DOANE, George Washington, American Episcopal bishop: b. Trenton, N. J. 27 May 1799; d. Burlington, N. J., 27 April 1859. He was educated at Union College and the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained deacon in 1821 and priest two years later, having become in the meantime an as sistant in Trinity Parish, New York. Here he remained until 1824, when he was appointed professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres in Wash ington (now Trinity) College, Hartford. This position he held for four years, going then to Boston as assistant and afterward rector of Trinity Church. In 1832 he was consecrated bishop of New Jersey, and took up his resi dence in Burlington, N. J., combining the rectorship of Saint Mary's Church with the episcopate until his death. Besides a vigorous prosecution of general religious work in his diocese, he devoted himself especially to the promotion of Christian education. In 1837 he
founded Saint Mary's Hall, a boarding and day school for girls, at Burlington, and in 1846 or ganized Burlington College in the same town. His zeal in this direction, combined with incom plete knowledge of business principles, led to financial embarrassment and ultimately to pre sentment for trial before his brother bishops; but though twice brought up, the charge was unanimously dismissed. In many ways Bishop Doane was far in advance of his time, advocat ing daily services and the free church system when they were practically unknown in America. He left a large number of published sermons, lectures and essays, and was also a poet of no mean ability, his best-known poems being that beginning