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journalism on the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1863 and in 1869 removed to Worcester, Mass., to edit the Evening Gazette. He remained in control of the Gazette for twenty-seven years, selling it in 1896. He is the author of Btiffets, a novel (1873), and several sketclies. He died in Sussex Vale, province of New Brunswick, Aug. 15, 1900.

DOE, Joseph Bodwell, lawyer, was born in Janesville, Wis., March 8, 1855; son of Joseph Bodwell and Anna J. (Marcher) Doe. His father was a native of New Hampshire and his mother of Virginia. He was graduated at Racine college, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1878, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He served in the Wisconsin national guard, 1875-91, rising from private to ■captain. He practised law in Janesville, Wis., was city attorney of Janesville, 1888-93, and ad- jutant-general of the state, 1891-93, resigning to accept the position of assistant secretary of war in the second administration of President Cleve- land, and serving through the entire administra- tion, after which he I'esumed the practice of his profession in Milwaukee. He was married, Sept. 18, 1878, to Kate B. Stevens and after her death he was married June 29, 1886, to Gertrude Brit- tan. While in Washington he became a member of the Metropolitan club in 1893, and of the Army and Navy club in 1896. He was also elected a member of the Deutcher club, Milwau- kee, in 1898.

DOQQETT, Daniel Seth, ME. bishop, was born in Lancaster county, Va., Jan. 10, 1810; son of the Rev. John and Mary (Smith) Doggett. His father was a local Methodist preacher, and a privateer in the time of the Revolution, and was married to Mary Smith of Philadelphia, Pa. , Aug. 27, 1782. His English ancestor was a clergyman of the Established church, who immi- grated to Virginia about 1650, and was rector of Whitechapel church, Lancaster county. Next in descent was William, then Coleman, then John, father of Daniel Seth. He was educated at the Northumberland academy and was ex- pected to study law, but decided upon the minis- try, teaching school while he pursued his theological course. He joined the Virginia con- ference in February, 1829, at Lynchburg and was appointed helper on Roanoke circuit, N.C. In 1830 he returned to Virginia, was chaplain at the University of Virginia, 1839, chaplain- of Randoph-Macon college, 1840; professor of Eng- lish literature at Randolph-Macon, 1841^6, edi- tor of the Southern Methodist Quarterly, 1850-58, and bishop of the M.E. church south, 1866-80. He was a trustee of the Randolph-Macon college, and received from that institution the honorary degree of D.D. He published: Tlie War and its Close (1864). His sermons were published in 1881. He died in Richmond, Va., Oct. 37, 1880.

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DOLBEAR, Amos Emerson, educator, was born in Norwich, Conn., Nov. 10, 1837; son of Samuel and Eliza (Godfrey) Dolbear. He lived at Newport, R.I., until ten years of age, then worked on a farm in New Hampshire until 1853, when he went to Worcester, Mass., where he was employed in a machine shop. In 1855 he removed to Missouri, and taught school for four years. He was employed in a machine shop at Taunton, Mass., 1859- 63, but his health un- fitting him for the heavy work, he pre- pared himself for col- lege, while still employed in the shop, and entered Ohio Wesleyan university, where he was grad- uated in 1866, having supported himself dur- ing his college course by teaching music and playing the organ in churches. He subsequently took a post-graduate course at the University of Michigan and received the degree of M.E. and A.M. from that institution in 1867. In the same year he was appointed assistant professor of nat- ural history in the University of Kentucky and in 1868 resigned to become professor of natural sciences in Bethany college, W.Va. He was mayor of Bethany, 1871-72. In 1874 he was ap- pointed professor of physics in Tufts college, Mass. In 1852 he invented the string telephone and the rubber-tipped pencil now in use in schools. In 1864 he invented an automatic tele- graph, but could interest no one in it, though he pointed out that it could be used as a speaking telephone. The same idea he improved upon in 1876. resulting in the magneto telephone. The static telephone and the air-space telegraphic cable were his inventions. He was elected a mem- ber of the American academy of arts and sciences and of the American academy of i^olitical and social science. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 1883. His published works include : Chemical Tables (1873) ; The Art of Projecting {1876); TJie Speaking Tele- phone (1877) ; Hatter, Ether and Motion (1891) ; Modes of Motion (1897) ; First Principles of Natural Philosophy (1897) ; and numerous scientific papers.

DOLE, Nathan Haskell, author, was born in Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 31, 1853; son of the Rev. Nathan and Caroline (Fletcher) Dole; grandson of Wigglesworth and Elizabeth (Haskell) Dole, and of Amos and Sally (Ware) Fletcher; and a lineal descendant of Richard Dole who emigrated from