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Day, William A – Dealy, Patrick F

Day, William A

lawyer, legislator, was born June 11, 1850, in Wilmington, Del. He was twice elected corporation counsel of Champaign, served two terms as a representative in the Illinois state legislature, and in 1883 he was elected mayor of Champaign for the term of two years.

Day, William Howard

educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 16, 1831, in New York. In 1860 he became editor of The Standard and Review of New York city; in 1866 was ordained an elder in the Virginia conference, and in 1884 was elected presiding elder of the Baltimore district.

He is now intellectual instructor of conferences and supervisor of missions.

Day, Wilson Miles

journalist, publisher, was born Nov. 5, 1850, in Clarion, Pa. He was night editor of the Cleveland Leader, and editor of the Iron Trade Review of Cleveland, Ohio.

Dayan, Charles

educator, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 16, 1792, in Amsterdam, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833, and a state senator in 1827 and 1828. He was acting lieutenant-governor in 1829; a member of the assembly in 1835 and 1836, and was also district attorney for Lewis county for five years. He died Dec. 25, 1877, in Lowville, N. Y.

Dayton, Alston Gordon

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1857, in Philippi, W. Va. In 1879 he was appointed to fill out an unexpired term as prosecuting attorney of Upshur county, W. Va., and was elected and served as prosecuting attorney of Barbour county for a four-years' term beginning Jan. 1, 1884. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Dayton, Amos Cooper

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1813, in Plainfield, N. J. He was a baptist clergyman and physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith, was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel's Daughter, a novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book; Children Brought to Christ; and Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion. He died June 11, 1865, in Perry, Ga.

Dayton, Elias

soldier, congressman, was born in 1735, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

He was a major-general of militia, and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1787 to 1788. He died in July, 1807, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

Dayton, Jonathan

statesman, was born Oct. 16, 1760, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

He was a member of the convention, in 1787, which formed the constitution, and signed that instrument. He was a representative in congress from 1791 to 1799; speaker of the house of representatives from 1795 to 1797, and was a senator of the United States from New Jersey from 1799 to 1805. He died Oct. 9, 1824, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

Dayton, William Lewis

was born April 13, 1839, in Trenton, N. J. He was secretary to the governor of New Jersey from 1865 to 1868. He was president of the common council of Trenton from 1876 to 1879; city solicitor from 1879 to 1881; and in 1882 was appointed United States minister resident at The Hague, Netherlands, serving until 1885. In 1896 he was appointed a judge of the court of errors and appeals, and his term will expire in 1902.

Dealy, Patrick F

clergyman, college president, lecturer, was born April 7, 1827, in Ireland. He has been president of St. John's college of Fordham, N. Y. In 1882 he founded the Fordham College Monthly. He died Dec. 22, 1891, in New York city.