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Davies, Thomas Frederick – Davis, Augusta Cordelia

Davies, Thomas Frederick

bishop of Michigan, was born Aug. 31, 1831, in Fairfield, Conn. He was professor of Hebrew in the Berkeley Divinity school, from 1856 to 1862; rector of St. John's church of Portsmouth, N. H., from 1862 to 1868; and rector of St. Peter's church of Philadelphia, from 1868 to 1880. He has published occasional sermons, episcopal addresses, pastorals, and other official papers.

Davies, William

jurist, was born in Georgia. Prior to the year 1820 he was appointed a judge of the United States district court for the district of Georgia.

Davies, William Gilbert

lawyer, was born March 21, 1842, in New York city. He entered the service of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York city, and in 1870, when the law department of the company was organized, he became assistant. He held that position until 1885, when he was elected head of the department.

Daviess, Joseph Hamilton

lawyer, was born March 4, 1774, in Bedford county, Va. He served for six months as a volunteer in the Indian campaign of 1793, and then studied law. He died Nov. 7, 1811.

Davis, Aaron Green

journalist, poet, was born March 8, 1865, in Camden, Tenn. In 1889 he began the publication of The Southern; and in 1890 was elected county lecturer of the Agricultural Wheel, now known as the Farmers' Alliance, which position he filled until 1892. He has editorial control of The Dyersburg Times.

Davis, Alexander Henry

proprietor, was born Oct. 19, 1839, in Syracuse, N. Y. When the civil war broke out he went to the front in 1861 as lieutenant of artillery. He was promoted to be captain and assistant adjutant-general in 1863, and major and assistant inspector-general in 1864.

Davis, Alexander Jackson

architect, was born July 24, 1803, in New York.

He designed the executive department and patent-office in Washington, the capitols of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, the university of Michigan, and the Virginia military institute.

Davis, Amos

lawyer, congressman, was born in Mount Sterling, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature from Montgomery county in 1819, 1825, 1827 and 1828; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 1835. He was a brother of Garrett Davis.

He died June 5, 1835, in Owingsville, Ky.

Davis, Andrew Jackson

author, was born Aug. 11, 1826, in Blooming Grove, N. Y. He is a noted spiritualist of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the following may be considered the most important:

The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love, and Autobiography.

Davis, Andrew Mcfarland

antiquarian and author, was born Dec. 30, 1833, in Worcester, Mass. After practicing a short time in Massachusetts he went to California, and was for several years a partner of his brother in the manufacturing business. He published articles in the Overland and Atlantic Monthly magazines.

Davis, Asahel

author, was born in 1791 in Massachusetts. He is a Massachusetts antiquary who published Ancient America and Researches of the East; and History of New Amsterdam.

Davis, Augusta Cordelia

poet, was born in 1836 in Maine. She is the author of Poems from Yare.