DOTY, Elihu, missionary, born in Berne, Albany County, New York, 20 September 1809; died at sea, 30 November 1864. He was apprenticed to a merchant in 1824, but afterward entered Rutgers College, was graduated there in 1835, at New Brunswick theological seminary in 1836, and sailed as a missionary for Batavia, Java, in June of that year. After working in Java and Borneo, he finally settled, in 1844, at Amoy, China, where his labors were very successful. In his later, years he gave himself especially to the literary work of the mission. Overwork ruined his health, and he died on the vessel that was carrying him home. Among his publications are "Some Thoughts on the Proper Term for God in the Chinese" (Shanghai. 1850); " Anglo Chinese Manual of the Amoy Dialect" (1853): and a translation into that dialect of Milner's "Thirteen Village Sermons" (Amoy, 1854).