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lisbed in Leipzig in 1896. She is the author of Librai'y Science (1894) ; Cataloger's Manual of Authors' Names (1895) ; A Comprehensive Subject Index to Universal Prose Fiction (1897), and con- tributions to periodicals.

DOAK, Archibald Alexander, educator, was born in Washington county, Tenn., July 13, 1815; son of the Rev. Dr. John Whitefield and Jane (Alexander) Doak. He was graduated from Washington college, Tenn., in 1833, and from Princeton theological seminary in 1839. In 1840 he was elected president of Washington college succeeding his father, John W. Doak, and held the office ten years. He was again appointed to the presidency in 1853, but financial embarrass- ment necessitated the closing of the institution and in 1856 he resigned. He held the chair of classical literature in Stewart college, Clarks- ville, Tenn., from 1859 to 1861. He was married in 1839 to Sarah Cowan of Leesburg, Tenn. He died at Clarksville, Tenn., May 26, 1866.

DOAK, Henry Melvil, journalist, was born in Washington county, Tenn., Aug. 3, 1841; son of the Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander and Sarah (Cowan) Doak; grandson of the Rev. Dr. John Whitefield Doak, president of Washington col- lege, and great grandson of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Doak, its founder and first president. He was educated at Washington and Stewart colleges, enlisted in the Confederate service in 1861, served in the ai'nay of the west and was wounded at Shiloh. He then served in the Confederate navy at sea and on the Atlantic coast, was wounded at Fort Fisher, N.C., in 1864, and suri-endered at Appomattox in 1865. He then studied law but relinquished its practice to engage in jpurnalism. He edited the Clarksville Tobacco Leaf, 1869-76, Nashville American, 1876-83, Nashville Banner, 1883, Cincinnati Xeics- Journal, 1883-84, Memphis Avalanche, 1884-86, and in 1886 was appointed by U.S. Circuit Judge Howell E. Jackson, clerk of the Federal court at Nashville, Tenn.

DOAK, Samuel, educator, was born in Au- gvista county, Va., in 1749 ; son of Samuel and Jane (Mitchell) Doak, who emigrated from the North of Ireland and settled in Chester county. Pa., removing after their marriage to Augusta county, Va. The son studied under Robert Alex- ander and John Brown in the celebrated Augusta academy and Liberty hall. After his graduation at the College of New Jersey in 1775 he returned to Virginia and there was married to Esther Montgomery, sister of the Rev. John Montgom- ery, assistant rector of Augusta academy. He then engaged as tutor in Hampden-Sidney col- lege and pursued a course in divinity imder the president, the Rev. John Blair Smitli. He began to preach in Washington county, Va., where he was a trustee of the Augusta academy in 1782.

He removed to Washington county, Tenn., where he organized churches and Martin academy (after 1795 Washington college) the first literary insti- tution established in the Mississippi valley. He remained in charge of the school as its pre.sident until 1818 when he was succeeded by his son, the Rev. John Whitefield Doak, M.D., who was succeeded by his son, Archibald Alexander Doak, D.D., after- ward professor of languages in East Tennessee vmi versify and Stewart college. Dr. Samuel Doak re- moved to Bethel where he established Tusculum academy for the preparation of young men for col- lege, and on his death in 1830 he was succeeded by his son Samuel With- erspoon Doak, D.D., who was in turn succeeded by his son, William S. Doak, D.D., superintendent of public instruction in Tennessee, 1882-84. He was a member of the convention of 1784-85 that sought to form the state of Franklin, and as a member of the committee on the constitution, introdviced an article providing for the support of institutions of learning in the new state. He was married in 1776 to Esther, daughter of the Rev. John Montgomery of Virginia. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from both W^ashing- ton and Greenville colleges in 1818. He died in Bethel, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1830.

DOAK, Samuel Witherspoon, educator, was born in Salem, Washington county, Tenn., March 24, 1785; son of the Rev. Samuel and Esther (Montgomery) Doak. He was graduated from Washington college, Tenn., in 1806 and was licensed a Presbyterian clergyman, Oct. 10, 1809. He became pastor of the churches at Mt. Bethel and Providence, Tenn., continuing with both churches until 1830 and with the former alone until 1844. He had founded Tusculum academy in 1818 and upon the death of his father in 1830 he returned to the management of the academy, which was incorporated into a college that year. He remained as its president until his death at Tusculum, Tenn.. Feb. 8, 1864.

DOANE, George Hobart, prothonotary apos- tolic, WHS born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 5, 1830; son of the Rt. Rev. George Washington and Elizabeth Greene (Callahan) Perkins Doane. He was graduated in medicine at Jefferson college, Philadelphia, in 1850. He then determined to enter the ministry and studying to that end was ordained a deacon and assisted the rector of