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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dorr,

Mrs. Julia Caroline,

was born Feb.

author, poet,

13, 1825, in Charleston, S.C.

She is a poet and novelist of Rutland, Vt. She is the author of Daybreak, an Easter poem; Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; The Legend of the Baboushka; and Poems. Her other works are Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington Expiation also of Farmingdale Bermuda, a volume of travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower of England's Face; A Cathedral Pilgrimage; and In Kings' Houses. Dorr, Joseph, soldier, was born in Vermont. In 1807 he was first lieutenant in the United States army. He died Dec. 8, 1808.



Thomas Wilson,

lawyer, reformer, 1805, in Providence, R.I. In 1827 he began the practice of law in New York City; and in 1840 he organized a suffrage party. He was tried on charge of treason and in 1845 secured his liberty. He died Dee. 27, 1854, in Providence, R.I. Dorrance Gordon, clergyman, author, was born in 1765, in Sterling, Conn. In 17951834 he was pastor of the congregational church at Windsor, Mass. He was the author of History of Windsor. He died in 1846, in Attica, N.Y. Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1815, in Georgetown, D.C. She was the author of May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Dorr,

was born Nov.

6,

Glenarra; Palms; and Warp and Woof. She died Dec. 26, 1896, in Washington, D.C. Dorsey, Clement, congressman, was bom in Anne Arundel county, Md. In 1825-31 he was a representative from Maryland to the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first congresses.

He

died Aug.

6,

1846.

and was mustered

out with the army of Shenandoah in the 1865.

He

moved

to

Nebraska in 1866 and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He vice-president of the state board of agriculture of Nebraska. In 1885-91 he was a representative from Nebraska to the fortyninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.

was

Dorsey, George Amos, archaeologist, anthropologist, was born Feb. 6, 1868, in Hebron, Ohio. In 1892 he was appointed honorary commissioner to South America for the Columbian exposition. In 1899 he was professor at the Northwestern university. He is president of the American society of folk lore. He is the author of fifty papers on an-

atomy and anthropology. Dorsey, Godwin Volney, physician, statesman, was born on Nov. 17, 1812, in Oxford, Ohio. He was for many years president of the Miami county medical society. He was an elector on the democratic presidential ticket in 1848; and a member of the Ohio constitutional conventions of 1850 and 1873.

He

died in Ohio.

Dorsey, James Owen, ethnologist, author, was bom Dec. 31, 1848, in Baltimore, Md. He was for a time an episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians; and for many years was engaged in linguistic studies for the bureau of ethnology. He was the author of Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; and The Dhegiha Language. He died Feb. 4, 1895, in Washington, D.C. Dorsey, John Syng, physician, was bom Dee. 23, 1783, in Philadelphia, Pa. He had

the reputation of being one of the first surgeons of America. He was the author of Elements of Surgery, which was adopted as a text-book in the University of Edinburgh. He died Nov. 12, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. Dorsey, Jesse Hook, manufacturer, was born in 1849 in Beallsville, Pa. He purchased and conducted the Tampa Lumber company, the largest lumber manufacturing bi^siness in Florida.

Dorsey, Ella Loraine, author, was bom March 2, 1855 in Washington, D.C. She is a Washington writer of stories for boys. She is the author of Midshipman Bob; Saxty's Angel; The Two Tramps; Jet, the Warmule; The Jose-Maria; also The Farming of Polly; and Pickle and Pepper. Dorsey, George W. E., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was bom on Jan. 25, 1842, in London county, Va. He recruited a company and then entered the union army in 1861 as a first lieutenant, sixth West Virginia infantry; and he was promoted to the rank of captain and of major,

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Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne Ellis, author. She was the amanuensis of Jefi'erson Davis to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mexico, where he died. She was the author of Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories of the civil war; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeggiatura and Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana. She died July 4, 1879, in New Orleans, La. Dorsey, Stephen W., soldier, railroad, president. United States senator, was born Feb. 28, 1842, in Benson, Vt. He was elected president of the Arkansas Central railway company; and, removing to Arkansas, was chosen chairman of the republican county and state committees. In 1873-79 he was United States senator from Arkansas. Dorsfieimer, William, soldier, lawyer, lieutenant-governor, congressman, author, was born Feb. 5, 1832, in Lyons, N.Y. He was a major in the United States army during the civil war; and in 1867 was appointed United States attorney for the northern district of New York. In 1874 he was elected lieutenant-governor of New York; he received the reelection in 1876 and in 1883-85 he was a representative to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat. He was the author