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Captain Doten is a member of Colling- wood Post 76, G. A. R., of Plymouth.
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DOUGLAS, NORMAN B., son of Edwin B. and Naomi (Tupper) Douglas, was born at Middlebury, Addison county, Vt., August 1, 1844.
He received his early education in the common schools of Middlebury until the age of eleven, when he removed to Shore- ham, Vt. He there attended the common school during the winter sessions until fif- teen years of age. He subsequently at- tended Newton Academy, Shoreham, six terms, and Brandon Seminary two terms.
Upon leaving school he assisted his father on his farm until 1878, when he pur- chased the farm he now occupies at Sher- born. Besides being much interested in stock raising and butter making on his farm, Mr. Douglas is president of the Patrons' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a position he has held since its organiza- tion, April, 1887.
In August, 1862, he enlisted as private in company D, 14th Vermont infantry volunteers ; served in the army of the Potomac; took part in the Gettysburg campaign in 1863 ; and was mustered out of service in August, 1863.
He is a member of Post 63, G. A. R., South Framingham, also of Union Lodge, F. & A. M., Middlebury, Vt. ; Potter Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Middlebury, and of Natick Commandery, K. T., Natick.
He has been master of Sherborn Grange, P. of H., three years ; master of Middlesex and Norfolk Union Grange three years ; member of the executive committee of Massachusetts State Grange five years. He is now president of Middlesex South Agri- cultural Society ; overseer of Massachu- setts State Grange ; member of the board of selectmen and board of assessors of the town of Sherborn.
Mr. Douglas has been twice married- first at Brandon, Vt., November 4, 1867, to Annah D., daughter of Dr. Charles and Mary (Mansfield) Backus, who died in 1869. His second marriage was April 26, 1876, with Mrs. Laura Cook Barnes, daughter of Capron C. and Elizabeth (Houghton) Cook, of West Newton. He has no children.
DOWSE, EDMUND, son of Benjamin and Thankful (Chamberlain) Dowse, was born in Sherborn, Middlesex county, Sep- tember 17, 1813.
He attended the schools of his native town, and fitted for college at the old Wrentham Academy. In 1836 he was graduated from Amherst College. His alma mater has since conferred upon him the degree of D. D.
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Dr. Dowse studied theology with the late Dr. Jacob Ide, of Medway, and was ordained and settled as pastor of the Pilgrim Society, the evangelical Congre- gational church of his native town, Octo- ber 10, 1838, where, for fifty years, he has continued his ministry.
The Dowse family settled in Sherborn in 1775, and at the date of Mr. Dowse's ordination his father and grandfather were members of his congregation. The family originally came from Broughton, England, and " Edmund" has long been a family name. Sir Edmund Dowse, living in 1625, left in the latter town a memorial in the
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form of a charity-school called " Dowse's Charity." Dr. Dowse has always taken an active interest in educational matters, hav- ing served fifty years as a member of the school committee of Sherborn.
Soon after his settlement, Dr. Dowse was married to Elizabeth R. Leland, who clied in 1842. His second wife, Elizabeth Bowditch, was a lady of rare ability, who died January 12, 1864, and was the mother of four children : Sarah, Priscilla, Deb- orah P. ( Mrs. Lowell Coolidge), and Wil- liam Bradford Homer Dowse. The last two only are living. Elizabeth R. L., by his first wife, died in 1876, after a life full of good works. In the latter part
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of 1865 Dr. Dowse married Caroline Davis.
Dr. Dowse served as chaplain in the Christian Commission in the war of the rebellion, with the army of the Cumber- land. He was a member of the state Senate for 1869 and '70, and has for ten consecutive years served as chaplain of that honorable body.
Dr. Dowse is eminently a man answer- ing Goldsmith's description of a country clergyman. He is certainly one of the survivors of that old school of clergy to whom James Russell Lowell refers as liv- ing lessons of piety, industry, frugality, and temperance, and who, with the magis- trates, were a recognized aristocracy.
DRAPER, JAMES SUMNER, eldest son of Deacon James and Elizabeth (Sumner) Draper, was born in Wayland (then East Sudbury), Middlesex county, August 18, 18II, where he has since resided.
His early educational training was re- ceived in the public schools, supplemented by a short attendance in academies in Marlborough and Concord. His chief occupation has been farming, with the accompanying employment of land sur- veying ; but his tastes have led him to read quite extensively in the fields of science, literature, theology and religion.
