Part 18

=Doggett, David Seth.= _Va._, 1810-1880. A Methodist bishop who lived at Richmond, Virginia, and published The War and its Close.

=Dolbear, Amos Emerson.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. A professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenomena. Matter, Ether, and Motion. _Le._

=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= _Me._, 1845- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; The American Citizen.

=Dole, Edmund Pearson.= _Me._, 1850- ----. Cousin of C. F. Dole, _supra_. Assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands. Talks About Law. _Hou._

=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. Brother of C. F. Dole, _supra_. A littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations from the Russian of Tolstoï and other writers, is the author of A Score of Famous Composers; The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse; Not Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum edition of the Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám. _Cr. Est. Kt. Mer._

=Donald, Elijah Winchester.= _Ms._, 1848-1904. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, rector of Trinity Church from 1892. The Expansion of Religion. _Hou._

=Donaldson, Frank.= _Md._, 1822-1891. A Baltimore physician, professor of hygiene in the University of Maryland since 1866. Influence of City Life and Occupations in Consumption.

=Donaldson, James Lowry.= _Md._, 1814-1885. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who published Sergeant Atkins, a tale of the Florida War.

=Donnelly, Eleanor Cecilia.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Sister of I. Donnelly, _infra_. A Philadelphia writer of religious verse, the greater part of which is occupied with Roman Catholic themes. Among her many volumes are Domus Dei; Out of Sweet Solitude; Hymns of the Sacred Heart; Children of the Golden Sheaf and Other Poems.

=Donnelly, Ignatius.= _Pa._, 1831-1901. A Minnesota writer who, besides publishing An Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World; Cæsar’s Column; Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel, was the author of The Great Cryptogram. In this work he claims to have discovered a cipher in the plays of Shakespeare which sufficiently establishes the fact that they were written by Lord Bacon, an eccentric exercise of ingenuity that has not been taken seriously by scholars. _Ap. Har._

=Doolittle, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1695-1749. A clergyman of Northfield, Massachusetts, 1718-49. Narrative of the Mischief of the French and Indians, 1744-48; Inquiry into Enthusiasm.

=Dorchester, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A noted Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem in All Ages; The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United States; Romanism versus the Public Schools. _Meth._

=Dorgan, John Aylmer.= 1836-1866. A lawyer and verse writer of Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled Studies. _See Manhattan Magazine, June, 1883._

=Dorr, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1796-1869. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1837-69. The Churchman’s Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Sunday-School Teacher’s Encouragement; Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the East; Memoir of John Fanning Watson, _infra_.

=Dorr, Mrs. Julia Caroline [Ripley].= _S. C._, 1825- ----. A poet and novelist of Rutland, Vermont. Her verse, much of which reaches a high degree of excellence, includes Daybreak, an Easter Poem; Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; Legend of the Baboushka; Poems (complete edition). Her other writings comprise four novels: Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower of England’s Face; A Cathedral Pilgrimage. _Lip. Mac. Meth. Ran. Scr._

=Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson.= _D. C._, 1815-1896. A prolific writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman Catholic. Among her works are May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra; Palms; Warp and Woof.

=Dorsey, Ella Loraine.= _D. C._, 1853-1901. Daughter of Mrs. Anna Dorsey, _supra_. A Washington writer of stories for boys. Midshipman Bob; Saxty’s Angel; The Two Tramps.

=Dorsey, James Owen.= _Md._, 1848-1895. An ethnologist who for a time was an Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the Bureau of Ethnology. Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; The Dhegiha Language, are among his writings.

=Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne [Ellis].= _Mi._, 1829-1879. A Mississippi author who was the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis, _supra_, to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mexico, where he died. Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories of the Civil War; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeggiatura; Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana.

=Dorsheimer, William.= _N. Y._, 1832-1888. A prominent citizen of Buffalo who was twice lieutenant-governor of New York, and published A Life of Grover Cleveland (1884).

=Doten, Lizzie.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Boston spiritualist trance medium whose verses are claimed to be inspired by the spirits of Shakespeare, Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past. Poems of Progress; Poems from the Inner Life. _Ban._

=Doubleday, Abner.= _N. Y._, 1819-1893. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who retired from active service in 1873. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Gettysburg made Plain. _Har. Scr._

=Doubleday, Charles William.= _E._, 1829- ----. A soldier who accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition, and later served as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in America.

