. The Doane family:. a pronouncedAbolitionist of the Garrison, Phillips and Birney type. Children, of first marriage: 1 ,* b. at Paoli, Orange Co., 1823, 8. 21; m. Apr. 28,1853, near Monrovia, Ind.,Avid. Lydia Kimberlain, who wasb. Apr. 12, 181G, dan. of David and Hannah McKoe. moved with his parents to Morgan Co., Ind., in fallof 1830, thence to Richland, Iowa, in autumn of 1854. Inspring of 1856 he removed to Homer, la., thence to WebsterCity in 1864. In 1863 Mr. Doane was appointed CountyJudge of Hamilton Co., la., and served in all six and onehalf years. He has served
. The Doane family:. a pronouncedAbolitionist of the Garrison, Phillips and Birney type. Children, of first marriage: 1 ,* b. at Paoli, Orange Co., 1823, 8. 21; m. Apr. 28,1853, near Monrovia, Ind.,Avid. Lydia Kimberlain, who wasb. Apr. 12, 181G, dan. of David and Hannah McKoe. moved with his parents to Morgan Co., Ind., in fallof 1830, thence to Richland, Iowa, in autumn of 1854. Inspring of 1856 he removed to Homer, la., thence to WebsterCity in 1864. In 1863 Mr. Doane was appointed CountyJudge of Hamilton Co., la., and served in all six and onehalf years. He has served his county as auditor, recorderand supervisor. In 1875 he was a candidate of the LiberalDemocracy for State Suporintondont of Public Instruc-tion, but was defeated by Republican majority. In 1882 hewas the nominee of the National Greenback party for Con-gress. In 1879 and 1880 he Avas mayor of Webster City-He became a member of the K. of L. in 1S82 and has eversince been a zealous advocate of its aims and objects. He. (No. 439.) RT. REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE Bishop of New Jersey. DESCENDANTS OF DEA. JOHN DOANE. 393 spent several years as a school-teacher and at one time waseditor of a newspaper. Mr. Doane writes : I have wor-ried througli a large amount of hard work and managed toremain poor. The terminal e in my name is an innovationof my own, the family for two generations having writtenit without the e —thus, Doan. When a lad I was possessedof large and sensitive auricular organs, which enabled meto hear what the sapient seniors of the household were say-ing, even Avhen they did not perhaps accord me credit forintelligence enougli to comprehend their meaning. It wasin this manner that I learned incidentally that the familyname Doan was formerly written Doane, but that oneuncle Thomas Doanof Green Co., Tenn., who was abrother of my grandfather, and a writer of some local note,had astutely detected the superfluity or utter uselessnessof the terminal e and had taken the re
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