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'''Orion Theophilus Dozier''' (born [[August 18]], [[1848]] in Glenalter, Georgia; died [[1925]]) was a physician, inventor, and poet. | '''Orion Theophilus Dozier''' (born [[August 18]], [[1848]] in Glenalter, Georgia; died [[1925]]) was a physician, inventor, and poet. | ||
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Orion Theophilus Dozier (born August 18, 1848 in Glenalter, Georgia; died 1925) was a physician, inventor, and poet.
Orion was the son of Doctor Thomas Henry Dozier and Martha Stearns Davie Dozier. He was raised in Atlanta and taught in the public schools there. He went on to earn a degree at the Atlanta Medical College and married the former Elizabeth Powers on April 30, 1874.
Dozier moved to Birmingham in the early 1870s and practiced medicine here. He was one of the founders of the Regents of the White Shield and led that organization for decades. As an inventor, he patented designs for a harness hame, a portable elevator, and a mailing machine. He was also a published poet with several volumes to his name, much of it eulogizing the Confederacy and attacking Catholicism.
Publications
- Dozier, Orion T. (1894) Foibles of Fancy and Rhymes of the Times. Birmingham: Dispatch Printing Co.
- Dozier, Orion T. Poems Patriotic
- Dozier, Orion T. (1905) Galaxy of Southern Heroes and Other Poems. Birmingham: Dispatch Printing Co.
- Dozier, Orion T. (1905) Poems of Orion T. Dozier New York: Reale Publishing Co.
- Dozier, Orion T. (1916) Chips and Whetstones of Verses and Prose. Birmingham: Dispatch Printing Co.
- Dozier, Orion T. (1920) Just A-Thinking. Birmingham: Dispatch Printing Co.
References
- Alderman, Edwin Anderson, Joel Chandler Harris & Charles William Kent, eds (1910) Library of Southern Literature: Biographical Dictionary of Authors. Atlanta, Georgia: Martin & Hoyt Company