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Gnice church, Newark, X.J. His investigjitions led him to the Roman cliurdi ami he was re- ceived a>J n ponvert to that faith in September, IS.').'), and was edu- cated for the priest- liood at St. Sulpice, Paris, and at Rome. On Sept. 13, ISoT, he was invested witii the jiriestly office by Bishop Bayley and was made secretary to the bi.shop and chancellor of the dio- cese of Newark, N.J. In 1873 he was ele- vated to the position of vicar-general, on -March 5, 1880, to the rank of domestic pre- late of the papal household with the title of monsignor, and on July 5, 1889, to a membership in the college of prothonotaries apostolic of the curia. He was al.<o made one of the consultors to the bishop of Newark.

DOANE, George Washington, second bishop of New Jersey and 29th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Trenton, N.J., May 27, 1799; son of Jonathan and Mary (Hig- gins) Doane. He was graduated at Union college in 1818, and entered the General theological seminary with the class of 1824 but left the semi- nary in 1S21 to receive deacon's orders on April 19 of that year, and served as an assistant to Bishop Hobart, the rector of Trinity parish, New York city. He was admitted to the priesthood, Aug. 6, 1823. He assisted the Rev. George Up- fold in founding St. Luke's church. New York city; was professor of rhetoric and oratory in Trinity, then Washington college, Hartford, Conn., 182-4-28; was assistant to the Rev. Wil- liam Croswell in editing the EpiHropal Watchman, 1824-28; was assistant to the Rev. Dr. Gardiner, rector of Trinity church, Boston, Mass., 1828-30, and rector of the parish, 1830-32. He was elected second bishop of the dioce.se of New Jersey and was consecrated in St. Paul's chapel. New York city, Oct. 31, 1832. by Bishops White, Onderdonk and Meade. He founded St. Mary's hall, Bur- lington, N.J., the first effort in America "to educate the church's girls in the church's way." He subse<iuently founded a school for boys which became Burlington college. He incurred certain financial obligations in providing buildings for these institutions which led to liis being obliged to assign his property for the benefit of his cred- itors and in 18.")1 to a presentment for trial, but the presentment was unanimously dismissed, the diocesan convention having vindicated him be-

fore the trial was held. He was rector of St. Mary's church, Burlington, from the time of assuming the office of bishop up to the time of his death, and president of Burlington college, 1846-59. He helped to frame the first constitu- tion of the domestic and foreign missionary society of the church and was the first American bishop to preach in the estab lished church to an English congrega tion, at the consecra- tion of the Pari.sh church of Leeds. He was married in 1829 to Eliza Greene Calla- han, widow of James Perkins of Boston, Mass. Their son Wil- liam Croswell became

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son, George Hobart, a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, was elevated to prothonotary apos- tolic. Bishop Doane received the degree of S.T.D. from Union, Trinity and Columbia in 1833 and that of LL.D. from St. John's college, Annapolis, Md., in 1841. He published: Somjs by the Way (1824); and fugitive poems, including The Wedded Flags; Softly Xoicthe Light of Day; and Thou Art the Way. He died in Burlington, N.J., April 27, 1859.

DOANE, Thomas, engineer, was born in Or- leans. Mass., Sept. 20, 1821; son of John and Polly (Eldridge) Doane. His father was the originator of forest culture in America, and held several public offices. The son studied at the English academy at Andover, Mass., and in 1843 entered the office of a civil engineer in Charlestortn, Mass. In 1847 he became head engineer of a division of the Vermont Central railroad. He was consulting resident engineer of the Cheshire railroad, Walpole, N.H., 1847-49, and in the lat- ter year opened an office in Charlestown, Mass. He was connected with the Boston & Maine railroad and with other roads as civil engineer, and in 1863-67 was engaged as chief engineer of the Hoosac tunnsl, locating the line of the tun- nel and building the dam in the Deerfield river to furnish water power. In this work he intro- duceil nitro-glycerine and electrical bla.sting in America. In 1869-73 he was in Nebraska, en- gaged in building a 240-mile extension of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road. He lo- cated and named all the towns along the line, and was the chief instrument in the founding of Doane college at Crete, Neb., in 1872. After his return to the east in 1873 he was reappointed on the Hoosac tunnel, and when it was opened ran