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alliance was organized in England, its purpose being to procure '•the immediate, total, legal prohibition of the liquor traffic "' in that countiy. The society soon attained prominence with large funds at its command. In 1857 Mr. Dow was the guest of that society in England and held prohi- bition meetings in all the large cities and centres of population. Again in 1866 and in 1873 he made visits to England by invitation of the Alliance. In 1861 he was appointed colonel of the 13th Maine volunteers, which regiment he raised, as he did also the 2d Maine battery. He was as- signed to the department of the gulf under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, and was in the steamer Mississippi with twenty-five hundred men, when she was run aground on Fryingpan Shoals off the coast of North Carolina. Soon after the arrival of the expedition at Ship Island, Colonel Dow was appointed brigadier-general, and when Gen- eral Bvitler went to New Orleans the command of the post came to him with that of Fort Pike and other posts. From Ship Island he was ordered to the command of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the quarantine at the mouth of the Mississippi river, retaining that of Ship Island and its depend- encies. From that post he was ordered to the command of the department of Florida, with headquarters at Pensacola; thence to Camp Parapet at Carrolton on the Mississippi above New Orleans ; and from that post he was ordered to take part in the movement for the capture of Port Hudson. At the assault upon its works, May 37, 1863, General Dow was twice wounded, and was captured and confined in Libby prison. From Richmond he was taken to Mobile, where he was held for two months, and from there again to Richmond, where he remained through the winter of 1863-64 and was exchanged for Gen. W. H. Fitzhugh Lee in March, 1864. His prison experiences had shattered his health to such an extent that he was unable to resume active service in the field and he resigned his commission, Nov. 30, 1864. On returning to Portland he continued his temperance work and in 1880 was candidate of the Prohibition party for the presidency, receiving 10,305 popular votes. In 1884, as a direct result of his long labors, the prohibition law was enacted in the state of Maine. In speakmg of the results of the Maine prohibition law he said: "The liquor traffic in Maine has been reduced to verj' small jjroportions, and the state from being the poorest in the Union is now one of the most prosperous. It saves annually more than twenty millions of dollars, directly and indirectly, which before the law was spent and wasted in drink. There is now no distillery or brewery in the state ; before the law there were many. Great quantities of West India rum had been imported, many cargoes every year, and

that trade has entirely ceased many years ago.'* He was married to Cornelia Durant, who was treasurer of the Old Ladies' home of Portland. He died in Portland, Mame, Oct. 2, 1897.

DOWD, Charles Ferdinand, educator, was born in Madison, Conn., April 25, 1825. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1853; A.M., 1856, and received the degree of Ph.D. for a course in philosophy at the University of the city of New- York in 1888. He was principal of the prepara- tory department and svibsequently professor of mathematics in the University school for boys, Baltimore, Md. ; principal of the high school, Waterbury, Conn; associate principal of the Normal training school. New Britain, Conn. ; principal of the Granville (N.Y.) academy, and president of the Temple Grove seminary, Sara- toga Springs, N.Y. He was the originator of the system of standard time as adopted by the rail- roads of the United States, submitted to the railway convention, New York city, in October, 1869, and his plan was published in 1870. He afterward attended various conventions of rail- way managers and perfected the sj'stem by which the coimtiy was divided into sections, in each of which the time was made miiform, the standards in adjacent sections difl:eriug by an hour. The system went into effect, Nov. 18, 1883, and he afterward made an effort to secure the twenty- four-hour time notation and the single standard for an American day upon a plan which he originated. He published: A Theory of Ethics, and articles in current magazines.

DOWDELL, James Ferguson, representative, was born in Jasper county, Ga., Nov. 26, 1818. He was graduated at Randolph-Macon college in 1840 and was admitted to the bar in April, 1841, practising at Greenville, Ga. In 1846 he removed to Chambers county, Ala., and in 1848 was or- dained a Methodist minister. In 1852 he was a presidential elector on the Pierce ticket. He was state rights Democratic representative from Ala- bama in the 33d, 34th and 35th congresses, 1853-59. He voted for secession in the state convention of 1881, and raised the 37th Alabama regiment which he led as colonel at Corinth and through the siege of Vicksburg. After the war he removed to Auburn, Ala., where he was president of the East Alabama female college imtil shortly before his death. He Avas married to a daughter of the Hon. James Render of Georgia. He died at Auburn, Ala., in September, 1871.

DOWLINQ, John, clergyman, was born in Pavensey, Sussex, England, May 12, 1807. He early removed to London and in 1828 was in- structor in Hebrew, Greek and Latin in the Buckinghamshire classical institute. The fol- lowing year he established a classical boarding school in Oxfordshire, and was its principal until