His individuality is clearly marked, and he may be safely classed in the list of re- formers. At seventeen he was the only absolute teetotaler among his companions. When theological questions became sharply defined, he was found in the ranks of liberal Unitarians.
In 1833 he espoused the cause of anti- slavery, and continued in his adherence thereto until the emancipation. About the same time he became a staunch supporter of female suffrage, and is still firm in the ranks. From 1835 to '50 his energies were especially devoted to the moral and religi- ous culture of the young, through temper- ance organizations and the Sunday-school, and to their general education in the com- mon schools.
During the war period he was a zealous Unionist, although he had previously been opposed, on principle, to the use of armed force in the settlement of disputed ques- tions. Two of his sons were among those who volunteered in 1862 for three years' service. At the close of the war he ob- tained material for a sketch of each Wayland soldier's army life, as a memorial of their services to the country, making a quarto volume of 452 pp., published by the town. He has aimed in his political duties to be
patriotic rather than partisan, from his first electoral vote for Henry Clay in 1832 to his last for Harrison in 1888. In 1846 he joined the Free Soil party, and ten years later became a member of the Republican organization. He has held a justice's commission since 1857.
Largely through his efforts came the establishment, in 1848, of the Wayland public library (the first in the State). For twenty years he officiated as librarian, and greatly developed its usefulness. In local improvements he has taken a conspicuous part, as the shade trees bordering some of the streets of his native town will long bear witness.
The inception of the Massachusetts Central Railroad was the result of a letter from his pen to a gentleman in Barre, in 1867, and the persistency of his efforts was seen in procuring its charter and securing stock subscriptions. He gave to this enterprise, as director, twelve years of the best working period of his life, during ten of which he was clerk of the board.
For nearly thirty-nine years he has made careful and extensive investigations into the merits of Spiritualism, and has satis- fied himself of the truth of its most im- portant claims, with an increased confi- dence of its being a power destined to take high rank in the evolution of human destiny. He attributes whatever success in life he has attained to the excellent influences of his paternal home.
Mr. Draper was married in his native town, August 18, 1834, to Emeline A., daughter of Nathaniel and Miliscent (Rice) Reeves. Their children are : James Aus- tin, Charles Herbert, Frank Winthrop, Ella Elizabeth and Wallace Sherwin Draper.
DRAPER, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, son of George and Hannah B. (Thwing) Draper, was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, April 9, 1842.
He received his early education in the common schools of his native city, sup- plementing their advantages with a year or two of academic training. At the age of sixteen he went to work in a cotton mill, making a study of the processes of the manufacture of cotton goods.
At nineteen years of age he enlisted as a private in company B, 25th regiment Mas- sachusetts volunteers, a company recruited in Milford. He was promoted through the various grades to that of Ist lieutenant and when the 36th regiment was formed in Worcester, he was commissioned captain of company F.
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His faithful and gallant service led to his promotion to major and lieutenant- colonel, and while holding the latter rank, he commanded a brigade in the army of the Potomac. He was severely wounded in one of the battles of the Wilderness, so severely, indeed, that he was given up for dead, but after three months at home, he re- turned to the front, and joined his regiment a short time before the war closed. He was brevet-brigadier-general when mustered out. Returning from the front, he joined his father in business, under the firm name of George Draper & Sons. The same title is still retained by the firm, although the subject of our sketch is senior member.
General Draper is a well-known manu- facturer, being president, treasurer, or di- rector of more than twenty different com- panies, viz. : president of the Milford & Woonsocket Railroad, Hopkinton Railroad, Franklin Cotton Manufacturing Company, Hopedale Elastic Fabric Company, Hope- dale Machine Screw Company, Dutcher
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Temple Company, Thomson Electric Weld- ing Company (Lynn) ; treasurer of the Hopedale Machine Company ; director of the Milford National Bank, Barnaby Manu- facturing Company (Fall River), Grinnell Manufacturing Company (New Bedford), Henderson Cotton Mills (Kentucky), Shaw
Stocking Company (Lowell), Glasgo Yarn Mills (Norwich, Conn.), Glasgo Thread Company (Worcester), Ferracute Machine Company (Bridgeton, N. J.), Milford Water Company, Milford Electric Light Com- pany, Milford Shoe Factory, Sole Laying Machine Company (Boston), Sawyer Spin- dle Company (Boston), American Mutual Liability Insurance Company (Boston), Merchants' and Farmers' Mutual Fire In- surance Company (Worcester), Worcester Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and is trustee of the Milford Savings Bank.
