Downey, William F., 1622 L Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Downing, Bernard, Secretary to the President of the Borough of Manhattan, City Hall, New York City.
Downing, D. P., manager National Biscuit Company, Cambridge, Mass.
Doyle, Alfred L., of John F. Doyle & Sons, real estate agents, brokers and appraisers, 45 William Street, New York City.
Doyle, David A., Katonah, N. Y.; postmaster.
Doyle, James, 455 West Twenty-eighth Street, New York City; present oldest member of the flour trade in New York; member of the New York Produce Exchange from the beginning; member of the board of managers of the Exchange, 1897–1901. He and his son, Mr. Nathaniel Doyle, also a member of the Society, are associated in trade as James Doyle & Company.
Doyle, John F., of John F. Doyle & Sons, 45 William Street, New York City. (Life member of the Society and a member of its Executive Council.) Mr. Doyle is the senior member of the real estate firm of John F. Doyle & Sons. He was born in New York City, 1837, a son of James Doyle, who participated in the Irish revolution of 1798, and who came to the United States early in 1806. This James Doyle, the immigrant, had a son who was killed in the Florida war of 1837, and a grandson who fell in 1861, fighting for the Union. John F. Doyle, the subject of this sketch and member of the Society, entered the law office of Alexander Hamilton, grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury, afterwards the firm of Hamilton, Rives & Rogers, and remained with them from 1853 to 1869, in the meantime studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1862. Alexander Hamilton, Francis R. Rives, a son of William C. Rives, of Virginia, at one time minister to France and senator, and Nathan Pendleton Rogers, all of the old Revolutionary stock, were members of the firm. Mr. Doyle’s management of some Wall Street properties for them at this period became so conspicuous that he was urged by them to assume the management of their estates, which he did. Shortly afterwards followed the acquisition of the estates of such well-known people as Mrs. Harriet L. Langdon, granddaughter-in-law of the first John Jacob Astor, John Pyne March, Mrs. Morgan L. Livingston, George L. Schuyler, James M. Pendleton, A. Newbold Morris, James H. Jones, John Steward, Jr., Royal Phelps, deceased, Royal Phelps Carroll, Robert S. Minturn, estate of Gertrude L. Lowndes, deceased, William H. King, of Newport, R. I., and others too numerous to mention in detail. A feature of his career as a successful manager lies in the fact that the business associations and connections formed by him in the beginning are still held intact. Among the notable sales made by him are those from William H. Morris to John Jacob Astor in 1880 conveying 150 acres of lots in the twenty-third ward on and adjacent to Harlem River; the great sale of South Brooklyn lots at Gowanus Bay in 1884. Mr. Doyle represents today the same old and well-known families and estates represented by him so many years ago. During his career Mr. Doyle has met and done business with some of the most notable men connected with families famous in American history, such as three of the four sons of the first Alexander Hamilton, Admiral Farragut, Capt. Percival Drayton, Rawlins Lowndes, of South Carolina, William C. Rives, U. S. senator from Virginia, at one time minister to France, George L. Schuyler, grandson of Philip Schuyler, and owner of the famous yacht America, Philip Schuyler, his son, Henry Grinnell of Arctic fame, Robert J. and Mortimer Livingston, Hon. John Lee Carroll, Commodore Wm. K. Vanderbilt, and scores of others equally well known, besides representing branches now of four lineal descendants of signers of the Declaration of Independence. His two sons, Col. John F. Doyle, Jr., and Alfred L. Doyle, have been with him in business for years past and all three enjoy an enviable reputation for integrity, ability and prudence in all their undertakings.
Doyle, Col. John F., Jr., of John F. Doyle & Sons, 45 William Street, New York City.
Doyle, Nathaniel, of James Doyle & Company, flour, 455 West Twenty-eighth Street, New York City; member of the board of managers, New York Produce Exchange; member of the New York Club, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street; member Veteran Association, Seventh Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.
Driscoll, Rev. John T., Fonda, N. Y., clergyman, born Albany, N. Y., 1836; educated in schools of that place; graduated Manhattan College, 1885; after studying four years at Troy Theological Seminary, was ordained to the priesthood; took advanced course at Catholic University, S. T. B., S. T. L. (former being first degree conferred by University); for three years taught philosophical branches in Theological Seminary at Brighton, Mass., and for several seasons has been a regular lecturer at Plattsburgh Summer School; author “Christian Philosophy—The Human Soul,” and “Christian Philosophy—God.”