DODDRIDGE. 348 DODGE. project for foreign missions among the Xon- coniformisls. His principal writings are: The Uisi and I'rognss of Uiliyiuii in the ISoul (1750), which has been translated into many languages; 27ic haiiiili/ Kjciiuailiir (17o!)-5G) ; ami his Course of Licturis, delivered to the students under his charge, and published by the Uev. .Samuel Clarke (17t)3). .Many of his hynms are still used bj* different denominations. Consult The Corre- siioiidcnce and Diary of Philip Doddridge, edited by his greatgrandson, Jolin Doddridge Hum- phreys (London, 182!»-31). DODEC ATHE'ON. Sec Cowsi.ip. DODE DE LA BKUNERIE, d<.d dc li bryn'- r6' (1775-1S51). A French soldier, born at Saint-Geoire (Is6re). He served in the engineer corps in the Khenish, Egyptian, and Italian cam- paigns, distinguished himself at Kastadt, and in 1805 he became a colonel. He directed tlie siege operations at Saragossa in 1S09. was promoted to be general of division in 1S12. and maintained a magnifieent defense of the fortress at ( Slogan in 1813. In 182.'? he was comman<ler of engineers in the Spanish campaign, in 1840 was appointed president of tlie committee on fortifications, and in 1840-45 completed the defenses of Paris. Ho received the marshal's baton in 1847 — the first engineer since Vauban, it is said, to be thus honored. DODERLEIN, d.-'derlin. Ltnwio (1701- 18G3). An eminent German classical philologist and teacher of the classics, born at .Jena. He studied under Tiersch in Munich ( ISlOl 1 ) . then two years in Flcidelberg, and later in Erlangen and Berlin. In 1815 he became professor of philologj- in Bern, and in 1819 was called to Erlangen as rector of the gymnasium and pro- fessor of philology in the university. Here he remained until his death. Diiderlein combined with accurate scholarship a rare enthusiasm and skill in teaching which had a most important influence on the schools and teachers of Bavaria. His most important published works are: edi- tions of Sophoeles's (Edi/iu/i f'oloncu/i (1823); Tacitus (1841-47): Horaec's Epistles (1856.58); fialirrs (1800) : Iliad (18G3-G4). He also wrote the following treatises: Latcinische fti/noni/men und Ettjmolofiien (1826-38): haleinis'che Wort- hildung (1838); Ihnidhuch dcr latcinischen ftynoni/mik (lS3fl): Uandbuch der lalrinisehrn Et>/mologic (1841): TJomerisehcs fllossaritim (18.50.58) : Rairn inid .ufsiit:e (1860). Consult: Bursian. flrschirhtr drr Iclassisrhen Philnlogir in Deutsehlnnd (Munich, 1883) : A llgemeine detiltschr Biographic, v. (Leipzig, 1877). DODGE CITY. A town and the eoimty-seat of Ford County. Kan., over 300 miles west by south of Topeka. on the .rkansas Biver. and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ff- and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads (Map: Kansas, C 4). Sonic College (Methodist Episcopal), opened in 1804. is located there. Dodge City is mainly a railroad town. Init is the centre of a stock-raising district, and there is some farming. In the seventies it wa* famous in the West as a lawless Texas eattleshipping point. Population, in 1800. 1763; in 1000, 1042. DODGE, CiiAiti.KS RiCHARns (1847 — ). An American evpert on fibres and fibre industries. He wa-i born in Mississippi, and was edicated at Sheffield Scientifif S,tiool, Ynle. Tie became associated with the United States Department of Agriculture in 1867, and was subsequently appointed director of the .gricullural Museum. In 1800 lie began the fibre investigations of the Department of Agriculture. His Dictionary of ihe Fibres and Fibre I'lants of the World (1807) is a work of considerable value. DODGE, D.xiBX KiLiiAM (1863 — ). An American educator and author. He was born in Brooklyn. N. V., gra<luated at Columbia Uni- versity in 1884, and was a fellow there from 1884 "to 1880. In 1889-92 he was a tutor at Columbia, and in 18!;2 was appointed professor of English language and literature in the Uni- versity of Illinois. His publications include Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of His Literary Style (1800). DODGE, GuENViLLE Mellex (1831 — ). An American soldier and civil engineer. He was born at Danvers. Jlass., and was educated at a military academy and at Norwich University, Vermont. He was a member of the Government survey along the Platte for a railway to the Pacific, one of the first surveys to lie insti- tuted for that purpose. He fought through- out the Civil War, and rose to the rank of majoivgcneral of United States voUniteers. In 1864 he commanded the .Sixteenth Corps of General Sherman's army in the campaign be- fore Atlanta (May to September), and subse- quently succeeded llosecrans as commander of the Department of Missouri. He afterwards be- came chief engineer of the Union Pacific and Texas Pacific railways. From 1867 to 1869 he sen-ed as a member of Congress from Iowa, .■'nd in 1898 was made president of the commis ion appointed to investigate the charges of misman- agement relative to the Spanish-American War. DODGE. Mary .Vuig.vil (c. 1830-96). An .Viiieriiaii writer, known as 'Gail Hamilton,' born at Hamilton, Mass. She was at first a school- teacher, was an editor of Oi/r Young Folks, Bos- ton (1865-1867), and after 1876 lived in Wash- ington. Her writing is straightforward, pungent, aggressive, brilliant, and was from the first popular, though in the main ephemeral. The more noteworthy of many volumes are: Gala Days (1863); Red Letter Days in Applethorpc (1806); ironmn'.'! irronfli.'! (1868); The Battle of the Books ( 1870) ; IVomnir.'! Work and ^^orth■ lessness (1871) ; Sermons to the Clergy (1875) ; Our Common School System (1880) -T/ic Irre- pressible Book (1885). During the winter of 1800-91 Miss Dodge conducted a Bible class for adults in Washington and publisbcd her talks as .1 Washington Bible Class (1891). She wrote almost entirely under the [MMi-name Gail Haniil ton. the former word being the last syllable of .M)igail. the latter her birthplace. DODGE, Marv Euz.vnETii Mapes (1838—1. .
.iiierican editor, poet, and juvenile writer,
a daughter of Prof. .Tames .1. Mapes. She was born and educated in New York, and became the wife of William Dodge, a lawyer of that city. I)it w:is soon left a widow. She began literary work on the staff of Hearth and fjome. and in 1873 iH'came editor of finlnt ieholas. the juve- nile magazine, which iimler her direction came to occut'V :i field pr.ict ii^ally nnclis|iuted in the United States. . frequent contributor to other periodicals, she also wrote several volumes of