General Draper was a delegate to the national Republican convention which nominated President Hayes ; a member of Governor Long's staff, and presidential elector-at-large on the Republican ticket, 1888. His church connections are with the Hopedale parish (Unitarian), of which he was for many years treasurer and trustee.
He is a member of the Union and Al- gonquin clubs, Boston ; American Club, London ; Hope Club, Providence, R. I .; Springfield Club ; Worcester Club ; Massa- chusetts Club, Boston ; Eastern Yacht Club ; Quidnunc Club, Milford ; Commer- cial Club, Fall River. He is a Sir Knight in Milford Commandery, and a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
General Draper was married in Hope- dale, Mass. (his present residence), Sep- tember 15, 1862, to Lydia D. W., daughter of David and Charlotte (Austin) Joy, who died February 18, 1884. Of this union are five children : William F., George Otis, Edith, Arthur J., and Clare Draper.
DUBUQUE, HUGO ADELARD, son of Moise and Esther (Mathieu) Dubuque, was born in Canada, November 3, 1854.
He obtained his early education in the common schools and college at St. Hyacinth, P. Q., and was graduated from the latter in the class of 1869-'70.
He came to Troy, N. Y., in 1870; worked as clerk in a boot and shoe store for a few months; then came to Fall River in the summer of 1870, working as clerk in a grocery and drug store until June, 1874.
During these years he had saved from his earnings sufficient to enable him to prosecute the studies preparatory to enter- ing upon his chosen profession. He entered Boston University law school, and having passed the full course, was graduated in the class of 1877, with the degree of LL. B.
He was admitted to the bar in Novem- ber of that year, and began the practice of law in Fall River, where he is still in full
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practice, and has associated with him Edward Higginson, the present city solici- tor, under the firm name of Dubuque & Higginson.
Mr. Dubuque was married in Fall River, May 15, 1881, to Annie M., daughter of
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William and Abbie (Maley) Coughlin. Of this union are twin daughters: Pauline and Helene Dubuque.
Mr. Dubuque is honorary president of a literary society called Cercle Salaberry, and a benevolent society called the Ligue des Patriotes ; has lectured on the subjects of naturalization and education before French Canadians in New England for several . years. He has spoken during political campaigns throughout the Eastern States since 1884. In politics Mr. Dubuque is a staunch Republican. He was elected member of the Fall River school board in 1883 ; served for three years, and was re- elected for a three years' term in 1886. He was a member of the Legislature of 1889, serving on the judiciary committee, and taking a leading part in every debate of importance. He is a ready speaker in French or English. He is secretary of the Fall River Hospital ; was recommended for consul-general at Montreal by the full congressional delegation of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
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He has written considerably on histori- cal, political and social questions ; is the author of " Historical Sketch of French Canadians" in the " History of Bristol County," and of the sketch on the same subject in French, contained in the " Guide Canadien-Française," of Fall River (1888). He has contributed many articles to French Canadian papers of the United States.
Mr. Dubuque is the leading representa- tive of the French Canadian population in New England ; their generally acknowl- edged counselor and authority, honored and respected by them as well as by his associates in the country of his adoption.
The founder of the city of Dubuque, Iowa, was his grand-uncle. His father, Moïse Dubuque, was among the early ex- plorers and pioneers of the great West, having settled in California and Montana from 1840 to 1850. His father died at St. Louis, Mo., on his return from a trip to Montana, about 1865.
DUDLEY, LEVI EDWIN, son of John Gilman and Mary Clark (Townsend) Dud- ley, was born in North Troy, Orleans county, Vt., October 18, 1842.
