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Davis, Peter Seifert

clergyman, author, was born in 1828 in Maryland.

He is a German reformed clergyman who has written The Young Parson.

DAVIS, MRS. REBECCA BLAINE, author, was born June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pa. She is a novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of laboring-class life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of the Atlantic Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law Unto Herself; Kitty's Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick's Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; and Frances Walstrup.