DODDER

(Cuscuta), genus of parasitic plants, order Convolvulacezs; leafle twining stem; small flowers grow in clusters. Eng. Nonconformist minister; pastor at North amp ton, 1729; wrote the Rise and Progre of Religion in the Soul. (1831-1916), army general and civil engineer, b. Danvers, Ma . Graduating from Norwich University, Vermont, as a civil engineer, in 1850, he surveyed the Platte river region for the government with the view of finding a Pacific railroad route. The Civil War found him among the Union forces. He was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign as commander of the 16th Army Corps and at the war’s close he was a major general of volunteers. As a civil engineer in the reconstruction period he directed the building of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1866 to 1870, and later built the Texas and Pacific Railroad, whose chief engineer he was for ten years. Railway construction work in Europe, Canada and Mexico also engaged his attention. He was a member of Congre from Iowa between 1867 and 1869. After the war with Spain in 1898 he headed a commi ion which investigated the conduct of that conflict following charges of mismanagement. (1870), an American diplomat, 6. at Boston, s. of Henry Cleaves and Alice Almia Lamb Dodge. He was educated at Harvard and after studying law there was admitted to the bar in 1895 and later studied in France, Germany and Italy. He entered the United States diplomatic service in 1899 and afterwards was secretary to the American Emba y at Berlin and later Tokyo, was E.E. and M.P. to Honduras, Salvador, Morocco and Panama: was appointed rep. of State Dept. on American Commi ion for repatriation of Americans in EKurope in 1914 and in 1919 was appointed American Minister to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. 1896), author, 6b. Hamilton, Ma . In her early career she was a teacher in Hartford, Conn., and Washington, D.C. She began to contribute to periodicals and wrote a number of books under the pen name of Gail Hamilton. Much of her writings appealed to children, and for two years, 1865-7, she was a member of the staff of Our Young Folks. She opposed woman suffrage and was an advocate of civil service reform. Her work included a life of James G. Blaine.