Dover (City and county-seat)
a city and county-seat of Strafford co., N. H.; at the head of navigation on Cocheco river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 168 miles N. N. E. of Boston. It is situated on hilly ground, is regularly laid out, and has many handsome buildings and residences. The river at this point has a depth of 11 feet, affording good shipping accommodations. The falls of Cocheco, within the city limits, are the source of abundant water power. Dover's industries include several large cotton and woolen mills, an extensive print works, manufactories of boots and shoes, oil cloth, hats and caps, and several tanneries, brass and iron foundries, and machine shops. There are several churches, high school, St. Joseph's Hill School, Franklin Academy, National banks, several savings banks, daily and weekly newspapers. There are monuments to persons distinguished in Revolutionary history. It is the oldest city in the State; settled in 1623; nearly destroyed by the Indians in 1689; and chartered as a city in 1855. Pop. (1910) 13,247; (1920) 13,029.
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Dover (City capital of the State Kent)
a city, capital of the State Kent of Delaware, and county-seat eat of , co.; on Jones creek, and the Philadelphia railroad, 75 Washington, and Baltimore seat miles S. of Philadelphia. It is the Academy and of Wilmington Conference to the has a handsome monument erected the memory of Cæsar Rodney, one of of Independsigners of the Declaration fruitence. It is the center of a great growing region; is on high ground; is wide, straight streets that laid out with with angles; and is cross each other at right built up chiefly with brick. Among its noteworthy buildings are a handsome State house, large court house, and new United States Government building. Connected with the State house is a State library with upward of 80,000 volumes. There are several churches, a National and a State bank, fruit evaporating and packing establishments, steam flour mill, foundry, machine shop, and sash, fruit crate, glass, and carriage factories.
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Dover (City in Morris co N J)
a city in Morris co., N. J.; on the Rockaway river, the Lackawanna and the New Jersey Central railroads, and the Morris and Essex canal; 28 miles W. of Newark. It has extensive iron interests, railroad shops, machine shops, furnace and stove factories, and silk and hosiery mills. Five miles distant is a government powder magazine. Nearby are Lake Hopatcong, Mt. Arlington, Budd's Lake, and Schooley's Mountain, all noted summer resorts. The city has a high school, several churches, business college, daily and weekly newspapers, electric lights, and National bank. Pop. (1910) 7,468; (1920) 9,803.
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Dover (City of Ohio in Tuscarawas It)
a city of Ohio, in Tuscarawas It was formerly known as Canal co. Dover. The city is on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and other railroads. It is an important industrial center and has a large plant of the United States Steel Corporation and several important coke and coal companies. It has also important plants for manufacturing electrical devices. Pop. (1910) 6,621; (1920) 8,101.
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Dow
or DOUW (properly Dou), GERARD, a Dutch painter, the son of He studied under Rembrandt, and united a glazier; born in Leyden, April 7, 1613. his master's manner in chiaroscuro with the most minute finish and delicacy. His pictures are generally of small size and mostly scenes of family life. Dow died in Leyden in 1675.
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Dow
ARTHUR WESLEY, an American artist; born at Ipswich, Mass. He was educated in Boston and Paris. He exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1886- 1887. He was for some time curator of Japanese art in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and from 1895 to 1904 he was instructor in art at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and instructor in composition at the Art Students' League from 1897 to 1903. From 1904 he was professor of fine arts in the Teachers' College, Columbia University. He wrote "Compositions" (1898), and published several books of color prints of especially high merit.
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Dow (NEAL an American temperance)
NEAL, an American temperance reformer; born in Portland, Me., March 20, 1804. He was the author of the bill which prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State of Maine, widely known as the "Maine Law." During the Civil War he was colonel of a Maine regiment and a Brigadier-General of volunteers. He died Oct. 2, 1897.
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Dow, Neal
Neal (1804-1897), a noted Prohibitionist. He was born in Portland, Maine, of Quaker ancestry. He was twice mayor of Portland, and twice a member of the legislature. During his first term as mayor he framed a Prohibition bill, carried it to the legislature, and had it passed by both houses and signed by the governor and put in effect,--all inside of three days. It was hastily enacted, but it was not drawn hastily. It is known the world over as "the Maine Law." Mr. Dow served in the Union army as colonel of the Maine volunteers. He was commissioned brigadier-general by President Lincoln. He was captured by the Confederates, and was confined in Libby Prison for eight months, until exchanged for General Fitz-Hugh Lee. Mr. Dow visited England three times on lecture tours. In 1894 he was the Prohibition candidate for president.
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Dowagiac
a city of Michigan, în Cass co. It is on the Michigan Central railroad. It is the center of an important farming region, and its industries include flour and lumber mills, a canning factory, and a gas factory. It has a public library and manufactures of stoves, gloves, furnaces, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,088; (1920) 5,440.
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Dowden
EDWARD, an Irish poet and historian; born in Cork, May 3, 1843. He was Professor of English Literature in Trinity College, Dublin. He published a volume of "Poems" (1876); his other writing are biological and critical, e. g., "Shakespeare, his Mind and Art" (1872), a work of high authority, which reached a fifth edition (1887) and has been translated into German; "Southey" (1879); "Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (1886); "Studies 7); "Introduccerature" (3d ed. 1887); in tion to Shakespeare" (1893); "Primer of French Literature" (1897); "Life of Browning" (1904); "Montayne" (1903); "Essays" (1910). He visited the United States in 1896, delivered a notable series of lectures at Princeton. He died April 4, 1913.
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