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business at the same time. At the end of the first year's service he had become so expert that he was appointed assistant manager in the Western Union office at Zanesville, Olio, being at that time only fifteen years of age. It was not long before an opportunity offered itself to enter upon the more difficult and complex business of railroading, and he ob- tained a position in the service of the Pitts- burg, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad, where he remained a year. But the enor- mous work of railroad construction west of the Missouri River was just beginning, and Mr. Doddridge, discerning the development which the next generation would bring to that region, determined to make it the field of his efforts. Accordingly, in 1867, he went to Omaha, from which point the Union Pa- cific was being built. He applied for a posi- tion and was made local agent at Columbus, Nebraska. He was rapidly promoted until, in 1876, he was made division superintendent of the Western Section of the Union Pacific, and three years later was appointed general superintendent of the Idaho Division of the system, with headquarters at Ogdon, Utah. In this position hie directed a large part of the construction of the Oregon Short Line and the Utah & Northern Railroads. In 1884, when the general change in management of the Union Pacific was made, Mr. Doddridge resigned his position, and for two years was engaged as business manager of the Ana- conda Copper Smelting Company in Mon- tana. In 1886 he was called back to railroad- ing and appointed superintendent of the Cen- tral Branch of the Union Pacific at Atchison, Kansas. This road was under the control of the Missouri Pacific, and his duties were increased shortly after his appointment by the addition of the Western Division of the Missouri Pacific. Three years later he was made general manager of the insolvent St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railroad, and in 1896, when George J. Gould became presi- dent of the Missouri Pacific, he selected Mr. Doddridge as one of the most experienced, capable and successful railroad managers in the country, to take charge of it, since which time he has been general manager of that vast system. Mr. Doddridge finds time in his business duties to give some attention to lighter matters, and is a member of the St. Louis Club and the Noonday Club, and his lineage is sufficiently attested by his member-
ship in the society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion. His wife, Mrs. Frances L. Doddridge, was formerly Miss Barnum: They have one son, Philip B. Doddridge, who inherits his father's inclination and capacity for railroad- ing. Though but twenty-four years of age, he is general agent of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at St. Louis.
Dodge, Grenville M., soldier, engi- neer and commander of the Department of Missouri during the Civil War, was born at Danvers, Massachusetts, April 12, 1823. He graduated at Captain Partridge's Military Academy, at Norwich, Vermont, in 1850, and the following year he came west to Illi- nois, and engaged in railroad surveying. He removed to Iowa, and continued the prose- cution of this work, making the first sur- vey along the Platte River for a Pacific rail- road. On the 17th of June, 1861, he was made colonel of the Fourth Iowa Infantry Volunteers and ordered to Missouri, where he served under General Fremont. He com- manded a brigade in southwest Missouri under General Curtis, and it was part of this brigade that took possession of Springfield on the retreat of General Price on the 13th of February, 1862. He took part in the bat- tle of Pea Ridge, in the month following, his brigade occupying the extreme right of the Union line. He had three horses shot under him, and was severely wounded in the engagement, but held his position on the field until the close of the day. For his gal- lantry in this battle he was made brigadier general of volunteers. He afterward served in Mississippi and Georgia, distinguishing himself in the Atlanta campaign, where he was again wounded. In December, 1864, he was assigned to the Department of Missouri, to succeed General Rosecrans, and contin- ued to the close of the war, having been the last commander in charge of the Depart- ment of Missouri. As the overthrow of the Price expedition of October, 1864, two months before General Dodge was placed in charge of Missouri, virtually ended the war in Missouri, his administration of the de- partment was not attended by any impor- tant event. In 1865 he was transferred to the Department of Kansas, and conducted a suc- cessful campaign against the Indians. In 1866 he resigned his position in the army to become chief engineer of the Union Pacific
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Railroad, and it was under his direction that that road was built.
