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94 versity of London. In 1873 he came to the United States, and, having settled in Washington, he stud- ied law, received the degree of LL. D. from Colum- bian university, practising law at the capital till 1882. He then exchanged the common law for the canon law, and studied for the priesthood at St. Mary's seminary, Baltimore, was ordained in 1885, and was made assistant priest of St. John's church. In 188(i he was appointed chancellor of the archdi- ocese of Baltimore under Cardinal Gibbons, and in 1891 was appointed rector of the cathedral. His duties in this position were onerous, but successful, imposing upon him many general and extra duties. He took an active part in 1889, and again iu 1893, in serving on committees for extending a suitable welcome to Monsignor, now Cardinal Satolli, on his arrival in the United States. On the transfer of Bishop Kain, of Wheeling. W. Va., to St. Louis, Dr. Donohue was appointed bishop of Wheeling, and he was consecrated by Cardinal Gibbons at the cathedral in April, 1894.

DONTENVILLE, Augustin, R. C. prelate, b. at Bischweiler, in the diocese of Strasbourg, Alsace, 4 June, 1857. He came to this country in 1873, re- sided two years in the diocese of Buffalo with his uncle, the Rev. Father Uhrich, one of the pioneer priests of that diocese, and was sent by him to the College of Ottawa, where he pursued his course of humanities. In 1878 he joined the religious order of Oblate Fathers at Lachine, where he made a year's probation, and thence went to the College of Ottawa to follow his regular course of studies in philosophy and theology. He also filled the chair of arts in the same institution. Being a member of the order of Oblates he made his final vows therein in 1880, and was ordained a priest by Arch- bishop Duhamel in May, 1885. He filled a pro- fessor's chair at Ottawa college until 1889. when he was sent to New Westminster, British Columbia, as director of St. Louis college. In April, 1897, he was appointed coadjutor bishop to Bisliop Durieu, of New Westminster, under the title of bishop of Germanicopolis, with the right of succession. He was consecrated in August, 1897, by Archbishop Langevin of St. Boniface.

DOOLITTLE, Charles Caran. soldier, b. in Burlington, Vt., 16 March, 1833. He was educated at the high-school in Montreal, Canada, but was not graduated on account of his removal to New York city in 1847. He subsequently went to Michi- gan, and on 16 May, 1861, became 1st lieutenant in the 4th Michigan regiment. He was made colonel of the 18th regiment of that state on 32 July, 18G2, served in the peninsular campaign, and was slightly wounded at Gaines's Mill. He served in Kentucky in 1862-'3, and in Tennessee 1863-'4, and was in command of Decatur, Ala., during the first day's successful defence of that town against Gen. John B. Hood. He led a brigade at Nasiiville, and was in comuiand of that cit}[ in 1865, and of the north- eastern district of Louisiana in the autumn of that year. On 27 Jan., 1865, ho was made brigadier-gen- eral of volunteers, and on 18 June he was brevet ted major-general. He was mustei-ed out on 30 Nov. at his own request, and since 1871 has been cashier of the Merchants' national bank, Toledo, Ohio.

DOUBLET, Francois (du-bla), Norman colo- nist. In 1663 the merchants of Rouen sent out two ships, the "Saint Michel" and the "Grenadin," under Doublet, with a eomymny of twenty-five colo- nists for the islands at the mouth of the St. Law- rence. They loft Rouen, 26 April, 1663, and after a long passage landed at the island of Brion, where they found some Basques living in wooden huts. Doublet planted the cross upon the high capo on the bay where the fleet had anchored. The colo- nists built houses and magazines, and for a subsist- ence betook themselves to cod-fishing. Doublet shortly returned to France, and in April, 1664, set out again for the island with re-enforcements for the colony, but on his arrival at the island he found the establishment abandoned, the buildings destroyed, and could discover no traces of the col- onists. His eldest son, Jean Francois, was boni in Honfleur, France, about the year 1650.

DOUGHTY, John, soldier, b. in New York city in 1754; d. in Morristown, N. J., 16 Sept., 1826. He acted as commander of the American army by seniority of rank, or l)y the appointment of Gen. Washington, from June, 1784, till Septem- ber, 1789. There was no U. S. army during that period except two companies of artillery, the Con- tinental army having been disbanded and the new army not formed. He became major of an artil- lery company in 1789. lieutenant-colonel of artil- lerv and engineers in June, 1798. and on 26 May, 1800, he resigned. Col. Doughty, in 1785, built Fort llarmur, at llie juiu-tioM of the Muskingum with the Ohio river (the site of Marietta), which was the first post of the kind within the bounds of Ohio. In 1790 he built Fort Washington, con- sisting of hewn-log cabins with connecting pali- sades, where Cincinnati now stands. It was be- tween the present Third and Fourth streets, and is represented in the illustration.

DOWD, Charles Ferdinand, educator, b. in Madison, Conn., 35 April, 1825. He was graduated at Yale in 1853, and has successively held the posts of principal of the preparatory department of Newton university, Baltimore, Md., professor of mathematics there, principal of the high-school, Watcrbury, Conn., associate principal of the Con- necticut normal school at New Britain, superin- tendent of public schools. Waterbury, Conn., principal of the Granville (N. Y".) military acade- my, and president of Temple Grove seminary, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. He conceived the idea of adopting one standard for railway time, and after submitting it to a railway convention in New York city in October, 1869, he devised a complete plan, which he published, with a maji (1870). Prof. Dowd attended conventions of railway managers in Boston, in New York, and in the west, and finally secured the adoption of the present system of rail- way standard time, which is a modification of his first plan. In this system the country is divided into sections, in each of which the time is made uniform, and the standards in adjacent sections differ by (me hour. It went into effect on 18 Nov., 1883. Prof. Dowd received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of New York in 1888.

'''DOWLING. Thomas Joseph'''. R. C. bishop, b. in Limerick. Ireland, 28 Feb.. 1840. In 1850 he came with his family to Canada, and in 1860 they removed to Chicago. In 1855 he entered St. Mi-