George Washington Doane, an American bishop, born at Trenton, N. J., May 27, 1799, died at Burlington, N. J., April 27, 1859. He graduated at Union college in 1818, was admitted to holy orders in 1821, officiated for three years in Trinity church, New York, and in 1824 was appointed the first professor in "Washington (now Trinity) college, Hartford. In 1828 he became assistant minister, and afterward rector of Trinity church, Boston, where he remained till 1832, when he was elected bishop of New Jersey, whereupon he removed to Burlington, and became rector of St. Mary's church in that city. Here ho devoted his energies to the establishment of a comprehensive system of Christian education for females, and opened in 1837 St. Mary's hall, a boarding school for girls, beautifully situated on the shore of the Delaware. In consequence of the great success of this enterprise, he founded Burlington college in 1846. Under his episcopate the church in New Jersey experienced an unexampled increase in the number of its communicants, from 801 in 1832 to 4,500 in 1858, while the clergy increased from 14 to 90 in the same period, and the number of parishes from 31 to 79. In 1824 he published a volume of poems entitled "Songs by the Way." A volume of his sermons was issued in London in 1842. His life has been written by his son, W. C. Doane, who has also edited his "Poetical Works, Sermons, and Miscellaneous "Writings" (4 vols., 1860).