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In 1901-05 fifth congresses as a democrat. he was the twenty-sixth governor of Missouri.

Dockery, Alfred, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1797, in Richmond county, N.C.. In 1845-47 and 1851-53 was a representative from North Carolina to the twenty-ninth and thirty-second congresses. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1868. He died Dec. 7, 1875, in Richmond county, N.C.

Dockery, Oliver H., farmer, congressman,

wsa bom Aug. 13, 1830, in Richmond county, N.C. He was elected to the state legislature in 1858 and 1859; was a presidential elector in 1860. In 1867-71 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. Dod, Albert Baldwin, clergyman, author,

Dodd, Levi Axtell, soldier, was bom in Pennsylvania. In 1862 he was captain in the one-hundreth and sixty-ninth regiment Penn. sylvania volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Sept. 24, 1901.

Dodd, poet,

Mary Ann Hanmer,

was bom March

1900 in Hartford, Conn.

Dodd, Samuel Morris, capitalist, was born 3, 1832, in Orange, N.Y. At the age of thirteen years he was a clerk in a country store; and in 1863 he was made a member of the firm of Baldwin, Randell and company; and in 1866 became sole proprietor. He organized the firm of Dodd Brown and

June

company

fessor of mathematics at Princeton collegf in 1830-45. He was the author of Theological Essays. He died on Nov. 30, 1845, in Princeton, N.J. Dod, Daniel, mechanic, was born Sept. 28, 1788, in Virginia. In 1821 he removed to New York City, where he was reputed the most successful engine builder in the United States. He died May 9, 1833, in New York.

of St. Louis,

thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died in New York. Dodd, Frank Howard, publisher, founder, was born April 13, 1844, in Bloomfield, N.J. He is head of the well-known publishing

house of Dodd, Mead and company of New York City. In 1895 he established the Bookman; and in 1903 established the New International Encyclopedia.

mathematician, was bom in 1807 in Virginia. He was chosen professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in Centenary college of Mississippi in 1841; and in Transylvania university in 1846, of which institution he was acting

Dodd, James

B.,

president in 1849-55. He 1872, in Greensburg, Ky.

died

March

27,

litterateur; 1813, in Hartford,

Conn. Among her best poems were The Lament; The Dreamer; The Mourner; and To a Cricket. A volume of her poems was published in Boston in 1843. She died about

was born March 24, 1805, in Mendham, N.J. He was a presbyterian clergyman and pro-

Dod, Thaddeus, clergyman, founder, was born March 7, 1740, near Newark, N.J. He was the first president, and one of the founders of Washington college. Pa.; and founder of the first presbytery west of the Alleghany mountains. He died May 20, 1793, in Cross Creek, Pa. Dodd, Mrs. Anna Bowman, litterateur, author, was bom in 1855 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the author of The Republic of the Future, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral Days; Glorinda; a Story; Three Normandy Inns; and in the Norfolk Broads. Dodd, Edward, merchant, congressman, was born in 1805 in Salem, N.Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of New York in 1846; and in 1855-59 he was a representative from New York to the

5,

of Mississippi Valley.

He

is

presi-

dent of the Broadway real estate company

Mo.

Dodd, Stephen, clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1777, in Bloomfield, N.J. He was a founder and trustee of the Connecticut theological institution at East Windsor; and gave it his valuable library. He was the author of a History of East Haven Family Record of Daniel Dodd; and Revolutionary Memorials. He died Feb. 5, 1856, in Morristown, N.J. Dodd, William Edward, educator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1869, in Clayton, N.C. Since 1900 he has been professor of history at the Randolph-Macon college of Ashland, Va. He is the author of Life of Nathaniel

Macon; and Life

of Jefferson Davis.

Doddridge, Joseph, clergyman, author, was born in 1769 in Pennsylvania. He was an episcopal clergyman of western Virginia. He was the author of Logan, a drama; and Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83. He died in November, 1836, in Wellsburg, Va. •

Doddridge,

Philip,

lawyer,

congressman,

was born in 1773 in Brooke county, Va. He was a delegate from Brooke county to the legislature of Virginia in 1815; and was a member for some years. In 1829-32 he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-first and twenty-second congresses. died Nov. 19, 1833, in Washington, D.C.

He

Doddridge, William Brown, railroad manager, was born Oct. 19, 1848, in Circleville, Ohio. In 1863-66 was telegraph messenger and operator. In 1884 he was engaged in the

Anaconda copper smelting company, as the business manager. In 1886 he became superintendent of the Central branch union pacific railroad of Atchison, Kan.; and in 1889 was appointed general manager of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas railroad. Dodds, F. H., congressman. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Michigan to the sixty-first congress as a republican.