Trinity church. Utica, in 1829-'3o. In 1835-7 he travelled 15,000 miles as general agent of the do- mestic committee of the Board of missions. But his real life-work did not begin until 1837, when he succeeded the venerable Bishop White in the rectorship of Christ church, Philadelphia, where he remained until his death. In 1838 the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania conferred on him the degree of D. D., and in 1839 he was elected bishop of Mary- land, but declined. In 1853 he visited Europe, ex- tending his journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. Among his works, which have been extensively cir- culated in the United States and reprinted in Eng- land and the British provinces, are " The Church- man's jManual " ; " The History of a Pocket Prayer- Book, Written by Itself " ; " Recognition of Friends in Another World " ; " Sunday - school Teacher's Encouragement " ; " Prophecies and Types Rela- tive to Christ " ; " An Affectionate Invitation to the Holv Communion " ; " An Historical Account of Christ Church, Philadelphia" (1841); "Notes of Travel " (1850) ; and " A Memoir of John Fanning Watson " (imi).
DORR, Ebenezer Pearson, sea-captain, b. in
Hartford, Vt., 13 March, 1817; d. in Buffalo, K Y.,
29 April, 1882. After following the sea for sev-
eral years, Capt. Dorr settled in Buffalo in 1838,
and from that time until 1843 was engaged in the
navigation of the great lakes. In the latter year
he became marine inspector for the Buffalo mutual
insurance company, and acted as agent of the New
York board of underwriters for the entire north-
west. He was also for some time the Buffalo repre-
sentative of many insurance companies, and served
for seven years as president of the Board of inland
underwriters. He acted at different times as presi-
dent of the Board of trade, the Society of fine arts,
and the Historical society of Buffalo, and as vice-
president of the National board of trade. He was
the first to organize a regular system of wreckage
on the lakes, and did much to improve the condi-
tion of seamen and to obtain recognition of their
acts of heroism. When Jefferson Davis, as secre-
tary of war, first suggested the value of weather
reports, Capt. Dorr, at the request of Lieut. Maury,
forwarded daily meteorological observations from
Buffalo. On 5 Jan., 1874, Capt. Dorr read before
the Buffalo historical society a paper entitled " A
Brief Sketch of the First Monitor and its In-
ventor " (Buffalo, 1874).
DORR, Julia Caroline Ripley, author, b. in
Charleston, S. C, 13 Feb., 1825. Her maternal
grandparents were natives of France, who fled to
South Carolina from San Domingo at the time of
the servile insurrection in that island. She lost
her mother when a child, and her father, William
Y'oung Ripley, a native of Vermont, removed short-
ly afterward to New York, and in 1830 to his na-
tive state, where he was one of the first to develop
the Rutland marble quarries. In 1847 Miss Ripley
married Seneca R. Dorr, then of New York, who
shortly afterward went to Rutland, Vt., and lived
there till his death in 1884. She has written since
early childhood, but her first published poem was
sent to the " Union Magazine " by her husband,
without her knowledge, a year or two after their
marriage. In 1848 she became a contributor to
" Sartain's Magazine," taking one of its hundred
dollar prizes by her first puljlished prose tale,
" Isabel Leslie." She has since continued to con-
tribute both prose and poetry to prominent peri-
odicals. Mrs. Dorr's works include " Farming-
dale," a novel, published under the pen-name of
" Caroline Thomas " (New ^'ork, 1854) ; " Lan-
mere," a novel (1856) ; " Sibyl Huntingdon," a
novel (Philadelphia. 1869) ; " Poems " (1871) ; " Ex-
piation," a novel (1872) ; " Friar Anselm, and other
Poems " (New York, 1879) ; " Daybreak, an Easter
Poem" (1882); "Bermuda" (1884); and "After-
noon Songs " (1885). A series of essays on mar-
riage, contributed by Mrs. Dorr to a New England
journal under the titles " Letters to a Young Wife "
and " Letters to a Young Husband," has appeared
in book-form without her sanction, with the title
" Bride and Bridegroom " (Cincinnati, 1873).
DORR, Thomas Wilson, politician, b. in Provi-
dence, R. I., 5 Nov., 1805 ; d. there, 27 Dec, 1854.
His father, Sullivan Dorr, was a successful manu-
facturer. Thomas was educated at Phillips Exeter
academy and at Harvard, where he was graduated
in 1823. He then studied law in New York in the
office of Chancellor Kent, was admitted to the bar,
and began practice in his native city. He was a
member of the assembly in 1833-'7, being elected
at first as a Federalist, but becoming a Democrat in
the last-named year. In 1836 he introduced and
carried through the legislature an important bill
curtailing the powers of the banks in the state. At
this time the government of the state was based on
a charter granted by Charles II. in 1663. The suf-
frage was limited "to possessors of real estate to
the amount of $134 and to their eldest sons, and
therefore only about one third of the citizens were
entitled to vote. The representation in the legis-
lature was also unfairly distributed, Newport, for
instance, with 8,000 inhabitants, having six mem-
bers, while Providence, with 23,000, had only four.
Mr. Dorr exerted himself in the assembly for the
adoption of a more liberal constitution, but his
movement obtained only seven out of seventy votes.
He finally resorted to popular agitation, and in the
latter part of 1840 a " suffrage party " was organ-
ized, which, at a mass meeting held in Providence
on 5 July, 1841, authorized the calling of a state
constitutional convention. Delegates were elected
on 28 Aug., and the convention met at Providence
on 4 Oct. and framed a constitution, which was
submitted to the people of the state on 27, 28, and
29 Dec, when, as was asserted, about 14,000 votes
were cast in its favor, being a majority of the adult
male citizens of the state. It was also claimed
that the constitution was adopted by a majority of
the legal voters, or those entitled to suffrage under
the chai'ter. Meanwhile the legislature, on 6 Feb.,
1841, had also called a constitutional convention,
and delegates elected in accordance with the call
met in November, but adjourned to February, 1842,
when they agreed upon a constitution, which was
submitted to the people on 21, 22, and 23 March,
and rejected. On 18 April, 1842, an election was
held under the " suffrage " constitution, by which
Mr. Dorr, who had been the leader in the move-
ment, was chosen governor, and a legislature was
elected consisting exclusively of his supporters.
An election was also held under the old charter,
which resulted in the choice of Samuel W. King as
governor. Both governments organized in New-
port on 3 May, 1842, and there was an appeal to
arms. Gov. King proclaimed martial law, called
out the militia, and asked aid from the National
government, which recognized him as the legal
governor. On 18 May an attempt was made by
an armed party of " suffragists " to seize the Provi-
dence arsenal, which was thwarted by the appear-
ance of the military under Gov. King. Mr. Dorr,
by request of his adherents, then went to Washing-
ton to try and gain the support of the Federal gov-
ernment, and on his return was assured that the
people were ready to fight for their rights. On 25
June a demonstration in his favor was made at
