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Life of Grover Cleveland.

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Savannah, Ga.

Elam Sparks, planter, statesman, Sept. 15, 1841, in Claiborne county. Miss. He received a thorough education; and graduated from ilinden college of Louisiana. He is a successful cotton planter of Taylortown, La.; and has been president of the police jury; has been a justice of the peace; and for twenty years a member of the school board for Bossier parish. Since 1900 he has been a member of the Louisiana state senate from the twenty-third district. Dosker, Henry E., clergyman, theologian, author, was born Feb. 5, 1855, in the Netherlands. In 1879 he graduated from McCormick theological seminary of Chicago,, III, Since 1894 he has been professor of church history at the Western theological seminary of Holland, Mich. He is the author of Outline Studies in Ecclesiastical History; and Dortch,

was born

other works. Dos Passes, John Randolph, soldier, lawyer, author, was born in 1845 in Philadelphia, Pa., of Portuguese-American descent. He managed the defense of Edward S. Stokes, charged with murder of James Fisk,

and had other notable cases. For years past he has turned attention specially to banking, corporation and financial law, becoming prominent in formation of largss business amalgamations, including the socalled sugar trust, American thread company, and many others. He is the author of Treatise on the Law of Stock Brokers and Stock Exchanges; and The Interstate Commerce Act. Doster, Frank, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 19, 1849, in Virginia. He served Jr.;

two years

the Inner Life. Doton, Hosea, educator, author, was bom Nov. 29, 1809, in Pomfret, Vt. From 1866 till his death he was chief engineer of the Woodstock railroad. He was a member of the Vermont state senate in 1865-66; and in the latter year the legislature established his method of computing interest, known as the Vermont rule. He died Jan. 19, 1886, in Woodstock, Vt. Doty, Douglas Zabriskie, journalist, au-

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Doubleday, Abner, soldier, author, was born June 26, 1819, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. He served in numerous battles and skirmishduring the civil es war. He was a colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army; and retired ice

was born

Oct. 15, 1874, in New York the editorial staff of Herald; and since 1902 has

He has been on

New York

from active serv-

in

1873.

He was

the author of Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; also Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; and also

civil

dier-general of volunteers. Doten, Lizzie, author, poet, was born April 1, 1829, in Plymouth, Mass. She is a, Boston spiritualist trance medium. She is the author of Poems of Progress and Poems from

thor, City.

In 1837-41 he was a territorial delegate from Wisconsin to the twenty-fifth and twentysixth congresses in 1841-44 was governor of the territory Wisconsin and for many years was LTnited States judge for northern Michigan. He was also superintendent of Indian affairs; and in 1849-53 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-first and thirty-second congresses. In 1864-65 he was governor of Utah, of which territory he had previously been treasurer. He died in June, 1865, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Doty, Lockwood Lyon, lawyer, founder, was born May 15, 1827, in Groveland, N.Y. He founded the state military bureau at Albany, which collected the histories of the volunteer regiment and provided for the care of the sick and wounded. In 1871 lie was appointed pension agent in New York City. He died Jan. 18, 1873, in Jersey City,

in the eleventh

Indiana cavalry war. Since 1871 he has practiced law in Kansas. For four years he was judge of the district court; and for six years chief justice of the state supreme court of Kansas. Doster, William Emile, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was major in the fourth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer cavalry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigaduring the

been a. reader and literary advisor of the Century company. He is the author of Andy's Adventure; Advenures on Noah's Arch; and Pictures of Paintbox Town. Doty, James Duane, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1799 in Salem, N.Y.

Made Plain. He died Jan. 26, 1893, Mendham, N.J. Gettsburg

at his

home

in

Doubleday, Charles, William, soldier, author, was born Jan. 28, 1829, in England.

He was

a soldier who accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition; and later served as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. He is the author of Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in

America. Doubleday, Mrs. Neltze, De Graff, author, was born Oct. 23, 1865, in Chicago, 111. In 1886 she married Frank Nelson Doubleday, the noted publisher of New York City. She is the author of The Piegan Indians; Nature's Garden and Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors. Doubleday, Russell, publisher, author, was bom May 26, 1872, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He served in the United States navy during the Spanish-American war in a battalion of the naval militia. He is the author of A

Gunner Aboard the Yankee; Cattle Ranch A Year in a Yawl; and Stories

to College; of Inventors.