Dodge, Henry, soldier and United States Senator, was born in Vincennes, In- diana, October 12, 1782, and died in Bur- lington, Iowa, June 19, 1867. He was the son of Israel and Nancy (Hunter) Dodge. While young, his father removed to Ken- tucky, where the son received his early edu- cation. About 1800 the family removed to Ste. Genevieve and Israel Dodge became the first sheriff of the District of Ste. Genevieve, and at his death, in 1806, was succeeded in the office by his son. Henry Dodge, when the War of 1812 broke out, was placed in com- mand of a mounted company of volunteer riflemen. In September, 1812, he was made major of the Louisiana Militia; in October, 1813, he was appointed major of Missouri Militiamen, and from August to October, 1814, was lieutenant of a battalion of Mis- souri Mounted Infantry. In 1827 he re- moved to Wisconsin and commanded the mounted forces during the disturbances caused by the Winnebagoes, and in the Black Hawk War of 1832, when he overwhelmingly defeated the Indians in a number of engage- ments. In 1834, as colonel of the First Regi- ment of Mounted Dragoons, under General Jackson, he fought the Indians on the south- ern frontier and in 1835 led an expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Resigning his com- mission as colonel in 1836, he was appointed Territorial Governor of Wisconsin and Su- perintendent of Indian Affairs. In 1839 he was reappointed by President Van Buren ; in 1841 he was removed by President Tyler and the same year was elected as a Democrat, as Territorial delegate in the United States House of Representatives. In 1845 he was reappointed Governor of Wisconsin by Presi- dent Polk. In June, 1848, upon the admis- sion of Wisconsin as a State, he was elected to the United States Senate, and in 1852 was re-elected for a term of six years. His wife was Christiana McDonald, by whom he was the father of nine children, one of whom, Augustus Caesar Dodge, was, from 1840 to 1848, a member of Congress from Iowa, and from 1848 to 1855 was United States Senator from the same State.
Dodge County .- See "Putnam County." Vol. II-19
Doe Run .- A lead-mining town in Pendleton Township, St. Francois County, the terminus of the Mississippi River & Bonne Terre Railroad, five miles southwest of Farmington and ninety miles from St. Louis. It was settled in 1886. It has a hotel, three churches, a public school and about twenty business houses, including a lead works and a granite and cement plant. Population 956.
Doherty, John F., a prominent citizen of DeKalb County, was born in Claiborne County, Tennessee, in 1807, and died on his farm ten miles north of Stewartsville, in De- Kalb County, Missouri, in 1878. He was well educated, a man of cultivated tastes and a good lawyer. In 1828 he came to Missouri and located in Liberty, Clay County, where he published the "Far West" and practiced his profession. When De Kalb County was organized in 1845 he removed there. His talents and high personal qualities caused him to be called into the work of assisting in the organization, and he was chosen the first county clerk. Afterward he was elected to the Legislature and served in that body several terms. He bore an honorable repu- tation and possessed the confidence and re- spect of the people of his county.
Dolan, John Rector, recorder of Cass County, was born in Morristown, in that County, August 23, 1845, son of James and Harriet (Anderson) Dolan. His father, whose entire life was devoted to agricultural pursuits, was born in Virginia, February 4, 1790, removed to Johnson County, Missouri, in 1836, and to Cass County in 1837, settling in that part of the county now included in Dolan Township, which was so named in his honor. He was a man of great influence in this community during his long and useful life, which came to an end in 1872, when he was eighty-two years of age. His wife, to whom he was married in 1835, was a native of Tennessee, and accompanied her parents to Johnson County about the time the elder Dolan located there. Her death occurred in 1897. The subject of this sketch attended the common schools of Morristown until the opening of the Civil War. He was not at that time old enough to participate in the struggle, though he earnestly desired to, but
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a year or two after the inauguration of hos- tilities, he enlisted in Company I, Eleventh Missouri Confederate Infantry, and saw act- ive service in Missouri and Arkansas. He accompanied General Price on his memor- able raid through Missouri, and continued with that command until the surrender at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1865. At the end of the war he spent three or four years in freighting on the plains, making Nebraska City his headquarters. His next venture was in railroading, in which he was engaged for about ten years as foreman in the work of grading for the Kansas Pacific and other railroads, including roads in Texas. In 1882 he became book-keeper in a store at Free- man, Cass County, Missouri, and seven years later he purchased the business and con- ducted it successfully until 1891, when he engaged in farming in Dolan township. In this work he remained until the fall of 1898, when he was elected recorder of Cass County, as the nominee of the Democratic party, for a term of four years. For several years Mr. Dolan has been one of the most active mem- bers of the Democratic party in Cass County. Though not a communicant in any religious society, he attends the services of the Cum- berland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dolan was married November 1, 1877, to Lucinda Franse, a native of Cass County and a daugh- ter of Peter Franse, who was born in Ten- nessee and became one of the pioneers of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Dolan are the parents of five children, namely, F. Homer, James Ward, Clara Marie, Winnie Davis and Thelma Eugenia Dolan. Mr. Dolan's family all espoused the cause of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Of the five brothers in the family, all, including the subject, bore arms-William, now a resident of Freeman ; Benjamin F., James Monroe and Thomas A. Dolan. One brother, Frank, is deceased. A sister, Clara, is the wife of William A. Row- den, of St. John, Kansas. Mr. Dolan is one of the substantial citizens of Cass County, and during his residence there has been a man of much influence.
