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benevolent work in labors for the Greeks, and with eight frienils she gathered supplies which were taken to Greece by the Rev. Jonas King. D.D. In I^*:)") she became interested in the "tJrande Ligne .Mission," in Canada, conducted bj- iladanie Feller of Switzerland, and subsecjuently became jiresident of a society to promote its object. In l!S40 she began services in the New York city l)rison, which resulted in the " AVomen's Prison Association '' for discharged prisoners. In 1841 she became manager of the City and tract mission society, and in 1849 added to her labors the woi-k of the City Bible society. AVith the assistance of friends she founded in 1850 the House and School of industry, where work was given and sold to pi>or women, and where children too jioorly clad to attend public schools, could receive instruc- tion. Of this society she was elected president in IsGT. Slie was one of the founders of the Nursery and Child's hospital and in 18.")4 was elected second directress. In 18.")3 she aided Dr. J. Marion Sims in founding the Woman's hospital, the first in the world for the special treatment of diseases of women, and by repeated visits to Albany secured its charter, and state appropriations. She was made first directress there in 1864. In 1860 she founded the Woman's union missionary society, the first organization for women to labor safely for heathen women; and in 1866 she aided in organizing the Presbyterian home for aged women. During the civil war she was active in aiding the sick and wounded soldiers, and in 1869 slie labored diligently to relieve the famine suf- ferers in Ireland, collecting supplies and money. Her last organized work was the " Gould memo- rial,'" founded in 1876, for the Italo- American schools in Rome. She was the mother of nine children; and her only son, Robert Ogden Dore- mus, was the well-known clieniist. "Mrs. Doremus died in New York city, .Jan. 2!t, 1877.

DORNIN, Thomas Aloysius, naval officer, was born in Ireland about 1800. He was early brought to America, received appointment as midship man in the U.S. navy in 1815, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1825. He circum- navigated the globe in the Vinrennes in 1829-30. In the South sea exploring expedition he was assigned to command the steamship JldUf. He was commi.s,sioned commander in 1841. While in command of the I'ortsinoulh, 1851-52, he was ordered to charter a Panama .steamer and i>revent the landing of William Walker and his party of filibusters on Mexican soil, which he successfully accomplished. He also rescued forty American prisoners on a Mexican vessel and stopped an at- tempted blockade of United States mail steamers in Mexican ports. He was commissioned captain in 1855. and with the Snn JwhUn caj)tured two slavers with over 1400 slaves on board, releasing

them in Liberia. He was promoted commodore on the retired list, July 16, 1862, and in 1865 was given cliarge of the fifth lighthouse district. He died at Norfolk. Va., April 22, 1874.

DORR, Benjamin, clergyman, was born in Salisbury, Mass., March 22, 1796. He was gradu- ated from Dartmouth in 1817 and was ordained to the Protestant Episcopal ministry in 1823. He was rector of the combined parishes of Lansing- burg and Waterford, N.Y'., 1820-29; of Trinity church, Utica, N.Y^., 1829-35; and in 1835 was appointed general agent of the domestic depart- ment of the Board of missions. In 1837 he resigned this position to become rector of Christ church, Philadelphia, where he remained during the rest of his life. He was elected bishop of Maryland in 1839 but did not accept the office. The University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1838. His published works include tracts and sermons; Aii Historical Account of Christ Church, PhilmMphia (1841); Notes of Travel (1856); and Memoir of John Fanninf) Watson (1861). He died in Germantown, Pa., Sept. 18, 1809.

DORR, Charles P., representative, was born in Monroe county, Ohio, Aug. 12, 1852; son of Simon and Ellen (McCammon) Dorr; and grand- son of John Dorr, who immigrated to the United States from France after the French revolution and settled in Ohio. He was educated in tl.e com- mon schools and in 1873 was admitted to the bar in Ohio. He removed to West Virginia in 1874 and practised law in Addison. He was a member of the state legislature in 1884 and 1888, and a Republican representative from the third district of West Virginia in the 55th congress, 1897-99. He declined renomination in 1898.

DORR, Julia Caroline Ripley, author, was born in Charleston, .S.C., Feb. 13, 1825; daughter of William Y'oimgand Zulma Caroline (Tliomas) Ripley. In 1828 her mother died and her father removed to New Y'ork city, two years later set- tling in his native state, Vermont, where Julia was educated. In 1847 slie was married to Seneca M. Dorr of New Y^'ork city who died there in 1884, and she then made literary work lier pro- fession. In 1848 she was awarded a hundred- dollar prize offered by Sartain's 3Iof/azine for a short story. This story, entitled " Isabel Leslie." was lier first pul)lislieil tale. In 1S57 she removed to Rutland, Vt., where her husband died in 1884. Among her published works are: Farmin (1854); Lnnniere (18^6); Sibyl Iluntinriton (1869); Poims (1872); Expiation (1873); Friar Ansehno and Other Poems (1879); TJie Legend of the Babovshka (1881); Daybreak (1882); Bermuda (188-i); After- noon Songs (1885); Collected Poems (1891); The Fhnrrr if FnghirnVs Fare (1894); A Cathedral Pihjrimnfie (1«95); In Kings' Houses (1898), and numerous magazine articles.