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her first novel, In Trust, wiiich was published in 1866, its immediate and decided success en- couraging her to continue. A list of her princi- pal novels includes: Stephen Dane (1867) ; Claudia (1867) ; Sidnie Adriance (1868) ; Home Nook (1869) ; The Kathie Stories (6 vols., 1870-71); With Fate Against Him (1870) ; Lucia : Her Problem (1871) ; In the Banks (1872) ; Santa Claus Land (1873) ; The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (1874) ; Seven Daughters (1874) ; Xellie Kinnard's Kingdom (1876) ; From Hand to Mouth (1877) ; Our Wedding Gifts (1878) ; Hope Mills (1879) ; Lost in a Great City (1880) ; Whom Kathie Married (1883) ; Floyd Gran- don's Honor (1884); Out of the Wreck (1884); .4 Woman's Inheritance (1885) ; Foes of Her Household (1886) ; A Modern Adam and Eve (1888) ; Osborne of Arrochar {imO) ; Sherburne Ifowse (1892) ; The Heirs of the Bradley House (1892) ; Lyndell Sherburne (1893) ; Bertha Wray's Xew Name (1893) ; Larry, a §2000 prize story (1893) ; Sherburne Cousins (1894) ; In the King's Country (1894) ; The Fortune of the Faradays (1895); In Wild Bose Ttme (1895) ; ^4 Sherburne Bomance (1895); The Mistress of Sher- burne (1896) ; Her Place in the World (1897) ; The Children at Sherburne House (1897) ; A Little Girl in Old Boston (1898) ; Slierburne Girls (1898).

DOUGLAS, Beverly B., representative, was born in Providence Forge, Va., Dec. 21, 1822. He was educated at William and Mary college and at the L^niversity of Edinburgh, and in 1844 was admitted to the bar. He practised in his native county, in Norfolk, and in King William county. In 1850 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; was elected a state senator in 1852, and re-elected every year up to and including 1865. He served in the Confed- erate army, 1861-63, entering as first lieutenant and gaining promotion to the rank of major of the 5th Virginia cavalry. In 1860 he was a presiden- tial elector, and in 1868 a delegate to the Demo- cratic national convention. He was a representa- tive from Virginia in the 44th congress, 1875-77. He died in Augusta, Ga., Dec. 22, 1878.

DOUGLAS, John Hancock, i^hysician, was born in Waterford, N.Y., June 5, 1824. He was graduated from Williams college in 1843 and re- ceived the degree of M.D. from the L'niversity of Pennsylvania in 1847. He studied in Europe, 1849-51, and on his return established himself in practice in New York city. He edited the Ameri- can Medical Monthly, 1856-62, and the Xeio York Medical Journal, 1865-66. He also contributed frequently to other medical periodicals. He at- tended General Grant in his last illness, from Oct. 22, 1884, to July 23, 1885. He died in Wash- ington. D.C., Oct. 2, 1892.

DOUGLAS, Orlando Benajah, physician, was born in Cornwall, Vt., Sept. 12, 1836; son of Amos and Almira (Balcom) Douglas; grandson

of Col. Benajah and Saloma (Scott) Douglas, and in the eighth generation from Deacon WilUam Douglas, a native of Scotland who set- tled in Boston, Mass., and New London, Conn. Orlando was a student at Brandon seminary; taught school in Vermont; removed to Bruns- wick, Mo., where he studied medicine, 1858- 61; and served through the civil war in the 18th Missouri volunteers as private, lieuten- ant, adjutant and assistant adjutant-general of his brigade. After the war he was active in promoting the interests of Sunday schools and Young men's Christian associations in Vermont and Massachusetts and was a member of the International committee, Y.M.C.A., 1869- 71. He removed to New York city in 1876, was graduated from the medical department of the University of the city of New York in 1877 ; was connected with Demilt dispensary, 1877-79; was treasurer of the Medical society of the county of New York, 1879-87, and its president in 1891. He was elected a fellow of the New York acad- emy of medicine, and was its treasurer, 1888-98. He became professor in the N.Y. post-graduate medical school, sui-geon to the Manhattan eye and ear hospital, and permanent and honorary member of various medical associations. He was made surgeon of Reno Post, G. A.R. ; companion, fii'st-class, of the Loyal Legion, U.S.A.; and a fellow of the American geographical society. He was married in 1864 to Mary A. Ru.st, who died in 1873. In 1875 he was married to May L., daughter of tlie Rev. A. C. Manson. His son, Edwin Rust Douglas, born in Brandon, Vt., Sept. 26, 1872, was graduated M.E. and Sc.M. at Har- vard in 1898.

DOUGLAS, Robert Martin, jurist, was born in Rockingham county, N.C., Jan. 28, 1849; son of the Hon. Stephen Arnold and Martha (Martin) Douglas. He was graduated at Georgetown university, Washington, D.C., in 1867, receiving his A.M. degree in 1870. He was secretary to Governor Holden, 1868, private secretary to President Grant, 1869-73, and U.S. marshal for the western district of North Carolina, 1873-83. He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and practised in Greensboro, N.C., serving for six years as master in chancery for the U.S. circuit court. His address delivered before the Columbian Catholic congress, Chicago, 111., in September, 1893, on "Trade Combinations and Strikes," was printed and widely distributed. He was elected associate justice of the supreme court of North Carolina in 1896 for a term of eight years. He was married in 1874 to Jessie, daughter of the Hon. Robert P. Dick, U.S. judge for the western district of North Carolina. He received the de- gree of LL.D. from Georgetown imiversity in 1897.