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Rh ber of a commission to investigate the affairs of the San Francisco mint and custom-house, and in the same year he was made superintendent of the San Francisco mint. This office he held four years and a half, during which time he disbursed more than 12,000,000 from congressional appropriations, and more than $180,000,000 in coin and bullion, tnming over to his successor $31,000,000. Mr. Dodge was elected president of the chamber of commerce in 1885, and re-elected in 1886, in which year he was also invited by President Cleveland to serve on the U. S. mint ass»iy commission that met in Philadelphia. He was connected with many enteri)rises, and was president of the California pio- neers association. In 1887 he became interested in the organization of the Sather banking company of San Francisco, and was made its president.

DODGE, Robert Perley, engineer. b. in George- town, D. C. 1 Sept., 1817 ; d. in Washington, I). C, 21 May, 1887. His father. Francis, was a well- known merchant in the District of Columbia for fifty years, and a lineal descendant of William Dodge who came from England to Salem, Mass., in 1629. The son was graduated at Princeton in 1836, in 1837 he went through a course of engi- neering studies at Georgetown, Ky., and in 1838 he was appointed an engineer of the Chcsa|>eake and Ohio canal. On resigning that post he turned his attention to farming in Washington county, and was subsequently a merchant in Baltimore'and a flour manufacturer in Georgetown and its vicinity. He was appointed in 1801 an additional pay- master in tiie U. S. army, with the rank of major, promoted to colonel in 1804, and soon aftcrwanl retired to private life. In July, 1876, he was aji- pointc<l treasurer of the District of Columbia. When a change was made in the hx-al goveninient in June, 1870, he was made treasurer and assessor, and when another change took place in the arrange- ment of offices in July, 1881, he was made assess- or of the dlslri<t, holding Ihe [)ost until his death.

DOLE, Sanford Ballard, president of Hawaii, b. in the Hiiwuiiiin islands. 23 April, 1844. His father and mother were missionnries, who went to the Hawaiian isl- ands from the Unit- ed States in the year of his birth. The son was educated at Pubahan college.on ]his native island, and at Williatns college, .Mass., after which he studied law in Hoston, was admitted to the bar there, and then re- turned to Honolulu. He practised law in his native city itiid also became inter- ested in politics, be- ing a memljer of the legislature in 1884 and taking an ac- tive part in the reform movement that culminated in 1887. In 1889 he was again a member of the legislature and of its executive committee. In 1887 he had l)cen appointed a judge of Ihe su- preme court of the tcingrlom, and at the time of the revolution of 1893 he was placed at the head of the prr)visional government then formed. On 20 Jan. be issued a proclamation declaring all powers and duties belonging to the sovereign to be vested in the provisional government. On 30 June a new constitution was adopted, in which he was specially named as president till 1900, and this constitution was promulgated on 4 July, 1894. Meanwhile a new administration had come into power in the United States. A treaty of annexa- tion that had been negotiated by commissioners sent by the provisional government had been with- drawn from the senate by President Cleveland (see Cleveland, Grovee), and the latter had an- nounced his intention of restoring the monarchy. On 23 Dec.. 1893, President Dole sent to U. S. Minister Willis, in response to a demand that he should relinquish to Queen Liliuokalani her con- stitutional authority, a replv denying the right of Cleveland to interfere in flawaiian affairs. The stand taken by the Hawaiian government in this matter, under his leadership, rendered the policy of Cleveland futile. Mr. Dole has always been conservative politically, and exerted himself to the utmost to prevent all rash action during the revolution of 1893. He advocated the annexa- tion of the Hawaiian islands to the United States. In January, 1898, with Mrs. Dole, iie visited this country as the guest of the nation, receiving much alti'iitioii (luring his sojourn of several weeks.

DOMEYKO, Ignaz. Chilian scientist, b. in Lith- uania, Poland, 3 July, 1802; d. in Santiago, 23 Jan., 1889. lie rceeive<l his primary education in Cracow, and in 1817 continued his studies in the University of Vienna, where he was graduated. Taking part in the Polish insurrection of 1830-'l, he was obliged to emigrate to France, where he labored in the mines of Alsace, and afterward fin- ishe<l special studies at Paris. In 1838 he accepted the professorship of physics and chemistry at the Lyceum of Serena, Chili. In 1846 he was called to the same chair in the National institute and the University of Chili, of which he was rector from 1870 till 1883. He was an a.ssociate editor of " El Arancano," " Los Anales dc Miuas," and "El Seinanariode .Santiago." and in 1888 began a scien- tific journey through Europe. He is the author of " Tratado de ensayes " (Serena, 1843 ; .Santiago, 18711) ; " Elemcntos dc Mineralogia" (1844) ; " La Araucania y sus habitantes" (1845); " Geologia y Geometriafeubterriinea" (1873); "Excursion & las Cord illerasdeCo[iiap<'r'( 187.5) ; and " Constitucion Geoli'icica de Chile" (1876).

DONALDSON, Thomas Corwin, lawyer, b. in Columbus, Ohio, 27 Dec.. 1843 ; d. in Philadelphia, 18 Nov., 1898. He W8sgra<liiate<l from Capital univer- sity, of his native place, served as a private in the civil war and later as a lieutenant, and was admit- ted to thelmr in 1867. He filled various government offices, and was offered the governorship of Idaho by President Hayes, which he declined. While residing in Idaho he was colonel of a regiment of the National guard. His collection of curios, auto- graphs, and paintings contained in his Philadelphia residence was among the most imtKirtant in that eitv. Col. Donaldson's publications include " The Public Domain: Its History, with Statistics "(Wash- ington, 1884), which passed through several edi- tions; "The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the National Museum, with Memoir and Statistics" (1887); "Walt Whitman: The Man " (New York, 1896); and "The House in which Thomas Jeffer- son wrote the Declaration of Intlependcnce " (Phila- delphia. 1898). "Some of the People I have met" anil " Exiicricnccs in Idaho Territory " were in press at tlie tiiiir of his death.

DONOHOE, Patrick James, B. C. bishop, b. in England in 1851, and was a graduate of the Uni-