. The Doane family:. in 1889, when, at the Paris Exposition, hemet the manufacturers of Europe on their own ground and, in compe-tition with the leading uuinufacturers of his class of the world com-bined, carried off the Grand Prix, and was himself decorated withthe cross of the Legion of Honor, by the government of France. Heis a director in many enterprises and a fellow of the American Soci-ety of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mining P^ngineers, American Geographical Society, American Society for theAdvancement of Science, American Archaeological Society, a Cheva-lier in the
. The Doane family:. in 1889, when, at the Paris Exposition, hemet the manufacturers of Europe on their own ground and, in compe-tition with the leading uuinufacturers of his class of the world com-bined, carried off the Grand Prix, and was himself decorated withthe cross of the Legion of Honor, by the government of France. Heis a director in many enterprises and a fellow of the American Soci-ety of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mining P^ngineers, American Geographical Society, American Society for theAdvancement of Science, American Archaeological Society, a Cheva-lier in the Legion of Honor, France, etc. It truly takes a man of strong mind and great force of character tolead successfully two lives at the same time. With large businessinterests on his mind, it seems remarkable that Mr. Doane shouldhave attained great eminence in music, but he is well and popuhirlyknown throughout America and Europe as an excellent composer ofmusic, especially Sunday-school music. He had high and noble as-. ^No. 538)WILLIAM HOWARD DOANE. DESCENDANTS OF DEA. JOHN DOAXE. 483 pirations, and the work that he has accomplished, in his avocation ofwriting Sunday-school music, has been of far greater benefit to man-kind than he ever could have accomplished by giving himself upentirely to business. The musical genius that was in him would notbe stilled, although frowned upon by his father, who always objectedto musical desires and insisted that a musical manwas not goodfor anything, yet the boys genius asserted itself at every stage in hiscareer and made him prominent in musical circles while still youngin years. When very young lie would be placed in a chair to singsongs for visitors, such as Sweet land of rest for Thee I sigh,Praise ye the Lord, Before Jehovahs aAvful Throne and Wherenow are the Hebrew Children? At six years of age he attended hisfirst country singing school. Being too small to sit with the singers,he took a seat in the corner and listened while they learne
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