Domestic Economy Schools .- The practice of domestic economy, fundamental as it is in the experience of women, has only recently received attention in this country as a science and are entitled to recogni- tion as a distinct branch of education. Cook-
ing and the general elements of material home-making now command universal inter- est, and have become a feature of the public school system in all of the leading cities of the United States, and of many of the pri- vate schools and eleemosynary institutions. The first attempt in St. Louis to awaken in- terest in this subject was made by the Wom- en's Club of St. Louis, which in 1878 had, as a branch of its scientific section, a class in cooking, conducted by Mrs. Edwin F. Thompson, in her house, where the chemis- try of foods was studied and dainty dishes prepared in her kitchen. The credit of estab- lishing the study of Domestic Science in St. Louis belongs to the Women's Christian As- sociation, who, to prepare the public mind for the innovation, brought Miss Juliet Cor- son there in 1881, to give a course of lectures on cooking, with practical demonstration. These were the first ever delivered in St. Louis, and created a furore. The association established the Women's Training School in 1882, and cooking classes, taught by Mrs. C. C. Rainwater and other volunteer teach- ers, became immediately one of the most pop- ular and successful branches of the work. The immediate object of the Training School domestic economy classes was to undertake to solve the problem of domestic service by fitting for all branches of general housework young women from sixteen years of age up- ward expecting to earn their livelihood in that way. But such was the interest aroused that young matrons and girls from the high- est walks of society came also for instruction to this institution, which, enlarged with full equipment and corps of paid teachers, is still in active operation under Mrs. Rainwater's able management. Cooking clubs were also formed by young ladies, who gave at their own homes luncheons and suppers, to which each member contributed a dish of her own making. Mrs. John B. Henderson, through the publication of two valuable books on scientific and hygienic cooking, and through her personal activity, did much to stimulate interest in this subject. The next important movement was the organization of the do- mestic economy schools as a department of the work of the Society of Ethical Culture. The first lesson was given in December, 1888, and the schools have continued and ex- panded with most satisfactory results and far- reaching influence, having from the beginning
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been under the able management of Mrs. W. E. Fischel. Their object is the education of little girls in the knowledge and the love of home-making, and they are conducted on Saturdays for school children, from eight to fourteen years old. . The intellect and sym- pathies are stimulated. In connection with the making of fires, the children are taught the nature of the materials and where and how obtained; the nature of fire, and primi- tive methods of producing it. The evolution of the stove and possibilities of the future use of electricity are taught while the chil- dren are acquiring the management of heat- ing and cooking stoves. The same blending of scientific knowledge with practical work is carried through the lessons on the care of lamps, of bed rooms, through the dining room work, cooking, laundry work and the care and decoration of the sitting room. The sewing room is conducted in the same man- ner, and a great deal of geographical and scientific knowledge is eagerly absorbed by the children through its application to their daily work. The success of the domestic economy schools lies greatly in the mental and moral stimulus afforded by the activity of the intellect in the performance of manual tasks. In 1894 a cooking class was opened in Mary Institute, a branch of Washington University, under the direction of Miss Sarah Souther, which has been continued with great success. It is drawn from the senior class, and numbers twenty-four, in two sections, each of which receives two weekly lessons of two hours each. The kitchen is completely fitted up with coal and gas ranges and all necessary utensils. Here the pupils prepare wholesome and appetizing dishes, explaining the various steps in their work. They are taught·to broil, boil, bake and fry, to make salads and desserts, to prepare · dinners in courses, t to care properly for . utensils, and market economically. In 1898 Miss Souther gave the course for the preparation of food for invalids, which she had spe- cially studied at Drexel Institute. Every spring a demonstration lesson is given, to which officers, teachers and parents are in- vited as guests, and to partake of the meal they have seen prepared. A yearly prize is given for the best wheaten loaf of bread. The underlying principles of the culinary art and the chemistry of foods are carefully taught. The teaching of general domestic economy
