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 DOYLE

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Frederick, Md.; bronze statue of Kobert E. Lee, New Orleaus, L;i.; marble statue of Mar- ^tiret Haugliery, New Orleans. L;i.; granite statue I'lijc*', Yurkluwn, Va.: Soldiers' monument, New Haven, Conn.; bronze statue and b;is-reliefs, with granite pedestal, of Sergeant Jasjier, Savannah, Ga.; bronze statue of General Philip Schuyler, Saratog-a. N.Y.: bronze statue of Gren. James B. Steedman. Toledo, Ohio; marble statue of Gen- eral Garfield. Cleveland, Ohio; bronze bas-relief of Di-. Austin Flint, Belle vue hospital. New Y'ork city; eight colossal allegorical statues in marble for the rotunda of the state capitol of Indiana; bronze statue and pedestal of Horace Greeley, New Y'ork city; and bronze statue and mommient of Henry W. Grady. Atlanta. Ga.

DOYLE, Thomas Arthur, mayor, was born in Providence, R.L, Marcli l~), 1827; son of Thomas and Martha (Jones) Doyle. His education was acquired at the public schools of Providence and he was employed as clerk in coimting- houses, 1841-52. Upon the organization of the Grocers' and Pro- ducers* bank in 1853, he was elected cash- ier, holding the office two yeai-s. He was aftei^vard a stock broker and auctioneer for real estate. He "was a ward clerk, 1848-52; a member of the common covulcil of the city, 1852-54 and 185.5-57, a mem- ber of the school com- mittee for eighteen years, and held other municipal offices. In July, 1864, he was inaugurated as mayor of Providence, and con- tinued to hold the office by re-election, with the exception of the year 1869, imtil Januarys 1881, when he declined further service. During his administration of over fifteen years he instituted many imj»ortant reforms. He joined the Masons in 1857 and became prominently identified with the order, holding the most important offices within the gift of the successive degrees, includ- ing those conferred by tiie thirty-third degree. In April, 18^1, he was elected a senator in the Rhode Island general a.ssembly. He was again elected mayor of Providence in 1883, to succeed "William S. Hay ward, and served from January, 1884, until his death. He was married, Oct. 21, 1869, to Almyra. daughter of Amasa and Fanny (Morg.m) S{irague, and a sister of the Hon. AVilliam Spragut, governor of RhcKle Island and United States .sena- tor. He died in Providence, R.L, June 9, 1886.

DRAKE, Alexander Wilson, engraver, was born near Westtield, N.J., in the year 1843; son of LsiUic and Charlotte (Osborn) Drake. He studied wood engraving under John W. Orr of New Yoi"k city, and under William Howland; and drawing under August Will, at Cooper xmion, and at the National academy of design. He was a teaclier of drawing at Cooper imion and took up the study of painting. He was in the wood en- graving business on his own accoimt in New Y'ork city from 1865 to 1870, when he accepted the positionof art superintendent of Scrihuer's Monthly. which in 1881 became the Century Magazine. He organized the Bartholdi loan association which raised the money to build the pedestal for the statue of Liberty in New Y^'ork harbor. He is the author of numerous contributions in prose and verse to current literature, and was elected a member of the Centurj- association, the Players' and Grolier clubs, the Architectural league, the Mimicipal art league of New York, and the Cax- ton club of Chicago, 111.

DRAKE, Benjamin, author, was born in Mason county, Ky., Nov. 28, 1794. He was a brother of Dr. Daniel Drake. He removed to Cincinnati about 1815, was admitted to the bar about 1825, and practised law during the remainder of his life. In 1830 he established and became editor of The Western Agriculturist, and subsequently edited the Cincinnati Chronicle. His published works include: Cincinnati in 1826 (with E. D. Mans- field, 1827); The Westei'n Agriculturist and Practical Farmer's Guide (1880); The Life and Adventures of Black Hatck, with Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War (1838); Life of Qen. William Henry Harrison (with Col. Cliarles S. Todd, 1840); and Life of Tecumseh, and his Brother the Prophet, icith a Historical Sketch of the Shnirnnee Lidians (1841). He died in Cincin- nati, Ohio, April 1. 1841.

DRAKE, Benjamin Michael, educator, was born in Robeson county, N.C., Sept. 11, 1800. He removed to Tennessee where he joined the Meth- odist Episcopal church and became a preacher in 1820. In 1821 he was transferred to the Missis- sippi conference. He founded the first Methodist church. New Orleans, La., and in 1828 was elected president of the Elizabeth female academy, the first .school in Mississippi imder the auspices of the Methodist denomination. This position he resigned in 1832 to return to the itinerant minis- try. In 1854 he was made president of Centenary college, Jackson, La., and held the office until his death. He received the degree of D.D. He died in Cliurcliill.:Miss..:May 8. 1860.

DRAKE, Charles Daniel, jurist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Aprd 11, 1811; son of Dr. Daniel and Harriet (Sisson) Drake. He was a student at St. Joseph's college, Ba^dsto^\•n, Ky,, 1823-24,