scientific topics, and frequently appeared before New York audiences in that capacity. He has patented methods for extinguishing fires, and also other chemical processes, also introducing into the United States several chemical industries. The New York university has conferred on him the degree of LL.D. Doremus held for several years the presidency of the New York Philharmonic Society, and has also been president of the New York Medico-Legal Society, of which organization he was chemist for several years. His published writings include only a few addresses, notably that at the unveiling of the Humboldt statue in Central Park, and papers delivered before scientific societies. Family Robert Ogden Doremus married Estelle Skidmore Doremus on October 1, 1850. When Robert's work took the family to Paris, his wife Estelle was remembered as "the leader of the American colony in Paris during the most brilliant part of the reign of Napoleon III" in the early 1860s. Estelle and Robert Doremus had four children. Dr. Charles Avery Doremus, was engaged in the general practice of chemistry. For twenty-two years he served as a faculty member of the College of the City of New York. He died December 2, 1925 of heart disease. Thomas Cornelius Doremus died of pneumonia on March 25, 1928, at 74 years of age. Estelle E. Doremus died in August 1937. She was an accomplished musician and member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Arthur Lispenard Doremus died on April 24, 1953, at 84 years of age. Notes References Attribution Further reading "Biography: Robert Ogden Doremus", The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York : James T. White & Co., 1906. Cf. p. 609 External links 1824 births 1906 deaths American chemists American pathologists Physicians from New York City Scientists from New York (state)