He was educated in the public schools of his native place, was quick and studi- ous, making good use of the limited ad- vantages in his reach. He worked with his father on the farm till 1857, when he went to reside with his maternal grand- father, Samuel Simonds Townsend, in Lynn, where he attended the grammar school for some months. He was then placed in a drug store to learn the business, and re- mained until 1860, when he accepted a similar position in Boston, remaining until the breaking out of the war in 1861. He then enlisted in the 13th regiment, Massa- chusetts volunteers, and served until the close of the war in the army of the Potomac. He gained the rank of hospital- steward in the regular army. His further promotion was prevented by ill health, resulting from typhoid fever, contracted in the service. During the last year of the war he was the commissary-steward of Lincoln General Hospital, Washington, D. C.
At the close of the war Mr. Dudley was honorably discharged from the army, and appointed a clerk in the internal revenue bureau of the treasury department. About this time he was also chosen president of an organization of ex-union soldiers and sailors.
In 1866, when the contest between President Johnson and Congress became
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very heated, some soldiers who were in sympathy with the president's policy called a convention of ex-union soldiers and sailors who favored Mr. Johnson, to meet at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Dudley read the call, and then arranged for a convention of the veterans who favored the policy of Congress, to meet in Pittsburgh, Pa. This last was unanimously approved by the soldiers' union. It resulted in congratu- latory epistles pouring in from every sec- tion of the country, and his unanimous call to the chair in that enormous gather- ing of the country's defenders, to which he was escorted by General Benjamin F. Butler and General J. F. Farnsworth of Illinois. His popularity at this meeting was in no small degree due to the fact that it had been suggested to him by the secretary of the treasury, Hon. Hugh Mc- Culloch, that if he refrained from attend- ing the convention he would continue to hold his position in the treasury depart- ment. He resigned his position, and went.
Returning to Washington, Mr. Dudley entered the employment of the "Great Republic," then published by Hon. G. F. Edmunds. He was active in forming equal suffrage leagues, an active worker in the organization of the G. A. R .; was secre- tary of the Ist national encampment, and there elected adjutant-general, but de- clined the office in favor of another. He was the first commander of the department of the Potomac, G. A. R., and organized posts and departments in all the states east of the Alleghanies.
From 1867 to '71 he was engaged in party work with the Republican congres- sional committee, on the " Richmond State Journal," and in the reconstruction cam- paign in Virginia. He was military sec- retary and aide-de-camp to the governor of Virginia with the rank of colonel.
While in Richmond he was admitted to the bar as attorney and counselor-at-law, and to the bar of the supreme court of the United States in 1889. In 1871 he removed to New York City, and was for a time traveling salesman for a crockery house. He took part in the Grant cam- paign of 1872, and in the fall of that year was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of New Mexico. He remained in this office until it was abolished in 1874. He was afterwards special commissioner of Indian affairs, and later on, clerk in the post-office department in Washington.
In 1877 Colonel Dudley returned to his former home, in Boston, and was soon
made superintendent of the Lamina Wood Company. In 1882 he was elected to the secretaryship of the Law and Order League of Massachusetts, which position he still holds. He is also secretary of the National Law and Order League. In 1884 he founded a weekly paper-the "Law and Order "-and edited it himself for two years.
He is still a frequent contributor to magazines and the general press, on the law and order movement, the temperance question, the Indian problem, and social and economic questions.
Colonel Dudley is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from the famous Governor Thomas Dudley, who had the somewhat remarkable honor of being called upon to serve the Commonwealth under the first charter, as deputy-governor or governor eighteen years, he being the nominee at eight different elections.
DUDLEY, LEWIS JOEL, was born in Guilford, New Haven county, Conn., No- vember 11, 1815. He is the son of Joel and Harriet (Griswold) Dudley. He was brought up on a farm remote from the centre of the town, and put to work there- on at a very early age, attending the dis- trict school only in winter.
He began the preparation for college at the Guilford Academy at the age of seven- teen ; continued the same at the academy of Worthington Village in Berlin, Conn., and entered Yale College at the age of nineteen.
After graduation he taught the Lewis Academy in Southington, Conn., for one year, the Brainard Academy at Haddam, Conn., the next year, and in 1840 became tutor at Yale.
Meanwhile he attended Dr. Taylor's lectures on theology, moral government, and mental philosophy, in repeated courses. Leaving the tutorship in 1846, he spent the next year in the Yale law school, and hav- ing previously attended the lectures, re- ceived the degree of LL. B., in 1847. He passed the following year in the law office of Hungerford & Cone at Hartford, and was admitted to the bar in 1848.
