{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = | image = Duane Doty (a).jpg | birth_date = c. 1836 | birth_place = Ohio | death_date = November 17, 1902 | death_place = Pullman, Illinois | office = 4th Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools | term_start = June 1877 | term_end = June 25, 1880 | predecessor = Josiah Little Pickard | successor = George C. Howland | office1 = Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools | term_start1 = 1864 | term_end1 = 1875 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = John M. B. Sill<ref name="sill">{{cite web |title=Michigan News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/323591302 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=he Times Herald (Port Huron, Michigan) |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=27 Feb 1875}}</ref> | alma_mater = University of Michigan | party = Democratic | profession = }}
'''Duane Doty''' (c. 1836–November 17, 1902) was an American educator, civil engineer, and administrator that served as superintendent of the public school systems in Detroit and Chicago, and who worked for the Pullman Car Company as the town manager of their company town of Pullman, Illinois.
==Early life== Doty was born in 1834 in Ohio. His father was Samuel Doty.<ref name="obit1">{{cite web |title=Duane Doty Died In Pullman {{!}} Ann Arbor District Library |url=https://aadl.org/node/450979 |website=aadl.org |publisher=Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat |access-date=29 December 2020 |date=1902}}</ref> Doty attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1856.<ref name="obit1"/>
==Career== ===Educational=== Doty was hired in 1864 as superintendent of schools in Detroit. He held this job for ten years.<ref name="obit1"/> Because the state's only normal school, the Michigan State Normal School, was producing an insufficient number of teachers to meet the demand in Detroit, in 1868 Doty launched an experimental teacher training course that was offered to select female seniors at Detroit high schools. Doty also attempted, unsuccessfully, to create a normal school in Detroit.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://education.wayne.edu/about/history |website=College of Education |access-date=23 July 2022 |language=en |date=10 May 2021}}</ref> Doty also served a stint as the secretary of the Detroit Board of Education.<ref>{{cite web |title=BOARD OF EDUCATION |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118145369 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=16 Jan 1868}}</ref>
Doty was a staunch Democrat.<ref name="DFP6April1885">{{cite web |title=DUANE DOTY |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/117688607 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=6 Apr 1885}}</ref> In 1868, 1870 and 1874, Doty was the party's nominee for Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction.<ref>{{cite web |title=NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET ! |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/363635671 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=St. Joseph Saturday Herald |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=3 Oct 1868}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/36944957 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=St. Joseph Herald |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=10 Sep 1870}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118171303 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=10 Oct 1874}}</ref> In 1874, his candidacy was also backed by the Independent Reform Party.<ref>{{cite web |title=MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/349271201 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=11 Sep 1874}}</ref>
In January 1875, Doty joined the book buying firm of E. B. Smith & Co.<ref>{{cite web |title=WOMEN VERSUS WINE. Meeting of the Women's State Christian Temperance Union. THE BUSINESS TRANSACTED YESTERDAY |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118179198 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=28 Jan 1875}}</ref> He resigned as superintendent.<ref name="sill"/> Later in 1875, Doty moved to Chicago to serve as assistant superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, a job he was appointed to by the Chicago Board of Education on September 14 of that year.<ref name="tavardian"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Isaac E. |title=Life of Emery A. Storrs: His Wit and Eloquence, as Shown in a Notable Literary, Political and Forensic Career |year=1886 |publisher=Hubbard Brothers |page=549 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u3hEAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SAYINGS AND DOINGS |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/118182943 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=16 Sep 1875}}</ref> From 1877 until 1880, he served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools.<ref name="munsell">{{cite book |title=History of Chicago, Illinois. v.2. |publisher=Munsell & co |location=Chicago and New York City |pages=89 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t8tb10r42&view=1up&seq=117 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Michael |title=The Chicago Board of Education Desegregation Policies and Practices [1975-1985]: A Historical Examination of the Administrations of Superintendents Dr. Joseph P. Hannon and Dr. Ruth Love |publisher=Loyola University Chicago |url=https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=luc_diss |access-date=11 March 2020}}</ref> He was appointed in June 1877 after the resignation of Josiah Little Pickard, who alleged that the Chicago Board of Education had pushed him out in order to appoint Doty, an allegation which Doty denied was true.