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Bristol, England, to Old Newbury, Mass., in 1639. His father at the time of his death was editor of the Duysprimj and other publications of the Ameri- can bojird of commissioners for foreign missions. The son was i>rep;ired for college at Phillips Exeter and Andover academies and was graduated from Harvard in l!S74. He then taught classics at De Veaux college and Worcester high school, and was a i)receptor of Derby academy. Hingham. Mass. He was literary editor of the Philadelphia Pre**-. 1881-8."); musical editor, 1881-87; musical editor of the Philadelphia Eveninn Ptilletiii, 1886-87. He was elected a member of the Press club and the Nineteenth century club of Philadeli)hia; of the Harvard musi- cal association ; of the Twentieth century club, Boston; and of L"Alliance Fran^aise, of which last he was made vice-president in 1897 and re-elected in 1898. He was mar- ried in 1882 to Helen James Bennett. His translations include :, . Dupuy"s Great Jlaster '^^^' of Iiiissian Literature (1886); eight volumes by Tolstoi (1889 et seq.); three by Valdes (1888. et seq.); Schultze-Smidfs A M<nJonna of the Alps (1895) ; Von Sheffel's Ekke- hard (1896) ; Von Kocirs CamiUa (1S96) : Dumas"s Tltree Musketerrs (1896); Cavalhria HusUccna (1896) ; and many others, including several hun- dred songs for music; and his original works in- clude: Youiiff People's History of Bussia (1882); A Score of Famous Composers (1891); Xot Angels Quite (1893) ; Uawly Lexicon of Music ; a burlesque (1894) ; On the Point : a Summer Idyl (1895) ; The Hairthorne Tree, and Other Poems (1896); Life of Francis William Bird {1897) ; Poems for Educational Music Course (1897); Joseph Jefferson at Home (1898); Omar the Tent-Maker: a Bomance of Old Persia (1898) ; and The Mistakes We Make (1898); He also editetl a Multivariorum edition of Puhai- yit of Omar Khayyam C[S9G-dl), the breviary bi- lingual Latin and Engli.sh edition of the same (1898), and the five version standard edition; and also editions of Burns, Longfellow, 'Whittier, Brj-ant, Byron, Keats, Scott, Moore, and others, with biographies (1893-97). He was engaged on the "SVarner Lihrary of the WorhVs Best Litera- ture, and was editor-in-chief of Tfie International Lihrary of Famous Literature (1898). He also edited a new twenty-volume edition of Count L. N. Tolstoi's collected works. He lectured ex- tensively on Ru.s.sian, Italian and English litera- ture before clubs and Ivceums.

DOLE, Sanford Ballard, president of the republic of Hawaii, was burn in tb.e Hawaiian Islands 'April 23, 18-14; son of Daniel and Emily (Ballard) Dole; and grand.son of Wigglesworth and Elizabeth (Haskell) Dole. His father's boy- hood home was in Skowhegan, Maine, and his mother's home before her marriage was Bath, Maine. He was educated by his father at Kauai, at Oahu college, Oahu, Hawaii, and at Williams college, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar in Boston and returned to Hawaii, where he practised law. He was married to Anna Gate of Castine, Maine. He was a member of the legis- latures of 1884 and 1886 and was active in promoting the re- form movement that led to changes in gov- ernment in 1887. He was a judge of the supreme court of the kingdom in 1887, and head of the provi- sional government of 1893, which arrogated the powers and duties theretofore belonging to the sovereign. On June 30, 1894, a consti- tution was adofjted in which he was named as president to hold office till 1901. This constitution was promulgated July 4, 1894. The provisional gov- ernment sent commissioners to the United States in 1893, who negotiated a treaty of annexation, but President Cleveland withdrew the treaty from the senate and announced his intention of restor- ing the monarchy, and on Dec. 23, 1893, President Dole, when requested to relinquish to Queen Lil- iuokalani her constitutional authority, denied the rigiit of the President of the United States to in- terfere with Hawaiian affairs, and the matter was not pressed by the President. He continued to advocate annexation and in Januarj-, 1898, he visited the United States with his wife and was made a guest of the nation. In Jul}-, 1898. the U.S. congress passed the act annexing the Hawa- iian Islands and the act was signed by the Presi- dent of the United States, July 7, 1898. The formal transfer of sovereignty took place at Hono- lulu, Aug. 12, at which time the in.structions of President McKinley were announced, substan- tially continuing the existing form of government until legislation by congress on the subject should determine the future policy of the govern - ment and the existing officials were retained. On June 14, 1900, he was inaugurated the first governor of Hawaii Territory.