=Douglas, Alice May.= _Me._, 1865- ----. A writer of verse and juvenile tales whose home is at Bath, Maine. Her verse includes Phlox; May Flowers; Gems Without Polish. Jewel Gatherers; The Peacemaker; Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her tales for young readers.

=Douglas, Amanda Minnie.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A popular novelist of Newark, New Jersey, whose more than thirty works of fiction have obtained a wide circulation. They are readable, and not without skill in construction, but are not particularly strong on the literary side. Among them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; Claudia; With Fate Against Him; Sherburne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven Daughters; Larry; Hope Mills. _Do. Le._

=Douglas, Marian.= _See Robinson, Mrs. A._

=Douglas, Silas Hamilton.= _N. Y._, 1816-1890. A professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, 1844-79. Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with A. R. Prescott).

=Douglass, Frederick.= _Md._, 1817-1895. A famous orator and the most distinguished member of the African race in America. He was born in slavery, but escaped to the North in 1838, educated himself, and soon became prominent as an anti-slavery speaker. As time went on, his style, always picturesque and eloquent, became polished and elegant. My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of My Experience in Slavery; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). _See Life by Holland, 1891._

=Douglass, William.= _S._, _c._ 1691-1752. A Scottish physician who came to America and settled in Boston in 1718. He was a man of very positive views, most of which were opposed to those of the age and the community in which he lived, and his time was well filled in controversies with the clergy, physicians, magistrates, and colonial governors. His principal work is a Summary, Historical and Political, of the British Settlements in America. Others of less note are Mercurius Novanglicanus, an almanac; Treatise on Small Pox; Midwifery; Practical History of a New, Eruptive, Miliary Fever. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Dow, Daniel.= _Ct._, 1772-1849. A Congregational clergyman of Thompson, Connecticut. Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; The Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covenants; Free Inquiry Recommended on the Subject of Free Masonry.

=Dow, Lorenzo.= _Ct._, 1777-1834. An eccentric Methodist travelling preacher, especially vehement against the Jesuits. Polemical Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow; A Short Account of a Long Travel; Journal and Miscellaneous Writings; History of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic work.

=Dowd, Mary Alice.= _W. Va._, 1855- ----. An educator of Stamford, Connecticut, who has published Vacation Verses.

=Dowling, John.= _E._, 1807-1878. A Baptist clergyman of New York city whose writings had a large circulation. Vindication of the Baptists; History of Romanism; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures; Power of Illustration; Nights and Mornings; Judson Offering; Exposition of the Prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ.

=Downes, John.= _N. Y._, 1799-1882. A mathematician of Washington. Peter Parley’s Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and Logarithmic Sines and Tangents; United States Almanac Complete, or Ephemeris.

=Downes, William Howe.= _Ct._, 1854- ----. A Boston journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and an art critic. Spanish Ways and By-Ways; The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a Kindergarten of War.

=Downie, David.= _S._, 1838- ----. A Baptist missionary to India who has published a History of the Telugu Mission.

=Downing, Andrew Jackson.= _N. Y._, 1815-1852. A once noted horticulturist and landscape gardener of New York who did much to popularize a knowledge of rural art. Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Architecture of Country Houses; Cottage Residences; Rural Essays. _See Garden and Forest, vol. 8._ _Wil._

=Downing, Mrs. Frances [Murdaugh].= _N. Y._, _c._ 1835-1894. A writer of Charlottesville, North Carolina, who has published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after the manner of the “Ingoldsby Legends;” and several novels, including Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; Five Little Girls and Two Little Boys.

=Downing, Jack.= _See Smith, Seba._

=Drake, Benjamin.= _Ky._, 1794-1841. A Cincinnati journalist whose writings include Cincinnati in 1820; Tales and Sketches from the Queen City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of William Henry Harrison; Life of Tecumseh.

=Drake, Charles Daniel.= _O._, 1811-1892. Son of Daniel Drake, _infra_. An eminent lawyer of St. Louis who published Law of Attachments; Life of Daniel Drake. _Lit._

=Drake, Daniel.= _N. J._, 1785-1852. Brother of B. Drake, _supra_. A distinguished physician of Cincinnati and Philadelphia who is best known by his valuable work on The Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, which embodies a vast amount of patient research. His other works include Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (1815); History of the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera; Essays on Medical Education; Discourses; Pioneer Life in Kentucky. _See Lives by Mansfield, 1855, C. D. Drake, supra, 1871; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Clke._

