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Davis, Woodbury

lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 25, 1818, in Standish, Maine. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster of Portland, and relinquished law He published The Beautiful practice.

City, a religious book. He died Aug. 15, 1871, in Portland, Maine.

Davison, Andrew

lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected in 1853 one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of Indiana.

Davy, John M

lawyer, congressman, was born June 29, 1835, in Ontario. He was elected district attorney for Monroe county for three years; in 1872 was appointed collector of customs for the port of Genesee, which office he held until 1874, when he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.

Dawes, Anna Laurens

author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. She has written much for journals and periodicals, and is the author of How We Are Governed; The Modern Jew, His Present and Future; and Biography of Charles Sumner.

Dawes, James W

merchant, lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1845, at McConnellsville, Ohio. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1875; and was elected state senator in 1876. In 1882 he was elected governor of Nebraska for the term of two years, and was re-elected governor in 1884.

Dawes, Rufus

jurist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was a witty jurist of Massachusetts, who won notice both as orator and poet. He is the author of The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix's Mate, an Historical Romance; and Miscellaneous Poems. He died Nov. 30, 1859, in Washington, D. C.

Dawes, Rufus R

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born July 4, 1838, in Malta, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861, as captain, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He engaged in business at Marietta, Ohio, and was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortyseventh congress as a republican.

Dawes, Thomas

soldier, state senator, was born Aug. 5, 1731, in Boston, Mass. He was a mechanic. During the controversy with Great Britain he was made colonel of the Boston regiment in 1773, serving until 1778. He was a member of the house and of the senate, as well as state councillor. He died Jan. 2, 1809, in Boston, Mass.

Dawes, Thomas

jurist, was born July 8, 1757, in Boston, Mass. He was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts from 1792 till 1803, judge of the municipal court from 1803 till 1823, and judge of probate until his death. He published an Oration on the Boston Massacre; and the Law Given on Mount Sinai. He died July 22, 1827, in Boston, Mass.

Dawes, William

patriot, of Lexington. He was despatched to Lexington, with Paul Revere, on April 18, 1775, and rode through Roxbury, Revere going by way of Charlestown. In the morning of April 19 the message from Warren reached Adams and Hancock. Revere and Dawes, joined by Samuel Prescott, from Concord, rode forward, calling the inhabitants.

Dawson, Daniel L

manufacturer, poet, was born in 1855 in Lewistown, Pa.

He was the author of a book of poems entitled The Seekers in the Marshes, and Other Poems. He died Oct. 31, 1893.

Dawson, George

journalist, author, was born March 14, 1813, in Scotland. He was an influential Albany journalist, editor of the Evening Journal in 1846-77, and author of The Pleasures of Angling. He died in 1883.