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DOWD, Charles Ferdinand:
Educator; born Madison, Conn., April 25, 1825; graduated Yale 1853; principal of preparatory department, Newton Uni- versity, Baltimore; professor of mathe- matics at same; principal Waterbury, Conn., High School; associate principal Connecticut Normal School; school su. perintendent, Waterbury, Conn .; principal Granville (N. Y.) Military Academy; president Temple Grove Seminary, Sara- toga Springs, N. Y .; originator of longi- tude time standards adopted by rail- roads, Nov. 18, 1883; Ph.D. from New York University, 1888. Address, Sarato- ga, Springs, N. Y.
DOWD, Charles N .:
Surgeon; born New Britain, Conn., 1858; son of Charles F. Dowd and Harriet North Dowd; graduated from Williams College in 1879, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1886; interne at Roosevelt Hospital two years; assistant surgeon ‹ general Me- morial Hospital, 1890, and
has been attending surgeon at that institution since 1894; assistant surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital for Children, 1894; attending sur- geon, since 1901; has written numerous articles on surgical subjects, which have appeared in The Annals of Surgery and other medical and surgical journals; is a member of the Century Association, the Williams Alumni Association, Surgical Society, Academy of Medicine, New York County Medical Society, of which he is president; West End Medical Society, and Hospital Graduates' Club. Address, 135 West 73d St., New York.
DOWLING, Edward C .:
Republican Assemblyman, who repre- sents the Seventeenth Assembly District of Kings County in the Assembly; born Brooklyn, Nov. 29, 1870; he entered Cor- nell University, and in 1891 graduated from the Cornell University Law School with the degree of LL.B., and entered the office of the Hon. Abraham Gruber in New York City; he was admitted to the bar in 1894 and is at the present time practicing law in New York; he is a member of the Invincible Club, Stuyve- sant Heights Republican Club, Levi P. Morton Club and the Seventeenth As- sembly District Republican Club of Kings County, the last named of which he is secretary; elected to Assembly, 1902; in
1903 was appointed member of the follow- ing Assembly committees: Codes, Public Lands and Forestry, and Charitable and Religious Societies. Address, 227 Madi- son St., Brooklyn; office, 170 Broadway, New York.
DOWLING, Robert E .:
President of the Tilden Club, New York; born Oct. 21, 1866, at Mokelumne, Cal- averas County, Cal .; his father, a law- yer by profession and a mine owner, had gone to California at the age of twenty years, in 1849, and with other pioneers settled the town of Mokelumne Hill, as aforesaid, which became the county seat; he was afterward treasurer of the Associated Pioneers of the Terri- torial Days of California, of which the presidents were General John A. Sutter and General John C. Fremont; General Sutter was the largest land-owner in California, and it was on his ranch that John Marshal found the first gold in California, in Jan., 1848. The ancestors of Mr. Dowling came from England and Ireland, some settling in Nova Scotia, and moving thence to Long Island and New York; was educated at public schools in New York City and also at the College of the City of New York; in Oct., 1885, he opened a real estate office on the West Side of New York City; here he did a successful real estate and broker- age business until 1890, when, with Al- bert Flake, he organized the New York Realty Company, and built the Sherman Square Hotel and carried on operations in New York real estate until 1901, when the Realty Company was merged in the New York Realty Corporation, and he and Mr. Flake accepted the positions of vice-presidents. Besides being vice-presi- dent of the New York Realty Corporation, Mr. Dowling is secretary and treasurer of the Manhattan Island Corporation, vice-president of the Interstate Debenture Company and director of the Lincoln Trust Company; he is also president of the Tilden Club, the purpose of which is to bring harmony into the National Democratic party; he is also a member of the Manhattan Club and the Lawyers' Club and New York Riding Club, and vice-president of the Colonial Club; from 1887 to 1893 he served as a member of Company C, Twenty-second Regiment, New York State National Guard; he was married on June 28, 1894, to Minnetta Adele Link, and has two children named Robert Whittle and Ruth Percival Dow- ling. Address, Tilden Club, New York.
