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DOUGHERTY, Daniel, lawyer, was born iu Philadflphiu. I'ii.. Oci. 13, 1826. His father was a native ol' Ireland and his mother was born iu Philadelphia, a daughter of a soldier iu the war of 1812. killed at the kittle of U\ke Erie. Daniel was educated at a scliool in Chester, Pa., ami at a Friends sfhtH>l in Phihulelphia. He was a law clerk in the office of William & Samuel Badger. 1S44_45), anil was admitted to the bar in 1849 He l>ecame a noted lawyer and orator. He was a DennR-rat in pt)litics, supported tiie administra- tion in prosecuting the war against secession; and as a delegate to the Democratic national con- vention of 1880 nominated Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock for President, and in 1888 placed Grover Cleveland in nomination. He removed to New York city in lS,s9 and continued the practice of law. He ilelivered a notable address at the open- ing of the lay congress of the Roman Catholic church. Baltimore, Nov. 11, 1889, and was the re- cipient of the La?tare medal from Notre Dame university, a medal given only by permission of the Pope and the highest honor that can be bestowed on a Catholic layman by Notre Dame. He was an executor of the will of Edwin Forrest, a founder of the Union League club and a trustee of Forrest home for aged actors. He died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Sept. 5, 1892.

DOUGHTY, John, soldier, was born in New Jersey. He was an officer in the Revolutionary army throughout the war and when the army was disbanded he continued in the service as commander of a company of artillery and engi- neers engaged in frontier service. As senior in rank, there being but one other companj' of artillery, he was commander of the American army from June 20 to Aug. 12, 1784. He was then commissioned major of artillery, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel of artillery and engi- neers, in June, 1798. While in command of the army he built, in 1785, Fort Harmar, afterward the site of Marietta, Ohio, and at the time the only United States post within the boundaries of Ohio. Going down the Oliio river he built in 1790 Fort Washington, on the site of the city of Cincinnati. This fort was comprised of cabins of liewn logs, connected by pali.sades, also of logs. He resigned from the army. May 26, 1800, and died a few years later.

DOUGHTY, William Henry, surgeon, was born in Augusta, (ia.. Felt. .">, ls:j6: son of Ebenezer Wesley and Eliza 3Iargaret (Crowell) Doughty ; and grandson of Ebenezer Doughty. He was graduated from the Medical college of Georgia in 18.").j, and practised in his native place until 1862. when he joined the Confederate army as hospital surgeon. He was in charge of the gen- eral hospital at Macon, Ga. ; of Walker's divi- sion hospital at Lauderdale Springs. Mis.s., imtil

October, 1863 ; and of the second Georgia hospital at Augusta until the close of the war. He was professor of materia medica and therapeutics in tiie Medical college of Georgia, 1807-75. In 1887 he was chosen a member of the International medical congress, and was also made a member of the Medical association of Georgia and the Ani.erican medical association. He was a fre- quent contributor to leading medical journals before the war and gave much attention to sani- tation in his native city.

DOUGLAS, Alanson, lawyer, was born in Stephentown. N.J., Feb. 11, 1779; son of Wheeler and Martlia (Rathbone) Douglas; and a lineal descendant of Deacon William and Ann (Mattle) Douglas, who with two children immigrated to New England from Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England, and landed on Cape Ann, removing to New London, Conn., in 1640. This William Douglas was born in Scotland. Alanson's mother was the daughter of the Rev. John Rathbone. He was educated as a lawyer and practised his pi'of ession at Lansingburgh, N. Y. He was for a time surrogate of Duchess county, N.Y''. He was married, June 12, 1803, to Anna, daughter of the Hon. Solomon and Tamma (Thompson) Sutherland of Duchess county, N.Y. Mrs. Douglas died at Irvington, N.Y., Feb. 28. 1869. He was elected cashier of the newly organized Bank of Troy in 1811. and served the bank until 1827, when he went to New York city as cashier of the Chemical bank. In 1829 he returned to Troy and became cashier of the Merchants and Mechanics bank. He resigned in 1836 and was succeeded by his son, Charles Selden Douglas. He thereafter devoted his time to the care of his large private business interests and to tlie culti- vation of liis literar}' tastes. President Van Buren offered him the secretaryship of the treas- ury in his cabinet, which position Mr. Douglas declined. He a.s.sisted in organizing the Mer- cantile bank. New York city, of which his son, William Bradley Douglas, became first president in is.")0. He died at Troy. N.Y.. April 9. 1856.

DOUGLAS, Amanda Minnie, author, was born in New York city. July 14. 1S38; daughter of John V. and Elizabetli (Horton) Douglas. Her first paternal ancestor in America came from Scotland in 1640 and on her mother's side she descended from Revolutionary stock, one ancestor having served throughout the war. She was educated chiefly bj' private teachers, and re- moved to Newark. N.J.. in 1854. She evinced literary ability from early childhood, but desired especially to become an artist. Financial diffi- culties prevented her from obtaining the neces- sary in.struction in art, and in order to earn her own living she began to write short stories for periodicals. Tliese proving successful, she wrote