Douglas, Robert Martin, a.m., ll.d., lawyer, b. at Douglas, North Carolina, 28 January, 1849, son of Stephen A. Douglas and Martha Denny Martin. Education: private schools; Loyola College, Balti- more, Maryland; Georgetown University, Washing- ton, D. C. Became a Cathoho in boyhood; private secretary to the Governor of North Carolina 1868; colonel of miUtia 1868-1871; secretary to President Grant 1869-1873; United States Marshal, North Carolina, 1873-1883; married Jessie, daughter of Judge Robert P. Dick, of Greensboro, North Caro- lina; standing master in Chancery, United States Circuit Court, 1888-1896; associate justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina 1897-1905; senior member of the firm of Douglas and Douglas 1905-
- trustee of Apostolate Company, Nazareth,
North Carolina. Delegate to RepubHcan National Convention, 1876; delegate to Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, making an address against granting alimony in divorces a vinculo, St. Louis, 1904; principal contributor to the building of St. Agnes Church, Greensboro; has been counsel and director of numerous corporations. Member of American Bar Association. Author of pamphlets on poHtioal, historical, social, and economic questions.
ABTICLE : Nohth Cabolina.
Doumic, Ren^, writer, b. in Paris, 7 March, 1860. Education: Lycte Condorcet and Higher Normal School, Paris. Literary and dramatic critic, "Revue des Deux Mondes", Paris, 1893- . Founder of the Society of Conferences; participated in the French Conferences, Harvard University, 1898. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; president of the Society of Men of Letters (1909); member "of the French Academy; FeUow of the University of Paris. Author of: "Les Jeunes"; "Portraits d'6crivains"; "Eori- vains d'Aujourd'hui"; "De Scribe k Ibsen"; "Le thiSdtre contemporain"; "Le thd^tre nouveau"; "Hommes et idees du XIX ° si^cle"; "Etudes sur la litterature frangaise", 5 vols.; "George Sand"; "La Vie et les moeurs au jour le jour"; "Manuel d'his- toire de la litterature frangaise".
ARTICLES: BotjtjAinvtlliers, Henri, Count of; Bran- t6me, Pierre de Bourdeille Seigneur de; France; French Literature.
Dowling, Right Revereistd Austin, a.b., d.d.. Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, b. in New York, 6 April, 1868. Education: Manhattan College, New York; St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts; Catholic University, Washington, D. C. Ordained 1891; instructor in Church history, St. John's Semi- nary, Brighton, 189.3-1896; editor, "Providence Visitor", Providence, Rhode Island, 1896-1898; rector of the cathedral. Providence, and lecturer on historical subjects, 1898-1912; Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, 1912-
ARTICLES: Conclave; Providence, Diocese of.
Dowling, Reverend Michael P., s.j., b. at Cincinnati, Ohio, 14 June, 1851; d. at Kansas City, Missouri, 13 February, 1915. Education: St. Xavier's College. Cincinnati; Jesuit scholasticates, Florissant, Missouri, Woodstock, Maryland, and St. Louis, Missouri. Entered the Society of Jesus 1869; ordained 1881; at various times teacher of poetry, rhetoric, and Uterature, Jesuit colleges at Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Detroit, 1881-1885; president, Creigh- ton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 1885-1889; president, Detroit College, 1889-1893; pastor, Holy Family Church, Chicago, 1893-1897; pastor, Gesu, Milwaukee, 1897-1898; president, Creighton Univer- sity, Omaha, 1898-1907; pastor, St. Aloysius Church, Kansas City, Missouri, 1907-1915. As president of Creighton University, erected a church, aided in establishing an astronomical observatory, founded the departments of dentistry and pharmacy, and.
with the help of Count John A. Creighton, placed
the finances of the institution upon a firm basis; as
president of Detroit College and rector in Chicago
and Milwaukee, erected schools and other buildings,
renovated churches, etc.; built Rockhurst College,
Kansas City. Author of lectures and pamphlets on
reUgious, educational, social, and economic questions.
