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In 1785 it was incorporated by the legislature of North Carolina as Martin academy, and in 1795 be- came Washington college. He presided over it from the time of its incorporation till 1818, when he removed to Bethel and opened a private school, which he named Tusculum academy. Mr. Doak was a member of the convention of 1784 that formed the constitution of the commonwealth of Frankland. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Washington and Greenville colleges in 1818. — His son, Samuel, was president of Tus- culum college, Tennessee, in 1857.

DOANE, Augustus Sidney, physician, b. in Boston, 2 April, 1808 : d. on Staten Island, N. Y., 27 Jan., 1852. He was graduated at Harvard in 1825, studied medicine for two years in Paris, and returned to Boston, but in 1830 settled in New York, where he became a successful practitioner. In 1839 he was appointed professor of physiology in the University of New York, which chair he soon resigned. He was subsequently appointed chief physician of the Marine hospital, practised again from 1843 till 1850, and was again appointed health officer. He edited " Good's Study of Medicine," translated Maygrier's " Midwifery," Dupuytren's " Surgery," Lugol's " Scrofulous Diseases," Baylis's " Descriptive Anatomy," Blandin's " Topographical Anatomy," liicord's " Syphilis," Chaussier on " The Arteries," and Scoutetten on " Cholera." He also contributed to " Surgery Illustrated," and to other medical publications. See "Discourse on the Death of Dr. Doane," by E. H. Chapin, D. D. (New York, 1852).

DOANE, George Washington, P.E. bishop, b. in Trenton, N. J.. 27 May, 1799 : d. 27 April, 1859. He was graduated at Union in 1818, studied the- ology in the General theological seminary, when, as he used to say, " the whole seminary was accom- modated in a second-story room over a saddler's shop down town," and ordained, by Bishop Hobart, deacon in 1821 and priest in 1823. He was associ- ated with the bishop as his deacon and assistant in Trinity church. New York, and was also inter- ested with Bishop Upfold in founding St. Luke's. New York. In 1824 he went to Hartford as professor in Wash- ington (now Trinity) college, and during his residence there began his life-long interest and active energy in Christian education according to the system of the church. He gave a great deal of time then, as he did later, to work in connec- tion with the church newspapers, edit- ing the " Episco- pal Watchman " in

connection with Dr.

William Croswell, who was his most congenial

and beloved friend. In 1828 he went to Boston to become the assistant to the Rev. Dr. Gardiner, on whose death, in 1830, he was elected rector of Trinity church. He was intimately associated here with Dr. Croswell, who was then the rector of Christ church, Boston. In 1829 he married the widow of James Perkins. He made his mark in that city as an eloquent and persuasive preacher, especially in all matters connected with the mis- sionary work of the church. In 1832 he was elected bishop of New Jersey, to succeed Bishop Croes, to which high office he was consecrated in October of the same year, in St. Paul's chapel. New York. His life from this time was largely associ- ated with the diocese of New Jersey, which, during his episcopate, comprised the entire state ; and there was no parish in it with which he was not familiar, and hardly a parishioner whom he did not know and in whom he did not feel that strong personal interest which grows out of great-hearted sympathy, and belongs to that rare gift of remem- bering faces and names and individual histories. He was prominent in everything that concerned the general interest of the institutions of the church, and particularly those connected with its growth. He had a large part in framing the old constitu- tion of the Missionary society, whose leading prin- ciples still survive through various changes of form. His conviction of the great importance of Christian education, and his influence as a Chris- tian educator, led him to found St. Mary's hall, which was really the first effort on a large scale to educate the church's girls in the church's way. Subsequently he founded Burlington college, to do the same work for boys. The former was the more successful of the two, and its great spiritual power, both in the lives of those whom it educated and the pattern it set. can hardly be overestimated. The establishment of these schools brought him into serious financial embarrassments, which be- came afterward the nominal ground not only for criticism, but for serious accusations, and led to his presentment and trial, the result of which was the unanimous dismissal of the presentment. Bishop Doane's reputat ion as an orator was second only to the estimation in which he was held as an educator and preacher. Many of his addresses deal with the great questions of the day, in which, as a staunch American and true patriot, he took the deepest interest. He was a spirited and clever conversationalist, ready always to " give a reason for the hope that was in him." especially when the authority of the church was impugned. He pub- lished numerous addresses, and a volume of poems with the title " Songs by the Way " (New York, 1824). His son edited his " Life and Writings," with a memoir (4 vols., New York, 1860-'l). Among the best-known of his fugitive poems, found in many collections, are " What is that. Mother ? " " Softly Now the Light of Day," and " Thou art the Way." — His son, George Hobart, domestic prelate, b. in Boston, Mass., 5 Sept., 1830. He was graduat- ed in medicine at Jefferson college, Philadelphia, in 1850. but did not practise. He then prepared himself for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, was ordained deacon, and stationed at Grace church, Newark. He entered the JJoman Catholic church in 1855, was educated for the priesthood in the college of St. Sulpice, Paris, and afterward in the Collegio Pio. Rome. He was ordained priest in 1857, made secretary to Bishop Bayley, and then appointed chancellor of the diocese of Newark. In 1873 he became vicar-general. He was raised to the rank of domestic prelate of the papal house- hold, with the title of monsignor, in 1880. He did much to place the American college in Rome on a solid basis, and raised large sums in the United ' States for its support. — Another son, William Croswell, b. 2 March, 1832, was ordained deacon, 6 March, 1853, and priest, 6 March, 1856, by his father, in St. Mary's church, Burlington, N. J., in which church he was first assistant to his father and then rector. He established St. Barnabas free church in Burlington, where he ministered for three years, was rector of St. John's church, Hart-