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Rh and Smith, an academy was established at Washington, Pa., in 1787, which he conducted one year, opening it with about thirty students, and continuing his preaching at the same time. He was not only the first president, and one of the founders of Washington college, Pa., but founder of the first presbytery west of the Alleghany mountains. &mdash; His nephew, Daniel, mechanician, b. in Virginia, 28 Sept., 1788; d. in New York city, 9 May, 1823, was educated at Rutgers, and became distinguished for his mathematical acquirements. He was especially devoted to the construction of steam machinery, beginning when steam navigation was in its infancy, and soon became one of the most successful engine-builders in the country. In 1811 he declined an appointment in Rutgers college as professor of mathematics, in order to devote himself to this business. His mechanical constructions were different from former ones, and, having proved superior to all others, were generally adopted. In 1819 the &ldquo;Savannah,&rdquo; with an engine of his building, made the first steam-ship voyage across the Atlantic, and returned in safety after visiting England and Russia. Mr. Dod removed, in 1821, to New York city, where he was reputed the most successful engine-builder in the United States. In 1823, having altered the machinery of a steamboat, he went on board to witness the effect of his repair by a trial trip on the East river. The boiler exploded, and so severely injured Mr. Dod that he died a few days thereafter. &mdash; His second son, Albert Baldwin, educator, b. in Mendham, N. J., 24 March, 1805; d. in Princeton, 20 Nov., 1845, was like his father, not only in mathematical taste, but in the versatility of his genius. He was graduated at Princeton in 1822, and was at once offered a place in the navy by the secretary, who witnessed his graduation, but declined it. He taught four years in Fredericksburg, Va., and in 1826 entered the Theological seminary at Princeton as a student; at the same time was a tutor in the college till 1829, when he was licensed to preach by the New York presbytery. He became professor of mathematics at Princeton in 1830, which chair he held until the time of his death, declining the chaplaincy and professorship of moral philosophy at West Point. He possessed a taste for general literature and the fine arts, and a power of analysis, logical deduction, and lucid statement, to which was due the high degree of success he attained as a teacher. He frequently supplied pulpits in New York and Philadelphia, and was regarded as an eloquent preacher and a learned lecturer on political economy and architecture. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by the University of North Carolina in 1844, and by the University of New York in 1845. His articles, contributed mainly to the &ldquo;Princeton Review,&rdquo; have been published in book-form under the title of &ldquo;Princeton Theological Essays&rdquo; (New York, 1847). The one on &ldquo;Capital Punishment&rdquo; (1842) was adopted by a committee of the New York legislature as their report. His article on &ldquo;Transcendentalism&rdquo; was reprinted as a pamphlet.

DODD, Edward Mills, missionary, b. in Bloomfield, N. J., 22 June, 1824 ; d. in Marsovan, Turkey, in the autumn of 1865. After receiving a common-school education, he became a clerk in his native place in 1839. He was converted, and resolved upon entering the Presbyterian ministry. With this in view he began a preparatory course of study, and in 1844 was graduated at Princeton. After devoting one year to private teaching in Virginia, and spending three years in the Union theological seminary of New York as a student, he was licensed to preach by the Newark presby- tery, and ordained in 1848. He sailed from Boston for Smyrna in 1849, representing the American board on a mission to the Jews at Salonica. Be- cause of the failure of his health three years later, he returned to the United States, but on his re- covery again sailed for Smyrna, and from Septem- ber, 1855, continued his labors among the Arme- nians for eight years. With special reference to the mission-school for girls, he was transferred from Smyrna to Marsovan. Its organization was delayed till the sunmier of 1865, and meanwhile Mr. Dodd supervised its construction, and actively shared the missionary work of that vicinity. His sudden death by cholera occurred two months after the opening of the school. The Turkish and He- brew tongues were familiar to him, and he had contributed largely to the Turkish hymn-book.

DODD, James B., mathematician, b. in Vir- ginia in 1807; d. in Greensburg, Ky., 27 March, 1872. He was chosen professor of mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy in Centenary college, Mississippi, in 1841, and in Transylvania university in 1846, of which institution he was acting-president from 1849 till 1855. Pie was au- thor of arithmetics (New Y^ork, 1852), algebras (1858), and a geometry, and contributed to the " Southern Quarterly Review."

DODD, Mary Ann Hannier, poet, b. in Hart- ford, Conn., 5 March, 1813. She attended school in Wethersfield, and in her native town, where she was graduated in 1830 at ]Mrs. Kinnear's semi- nary. Her first published articles appeared in 1834 in the " Hermethenean," a magazine conducted by the students of Washington (now Trinity) college, Hartford. She wrote but little until 1835, after that becoming a frequent contributor to " The Ladies' Repository " and " The Rose of Sharon," an annual in which the greater part of her writings appeared. Among her best poems were " The La- ment," " The Dreamer," " The Mourner," and " To a Cricket." A volume of her poems was published in Boston in 1843.

DODD, Stephen, clergyman, b. in Bloomfield, N. J., 8 March, 1777; d. in Morristown, N. J., 5 Feb., 1856. He was educated at Union college, and was pastor of Presbyterian churches at Carmel, N. Y., and Waterbury and East Haven, Conn., from 1817 till 1847. He was a founder and trustee of the Connecticut theological institution at East Wind- sor, and gave it his valuable library. He published a " riistory of East Haven " (New Haven, 1824) ; "Family Record of Daniel Dodd" (1839); and " Revoliitionarv Memorials " (New York, 1852).

DODDRIDGE, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Penn- sylvania in 1769; d. in Wellsburg, Brooke co., Va., in November, 1826. He was educated at Jefferson academy, Canonsburg, Pa., and ordained in the Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop White in 1792. He was one of the pioneers of western Vir- ginia, and published " Logan," a dramatic piece (1823), and '• Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country in 1763- '83 " (1824). — His brother, Pliilip, lawyer, b. in Bedford county. Pa., in 1772 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 19 Nov., 1832. After a voyage down the Mississippi on a flat-boat, he studied law, and gained a brill- iant reputation. He was a delegate from Brooke county to the Virginia legislature in 1815, and for several years a member of that body. He also served in the state constitutional convention of 1829-'30, and was an earnest advocate there of the white basis of representation. He was elected to congress, and served from 7 Dec, 1829, till his