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Daveiss, Joseph Hamilton

lawyer, was born March 4, 1774, in Bedford county, Va. In 1795 he was appointed United States attorney for the state of Kentucky. In 1811 he joined Gen. Harrison's army in the campaign against the Indians, and received the command of major. He died Nov. 7, 1811.

DAVEISS, MRS. MARIA THOMPSON, author, was born Oct. 31, 1814, in Harrodsburg, Ky. She is a Kentucky author who has written much for agricultural journals, and has published Roger Sherman, a Tale of '76; Woman's Love; History of Mercer and Boyle Counties, Kentucky; and Cultivation and Uses of the Chinese Sugar Cane.