though practising law in Chicago. He was president of the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866, and also of the Baltimore national Democratic convention of 1872, which adopted the nomination of Horace Greeley for the presidency. Judge Doolittle has been a trustee of Chicago university since its foundation, served for one year as its president, and was for many years a professor in its law school.
DOOLITTLE, Mary Antoinette, lecturer, b.
in New Lebanon. N. Y., 8 Sept., 1810; d. in Mt.
Lebanon, Columbia co., N. Y., 31 Dec, 1880. She
was graduated in New Lebanon in 1825. She
became a member of the Shaker society in 1824, a
deaconess in a Shaker community in 1826, and
was an eldress from 1828. Her lectures on religious
subjects, which were delivered in various cities
in the United States, attracted much attention.
In 1873-'5 she edited, with Frederick W. Evans,
the “Shaker and Shakeress,” a periodical
published at Mt. Lebanon college, and is author of an
“Autobiography” (1880), and of a series of
remarkable inspirational songs.
DOOLITTLE, Theodore Sandford, educator,
b. in Ovid, Seneca co., N. Y.. 30 Nov., 1836; d. in
New Brunswick, N. J., 18 April, 1893. He was
graduated at Rutgers in 1859, and at the seminary
in 1862, and in that year was licensed to preach in
the Reformed Dutch church, and became pastor at
Flatlands, near Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1864 he
accepted the chair of rhetoric, logic, and metaphysics
at Rutgers, which he held for thirty years, becoming
also associate editor of the “Christian at Work”
in 1873. Wesleyan university gave him the degree
of D. D. Dr. Doolittle frequently lectured on art
and literature. Besides articles in periodicals, he
published an “Account of the Centennial Celebration
of Rutgers College” (1870), and a “History
of Rutgers College,” written for the Bureau of
education at Washington. In 1875 he contributed
to the “Christian Intelligencer” a series of letters
entitled “Across the Continent.”
DOOLY, John Mitchell, lawyer, b. in Lincoln
county, Ga., about 1772 ; d. there, 26 May, 1827.
Little is known of his early life, or the time at
which he was admitted to the bar. He was ap-
pointed solicitor-general of the Western circuit of
Georgia, 2 Sept., 1802, to fill a vacancy, and on 22
Nov., 1804, was elected to the same office by the
legislature. In 1816 he was elected judge of the
same circuit, and in 1822 chosen first judge of the
Northern circuit, to which latter place he was re-
elected in 1825. He also represented his county in
the legislature during the embargo and other re-
strictive measures adopted by the general govern-
ment, and the war witlx Great Britain, successfully
advocating the " alleviating," " thirding," and
" stop " laws then passed. It is chiefly as a wit
that Judge Dooly is still remembered. He was
quick and brilliant in repartee and, when provoked,
would launch at his adversary the most biting sar-
casm. But, notwithstanding this powerful weapon
with which nature had furnished him, he was a
genial companion, and utterly iinselfish. The re-
ports of his wise and witty sayings, handed down
by tradition, have kept the bench and bar of Georgia
supplied with aTiecdotes for a half century.
DORANTES, Pedro (do-rahn'-tays), Spanish ex-
plorer, b. in Bejar, Spain, early in the 16th century ;
d. in Paraguay. He was attached as commissary
to the expedition commanded by Cabeza de Vaca,
which left Sanlucar for River Plate on 2 Nov., 1540,
and reached the island of Santa Catalina, 29 March,
1541. Thence the expedition went to the continent,
and as they intended to go to Asuncion by land the
commander sent Dorantes to open the way. After
exploring the country for three months, he reported
that the journey would be difficult, and advised
Cabeza de Vaca to ascend Itabicu river, which was
successfully effected, and the expedition reached
Asuncion, 11 March, 1542. Dorantes proved to be
a brave, intelligent, and useful officer, but his mal-
administration compelled the governor to deliver
him to the court of justice. At the same time the
colonists were in great danger of perishing at the
hands of the hostile natives, and, as every one
thought Dorantes to be the only man able to save
them, it was decided to stop the proceedings against
him and let him continue at his post. The war
with the Indians was short, but during that time
Dorantes joined the other officers in a plot to force
the governor to return to Asuncion, and eight days
afterward (25 April, 1544) took an important part
in the deposition of the governor and in the elec-
tion of his successor, Domingo de Irala. He soon
became an enemy of the new ruler, M'ho, in 1547,
went to Peru, leaving Francisco de Mendoza in his
place ; but Dorantes was also opposed to IMendoza,
and worked for the election of Diego de Abreu,
whose party he left again on the return of Irala
from Peru. After the death of Irala in 1557, Fran-
cisco Ortiz de Vergara was elected governor, and
Dorantes accompanied him during the campaign
against the Indians in 1559, when he greatly dis-
tinguished himself, as well as during the expedition
to Peru in 1564, where he remained for five years.
In 1569 he returned to Asuncion, and lived in Para-
guay to a very old age.
DOREMUS, Sarah Platt, philanthropist, b. in
New York city, 3 Aug., 1802; d. there, 29 Jan.,
1877. She was the daughter of Elias Haines, a
merchant of New York, and her mother was the
daughter of Robert Ogden, a distinguished lawyer
of New Jersey. In 1812 she united with her mother
in praying for the conversion of the world, and
from that time dates her interest in foreign
missions. She married, in 1821, Thomas C. Doremus,
a merchant, whose wealth thenceforth was freely
expended in her benevolent enterprises. In 1828,
with eight ladies, she organized the Greek relief
mission, and sent Dr. Jonas King to Greece to
distribute supplies. Seven years later she became
interested in the mission at Grand Ligne, Canada,
conducted by Madame Henriette Feller, of
Switzerland, and in 1860 was made president of the
organization. In 1840 she began visiting the New
York city prisons, and after establishing Sabbath
services, used her influence in 1842 toward founding
the Home for women discharged from prison,
now the Isaac T. Hopper home, of which she
became president on the death of her friend and
co-founder, Miss Catherine M. Sedgwick. She aided in
founding, in 1850, the House and school of industry
for poor women, becoming its president in 1867,
and in 1854 became vice-president of the Nursery
and child's hospital. In 1855 she assisted Dr. J.
Marion Sims in his project of establishing the New
York woman's hospital, of which she was ultimately
president. During the civil war she co-operated
with the work carried on in the hospitals,
ministering alike to the wounded from north and south.
She founded, in 1860, the Woman's union missionary
society, designed to elevate and Christianize the
women of heathen lands, and she took an active
part as manager in the Presbyterian home for aged
women, organized in 1866. She aided in collecting
supplies to relieve the sufferers from famine in
Ireland in 1869, and was for many years manager of
the female branch of the City mission and tract
society and of the Female Bible society. The last
