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Downes, John – Downs, Ashbel Fairchild

Downes, John

mathematician, author, was born Sept. 4, 1799, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a mathematician of Wasnington, and the author of Peter Parley's Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and Logarithmic Lines and Tangents; and United States Almanac Complete, or Ephemeris. He died in 1882.

Downes, William Howe

journalist, author, was born in 1854, in Connecticut. He is a Boston journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and the author of Spanish Ways and By- Ways; and The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a Kindergarten of War.

Downey, Alexander C

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 10, 1817, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1862 he accepted, as a war democrat, the nomination for the state senate on the union ticket, and was elected.

Downey, John

educator, author, was born in 1770, in Germantown, Pa. In 1817 he was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. He was the author of a series of humorous sketches under the signature of Simon the Wagoner. He compiled a work entitled The Justice's Assistant. He died July 21, 1827, in Harrisburg, Pa.

He

Downey, John G

statesman. was governor of California from 1860 to

Downey, S. W

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 25, 1839, in Westernport, Md. He served in the union army during the war of the rebellion.

He removed to the territory of Wyoming in 1869; was elected a member of the territorial council in 1871, 1875, and 1877; was treasurer of the territory for three years, and was auditor of the territory at the time of his election as a delegate from the territory of Wyoming to the forty-sixth congress.

Downey, William D

merchant, was born March 18, 1834, near Princeton, Ind. In 1861 he went to Princeton, Ind., and engaged in mercantile business.

Downing, Charles

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Florida from 1837 to 1841. He died Oct. 24, 1841.

Downing, Edward C

educator, poet, was born Feb. 24, 1862, in Wooster, Ohio. He has been professor of Greek and Latin in several large colleges. In 1888 he published a volume of poems entitled Minutes With the Muses.

Downing, Finis Ewing

lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1846, in Virginia, Ill. Since 1891 he has published the Virginia Enquirer. He was elected secretary of the senate in 1893 for the thirty-eighth general assembly of Illinois; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

Downing, Mrs. Frances

author, poet, was born in 1835, in Portsmouth, Va. She published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after the manner of the Ingoldsby Legends; and several novels, including Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; and Five Little Girls and Two Little Boys. died in 1894, in Charlottesville, N. C.

She

Downs, Ashbel Fairchild

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 7, 1854, in New Geneva, Pa. He attended the West Virginia university; and has attained success in the profession of law at Uniontown, Pa. He is the author of Heroes and Heroic Deeds, or Uncrowned Kings; and various addresses and other papers.