DOWLING, Victor J .:
Lawyer; born New York City, July 20, 1866; son of Denis Dowling and Elizabeth Fierlants (Faider) Dowling; married Mary A. Ford; A. B., Manhattan Col- lege, New York, 1883; studied law in of- fice of Judge James Fitzgerald; L.L.B., University City of New York Law School, 1887, taking "double first" prizes for best written and best oral examinations; ad-
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mitted to bar, 1887; in continuous prac- tice of law in New York City since that date, having large clientage among labor organizations as well as general practice; A. M., Manhattan College, 1888; member Catholic Committee, Washington Centen- nial, 1889; state secretary Catholic Benev- olent Legion, 1888-94; supreme representa- tive same society, 1894-99, and state presi- dent, 1899-1900; delegate to Catholic Con- gresses, Baltimore and Chicago; mem- ber committee of three, Catholic Colum- bian parade, 1892; of Assembly, Sixteenth New York District, 1894; executive com- mitteeman, Twenty-fourth New York District, Tammany Hall, from creation of district in 1895 until 1898, and secretary of executive committee; nominated for city court judge by United Labor party in 1899, but declined it; district deputy and national director, Knights of Co- lumbus; elected to State Senate, Eigh- teenth Senate District, in 1900, and re- elected in 1902; introduced and passed constitutional amendment for eight-hour day, prevailing rate of wages, etc .; re- turned as executive committeeman, Tam- many Hall, Twenty-fourth District, 1902; sachem, Tammany Society, 1903; lecturer, writer and speaker on historical and gen- eral subjects; delegate to state and na- tional Democratic conventions; member Association of the Bar, City of New York, and New York State Bar Association; Manhattan, Catholic, Democratic, Wyan- dot, G. N. Y. I. Athletic Association, and Olympic (Bay Shore, L. I.) Clubs; Friend- ly Sons of St. Patrick and Friends of Ireland; American Catholic and United States Catholic Historical Societies; Co- lumbian Order, Catholic Benevolent Le- gion, and Knights of Columbus. Address, 280 Broadway, New York.
DOYLE, Alexander P .:
Roman Catholic priest; member of the Paulist Fathers; born San Francisco, Cal., 1857; son of one of the early pioneers; was graduated from St. Mary's College with baccalaureate and masters degrees and joined the Paulist Fathers in 1875; ordained 1880, the first of the generation of Americans born in California; did mis- sionary work in every state in the Union for thirteen years; appointed editor of the Catholic World Magazine in 1892; founded the Catholic Book Exchange, an institution analogous to Methodist Book Concern, for the widespread dissemination of Catholic literature; organized the Temperance Publication Bureau; served ten years as general secretary of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, during which time the membership increased from 40,000 to 90,000; formed the Cath- olic Missionary Union, built the Apostolic Mission House at the Catholic Univer- sity, Washington, D. C., and created an endowment fund for it. He is author of many magazine articles on social, tem- perance and religious topics. Address, 415 West 59th St., New York. 8
DOYLE, Andrew J .:
Democratic Assemblyman, representing the First Assembly District of New York County; was born in Lowell, Mass., April 19, 1858; at the early age of one year he came to New York with his parents; was educated in the public and parochial schools of New York; he entered the hotel business, and about seventeen years ago embarked in business for himself; he is at present in the hotel and real estate business; is a prominent member of the A. O. U. W .; for the last eighteen years he has also been a member of the Tammany Hall General Committee; elect- ed to Assembly 1902; 1903 was appointed member of Committees on Banks and Military Affairs. Address, New York City.
DOYLE, John F .:
Senior member of the real estate firm of John F. Doyle & Sons, New York; was born in the City of New York on Dec. 1, 1837; he is a son of James Doyle, who participated in the famous revolu- tion of 1789 against Great Britain, a na- tive of County Longford, Ireland; the elder Doyle came to the United States in 1806, and engaged in the notion business, in which he remained until 1845; though engaged in peaceful mercantile pursuits his progeny inherited the fighting blood of the sire, a son being killed in the Florida War of 1837, and a grandson fell beneath the stars and stripes, for which he gal- lantly fought in 1861. Mr. Doyle was edu- cated in the public schools of New York City, graduating from the old Ninth Street School; he entered the law office of John Gorham Vose, No. 72 Wall Street, in 1851, and in 1853 became a clerk in the office of Alexander Hamilton, grandson of the first secretary of the treasury, where he studied law; he was admitted to the bar in 1862, and immediately began to prac- tice. In 1867 he assumed the manage- ment of several large estates, and since that time has made real estate manage- ment and brokerage in real estate his chief business; in Feb., 1893, he formed a co-partnership with his sons, Colonel John F. Doyle, Jr., and Alfred L. Doyle, under the firm name of John F. Doyle & Sons, real estate brokers, agents and ap- praisers, at No. 45 William Street; the business transacted by this concern is large, among the prominent institutions represented by them as real estate agents being the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, and the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company; the mortgage investments of the majority of the foreign fire insurance companies in this country are also in their charge, in addition to which a large number of estates of old Knickerbocker families; Mr. Doyle was married on June 19, 1862, to Alicia Lawler, of New York City, and their children are James Lee Doyle, May Veronica, Anne Elizabeth, Colonel John F. Doyle, Jr., Alfred L. Doyle, Gertrude Lee and Camilla Lee Doyle; he is a mem-
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ber of the New York Athletic, Colonial, Democratic, Underwriters', Namcoke, Deal Golf, Sullivan County, Deal Coun- try Clubs; the Friendly Sons of St. Pat- rick, the Gaelic Society, and a life mem- ber of the Catholic Summer School and is connected with many other organizations. Address, 14 West 87th St., New York.
