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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. where. He is president of a number of industrial organizations. Douglas, James, educator, railroad president, mining engineer, author, was born Nov. 4, 1837, in Quebec, Cajiada. He was educated in the schools and universities of Canada and Edinburgh, Scotland; and received the degrees of B.A. and LL.D. For awhile he was a professor of chemistry in Morrin college; in 1875 was placed in charge of copper works at Phcenixville, Pa.; and subseArizona. He is a well-known railroad president and president of mining

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offices in New York City. He was president of the Arizona southeast railway company; and is now president of the Copper Queen consolidated mining company, and of various other copper companies. He is president of the El Paso and southwestem and Nacozari railroad; and also of var-

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ious other railroad companies. He thor of Canadian Independence;

the auImperial Federation; Annexation; Old Prance in the

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graphs, articles and reports. Douglas, John, soldier. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel early in the civil war; rose to the rank of colonel; and finally to that of general. Douglas, John Hancock, physician, was

born June 5, 1824, in Waterford, N.Y. He began the practice of his profession in New York City, where in 1856-62 he edited twelve volumes of the American Medical Monthly. In 1865-66 three volumes of the New York Medical Journal. He was attending physician of Gen. U. S. Grant in 1884-85. He died Oct. 2, 1892, in Washington, D.C. Douglas, Joseph Beeler, soldier, was born in Kentucky. In 1865 he was brigadier-general in the Missouri state militia. Douglas, Julia S., educator, founder, author, was bom in 1852 in Dunkirk, N.Y. She was educated at Vassar college and at the Michigan state normal school; and received the degree of A.B. from the Kansas state university. For eight years she was principal of the city high school; and was superintendent of city schools for four years. She

founded four libraries; and secured a donation from Carnegie for a library building in Oklahoma city. She was the author of the novel as an educator. She died in 1902 in

Oklahoma

City, Okla. Douglas, Marion, lawyer, jurist, was bom Sept. 29, 1854, in Dixfield, Maine. In 187679 he was principal of the normal school; moved to Dakota territory in 1880; and the same year was elected judge of probate court of Brown county. Since 1886 he has practiced law in Duluth, Minn. Douglas, Orlando Benajah, soldier, scientist, physician, author, was born Sept. 12, 1836, in Cornwall, Vt. He served three years in the civil war. He is president of the New Hampshire orphans home; and president of the Young men's christian association. He is a member of the American association for

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the advancement of science. For twelve years he has been surgeon to the Manhattan eye and ear hospital. He is the author ol Modern Methods of Treating Diseases of the Nose and Throat; and other medical

Monographs. Douglas, Robert Martin, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 28, 1849, in Rockingham county, N.C.; and is the son of the late United States senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illi-

He was private secretary to the governor of North Carolina; and was private secretary to President Grant. He served as United States marshal for the western district of North Carolina; was colonel in the North Carolina militia; standing master in chancery of the United States circuit court;

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is now associate justice of the supreme court of North Carolina. Dpuglas, Silas Hamilton, educator, author, was born Oct. 16, 1816, in Fredonia, N.Y. He was a professor of chemistry at the university of Michigan in 1844-79. He was the author of Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Qualitative Chemical Analy,sis. He died on Aug. 26, 1890, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Douglas, Stephen Arnold, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vt. He was elected attorney-general of Illinois; in 1837 he was appointed by President Van Buren register of the land Springfield, office at

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in 1840 was elected secretary of state; and the following year judge of the supreme court. This office he duly resigned, in consequence of ill-health, after sitting upon the bench for two years. In 1843-47 he was a representative from Illinois to the twentyeighth and twenty-ninth congresses. In 184763 he was United States senator. He died June 3, 1861, in Chicago, 111. Douglas, William, soldier, was born Jan. 17, 1742, in Plainfield, Conn. He was commissioned colonel in 1776; and he took a prominent part in the disastrous campaign that ended with the evacuation of New York, distinguishing himself at the battles of Long Island and Harlem Plains. He died May 28, 1777, in Northford, Conn. Douglas, William Harris, traveler, congressman, author, was born Dec. 5, 1853, in New York City. He has visited many parts of Europe, Egypt, Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of the chamber of commerce of New York City. In 190105 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses as a republican. Douglas, William Oscar, soldier, was born in New York. In 1861-62 he was a cadet in 111.;