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Davis, Emerson

clergyman, author, was born July 15, 1798, in Ware, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman who was president of Williams college in 1861- 68. He was the author of Historical Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; and The First Half Century, or Events and Changes, 1800-50. He died June 8, 1866, in Westfield, Mass.

Davis, George Augustus

physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 1858, in Fayetteville, Ga. He received his education at the Middle Georgia college, and the Atlanta Medical college, Georgia. He was president of the Fayetteville County Medical association, and a member of the leading medical associations. He has a large practice in De Land, Fla., where he is also a prominent druggist.

Davis, George R

soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1840, in Three Rivers, Mass. He entered the union army in 1862 and was promoted from captain to major, serving until the close of the war.

He settled in Chicago, Ill., and engaged in various pursuits. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortysixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat, and declined further nominations.

Davis, George Thomas

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1810, in Sandwich, Mass. He was elected to the senate of Massachusetts in 1839 and 1840; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853. His speeches in congress were published in 1852. He died in 1877.

Davis, Gilbert Asa

merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 18, 1835, in Chester, Vt. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Vermont house of representatives, and in 1876 was elected to the state senate. He has been state's aftorney for Windsor county, and for fifteen years has practiced law with success in Windsor. He is the owner of the Windsor Drug Store, and is prominently identified with various other business enterprises.

Davis, Hasbrouck

soldier, lawyer, was born April 19, 1827, in Worcester, Mass. He was mustered into the United States service in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel of the eleventh Illinois cavalry, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadiergeneral. After returning to Chicago, he was elected city attorney. He died Oct. 10, 1870.

Davis, Henry

clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 15, 1771, in East Hampton, N. Y. He was appointed president of Hamilton college, where he remained until his resignation in 1833. He published a Narrative of the Embarrassments and Decline of Hamilton College. He died March 8, 1852, in Clinton, N. Y.

Davis, Henry Clay

lawyer, was born March 4, 1837, in Franklin county, Vt. He received his education in the common schools of Vermont, and has attained distinction as one of the leading lawyers of the west; and now practices his profession at Yuma, Ariz.

Davis, Henry Lyon

college president, was born about 1775 in Maryland. In 1816 he was elected vice-president of St.

John's college of Annapolis, Md.; in 1818 was appointed to the chair of mathematics, and in 1820 was elected president of this institution. In 1826 he moved to Delaware, where he became president of the college at Wilmington. He died in 1837 in Georgetown, Md.

Davis, Horace

manufacturer, congressman, author, was born March 16, 1831, in Worcester, Mass. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as. a republican. He is the president of the Sperry Flour company of San Francisco, which has a capital of ten million dollars.

He is the author of Dolor Davis, a Sketch of His Life; American Constitutions and the Relation of the Three Departments as Adjusted by a Century; and Shakespeare's Sonnets, an Essay.