ARTICLE : Creighton Univeksitt.
Doyle, Reverend James, b. at Madras, India, 1860. Education: St. Paul's High School, Rangoon, Burma; General Seminary for the Eastern Missions, Penang, Straits Settlements. Ordained 1885; engaged in parish and mission work under Bishop Medlycott, Malabar, India, 1888-1889; became a priest of the diocese of San Thome, Mylapore, India, 1890; has held the post of professor in colleges and seminaries; former editor of "The Catholic Register" (18 years); relieved of parish work through ill health, resident at Whitefield, Mysore, India, 1911- . By his researches has contributed much valuable evidence to the question of the authenticity of the grave of St. Thomas, Mylapore. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
ARTICLE: Saint Thomas of Mtiapuk.
Doyle, Reverend John Patrick Maria, t.o.r., M.A., S.T.D., b. in Ireland, 1873. Education: Assump- tion School, St. Francis College, and St. John's Seminary, Brooklyn, New York; American CoUege, Rome. Came to the United States 1880; ordained 1901; former chaplain and professor of philosophy, St. Francis College, Brooklyn; assistant successively at Church of St. John the Evangelist, Brooklyn, St. Patrick's Church, Huntington, New York, and Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Brooklyn; entered the Third Order Regular of St. Francis 1910; rector and professor of moral theology, St. Francis College and Seminary, Loretto, Pennsylvania, 1910-1914; sta- tioned at Trinity College, Sioux City, Iowa, 1914.
ARTICLE: Third Orders: Third Order Regular of St. Francis (Province of the Sacred Heart of Jesus).
Driscoll, Reverend James F., d.d., b. at Poultney, Vermont, 1859. Education: Sulpioian College and Seminary, Montreal, Canada; further studies in Paris and Rome; Semitic studies under Dr. Hyvernat and Dr. Ignacio Guidi. Entered the Congregation of St. Sulpice; professor of dogmatic theology. Grand Seminary, Montreal, 1889-1896; professor of dogmatic theology (1896-1898); professor of Sacred Scripture and Semitios (1898-1902), and president (1902-1909), St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, New York; editor, "New York Review", 1905-1908; left the Sulpician Order, becoming a priest of the New York diocese, 1906; rector, St. Ambrose's Church, New York, 1909- 1910; rector, St. Gabriel's Church, New RocheUe, New York, 1910- . Member of: the American Oriental Society; the Oriental Club of New York.
ARTICLES: Adam; Armenia; Carem; Dan; Euthalius, Bishop OP Sulca; Eve; Ezechias; Firmament; Gog and Maqoq; Golden Calf; Hebrew Language and Literature; Hermon; HoGAN, John Baptist (Abb^); Janssens, Johann Hermann; Jehu; Jephte; Jeroboam; Jezabel; Joab; Jonas; Jonathan; Josaphat; Juda, Name of Patriarch, Tribe, and Territory; .TuDAS Machabeus; Lamb, Paschal; Lamuel; Lamt, Bernard; Levites; Media and Medes; Moses Bar Cephas; Nabo; Na- than; Nathanael; Nathinites; Nazarene; Nazarites; Nebo, Mount; Nemrod or Nimrod; Nicodemus; Ointment, in Scrip- ture; Onias (6); Oriental Study and Research; Ozias; Patriarch; Pectoral; Pharisees; Philistines; Phylacteries; Promise, Divine, in Scripture; Proselyte; Publican; Ra- chel; Raphael, Saint; Rechab and the Rbchabites; Refuge, Cities of; Sabaoth; Sadducees; Salome; Samson; Sara; Saul; Scribes; Simeon; Simeon, Holy; Simon of Cremona; Stoning in Scripture; Terrestrial Paradise; Theocracy; Tribe, Jewish; Urim and Thummim.
Driscoll, Very Reverend James H., d.d., d.c.l., rector, church of St. John the Baptist, Plattsburg, New York.
ARTICLES: Birth, the Defect of; Contumacy.
