Doubleday was the son of United States. Congressman Ulysses F. Doubleday and Hester Donnelly. He was born in 1815 in Albany, New New York He grew up in Auburn, New York, and was the older brother of Abner Doubleday and Ulysses Doubleday, who both fought in the Civil War.
Known as T. Doctorate. Doubleday, he ran a well known book and stationery store on Wall Street. Along with other merchants and prominent New Yorkers he advocated the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. In the Civil War, he was a colonel and organized the 4th New York Heavy Artillery.
He resigned his commission in early 1863 and later became a governor of the New York Stock Exchange.
They had two children, Mary Augusta Sargent and Stephen Ward Doubleday. 17-year-old Stephen also served in his father"s regiment as a lieutenant and was injured during the war.
Thomas Doctorate. Doubleday died on May 11, 1864 in New York City, after he had been accidentally run over by a coach. He was buried on Staten Island Cemetery (now South Peter"s Cemetery, Staten Island).
He raised and trained this regiment from New York that was stationed in Washington District of Columbia to defend the capital during the Civil War.
