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196 DOLES, George Pierce, soldier, b. in Milledgeville, Ga., 14 May, 1830 ; d. near Cold Harbor, Va., 2 Jnne, 1864. He was educated in Milledgeville, and at the beginning of the civil war was captain of a militia company called the " Baldwin Blues." His services and those of liis command were at once offered to the governor of Georgia and ac- cepted. He was made a captain in the 4th Geor- gia infantry, and in May, 1862, became colonel of his regiment. He followed the fortunes of the army of Northern Virginia, and at the battle of Gettysburg succeeded to the command of a bri- gade. His commission as brigadier-general bore date 2 Nov., 1862. During the overland campaigns he commanded a division in Gen. Ewell's corps, and was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor.

DOLLIER DE CASSON, François, clergyman, b. in Prance about 1630 ; d. in Canada. The Sul- pitians, being anxious to compete with the Jesuits in missionary enterprise, sent Father Dollier de Casson to winter with the Nipissings in 1668. In company with Lasalle and twenty-one other French- men, he set out for the Seneca country, being guided by some Seneeas. and at Tenaoutona met JoUiet, and received from him information as to the west, which enabled them to draw a map. But here Lasalle and his party refused to proceed farther. They returned to the St. Lawrence, and, as they had boasted that they were going to China, the name of La Chine was given to Lasalle's place in ridicule. Dollier de Casson, with the nine that remained faithful, set out from Tenaoutona in Oc- tober, 1669, reached Lake Erie, and spent the win- ter neai' the mouth of Grand river on the north shore, and in March, 1670, drew up an act of posses- sion. They then continued their voyage, but had to abandon their project, owing to a storm, and made for the Jesuit mission of Sault St. Marie, which they reached in May. Father Dollier de Casson was the first to sail through Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. He was the author of a " His- tory of Montreal " (still in manuscript).

DOLPH, John Henry, artist, b. in Fort Ann, Washington co., N. Y., 18 April, 1835. He stud- ied for two years with Louis Van Kuyck in Ant- werp, and then spent three years in Paris, after which he settled in New York. In 1877 he was made an associate of the National academy, and he has been a member of the society of American art- ists since its organization in 1878. Mr. Dolph's works include "Knickerbocker Farm - Yard " (1869) ; " The Season of Plenty " ; " The Country Blacksmith " (1870) ; " The Horse-Doctor " (1873) ; "The Pasture" (1874); "The Antiquarian"; "A Gray Day on the Coast " (1875) ; " Prom the Horse- Market " (1876); "The Ante-Chamber" (1878), exhibited in the French salon in 1882 ; " Relic of the Battle-tield " ; " The Rehearsal " (1878) ; " Prin- cess " (1885) ; and " A June Day " (1886).

DOLPH, Joseph Norton, senator, b. in Dolphs- burg, N. Y., 19 Oct., 1835; d. in Portland, Ore., 10 March, 1897. He received a common-school education, besides private instruction, and for a time attended the Genesee Wesleyan seminary. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in No- vember, 1861, and practised in Schuyler county in 1861-'2. In tlie latter year he enlisted, and was appointed orderly sergeant in Capt. M. Crawford's .company, known as the " Oregon Escort," which was raised under an act of congress, for the pur- pose of protecting the emigration to the Pacific coast against hostile Indians. He went to Port- land, Ore., the following October, where he after- ward resided. He was elected city attorney in 1864, and President Lincoln appointed him district-attorney for the district of Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon senate in 1866, 1872, and 1874. When elected to the U. S. senate, he was actively engaged in various business enterprises, and had an extensive law practice. He was chosen as a republican, and took his seat 4 March, 1883. Senator Dolph was chairman of the committee on coast defences, and was re-elected in January, 1889.

DOMBEY, Joseph, French botanist, b. in Mâcon, France, 20 Feb., 1742; d. in the island of Montserrat, West Indies, in May, 1794. He ran away from home and acquired a thorough knowledge of botany in Montpelier, where in 1768 he was graduated in medicine. In 1772 he went to Paris, where he became assistant to the botanist Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1776 was appointed by Turgot botanist of the Jardin des plantes. A year later he was sent on an expedition to visit South America and collect such useful plants as could he cultivated in France. He arrived in Callao in January, 1778, and soon gathered a large herbarium of the Peruvian flora, also accumulating much valuable information concerning the cinchona tree. In 1780 he sent a portion of his collection home, but the vessel containing them was captured by the British, and the specimens sent to the British museum, where they are still retained, notwithstanding the subsequent claims by the French government. Dombey sought at once to replace this loss, and soon had in readiness a second shipment, but the authorities of Callao confiscated over 300 original designs of rare plants on the pretext that works of native artists were not permitted to be exported to foreign countries. These designs were given to the Spanish botanists Pavon and Ruiz, who used them in their publication of &ldquo;La Flora Peruana.&rdquo; In 1782 he visited Chili and collected the plants indigenous to that country. During his stay in Concepcion the cholera broke out, and at once Dombey offered his services and was appointed physician-in-chief of the city, which office he resigned in 1783 when the epidemic had passed. He was then invited to examine the quicksilver mines of Chili; the mines in Coquimbo he put in working order, and discovered the mines in Jarilla, and although he spent considerable money in this work, refused all compensation from the officials in Chili, saying that he accepted payment only from the king of France. Finally he sailed for Cadiz, where he arrived in February, 1785. Here he suffered the loss of half of his collections, which were seized by the Spanish government and himself imprisoned until he agreed not to publish his researches prior to Pavon and Ruiz. Dombey succeeded in escaping to France by way of Havre, and secured, on Buffon's recommendation, an indemnity of 10,000 francs and an annual pension of 1,200 francs. In 1793 he was sent on a mission to the United States, but was captured by privateers and imprisoned in Montserrat, where he died. Dombey's collections are among the treasures of the British museum, the Jardin Real of Madrid, and the Jardin des plantes and the Musée d'histoire naturelle of Paris. His grand herbarium contains over 1,500 South American plants, of which more than 60 are new species, accompanied by valuable notes on the plants of Peru and Chili, their cultivation and use, and it is one of the most complete that exists in Europe of the flora of South America. Botanists have honored his memory by giving his name, Dombeya, to a plant that belongs to the family of Butnériaceas, of which eleven different species are known. Dombey published: &ldquo;Lettres sur le salpêtre du Pérou, et la phosphorescence de la mer&rdquo; (1786); &ldquo;Mémoires à l'académie des sciences sur