DRACHMAN, Bernard:
Jewish theologian and scholar; was born in New York City, June 27, 1861; son of Benjamin and Matilda (Stein) Drachman; in 1870 his parents moved to Jersey City; he graduated at the Jersey City High School, 1878; from 1878 to 1882 he stud- ied at Columbia College and the Hebrew Preparatory School, and took the degree of B. A. at Columbia; his thesis was on the "Poets and Poetry of the Karaites"; he then spent three years in Germany, where he received the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg University in 1884, and of rabbi at Breslau Jewish Theological Sem- inary in 1855. He married, in 1888, Sarah, daughter of Jonas Weil, a well known Jewish philanthropist of New York City; he has been the rabbi of the Congrega- tion Zichron Ephraim, of New York, since 1889; in 1887 he was appointed to the chair of Biblical exegesis and Hebrew philosophy in the Jewish Theological Seminary, and in 1899 made dean of the institution; these positions he held until 1902, when the seminary was merged into the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; he then was appointed instruc- tor in Bible and reader in rabbinical codes in the new institution. Is the au- thor of numerous works and essays in English, German and Hebrew, among them are "Die Stellung und Bedentung des Jehuda Hajjug in der Geschichte der Hebräischen Grammatik" (Breslau, 1885); "The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel," from the German of Samson Raphael Hirsch, New York, 1899; "Neo-Hebraic Litera- ture in America," New York, 1900; "The Second Book of Samuel," translated from the original Hebrew for the new Bible translation of the Jewish Publication So- ciety of America (in preparation) ; a new book, "Jewish Tales and Types," is shortly to appear. Address, 36 East 75th St., New York.
DRAKE, Franklin J .:
Captain U. S. Navy; born Yates Cen- ter, Orleans County, N. Y .; entered Na- val Academy as midshipman, Feb. 23, 1863; he was appointed from the Thir- ty-first District of New York State by competitive examination; graduated, 1868; promoted to ensign, April 19, 1869; com- missioned master, July , 12, 1870; lieuten- ant, Nov. 15, 1872; lieutenant-commander, Oct. 1, 1893; commander, March 3, 1899; first sea service, U. S. S. Marion, block- ade duty, North Atlantic Squadron, in search of Confederate privateers Tacony and others who were burning vessels off
the Atlantic coast during the summer
of 1863; (practice cruise Macedonian, Dale, 1867): Gettysburg, 1865; West In- dies, 1868; gunboat Penobscot, North At- lantic Fleet, 1868-69; Frolic, 1869; tem- porarily transferred to army for signal instruction and service, 1869-70; ordered to Colorado, flagship of rear-admiral John Rodgers, as fleet signal officer, Asiatic Squadron, 1870-71; Benicia, Asi- atic Squadron, 1871 ;. commanded Company B in the assault by land forces made on the Corean forts at Seoul, 1871, and was commended for conspicuous conduct in battle by Commander L. A. Kimberly, U. S. N., who commanded the land forces; Monocacy, 1872; Colorado, 1872-73; Tor- pedo Station, Newport, R. I., 1873; Moni- tor Terror, North Atlantic Station, 1873; Portsmouth, North Pacific Fleet, 1872; Pensacola, 1874; Independence, 1875; ord- nance department, navy yard, Mare Is- land, 1875-6; Coast Survey steamer Hass- ler, North Pacific coast, 1878-79; Powha- tan, North Atlantic Station, 1878; Ticon- deroga, special cruise around the world, 1878-81; commanded surveying expedition into the interior of Africa, Liberia, west coast, and mapped out the head-waters of the St. John River, fall of 1879; navy yard, New York, 1881-82; special duty, first Advisory Board and inspector of material in the construction of the first steel vessels for the navy, 1883-85; Pensa- cola, European Station, 1885; Quinnebaug, European Station, 1886-87; returned to United States in the Pensacola, 1888; in- spector of construction of the first tor- pedo boat built for the new navy, Cush- ing, 1888; inspector of the construction of the Howell automobile torpedo for the new navy, 1889-91; special duty, Bu- reau of Ordnance at the World's Fair Columbian Exposition, 1892; assistant in- spector building of the Montgomery, Co- lumbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Md., 1893; commanding Fish Commission steamer Albatross, 1894-96; during which time completed the explorations of the bed of Behring Sea; determined the ex- tent and flow of temperature currents and their effects upon the ice pack in and north of Behring Straits; made a special survey of the Priboloff Islands, the extent and capacity of the rookeries, and report