Danforth, Joshua Noble – Danner, Joel B
Danforth, Joshua Noble
clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1798, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a congregational minister of Massachusetts and Virginia, who published Gleanings and Groupings from Pastor's Portfolio. He died Nov. 14, 1861, in New Castle, Del.
Danforth, Moseley Isaac
engraver, was born Dec. 7, 1800, in Hartford, Conn. He was one of the founders of the New York Drawing association in 1825; and in 1826 of the National Academy of Design. He subsequently became a partner in a bank-note engraving firm, which in 1858 was merged in the American Bank-Note company, of which he was vice-president at the time of his death.
He died Jan. 19, 1862, in New York city.
Danforth, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born in September, 1626, in England. He was once a famous Puritan clergyman of Roxbury, Mass., in 1650-74; and was the author of An Astronomical Description of the Comet of 1664; An Election Sermon; and The Cry of Sodom Inquired Into. He died Nov. 19, 1674, in Roxbury, Mass.
Danforth, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 18, 1666, in Roxbury. Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Taunton, Mass., famous for his great learning and wide influence. He is the author of Eulogy on Thomas Leonard, and Essay Concerning the Singing of Psalms. The manuscript of his Indian Dictionary is now the property of the Massachusetts Historical society. He died in 1727.
Daniel, Henry
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1793 in Virginia. He was a volunteer in the war of 1812, with rank of captain; was a state representative from Montgomery county in 1812, 1819 and 1826; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1827 to 1833. He died Oct. 5, 1873, in Mt.
Sterling, Ky.
Daniel, John Moncure
journalist, author, was born Oct. 24, 1825, in Stafford county, Va. He was a noted Virginia journalist who edited The Richmond Examiner, and was minister to Italy in 1853-60. He died March 30, 1865.
Daniel, John Reeves Jones
lawyer, congressman, was born about 1802 in Halifax county, N. C. He served for several years in the general assembly; was elected attorney-general of the state; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1841 to 1853.
He removed to Louisiana, where he died.
Daniel, John Warwick
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1842, in Lynchburg, Va. He entered the confederate army in 1861, and served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major and adjutant-general. In 1875 he was elected a state senator, and re-elected in 1879. In 1881 he resigned the office of state senator to accept the nomination was of the democratic party for governor of Virginia; but was defeated at the election. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-ninth congress. In 1887 he took his seat as a member of the United States senate, and re-elected for term ending in 1899. He is the author of Attachments Under the Code of Virginia; and Negotiable Instru. ments.
Daniel, Joseph A
physician, specialist, was born Dec. 27, 1866, in Fillmore, Ind. He attended the De Pauw university, Central Normal college, university of Kentucky, Indiana Medical college, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has attained prominence as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and lungs; and is a member of the Academy of Science. He has filled many positions of honor in Davenport, Iowa; and is medical examiner for several life insurance companies.
Daniel, Josephus
journalist, public official, was born May 18, 1862, in Washington, N. C. He has been public printer of the state of North Carolina; and is at present a member of the national democratic executive committee from North Carolina. For several years he was chief clerk of the interior department at Washington, D. C.; and is now the editor of the News and Observer of Raleigh, N. C.
Daniel, Junius
soldier, was born June 27, 1828, in Halifax county, N. C. He served through the civil war and received the rank of colonel. He died May 12, 1864, in Spottsylvania, Pa.
Daniel, Peter Vyvian
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born April 24, 1784, in Stafford county, Va. He was a member of the state legislature in 1809 and 1810; in 1812 was a member of the privy council, and served as such until 1835. He frequently served as lieutenantgovernor. In 1836 he was appointed judge of the United States district court for Virginia; and in 1840 was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died June 30, 1860, in Richmond, Va.
L RALEIGH TRAVERS, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 15, 1805, in Stafford county, Va. For several years he was commonwealth attorney for Henrico county in which Richmond is situated; and was repeatedly elected to represent that city in the state legislature. In 1872 he was elected attorney-general of Virginia. He died Aug. 16, 1877, in Richmond, Va.
Daniel, William
jurist, was born in 1770, in Cumberland county, Va. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates, and gained reputation as an orator by his defence of the resolutions of '98. He became circuit judge and exofficio member of the old general court of Virginia. He died Nov. 20, 1839, in Lynchburg, Va.
Daniel, William
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Nov. 26, 1806, in Winchester, Va. He was elected to the Virginia house of delegates before he was of age. He was a judge of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia from 1847 to 1865. He died March 28, 1873, in Lynchburg, Va.
Daniel, William
candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States, was born Jan. 24, 1826, in Somerset county, Md. He attained prominence as a statesman of Maryland.
Daniel, William T
educator, lawyer, was born Aug. 17, 1859, in Butler county, Ala. Ten years of his youth were spent in Florida; and in 1875 he moved to Texas. After receiving his education he spent several years in educational work; and since 1887 has been engaged in the practice of law at Dublin, Texas.
Daniell, Warren Fisher
state senator, congressman, was born June 26, 1826, in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. He was a member of the state house of representatives and of the state senate; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Daniels, Charles
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1826, in New York city. He was elected to the supreme court in 1863; was appointed by Governor Seymour to hold the office of justice of that court till January 1, 1864, when the term to which he had been elected commenced; and was twice re-elected and held the office till the last of December, 1891, a period of upward of twenty-eight years. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican, and declined to be a candidate in 1896.
Daniels, Mrs. Cora Linn
author, was born in 1852, in Massachusetts. She 's a novelist of Franklin, Mass.; and the author of Sardia, a Story of Love; and As It Is to Be.
Daniels, Frances B
poet, was born in Maine. She is a poet of note in California. Her poems have received extensive publication in the leading papers, and several have been incorporated into standard works.
Daniels, Ione G
author, poet, was born in Wisconsin. She is the author of a novel entitled Under the Ban, and a volume of Temperance Songs.
Daniels, Thurston
journalist, lieutenant governor, was born June 10, 1858, in Yamhill county, Ore. In 1874 he moved to Vancouver, Wash. He there learned the printing trade, and is now proprietor of the Vancouver Register, which he established in 1881. He has served with distinction as lieutenant governor of the state of Washington, and is a prominent leader in the people's party.
Daniels, William Haven
clergyman, author, was born May 18, 1836, in Franklin, Mass. He is a methodist clergyman, prominent as an evangelist; and the author of D. L. Moody and his Work; That Boy, who Shall Have Him?; The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers; Moody, his Words, Work, and Workers; Illustrated History of Methodism in the United States; Graduated with Honor; Memorials of Gilbert Haven; and Short History of the People called Methodists.
Danielson, Timothy
patriot, was born in 1733, in Brimfield, Mass. His chief service was in the legislature, of which he continued a member several years. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1779, and afterward of the state senate and executive council; and chief justice of Hampshire county. He died Sept. 19, 1791, in Brimfield, Mass.
Danks, Hart Pease
musician, author, was born in 1834, in New Haven, Conn. His first musical composition was inserted in Bradbury's Jubilee, under the name of Lake Street, and is well known.
In 1856 his first song, The Old Lane, was published in Chicago, since which time he has issued several hundred. Two of them, Silver Threads among the Gold, and Don't be Angry with Me, Darling. He resides in New York city.
Dannelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Otis
artist, poet, was born June 13, 1838, in Monticello, Ga. In 1855 she graduated from the Madison Female college, and subsequently spent a year in New York city receiving instruction in oil painting.
She was the widow of F. O. Dannelly, at one time a surgeon in the United States army. She was the author of Cactus, or Thorns and Blossom; and Wayside Flowers. She died in 1896.
Danner, Joel B
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1851.