. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. -historian-manufacturer of Provi-dence, was her brother. In their veins mingled the blood of GabrielBernon, the French Huguenot, and of Thomas Harris of and Lydia (Allen) Dorr grew to the estate of marriage underthe political influences of the formative period of the Republic, withFederalism triumphant, during the administration of Washington andAdams; united their fortunes in 1804, and in 1805, their first-bom sonappeared, under the brilliant political constellation of Thomas Jefferson,the Father of Ame
. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. -historian-manufacturer of Provi-dence, was her brother. In their veins mingled the blood of GabrielBernon, the French Huguenot, and of Thomas Harris of and Lydia (Allen) Dorr grew to the estate of marriage underthe political influences of the formative period of the Republic, withFederalism triumphant, during the administration of Washington andAdams; united their fortunes in 1804, and in 1805, their first-bom sonappeared, under the brilliant political constellation of Thomas Jefferson,the Father of American Democracy. The astrologers predicted a newstar, just below the horizon, and it arose. The boy was named ThomasWilson in honor of a business friend in China, whom the father loved asa brother. That the boy was a brilliant student appears from the factthat Phillips-Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, had fitted him for collegeat the age of fourteen, and that he graduated from Harvard College atthe age of eighteen, the second scholar in rank in his class. He studied i. THOMAS W. DORR Hlccteil Guvcrnor Under the Peoples Constitution THE DORR WAR 783 law in the city of New York under the tuition of the great jurists, Chan-cellor Kent and Vice-Chancellor McCoun and at the age of twenty-twowas admitted to the Rhode Island Bar and opened an office for practicein his native city, Providence, in 1827. Dorrs splendid talents, high social rank, and a family fortune, openedbefore the young lawyer the vista of a brilliant future. In his physique,Thomas Wilson Dorr was a man of mark; in fact, he might have bornethe soubriquet of The Little Giant, as appropriately as Stephen A. Doug-las of Illinois, whom he much resembled in size and stature. A large, roundhead was joined to broad shoulders by a stout neck. His body was thick-set, tending to corpulency. The forehead was full, high, intellectual, withan early tendency to baldness. His eyes were bright, full, sympathetic;his nose regular, his m
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