It was first known as Dorr Centre and it is believed to have been named for Thomas Wilson Dorr, leader of the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island.

Gillette was the model for pictures by the artist Frederic Dorr Steele, which were featured in Collier's Weekly then and reproduced by American media.

In Rhode Island the Dorr Rebellion of the 1840s demonstrated that the demand for equal suffrage was broad and strong.

The Dorr Rebellion ( 1841 – 1842 ) was a short-lived armed insurrection in the U. S. state of Rhode Island led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who was agitating for changes to the state's electoral system.

Late in that year, the two constitutions were voted on, and the Freemen's Constitution was defeated in the legislature, largely by Dorr supporters, while the People's Convention version was overwhelmingly supported in a referendum in December.

Although much of the support for the People's Convention constitution was from the newly eligible voters, Dorr claimed that most of those eligible under the old constitution had also supported it, making it legal.

Dorr returned later in 1843, was found guilty of treason against the state, and was sentenced in 1844 to solitary confinement and hard labor for life.

The harshness of the sentence was widely condemned, and in 1845 Dorr, his health now broken, was released.

As a high school student, Marilyn was part of the St. Luke's Choir of Long Beach under the direction of William Ripley Dorr.

The captain of the Otter, Ebenezer Dorr, had, however, made it a precondition of his part in the escape plan that Muir and any who chose to go with him should effect their own escape from the harbour at Port Jackson, as this was carefully guarded by a blockading frigate.

Near this park is the state-owned Felt Mansion, which was built by inventor of the comptometer, Dorr E. Felt, in 1928.

The Dorr facility was recently renovated and is currently LEED-certified by the U. S. Green Building Council.

Thomas Wilson Dorr ( November 5, 1805 – December 27, 1854 ), was American politician and reformer, best known for leading the Dorr Rebellion.

He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Sullivan and Lydia ( Allen ) Dorr.

Dorr was no plebeian when he led the cause of the unenfranchised classes.

In 1834 a convention met at Providence to consider the matter again, and Dorr was a member of the committee which drew up an address to the people.

* July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U. S. patent for his comptometer.

Consequently, his manager at the time, Larry Dorr, negotiated a licensing deal between himself and Bobby Colomby in 1984 for rights to tour using the band's name.

Larry Dorr has been the bands manager ( and much more ) for over 30 years now and Blood Sweat & Tears is still one of the most popular touring acts of all time.

Dorr continued to acquire property and renewed his efforts to obtain full national park status for his beloved preserve.

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Embry-Riddle and its various divisions expanded rapidly to train aviators during the war, and the Carlstrom Field facility trained pilots for the Royal Air Force, while nearby Dorr Field prepared pilots for advanced training with the U. S. Army Air Forces.

In addition, among the defenders of Providence were many black men who had supported Dorr before he dropped them from his call for suffrage.

The Charterites fortified a house in preparation for an attack ; but it never came, and the Dorr Rebellion soon fell apart.

* July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U. S. patent for his comptometer.

There is also the John Dorr Nature Laboratory, located on 275 acres ( 1. 11288 km2 ) of land in Washington Depot, Connecticut, used for extended field trips for classes of students starting in second grade and an orientation program for new students entering the Middle or Upper Divisions.

Meanwhile King had proclaimed martial law, offered a $ 5, 000 reward for the capture of Dorr, and made wholesale imprisonments of the latter's followers under the " Algerine Law ".

However, in 1854, the state supreme court wrote " The union of all the powers of government in the same hands is but the definition of despotism "; thus, the same court that, in 1844, convicted Dorr of treason against the charter did rule, ten years later, that the charter had improperly authorized a despotic, non-republican, un-American form of government ( Dennison, p. 196 ).

During his administration as governor of Rhode Island he took a strong stand against the expanded voting franchise that led to the Dorr Rebellion in 1841-1842.

He recalled that in Rhode Island a party opposed to the state's condemnation of a man ( Thomas W. Dorr ) proclaimed the state's action as a violation of the law of the land and the principles of human liberty.

A crisis in 1840s Rhode Island, the Dorr Rebellion, forced the Supreme Court to rule on the meaning of this clause.

* May 19 – Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island, but are repulsed.

He also mentions the Shay Rebellion in New York, the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania, the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, and the Hartford Convention in Connecticut.

* 1842-The Dorr Rebellion: A civil war in Rhode Island

In early 1842, both groups organized elections of their own, leading in April to the selections of both Dorr and Samuel Ward King as Governor of Rhode Island.

* Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, Might and Right by a Rhode Islander ( 1844 ), based on information supplied by Dorr

The Dorr War ; or, The Constitutional Struggle in Rhode Island ( 1901 ; reprinted 1970 ), hostile to Dorr

Constitutional reform came to a head in 1841 when supporters of universal suffrage led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, dissatisfied with the conservative General Assembly and the state's conservative governor, Samuel Ward King, held the extralegal People's Convention, calling on Rhode Islanders to debate a new liberal constitution.

Today, Rhode Island's state government includes Dorr in its list of governors.

( regarding the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island and voting rights.

Author, of a five-volume " History of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ", " The Governors of Rhode Island ", " The Dorr War ", " The Story of the Rhode Island Normal School ", " Story of Dr. John Clarke ", and the " History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family and Collateral Lines ".

He was one of the " law and order " leaders during the " Dorr Rebellion " of 1842, and was called " the first citizen of Rhode Island.

Arnold also served as a member of the Rhode Island Executive Council during the Dorr Rebellion from 1842 to 1843.