was introduced in the public schools in the fall of 1898, as the girls' branch of manual training. The experiment was tried in the Columbia School, and in the Sumner High School, the latter being attended by colored- children. Two rooms are fitted up in each of these schools, in one of which boys are instructed in the principles of carpentry, etc., and in the other the girls are taught how to care for a home. These departments were established through the influence of Pro- fessor C. M. Woodward, of the board of education, and are, during their first year of experiment, supported by private dona- tions, William Barr giving $1,500 for this purpose, which has been supplemented by other contributions. There is little doubt, however, that these branches will be adopted by the school board and made available to all. At present two teachers of domestic economy, Miss Florence A. Stevenson and Miss Lisbeth M. Gladfelter, alternately take charge of each of the schools. Classes num- bering twenty-four pupils are taken from the seventh and eighth grades of six neighbor- ing schools, and each class has one weekly lesson, one and one-half hours long. The lessons are given in a well equipped kitchen, with coal and gas ranges and gas burners. The tables are arranged in open "U" shape and covered with thick glass slabs, specially ordered at Miss Gladfelter's suggestion. The pupils are taught the composition of foods, their separate classes, chemically considered ; next, doughs and batters, and third, the combination of food principles in the arrange- ment of menus. The teaching is by individ- ual work, the pupils encouraged to experi- ment rather than copy the teacher. Care of utensils, making of fires and economical marketing are taught, charts of the ox, sheep, calf and pig hang on the walls; also charts showing the proportions of chemical con- stituents in different foods. Each class has eighty lessons during the year, twenty-six in cooking, twenty-six in sewing and twenty- eight in bed room and other branches of work, and in emergency work. Through the influence of Mrs. W. E. Fischel, Mrs. Wil- liam Trelease and Mrs. C. P. Damon a very fine and well equipped domestic economy school was opened in 1898 at the House of Refuge. Similar schools under instructors are carried on in the North Broadway set- tlement, under the direction of the education
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section of the Wednesday Club. Here a sewing class was opened in 1896, and a Satur- day morning cooking class in 1897, with a domestic science club on Thursday night, for cooks who are in domestic service. There is also a class at St. Stephen's Mission, under the direction of the Isabel Crow Kindergar- ten Association, and one at the Ninth Street Mission, under the direction of the ladies of the Eliot Society. The Queen's Daughters have a very large and successful school, and the ladies of the Associated Jewish Charities have instructed in household arts hundreds of Russian Jews. The extension of such in- struction in the State is strongly urged by State Superintendent Kirk, and by Dr. Pick- ard, of the State University, and other prom- inent educators, and is receiving the earnest support of the State Federation of Women's Clubs; and opportunities will probably be afforded in the near future for the thorough and systematic training of all girls in the country in the science and art of domestic economy.
MARTHA S. KAYSER.
Doniphan .- An incorporated city of the fourth class, the seat of justice of Ripley County, and the terminal point of the Doni- phan branch of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway. It was founded in 1860 and named in honor of Alexander W. Doni- phan. It is delightfully situated on the banks of Current River, at an elevation of 250 feet above the level of Black River, ten miles east. It has a good courthouse, a graded public school, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Episco- pal and Presbyterian Churches, a bank, two newspapers, the "New Light" and the "Pros- pect News," three sawmills, a flouring mill, stave factory, two hotels, and several well stocked stores. Population, 1899 (estimated), 1,500.