upon the habitat of the seal, as well as the area and extent of the Pelagic sealing belt under the modus vi- vendi, also the laws governing their mi- gratory habits; was detached from the Albatross and ordered as executive offi- cer, battleship Oregon, June, 1896, and served in that capacity under both Cap- tains H. L. Howison and A. S. Barker until Sept., 1897, during which period he commissioned and organized the crew of that vessel and developed the fighting efficiency which resulted in making her famous in her world-breaking record from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and conspicuous in action at the battle of Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898, then un- der the command of Captain C. E. Clark; was detached from the Oregon, Aug. 22,
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1897, and ordered to duty as inspector of ordnance at the Mare Island Navy Yard; also inspector of the manufacture of powder at the California Powder Works; while manufacturing the present smoke- less powder now in use in the navy, made numerous experiments in determining its stability and keeping qualities under ex- treme changes of moisture and tempera- ture; commanded Pensacola in May, 1898, in addition to regular duties as in- spector of ordnance; preliminary orders, May, 1900, to command the Mohican for training landsmen as seamen and gun- ners; detached from duty as inspector of ordnance, navy yard, Mare Island, Cal., Dec. 12, 1900, and ordered to the Asiatic Squadron; proceeded to Sydney, N. S. W., and took command of the U. S. S. Culgoa, March 17, 1901; returned to Ma- nila, P. I., May 27, detached, ordered to Naval Station, Cavite; July 8, command of U. S. S. Monterey at Canton, China; from that time until Feb., 1903, engaged in crusining on the China coast and up the Yang-tsee River to protect United States citizens and its commercial inter- ests; while at Canton, China, during Chinese New Year, Jan., 1903, as senior naval officer, Captain Drake, by prompt action, succeeded in suppressing an up- rising of 5,000 armed rebels who had en- tered old Canton in disguise for the pur- pose of massacring the Viceroy of the Two-Kwank provinces and all other Man- churian officials in power; promoted to captain, Sept. 11, 1903; detached from Monterey, Feb. 12, 1903, and is now serv- ing as inspector of ordnance at the Mare Island Navy Yard.
DRAPER, Andrew Sloan:
Educator; born Westford, Otsego Coun- ty, N. Y., June 21, 1848; graduated from Albany Academy, 1866; Albany Law School, 1871; admitted to bar and prac- ticed law at Albany, 1871 to 1885; mem- ber Board of Education, Albany, 1879-81; member New York Legislature, 1881; member State Normal College Board, 1881- 86; appointed by President Arthur mem- ber Court of Alabama Claims, 1884; State superintendent of Public Instruction, New York, 1886-92; superintendent of instruc- tion, Cleveland, O., public schools, 1892- 94; president of the State University of Illinois since 1894; elected first superin- tendent of schools of Greater New York, 1897, but declined; appointed by President Roosevelt member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, 1902. Ad- dress, Champlain, Ill.
DRAPER, Daniel:
Meteorologist; born New York City, April 2, 1841; son of John W. Draper; began education in New York University Preparatory School, but left to become amanuensis of father, who instructed him in sciences; spent five years as appren- tice in Novelty Iron Works, New York, where he assisted in construction of
United States ironclads; was assistant port engineer of the Star Line of steam- ships from New York to New Orleans; 1868 established and became director of Central Park Meteorological Observa- tory, inventing for it many instruments and making other inprovements; estab- lished Draper Manufacturing Company for making of these instruments; 1871, began investigations showing that clear- ing the land of trees did not diminish rainfall: also that American storms crossed the Atlantic; this led to reporting of United States disturbances in Great Britain; has made many other researches which have been published; is fellow of American Institute for Advancement of Science; member of American Philosoph- ical Society, National Geographical So- ciety; was elected member of the Health Department of New York, 1870; Univer- sity of the City of New York conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 1880 for the work he had done in science; married, April 28, 1887, Anna Ludlow, of St. Louis. Residence, Hastings-on-Hudson; office, New York Meteorological Observatory, Central Park, New York.