In 1849, at the suggestion of a high offi- cial at Yale, he opened a classical school at Northampton, Mass., to prepare pupils for college. This school was a success, and continued to flourish fourteen years, having pupils from almost every state in the Union. It was suspended in 1862 for reasons at- tributable to the then raging civil war.
Mr. Dudley devoted his energies to the enlistment of the Northampton quota of soldiers, and to their comfort in the field.
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He was sent to the state Senate in 1864, and made a member of the state valuation committee of the same year ; was a mem- ber of the House of Representatives in 1865, '66, '67, and '73. In the Legislature of 1867 he was active in procuring a charter for the Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes in Northampton, and has ever since been largely interested in the management of its affairs under the corporation. He is president of the institution, and chairman of the school committee.
He devoted much time and outlay in se- curing direct railroad communication be- tween Northampton and Boston by means of the Massachusetts Central Railroad, of which he was for thirteen years a director.
He married, May 7, 1851, Theresa Hunt Bates of Northampton, third daughter of the late Hon. Isaac C. Bates - colleague with Daniel Webster in the United States Senate. They have had two children : Theresa Bates, born in 1852, who died in 1853, and Etta Theresa Bates, born March 20, 1854. The latter is the first case in the country of a person congenitally deaf, achieving articulation and lip-reading so successfully as to mingle freely in society, and to experience little difficulty in com- municating with the hearing and speaking world.
DUDLEY, SAMUEL F., son of Aaron and Sophia (Frail) Dudley, was born in Leverett, Franklin county, October 31, 1812.
His educational advantages were very meagre. He attended school but two months during the year, and that in the winter season. He had also to walk a distance of two and a half miles to the school-house, but nevertheless attended in that manner until he was seventeen years old. He then began to work for a farmer by the month, and continued in that em- ployment until he reached his majority, when he commenced business upon his own account.
He purchased a small farm in Leverett, and also engaged to some extent in lum- bering. In early days he ran his lumber down the Connecticut River in rafts. He subsequently sold his farm and purchased one in Shutesbury, adjoining Leverett, where he has since resided, engaged in the same business.
He has been largely identified with the best interests of the town and county. In 1844 he served in the Legislature and was re-elected in 1852. He was a member of the board of selectmen nine years in suc- cession, and has also served in that capac-
ity at various other times. He has been special county commissioner one term, and starting as a corporal in the volunteer militia, he worked his way up through all the intermediate grades ; he served as lieu- tenant-colonel seven years, and held a commission as colonel for three years. He is a Republican in politics, and takes an active interest in the political movements of the day, and also in educational subjects.
Mr. Dudley married on the 8th of March, 1838, Jemima, daughter of Richard Prouty, of Shutesbury, who died April 7, 1880. They have had eight children : George S., Richard A., Sophia J., Angie M., Muriel O., (deceased July 9, 1849), Rosella V., Alfred P., and Arthur B. Dudley.
DUNBAR, JAMES ROBERT, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dun- bar, was born in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, December 23, 1847.
Fitting for college in the excellent pub- lic schools of Pittsfield, he entered Wil- liams College, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1871.
In 1874 he formed a partnership with Hon. M. B. Whitney, of Westfield, in the practice of law, having previously studied with him and having spent six months at the Harvard law school.
In 1888 he was appointed by Governor Ames judge of the superior court.
Judge Dunbar was married in Westfield, May 15, 1875, to Harriet P., daughter of George A. and Electa N. (Lincoln) Walton. Of this union were four children : Ralph W., Philip R., Ruth, and Helen L. Dunbar.
Judge Dunbar served in the state Sen- ate, 1885 and '86. His residence is West Newton. He has not been upon the bench long enough to enable an absolute esti- mate to be made of his judicial qualities, but his record thus far for clear judgment and conscientious courage is most gratify- ing. It was this last quality which drew special public attention to him, when, as chairman of the committee on resolutions in the Republican convention of 1887, after reading the resolutions prepared by the committee, he boldly stated to the unsym- pathetic gathering that he dissented from the plank in the platform recommending constitutional prohibition.
DUNHAM, HENRY J., son of Bradish and Candace (Cornell) Dunham, was born in Savoy, Berkshire county, June 26, 1832, and received his early education in the common schools of his native town.
Upon leaving school he spent four years with Ingalls, Tyler & Co., woolen manu-
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