLL, son of Samuel and Rebecca (Bradford) Doten, was born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, April 9, 1833, and is a descendant in the seventh generation on his mother's side from William Bradford, the Pilgrim governor of Plymouth Colony.
His early education was obtained in the common schools and high school of his native town. He gave his special atten- tion to the higher mathematics, and studied surveying, becoming in time a practical engineer. At this profession he worked for a time with Swan & Straw, Lowell, and afterwards in Plymouth.
In 1857 he was engaged for a season surveying in Minnesota. In 1858 he took charge as manager of the telegraph office, Plymouth, in connection with a book store, being thus engaged for fourteen years. In April, 1872, he sold out this business and formed a partnership with W. W. Avery, in the job printing and publishing business,
issuing the "Old Colony Sentinel " news- paper. In July of the same year the firm purchased the "Old Colony Memorial " newspaper, consolidating the " Sentinel " with it, and since that time he has held the position of editor and business manager of the " Memorial."
Mr. Doten was married in Boston, June 19, 1860, to Mary A., daughter of Thomas B. and Bethiah (Churchill) Bartlett. Of this union were six children : Charles Monroe, Mary Carroll (deceased), May Carroll (deceased), Lizzie Francis, Mabel Willard and Alfred Russell Doten.
Mr. Doten represented his town in the General Court two years, 1865 and '66, but has otherwise declined all civic and politi- cal honors, preferring to give attention to his private business.
He is a prominent Mason and Odd Fel- low, and a member of other fraternal and benevolent societies, in all of which he has been honored by offices of trust. He is a trustee of the Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank and of the Pilgrim Society, and is also active in literary and historical associations.
Mr. Doten was commanding the Standish Guards, 3d regiment, Massachusetts volun- teer militia, as Ist lieutenant at the break- ing out of the rebellion. He had been on the rolls for nine years previous to this time. In response to Governor Andrew's "Order No. 4," issued in January, 1861, his company was put in condition and reported ready for immediate duty in case of war. As telegraph manager, he received the first news of the call for troops April 15, 1861, and instantly declared his inten- tion "to go if not another man left Plym- outh," and at three o'clock A. M., April 16th, having received orders to move, he reported his command in Boston the same morning. He was made captain of the company and served with the 3d regi- ment, " Minute Men of 1861," during the three months' campaign at Fortress Mon- roe and Hampton, Va., and took part in the destruction of Norfolk navy-yard the night of April 20, 1861. His company was the first that went to the war from Plym- outh, promptly responding, without ques- tion, and from motives of patriotism alone. He afterwards served as captain in the 38th Massachusetts regiment in Louisiana, and received commendation from superior offi- cers " for courage and coolness in action and care for the welfare of the men under his command."
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