<ref name="tavardian">{{cite web |last1=Tavardian |first1=Arthur Norman |url=https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4241&context=luc_diss |title=Battle Over the Chicago Schools: The Superintendency of William Mcandrew |publisher=Loyola University Chicago |access-date=29 December 2020 |date=1992}}</ref><ref name="munsell"/> On June 25, 1880, Doty was removed from office by the Chicago Board of Education, which installed Central High School principal George R. Howland as his successor.<ref>{{cite web |title=CHICAGO'S SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. (Published 1880) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1880/06/26/archives/chicagos-school-superintendent.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=29 December 2020 |date=26 June 1880}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Duane Doty ousted as Supt. Chicago Schools, 1880 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35050645/duane-doty-ousted-as-supt-chicago/ |via=www.newspapers.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=29 December 2020 |pages=5 |date=26 June 1880}}</ref> When the Board voted on a superintendent Doty had received four votes to Howland's nine votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Duane Doty ousted as Supt. Chicago Schools, 1880 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35050645/duane-doty-ousted-as-supt-chicago/ |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=1 April 2023 |pages=5 |date=26 June 1880}}</ref>
In 1885, Doty submitted an application with the United States Department of the Interior seeking to be appointed as United States commissioner of education.<ref name="DFP6April1885"/>
===Pullman Car Company=== After being fired as superintendent, Doty left the field of education, taking a job with the Pullman Car Company.<ref name="obit1"/> He would serve as the inaugural town manager of the company town of Pullman, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World in Chicago |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410154.html |website=www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org |publisher=Encyclopedia of Chicago |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pullman History Site -- Image 17106 |url=https://www.pullman-museum.org/pshs/pshsFullRecord.php?collection=pshs&pointer=17106 |website=www.pullman-museum.org |publisher=Pullman History |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lillibridge |first1=Robert M. |title=Pullman: Town Development in the Era of Eclecticism |journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |date=1953 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=17–22 |doi=10.2307/987596 |jstor=987596 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/987596 |access-date=29 December 2020 |issn=0037-9808|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Working as a civil engineer, he surveyed and plotted the layout of the town.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hold Funeral Rites For Helen Myrtle Doty, 77 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/54497070 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=Suburbanite Economist |access-date=1 April 2023 |language=en |date=February 27, 1952}}</ref> He is also believed to possibly have shaped the vision for the town's schools.<ref name="chapter4"/> His wife, Margarita Doty, was involved in Pullman as well, including being responsible for writing an 1893 guide to the town, which spoke glowingly of it.<ref name="chapter4">{{cite web |title=CHAPTER 4 PLANNED COMMUNITIES AND PULLMAN |url=https://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/management/upload/Pullman_HRS_Access3-2-132-257_compressed.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606102955/https://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/management/upload/Pullman_HRS_Access3-2-132-257_compressed.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>
Doty conducted reports and studies about railroads for the Pullman Car Company.<ref>{{cite web |title=RAILROADS OF THE WORLD |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/542619912 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York) |access-date=31 July 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=31 Oct 1898}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SOME STATISTICS |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/76748620 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=the Wichita Beacon |access-date=31 July 2021 |language=en |url-access=subscription |date=7 Nov 1898}}</ref> Doty also, anonymously, did publicity work for Pullman Car Company.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schneirov |first1=Richard |last2=Stromquist |first2=Shelton |last3=Salvatore |first3=Nick |title=The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics |year=1999 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-06755-6 |page=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OA-31eBGzpkC |language=en}}</ref>
==Death== Doty died November 17, 1902, at his daughter's home in Pullman.<ref name="obit1"/> He was survived by his daughter and his son.<ref name="obit1"/>
==Legacy== The Duane Doty School in Detroit is named for Doty.<ref>{{cite web |title=Duane Doty School - MichMarkers |url=http://www.michmarkers.com/default?page=L2250 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129100743/http://michmarkers.com/default?page=L2250 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |website=www.michmarkers.com |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Altavena |first1=Lily |title=Detroit Free Press Subscription Offers, Specials, and Discounts |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/07/23/10-historic-school-buildings-in-metro-detroit/70398488007/ |website=Detroit Free–Press |access-date=19 March 2025 |date=July 23, 2023}}</ref> Doty Avenue, in the Pullman area of Chicago, is named for Doty.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Pullman History Site : The Town of Pullman |url=https://www.pullman-museum.org/theTown/ |website=www.pullman-museum.org |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
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