=Drake, Francis Samuel.= _Ms._, 1828-1885. Son of S. G. Drake, _infra_. A bookseller of Boston whose Dictionary of American Biography is incorporated in Appleton’s Cyclopedia of Biography. Other works of his are Life of General Knox; The Town of Roxbury; Tea Leaves; Indian History for Young Folks. _Har. Lip._

=Drake, Joseph Rodman.= _N. Y._, 1795-1820. A talented physician of New York city, co-author with Halleck, _infra_, of The Croaker Papers in the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests on The Culprit Fay, a delicate, fanciful creation, and the often-quoted poem The American Flag. His poetry was once extremely popular, but has failed to interest the readers of the latter half of the 19th century. A selection from his poems was made by his daughter and published in 1836.

=Drake, Samuel Adams.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Son of S. G. Drake, _infra_. A littérateur of Boston whose histories and books of home travel have been deservedly popular. Around the Hub, a Boy’s Book About Boston; The Heart of the White Mountains; Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston; Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast; Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; The Watch Fires of ’76; Burgoyne’s Invasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg; The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial Homes; New England Legends and Folk-Lore; The Making of New England, 1580-1643; The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837; The Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; History of Middlesex County; The Pine-Tree Coast. _Est. Har. Le. Rob. Scr._

=Drake, Samuel Gardiner.= _N. H._, 1798-1875. A Boston bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History of King Philip’s War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the United States; History of the French and Indian War. _See Bibliography of Maine._

=Draper, Andrew Sloan.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A lawyer and educator of Albany, and, since 1894, president of the University of Illinois. What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School System; A Teaching Profession; Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools and American Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts.

=Draper, Henry.= _Va._, 1837-1882. Son of J. W. Draper, _infra_. A professor in the University of New York. The Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; Text-Book of Chemistry.

=Draper, John Christopher.= _Va._, 1835-1885. Son of J. W. Draper, _infra_. A New York physician, professor in the University of New York. Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in Physics; Text-Book of Medical Physics.

=Draper, John William.= _E._, 1811-1882. A distinguished scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881 was connected with the University of New York. History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. _See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 16._

=Draper, Lyman Copeland.= _N. Y._, 1815-1891. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; King’s Mountain and its Heroes.

=Drayton, John.= _S. C._, 1766-1822. Son of W. H. Drayton, _infra_. A South Carolina statesman, twice governor of his State. View of South Carolina; Letters written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States.

=Drayton, William Henry.= _S. C._, 1742-1779. A prominent figure among statesmen of the Revolution and a member of the Continental Congress. A History of the American Revolution, which he left in manuscript, was afterwards published by his son.

=Drinker, Anne.= “Edith May.” _Pa._, 1827- ----. A verse-writer of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for Children; Katy’s Story.

=Drisler, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1818-1897. A classical scholar of distinction, professor at Columbia College from 1843, whose Greek-and-English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.

=Droch.= _See Bridges, Robert._

=Drone, Eaton Sylvester.= _O._, 1842- ----. A legal writer on the staff of the New York Herald. The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright. _Lit._

=Drummond, Josiah Hayden.= _Me._, 1827-1902. A lawyer who was attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of Lodges; History of Masonic Jurisprudence.

=Drury, Augustus Waldo.= 1851- ----. A clergyman of the sect of United Brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the founder of the sect.

=Drury, John Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Ghent, New York, who has published Truths and Untruths of Evolution. _Ran._

=Duane, James Chatham.= _N. Y._, 1824-1897. A retired brigadier-general of the United States army, author of A Manual for Engineer Troops.

=Duane, William.= _N. Y._, 1760-1835. A once prominent journalist and politician of Philadelphia. Military Dictionary; The Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen; Handbook for Infantry.

=Duane, William.= _Pa._, 1808-1882. Son of W. J. Duane, _infra_. A Philadelphia writer who published Relation of Landlord to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law of Roads, etc., in Pennsylvania; Canada and the Continental Congress; Ligan, a collection of Tales and Essays.

=Duane, William John.= _I._, 1780-1865. Son to W. Duane, _supra_. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia who was secretary of the treasury in 1833, and was dismissed from office by President Jackson for declining to order the deposits removed from the Bank of the United States. The Law of Nations Investigated; Letters on Internal Improvement; Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of the Deposits, 1838.

=Dubbs, Joseph Henry.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A German Reformed clergyman, professor of history in Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1875. Otterbein and the Reformed Church; Historic Manual of the Reformed Church; Home Ballads and Metrical Versions; Why Am I Reformed?

