Davidson, James H – Davies, Julien Tappan
Davidson, James H
educator, was born June 18, 1858, in Colchester, Del.
He was a teacher in the public schools of Delaware and Sullivan counties, N. Y., for several years, and for one year was engaged at the same occupation at Princeton, Wis. He was elected district attorney of Green Lake county in 1888, and in 1890 was chosen chairman of the republican congressional committee for the sixth district of Wisconsin, and continued in that position until nominated for the fifty-fifth congress. In 1892 he removed to Oshkosh, Wis.; and in 1895 was appointed city attorney of that city for a term of two years. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Davidson, James Wood
educator, author, was born March 9, 1829, in Newberry, S. C. He is an educator of South Carolina and elsewhere; and the author of Living Writers of the South; School History of South Carolina; The Correspondent; The Poetry of the Future; and Florida of To-day.
Davidson, John S
lawyer, state senator, was born about 1845, in Augusta, Ga. In 1884 and 1886 he was elected state senator, and in 1886 president of the senate; and also grand master of Masons of Georgia. He was subsequently elected president of the Richmond county board of education, and city attorney of Augusta.
Davidson, John Wynn
soldier, was born Aug. 18, 1824, in Fairfax county, Va.
He served in the Mexican war; and in the war against the Apache and Utah Indians. He served with distinction through the civil war; was promoted brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1862; and in 1865 was made major-general for meritorious services.
Davidson, Lucretia Maria
poet, was born Sept. 27, 1808, in Plattsburg, N.
Y. She was the author of Amir Khan and Other Poems, issued in 1829. She died Aug. 27, 1825.
Davidson, Margaret Miller
poet, was born March 26, 1823, in Plattsburg, N. Y. She was a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses were lauded by contemporary writers. She died Nov. 25, 1838, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Davidson, Marion R
lawyer, jurist, was born April 4, 1847, in Macon county, Ill.
He received the rudiments of his education from the common schools, and graduated from the Mount Zion academy.
For several years he was engaged in educational work, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. Since 1878 he has practiced his profession with success in Monticello, Ill. He has filled the office of county judge, and has taken an active part in the public affairs in his county and state.
Davidson, Robert
clergyman, author, was born in 1750, in Maryland. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was president of Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., 1804-09.
He was the author of Epitome of Geography in Verse for Schools; The Christian's A, B, C, or the 119th Psalm in Meter; and New Metrical Version of the Psalms, with Notes. He died Dec. 13, 1812.
Davidson, Robert
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1808, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a presbyterian minister in Kentucky and other states, among whose writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and Other Poems; and The Christ of God, or the Relation of Christ to Christianity.
He died April 6, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Davidson, Robert C
financier, public official, was born Dec. 25, 1850, in Lunenburg county, Va. In 1865 he moved to Baltimore, received employment in the wholesale dry goods house of Daniel Miller and Co., and became financial manager of that concern. In 1889 he was elected mayor of Baltimore, and served with distinction. He declined a re-election, and accepted the presidency of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Co., which position he still fills.
Davidson, Robert H. M
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1832, in Gadsden, Fla. He served two terms as a representative in the state legislature; and was elected a state senator in 1860. He retired from the senate in 1862 and entered the confederate army, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1865; and was elected a representative from Florida to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Davidson, Robert Parks
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1826, in Kentucky. He was district prosecuting attorney for four years; was common pleas judge for the district composed of Clinton and Carroll counties; and represented Tippecanoe county in the lower house in the session of 1870-72.
Davidson, Sam Houston
lawyer, college president, legislator, was born Jan. 29, 1848, in Camden, Tenn. He was in the confederate service during the war.
In 1877-79 he was a representative of the Arkansas house of representatives; in 1889-91 served as state senator, and in 1889 was a candidate for lieutenant-governor of his state. He was president of the Pacific and Great Eastern Railroad company, and president of the Evening Shade college.
Davidson, Thomas
philosopher, author, was born Oct. 25, 1840, in Scotland. He is a writer on art and philosophy who came to the United States in 1866 and settled at Cambridge, and the author of The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays; The Place of Art in Education; Giordano Bruno and the Relation of his Philosophy to Free Thought; Handbook of Dante, from the Italian of Scartazzini, with Notes and Additions; Prolegomena to Tennyson's In Memoriam; Aristotle, and Ancient and Modern Educational Ideals; and The Education of the Greek People and its Influence on Civilization.
Davidson, Thomas G
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1805, in Jefferson county, Miss. He was elected to the legislature of Louisiana in 1833, where he served, from different parishes, some thirteen years. He was elected a representative in congress from Louisiana in 1855; re-elected in 1857; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress, but withdrew in February, 1861.
Davidson, William
soldier, was born in 1746 in Lancaster county, Pa. At the beginning of the revolution he was appointed major in one of the first regiments raised in North Carolina, and was in the engagements at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He died Feb. 1, 1781, in Cowan's Ford, N. C.
Davidson, William
planter, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1778, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He represented that county in the state legislature as senator in 1813, 1815, 1816, and 1817. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1818 to 1821; and served again in the state senate in 1827, 1828, and 1829. He died Sept. 16, 1857, in Mecklenburg county, N. C.
Davidson, William M
farmer, educator, college president, was born April 8, 1851, in Sullivan county, Tenn. He has been engaged in educational work for nearly twenty years; was superintendent of schools for Lee county, Va.; and president of Cumberland college for three years.
Davie, William R
jurist, was born in North Carolina. In 1790 he was appointed a judge of the United States district court for the district of North Carolina.
Davie, William Richardson
soldier, legislator, was born June 20, 1756, near White Haven, England. He settled at Halifax, N. C., and was for many years a member of the state legislature and in 1787 was delegate to the convention which framed the federal constitution. He died Nov. 8, 1820, in Camden, S. C.
Davie, Winston Jones
present state commissioner of agriculture, was born April 3, 1824, in Kentucky. He was prominently connected with grange movements in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was vice-president of the National Agricultural congress of Kentucky. He was for a time agricultural editor of the Louisville Ledger, and subsequently editor-in-chief of the National Granger.
Davies, Charles
educator, author, was born Jan. 22, 1798, in Washington, Conn. He was a noted professor of mathematics in Columbia college from 1857. Beside a notable series of mathematical text-books, from A Primary Table Book to Elementary Geometry and Trigonometry, he published also editions of Legendre's Geometry and Bourdon's Algebra. Other works by him comprise Practical Mathematics; Elements of Surveying; Analytical Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Metric System; and Mathematical Dictionary. He died Sept. 17, 1876, in Fishkill Landing, N. Y.
Davies, Charles William
engraver, was born June 21, 1854, in Whitesboro, N. Y. He has attained prominence as a noted steel and copper plate engraver; and is also a successful business man of Grand Rapids, Ohio.
Davies, Edward
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841.
Davies, Henry Eugene
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 8, 1805, in Black Lake, N. Y. In 1859 he was elected to the court of appeals, where he served from 1860 till 1869, being the chief justice for several years. He died Dec. 17, 1881, in New York city.
Davies, Henry Eugene
soldier, lawyer, was born July 2, 1836, in New York city. He entered the army in 1861 as a captain, and was made a brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1863. He was public administrator of New York city in 1866-69; assistant district attorney of the southern district of New York in 1870-72; and since 1873 has been engaged in law practice.
Davies, Julien Tappan
lawyer, was born Sept. 25, 1845, in New York city.
For many years he has been counsel for the elevated railroads in the city of New York; and since 1881 has been trustee and counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance company.