DRESSER, Daniel Le Roy:
Merchant; born New York, Dec. 13, 1866; son of George W. and Susan Fish Dresser; his grandmother was Miss Fish; great-grandmother, Miss Stuyvesant; was educated in private schools until the age of fifteen, then prepared himself for the school of mines, Columbia College; grad- uated from there in 1889; married Emma Louise Burnham, Nov. 20, 1889; began business in commission dry goods in 1889, and became head of Dresser & Co., which he organized; was elected president of the Merchants' 'Association in 1900; in 1902 organized the Trust Company of the Republic and became its president; mem- ber of Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, New York Yacht, and St. Anthony Clubs. Address, 71 Franklin St., New York.
DRESSLER, Louis R .:
Musical conductor and composer; born New York City, 1861; son of William Dressler, the well known composer; he is an organist and conductor, and was among the first to produce, with ama- teurs, the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas, in New York; has acted as ac- companist for leading artists, including Lillie Lehmann, Emma Thursby, Ovid Musin, Victor Herbert, Lillian Blauvelt, Hans Kronold, and others; has written numerous songs and anthems; was one of the six charter members of the Manu- script Society, Residence, Jersey City, N. J .; office, 867 Broadway, New York.
DREW, John:
Actor; born Philadelphia, Pa .; son of John and Mrs. Drew. The former was for many years manager of Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and the latter was,
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until her death a year or two ago, one of the leading actresses of this country. John Drew was educated at Protestant Episcopal Academy at Philadelphia, and by private tutors. He went on the stage at nineteen; was for many years mem- ber of Augustin Daly's company; for the last ten years has starred under the man- agement of Charles Frohman. Married Miss Josephine Baker, of Philadelphia. Member of the Lamb's, Riding and other clubs. Address, Easthampton, L. I.
DRIGGS, Marshall S .:
President of the Williamsburg City Fire Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; was born in the City of New York, Jan. 9, 1834; he was educated at Redding In- stitute, Connecticut, and entered the ser- vice of the Williamsburg City as policy clerk on March 22, 1853; he resigned the assistant secretaryship in 1857 to begin business of warehouseman on his own ac- count; was elected a director of the in- surance company in 1868, and chairman of the finance company in 1883, and suc- ceeded his father, on his death, in Aug., 1889, as president; he is a member of the Underwriters' Club, the New England So- ciety and the Chamber of Commerce of New York, a director in the First Na- tional Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y., a member of the Lawyers' Club, a director of the National Surety Company, and a director of the Williamsburg Trust Company, the Empire Surety Company and the Broad- way Trust Company of New York. Ad- dress, 279 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
DRISCOLL, Michael Edward:
Republican Member of Congress; born Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1851; when about one year old his parents removed to the town of Camillus, Onondaga County; was educated in the district schools, Monro Collegiate Institute, at Elbridge, Onon- daga County, and Williams College; is a lawyer; was elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re- elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, re- ceiving 27,023 votes to 16,330 for Martin F. Dillon, Democrat, 744 for Albert Coit, Prohibitionist, 474 for James Trainor, Socialist Labor, 417 for John Franz, So- cialist Democrat, and 1,943 blank and scattering. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.
DRISCOLL, John T .:
Clergyman; born Albany, N. Y., 1836; received his elementary education in the schools of Albany; in 1885 he graduated with the highest of honors at Manhattan College, being then in his nineteenth year; and after studying for four years at the Troy Theological Seminary, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1889; was selected to take advanced course at the Catholic University, which was then about to be opened, and he entered that institution as a pioneer student; there he
remained for two years, receiving suc- cessively the degrees of S. T. B. and S. T. L .; the former being the first de- gree conferred by the university; for three years Father Driscoll taught the philosophical branches in the Theological Seminary at Brighton, Mass., and for several seasons he has been a regular lecturer at the Plattsburg Summer School; his principal philosophical works thus far published are two treatises en- titled, respectively, "Christian Philoso- phy: the Human Soul," and "Christian Philosophy: God." Address, Fonda, N. Y.
DRURY, John Benjamin:
Clergyman and editor; born Rhinebeck, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1838; graduated from Rutgers College, 1858, and from the The- ological Seminary at New Brunswick three years later; entered ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church the same year and became pastor at Davenport, Ia .; 1864 to 1887 was pastor of the First Reformed Church, Ghent, N. Y; 1886, elected president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church; 1887, elected trus- tee of Rutgers College and still con- tinues to hold that office; since same year he has edited the Christian Intelli- gencer at New York City; he is on the board of superintendents of the Theo- logical Seminary at New Brunswick; has delivered many lectures on theological and ecclesiastical subjects and is author of various works in the same line. Resi- dence, 88 Livingston Ave., New Bruns- wick, N. J .; office, 4 Warren St., New York.
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