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west of the Mississippi, and in the vacation of 1867 he was sent by the government to Copenliagen and St. Petersburg. He voted against the adoption of the 15th amendiTient to the constitution on state rights grounds, and insisted that the act of secession passed by a state did not cause it to cease to be part of the United States. At the close of his second term in the senate he resumed his residence at Racine, "Wis., practising law in Chicago, 111. He presided over the Union national convention at Philadelphia, in 1866, and over the Democratic national convention at Baltimore in 1873. He was a trustee and acting president for one year of Chicago university and for several years was a professor in the law school attached to the institution. He received from Hobart the degree of A.M. in 1837 and that of LL.D. in 1854, and also received that of LL.D. from Racine col- lege. Wis., in 1887, where he was professor of legal sciences, 1858-59. His principal literary work was a treatise on the United States in the Light of Prophecy. He died at the home of his daugh- ter at Edge wood, Cranston, R.I., July 27, 1897.

DOOLITTLE, Theodore Sandford, educator, was born at Ovid, N.Y., Xov. 3U, 1S34; a descend- ant in the sixth generation from Abraham Doo- little, of Kidderminster, England, one of the founders of Wallingford, Conn., in 1640. He studied at Ovid academy, and was graduated from Rutgers college in 1859, with salutatorian honors. He was graduated from the theological seminary of the Reformed Dutch church, New Brunswick, N. J., in 1862 and became pastor at Flatlands, L.L He was shortly afterward married to a daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Bassler of Farmerville, N. Y. In 1864 he resigned his pastorate to accept the new collegiate church professorship of rhetoric, logic and mental philosophy in Rutgers college, teach- ing also all the classes in elocution. In 1878 he became associate editor of the Christian at Warfi: He appeared frequently on the lecture platform, his fa%'orite subjects being art and architecture. In 1890 he was chosen vice-president of Rutgers college, to succeed George H. Cook, LL.D., and from September, 1890, to February, 1891, was president, ad interim. He received from Wesleyan the degree of D.D. in 1872, and from Union that of LL.D. in 1891. Besides many contributions to periodicals he wrote: History of Rutgers College (1879) ; and A Syllabus of the History and Esthet- ics of Architecture (1892). He died in New Brunswick. N.J., April 18, 1893.

DOOLITTLE, William Hall, representative, was born in Erie county. Pa., in 1850. He was taken by his parents to Portage county, "Wis., in 1859. He served in the Federal army, 1865-67, was admitted to the bar in 1871 and removed to Johnson county. Nebraska, in 1872. He served in the state legislature, 1876-77; and also held

the position of U.S. district attorney for the state. He removed to Colfax, "W.T., in 1880, and to Ta- coma in 1887. He was a member of the territorial code commission. He was a Republican repre- sentative at large from Washington in the 53d and 54th congresses. 1893-97.

DOOLY, John Murray, jurist, was born in Lincoln county, Ga., about 1772; son of Col. John Dooly, a Revolutionary hero, murdered by the Tories in 1780, of which deed the son was a wit- ness. Dooly county, Ga., was named for this patriot. The family originally came from Ireland and settled in North Carolina. John M. Dooly was instructed in the law by Judge Matthews of Washington, Ga., and in the primitive courts of the circuit. He was made solicitor of the west- ern circuit, Sept. 2, 1802, and in 1816 judge of the circuit. On Nov. 8, 1822, he was transferred to the northern circuit and was elected to the same circuit by the legislature, Nov. 12, 1825. He was several times an unsuccessful candidate for United States senator. He died May 26, 1827.

DORCHESTER, Daniel, clergyman, was born in Duxbury, Mass., March 11, 1827; son of Daniel and Mary (Otis) Dorchester ; grandson of Daniel Dorchester and direct descendant from Anthony Dorchester, who emigrated from England in 1636, settled in "\Vindsor, Conn., and afterward owned the ferry in Springfield, Mass. Daniel (3d) was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1847, and entered the Methodist ministry, serving the church fifty j-ears in Connecticut and Massachu- setts. He was lecturer on American Unitarian- ism, 1872-73, and on the concessions of liberalists, 1878-79, at Boston universit}-. He was presiding elder twelve years, delegate to two general con- ferences and had sixty votes for bishop in 1884. He was senator in the Connecticut legislature in 1855; chairman of the state commission upon idiocy in 1855; represented Natick, Mass., in the legislature of 1883; was president of the National temperance league, and superintendent of the Indian schools in the United States under appoint- ment by President Harrison, 1^89-1894. He was married April 12, 1850, to Mary Payson, daughter of Henry and Matilda (Upham) Davis of Dudley, Mass. He received from Wesleyan the degree of A.M. in 1855 and that of D.D. m 1874. He pub- lished: Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy (1878); Problem of Beligious Progress {\^S2) : Latest Drink Sophistries versus Total Abstinence (1883) ; Liquor Problem in All Ages (1884) ; The JMiy of 3Iethodi.wi (1887) ; Christianity in the United States (1887); Bomanism vs. the Public School System (1888); Half Century nf My Ministry (1897), and several sermons and addresses.

DORCHESTER, Daniel, clergyman, was born at Dudley, Mass., April 28, 1851; son of Daniel and Mary Payson (Davis) Dorchester; and grand-