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=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).
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