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 DOHERTY. DO LB EAR 179 best out-of-door pleasures and the use of his pen. He is a well-known horseman. He has been constantly in the saddle for nearly forty years, and is considered an authority in the art. Few men have rid- den so much. He estimates that he has covered over one hundred thousand miles. He has published three military books, and a book on horsemanship, which have been highly and universally commended by the press at home and abroad. He con- tributes largely to periodical literature. He has delivered a number of military lec- tures at the Lowell Institute, Harvard Col- lege, and elsewhere, and for some years has been engaged on a history of the art of war, covering a series of volumes, of which two, bringing the subject down to the end of Hannibal's career, are now in the press. Col. Dodge is a member, and has been one of the officers, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He belongs to the St. Botolph and Country clubs, and was president of the Papyrus Club for 1887. He has recently purchased the old Crafts estate on the southern limits of Brookline, and has transformed it into a homestead which is aptly described by its name, ''The Rocks." This definitely connects him with that town. Circumstances have enabled Mr. Dodge to travel much. He has spent more than a dozen years in Europe, and has crossed the ocean man}' times. He married, in 1865, Miss Neil, a grand- niece of Chief Justice John Marshall He has three children living. A literary tend- ency seems to run in the family ; his father was a litterateur known to every peri- odical in the country ; his son, a senior at Cambridge, was editor-in-chief of the " Harvard Monthly." Despite his loss of a leg, Col. Dodge is so active as to make all his friends forget that he is disabled, and promises to play the part of a veteran of our civil war for many years. As he was one of the youngest officers in service, he is still in the prime of life. He has taken up mili- tary history and criticism as his favorite pursuit, and will probably add materially to the existing literature of this topic. DOHERTY, Philip J., son of Philip and Ellen (Munnegle) Doherty, was born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, Janu- ary 2 7, l8 5 6 - He received his school training in the common schools and high school of Charles- town ; was three years in the Boston Uni- versity law school, from which he was graduated LL. B. in the class of 1876 ; was admitted to the bar, June 4, 1877, and has since been engaged in the practice of law in Boston, as member of the law firm of Doherty & Sibley. Mr. Doherty was married in Charles- town, August 16, 1878, to Catherine A., daughter of John and Catherine (Doyle) Butler. Of this union are four children : Philip, Mary, Eleanor, and Alice Doherty. In 1883 Mr. Doherty was elected mem- ber of the House of Representatives, and served three years ; was a member of the committees on drainage, rules, judiciary, joint special committee on investigation of state house expenditures, and joint special committee on the revision of the judicial system. In 1886 he was Democratic can- didate for speaker of the House. In 1887 he was elected on a non-partisan platform by a coalition of the Republicans and Dem- ocrats as a member of the Boston board of aldermen. He was elected in 1888 a delegate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis. He took a prominent part in the citizens' movement in Boston in 1888, and made the speech at the citizens' convention, placing Hon. Thomas N. Hart in nomina- tion for mayor of Boston. During 1S89 he was chosen a member of the Boston water board for the term expiring in 1891. DOLBEAR, AMOS EMERSON, son of Samuel and Eliza (Godfrey) Dolbear, was born in Norwich, New London county, Conn., November ro, 1837. He attended the public schools at New- port, R. I., till he was ten years of age, after which his school education consisted of a few weeks each year until he reached the age of sixteen. He then entered a machine shop in Worcester, where he worked for two years. He next went into southwest Missouri, where he taught school for four years. In 1859 he returned to Massachusetts and resumed work in a machine shop in Taunton, where he finished his trade. Later on he obtained a situation in the armory at Springfield. While there he was drafted for the Union army, but was un- able to pass the medical examination. His health failing him, he was obliged to give up his work. In the meantime he had fitted himself for college, and in 1863 entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1 866. He then took a post-graduate course at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received the degrees A. M. and M. E. In 1883 he was made a doctor of philosophy by Michigan University.