Doniphan, Alexander W., lawyer and soldier, was born in Macon County, Ken- tucky, July 9, 1808, and died in Richmond, Missouri, August 8, 1887, in the eightieth year of his age. He was the youngest of a family of ten children. His father was Joseph Doniphan, of English extraction, and a native of King George County, Virginia. Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War he accompanied Daniel Boone, the great hunter and Indian-fighter, to the wilds of "the dark and bloody ground." After a short stay he
returned to Virginia and married Miss Anne Smith, an aunt of the celebrated Captain William ("Extra Billy") Smith, who was elected Governor of Virginia in 1845, and served several terms in Congress. Joseph Doniphan, although very young, joined the Colonial Army and served as a soldier during the entire Revolutionary struggle. His father was Alexander Doniphan, in honor of whom Missouri's Alexander Doniphan was named. In 1790 Joseph Doniphan returned to Kentucky, accompanied by his wife and children, and settled in Mason County, where he died in 1813, leaving seven children, among them Alexander W. and an older brother, Dr. Thomas S. Doniphan, who served as a surgeon during the War of 1812, and is the father of Colonel John Doniphan, a distinguished lawyer and excellent citizen of St. Joseph, Missouri.
General Alexander W. Doniphan was edu- cated at Augusta College, Bracken County, Kentucky, and graduated with high honors, in his nineteenth year, and commenced the study of law in the office of Martin Marshall, a well known lawyer of Augusta. In 1829 he was licensed to practice law, and the year after, on the 19th of April, opened a law office in Lexington, Missouri, and began his long, successful and brilliant forensic career. The discouraging fact that he met at the Lexing- ton bar such well known lawyers, himself unknown, as Abiel Leonert, Peyton R. Hay- den, Robert W. Wells and others only added strength to his pluck and professional ambi- tion, and he was not tardy in developing the native genius and educational advantages upon which he could rely. In 1833 he re- moved to Liberty, where he continued to re- side for thirty years, devoting the vigor of his younger manhood and the experience and wisdom of his maturer years to the practice of his chosen profession. With an ambition modified and restrained by sound judgment, an intellect capable of grasping the most in- tricate propositions of the law, a mind trained to reason correctly and reflect coolly, an im- pulsive and impressive oratory that chal-
lenged the criticism of his opponents, a resistless eloquence of diction and gesture that penetrated like a polished javelin the mailed arguments of his opponents, a com- manding and magisterial presence that at- tracted and charmed his auditors, and an address at once engaging and popular, it is
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not strange, says one of his biographers, that he won his way to distinction at the bar with- out the use of those artifices to which the weak resort. He grew in popular favor by the generous impulses of his own nature and the superiority of his talents.
In 1836, 1840 and 1854 he was elected as a Whig to represent Clay County in the Leg- islature, and, although in the minority politically, occupied a prominent position in each body and rendered valuable services to the State.
On December 21, 1837, he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Colonel John Thornton, a pioneer, and highly respectable citizen of Clay County. Two children, both sons, were born to this union. They were the pride of his life, and prospectively the prop and solace of their parents, as they encountered the decrepitude of advancing years. Unhappily, however, both of them, while youths, were killed acci- dentally, one at home in Liberty by poison in 1853, the other by drowning while at Bethany College, West Virginia, in 1858. Mrs. Don- iphan died July 19, 1873, an affliction which threw a dark shadow across his pathway to the end of his life. He never again married.
In the fall of 1838 insurrectionary disturb- ances occurred among the Mormons under Joe Smith, G. W. Hinkle, Sidney Rigdon and other leaders, which assumed such propor- tions in Caldwell and other counties as to induce Governor Lilburn W. Boggs to call out the militia to suppress them. The First Brigade, under General Doniphan, was ordered to Far West, in Caldwell County, the storm center of the insurrection. By his ad- dress, prudence and soldierly bearing General Doniphan conquered a peace without the effusion of blood. The belligerent forces de- livered up their arms, surrendered Joe Smith and other prominent leaders for trial, and agreed to leave the State at once.
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