=Du Bois, Augustus Jay.= _O._, 1849- ----. A professor of engineering at Yale University since 1877. Elements of Graphical Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed Structures; Mechanics. _Wil._

=Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt.= _Ms._, 1868- ----. An educator of African descent, assistant professor of sociology in the University of Pennsylvania. The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States, 1638-1810. _Lgs._

=Du Bois, William Ewing.= _Pa._, 1810-1881. A Philadelphia numismatist, assayer at the Mint. Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations; Pledges of History, an account of the Antique Coins in the United States Mint.

=Du Bose, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Richards].= _E._, 1826- ----. A Georgia writer who published The Pastor’s Household, or Lessons on the Eleventh Commandment, a juvenile tale.

=Ducatel, Julius Timoleon.= _Md._, 1796-1849. A chemist of Baltimore, professor in the University of Maryland and author of a Manual of Toxicology.

=Du Chaillu= [dü-chä-yü´], =Paul Belloni=. _F._, 1835-1903. A noted French traveller who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; Stories of the Gorilla Country. The greater number of his works are intended for juvenile reading. _Har._

=Duché, Jacob.= _Pa._, 1737-1798. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who made the prayer at the opening of the Continental Congress. Becoming discouraged at the want of success of the colonists, he urged Washington to abandon the cause. He was thereupon considered an enemy of the country and his property was confiscated. Caspipina’s Letters; Discourses on Various Subjects.

=Dudley, Dean.= _Me._, 1823- ----. A Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes. Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; History of the Dudley Family.

=Dudley, Thomas Underwood.= _Va._, 1837-1904. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He served in the Confederate army as a colonel, and afterwards entered the ministry. A Wise Discrimination the Church’s Need.

=Dudley, William Russell.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. A professor of botany at Cornell University, who has published The Cayuga Flora.

=Duer, Edward Louis.= _N. J._, 1836- ----. A physician of Philadelphia. Post Mortem Discoveries; Treatment of Diphtheria.

=Duer, John.= _N. Y._, 1782-1858. A once prominent New York jurist whose specialty was insurance law. Duer’s Reports; Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance.

=Duer, William Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1780-1858. Brother of J. Duer, _supra_, and like him a prominent jurist. He was president of Columbia College, 1829-42. Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States.

=Duff, Peter.= _N. B._, 1802-1869. An educator of Pittsburg, where he founded Duff’s Mercantile College, one of the earliest institutions of the kind. The North American Accountant was his only publication of note.

=Duffel, Mary Gordon.= _Al._, _c._ 1840- ----. A resident of Alabama, who published A History of Alabama; Guide to the Mammoth Cave.

=Duffield, George.= _Pa._, 1794-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Detroit as a leader among New School Presbyterians. Dissertations on the Prophecies; Regeneration; Travels in the Holy Land; Claims of Episcopal Bishops Examined, include his most important writings.

=Duffield, George.= _Pa._, 1818-1888. Son of G. Duffield, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of some note as a hymn-writer, one of his most popular hymns being “Stand up for Jesus.”

=Duffield, John Thomas.= _Pa._, 1823-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman who was professor of mathematics in Princeton College for many years, and published The Princeton Pulpit and many religious monographs.

=Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby.= _L. I._, 1843-1887. Son of G. Duffield, 2d. A Presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, New Jersey. English Hymns, their Authors and History; Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns; Warp and Woof, a Book of Verse. _Fu._

=Duffield, William Ward.= _Pa._, 1823- ----. An engineer of Kentucky who was a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. School of the Brigade and Evolutions of the Line.

=Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey.= _Ms._, 1823-1884. A journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the Civil War he served in the Federal army, and was for some time a captive in Southern prisons. Among his writings are Prison Life in the South; Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy; Home Poems; Parnassus in Pillory, a satire.

=Dugdale, Richard L.= _F._, 1841-1883. A writer on sociology. The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; Further Studies of Criminals.

=Duhring, Julia.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. An essayist who has published Philosophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in Society; Mental Life and Culture. _Lip._

=Duhring, Louis Adolphus.= _Pa._, 1845- ----. Brother of J. Duhring, _supra_. A physician of Philadelphia, prominent as a dermatologist. Atlas of Skin Diseases; Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Epitome of Skin Diseases; Cutaneous Medicine. _Lip._

=Duke, William.= _Md._, 1757-1840. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Maryland who published A Clew to Religious Truth.