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Davis, Thomas Frederick
clergyman, was born Feb. 8, 1804, in Wilmington, N. C. In 1846 he moved to South Carolina, and became rector of Grace church, Camden. He was elected bishop of the diocese, and consecrated in St. John's chapel, New York, in 1853. He died Dec. 2, 1871, in Camden, S. C.
Davis, Thomas T
jurist. He was appointed in 1803 United States judge for the territory of Indiana.
Davis, Thomas T
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1810, in Middlebury, Vt. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He died May 2, 1872 .
Davis, Thomas W
lawyer, was born Oct. 15, 1850, in Uniontown, Ala. He received his education at the common schools, and graduated from the law school of the university of Alabama. He has attained distinction as an able lawyer of Thomasville, Ala., and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Davis, Thomas Weston
clergyman, author, was born March 15, 1859, in Sturges, Miss. He graduated from the Rust university, and from the Gammon Theological seminary. He was attained prominence as one of the leading divines of the methodist episcopal church in Mississippi; is an orator of distinction, and the author of From the Selling Block to the Senate.
Davis, Timothy
lawyer, congressman, was born in March, 1794, in Newark, N. J. He spent twenty years of his life in Missouri, and having removed to Iowa, was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fifth congress.
Davis, Timothy
merchant, congressman, was born April 12, 1821, in Gloucester, Mass. In 1854, by an unusually large majority, he was elected a representative in congress from his native district, and was re-elected to the thirtyfifth congress.
Davis, Warren R
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1793 in South Carolina. He was appointed solicitor for South Carolina in 1818, and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1825 to 1835. He died Jan. 29, 1835, in Washington, D. C.
Davis, Werter Renick
clergyman, educator, college president, was born April 1, 1818, in Circleville, Ohio. He was elected president of Baker university, but afterward resigned, and for fourteen consecutive years was appointed to a presiding eldership. During the civil war he went to the front as chaplain of the twelfth Kansas infantry. He was a member of the first state legislature of Kansas.
Davis, William Bramwell
physician, author, was born July 22, 1832, in Ohio. He is a physician and surgeon of Cincinnati, and the author of Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; and The Alcohol Question.
Davis, William M
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-seventh congress.
Davis, William Morris
educator, author, was born in 1850 in Pennsylvania.
He is a professor of physical geography in Harvard university, and the author of Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; and Elementary Meteorology.
DAVIS, WILLIAM WATTS HART. He is the author of El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People; History of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; and History of the Doylestown Guards.