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202 though practising law in Chicago. He was president of the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866, and also of the Baltimore national Democratic convention of 1872, which adopted the nomination of Horace Greeley for the presidency. Judge Doolittle has been a trustee of Chicago university since its foundation, served for one year as its president, and was for many years a professor in its law school.

 DOOLITTLE, Mary Antoinette, lecturer, b. in New Lebanon. N. Y., 8 Sept., 1810; d. in Mt. Lebanon, Columbia co., N. Y., 31 Dec, 1880. She was graduated in New Lebanon in 1825. She became a member of the Shaker society in 1824, a deaconess in a Shaker community in 1826, and was an eldress from 1828. Her lectures on religious subjects, which were delivered in various cities in the United States, attracted much attention. In 1873-'5 she edited, with Frederick W. Evans, the “Shaker and Shakeress,” a periodical published at Mt. Lebanon college, and is author of an “Autobiography” (1880), and of a series of remarkable inspirational songs.

DOOLITTLE, Theodore Sandford, educator, b. in Ovid, Seneca co., N. Y.. 30 Nov., 1836; d. in New Brunswick, N. J., 18 April, 1893. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1859, and at the seminary in 1862, and in that year was licensed to preach in the Reformed Dutch church, and became pastor at Flatlands, near Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1864 he accepted the chair of rhetoric, logic, and metaphysics at Rutgers, which he held for thirty years, becoming also associate editor of the “Christian at Work” in 1873. Wesleyan university gave him the degree of D. D. Dr. Doolittle frequently lectured on art and literature. Besides articles in periodicals, he published an “Account of the Centennial Celebration of Rutgers College” (1870), and a “History of Rutgers College,” written for the Bureau of education at Washington. In 1875 he contributed to the “Christian Intelligencer” a series of letters entitled “Across the Continent.”

DOOLY, John Mitchell, lawyer, b. in Lincoln county, Ga., about 1772 ; d. there, 26 May, 1827. Little is known of his early life, or the time at which he was admitted to the bar. He was ap- pointed solicitor-general of the Western circuit of Georgia, 2 Sept., 1802, to fill a vacancy, and on 22 Nov., 1804, was elected to the same office by the legislature. In 1816 he was elected judge of the same circuit, and in 1822 chosen first judge of the Northern circuit, to which latter place he was re- elected in 1825. He also represented his county in the legislature during the embargo and other re- strictive measures adopted by the general govern- ment, and the war witlx Great Britain, successfully advocating the " alleviating," " thirding," and " stop " laws then passed. It is chiefly as a wit that Judge Dooly is still remembered. He was quick and brilliant in repartee and, when provoked, would launch at his adversary the most biting sar- casm. But, notwithstanding this powerful weapon with which nature had furnished him, he was a genial companion, and utterly iinselfish. The re- ports of his wise and witty sayings, handed down by tradition, have kept the bench and bar of Georgia supplied with aTiecdotes for a half century.

DORANTES, Pedro (do-rahn'-tays), Spanish ex- plorer, b. in Bejar, Spain, early in the 16th century ; d. in Paraguay. He was attached as commissary to the expedition commanded by Cabeza de Vaca, which left Sanlucar for River Plate on 2 Nov., 1540, and reached the island of Santa Catalina, 29 March, 1541. Thence the expedition went to the continent, and as they intended to go to Asuncion by land the commander sent Dorantes to open the way. After exploring the country for three months, he reported that the journey would be difficult, and advised Cabeza de Vaca to ascend Itabicu river, which was successfully effected, and the expedition reached Asuncion, 11 March, 1542. Dorantes proved to be a brave, intelligent, and useful officer, but his mal- administration compelled the governor to deliver him to the court of justice. At the same time the colonists were in great danger of perishing at the hands of the hostile natives, and, as every one thought Dorantes to be the only man able to save them, it was decided to stop the proceedings against him and let him continue at his post. The war with the Indians was short, but during that time Dorantes joined the other officers in a plot to force the governor to return to Asuncion, and eight days afterward (25 April, 1544) took an important part in the deposition of the governor and in the elec- tion of his successor, Domingo de Irala. He soon became an enemy of the new ruler, M'ho, in 1547, went to Peru, leaving Francisco de Mendoza in his place ; but Dorantes was also opposed to IMendoza, and worked for the election of Diego de Abreu, whose party he left again on the return of Irala from Peru. After the death of Irala in 1557, Fran- cisco Ortiz de Vergara was elected governor, and Dorantes accompanied him during the campaign against the Indians in 1559, when he greatly dis- tinguished himself, as well as during the expedition to Peru in 1564, where he remained for five years. In 1569 he returned to Asuncion, and lived in Para- guay to a very old age.

DOREMUS, Sarah Platt, philanthropist, b. in New York city, 3 Aug., 1802; d. there, 29 Jan., 1877. She was the daughter of Elias Haines, a merchant of New York, and her mother was the daughter of Robert Ogden, a distinguished lawyer of New Jersey. In 1812 she united with her mother in praying for the conversion of the world, and from that time dates her interest in foreign missions. She married, in 1821, Thomas C. Doremus, a merchant, whose wealth thenceforth was freely expended in her benevolent enterprises. In 1828, with eight ladies, she organized the Greek relief mission, and sent Dr. Jonas King to Greece to distribute supplies. Seven years later she became interested in the mission at Grand Ligne, Canada, conducted by Madame Henriette Feller, of Switzerland, and in 1860 was made president of the organization. In 1840 she began visiting the New York city prisons, and after establishing Sabbath services, used her influence in 1842 toward founding the Home for women discharged from prison, now the Isaac T. Hopper home, of which she became president on the death of her friend and co-founder, Miss Catherine M. Sedgwick. She aided in founding, in 1850, the House and school of industry for poor women, becoming its president in 1867, and in 1854 became vice-president of the Nursery and child's hospital. In 1855 she assisted Dr. J. Marion Sims in his project of establishing the New York woman's hospital, of which she was ultimately president. During the civil war she co-operated with the work carried on in the hospitals, ministering alike to the wounded from north and south. She founded, in 1860, the Woman's union missionary society, designed to elevate and Christianize the women of heathen lands, and she took an active part as manager in the Presbyterian home for aged women, organized in 1866. She aided in collecting supplies to relieve the sufferers from famine in Ireland in 1869, and was for many years manager of the female branch of the City mission and tract society and of the Female Bible society. The last