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Davis, John (Lawyer jurist was born Sept)

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1851, in Newton, Mass. He was appointed assistant counsel for the United States before the French-American claims commission in 1881; in 1882 was appointed assistant secretary of state, and in 1885 was appointed an associate justice of the United States court of claims.

DAVIS, JOHN A. G., lawyer, author, was born in 1801 in Middlesex county, Va.

He was a Virginia lawyer, professor of law in the university of Virginia in 1830- 40, and the author of Estates Tail, Executive Devises, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes; and Treatise on Criminal Law. He died Nov. 4, 1840, in Williamsburg, Va.

DAVIS, JOHN CHANDLER BAN- CROFT, diplomatist, author, was born Dec. 29, 1822, in Worcester, Mass. He is a diplomatist who was agent for the United States before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims, and afterwards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. He is the author of The Massachusetts Justice; The Case of the United States Before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes; United States Supreme Court Reports; and Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims.