Davies, Marianne – Davis, David
Davies, Marianne
musician, was born in 1736 in New England. She was a noted player on the harmonica; and with her sister Cecilia made a successful tour of Europe. She died in 1792.
Davies, Samuel
clergyman, college president, author, was born Nov. 3, 1724, in Summit Ridge, Del. He was a presbyterian clergyman of great renown in his day as a preacher, and the fourth president of Princeton college. He wrote a number of hymns still in use, and his Sermons, in five volumes, appeared in London in 1767. He died Feb. 4, 1761, in Princeton, N. J.
Davies, Thomas
clergyman, was born Dec. 21, 1736, in England. He was the first episcopalian in the town, and by his efforts the present parish of St. Michael's was organized in 1745. He gave it a tract of land, and contributed largely to the erection of a church. He died May 12, 1766, in Milford, Conn.
Davies, Thomas Alfred
soldier, author, was born in December, 1809, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. He was a federal officer in the civil war, and is the author of Cosmogony, or Mysteries of Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geologists; and How to Make Money and How to Keep It.
Davies, Thomas Frederick
bishop of Michigan, was born Aug. 31, 1831, in Fairfield, Conn. He was professor of Hebrew in the Berkeley Divinity school, from 1856 to 1862; rector of St. John's church of Portsmouth, N. H., from 1862 to 1868; and rector of St. Peter's church of Philadelphia, from 1868 to 1880. He has published occasional sermons, episcopal addresses, pastorals, and other official papers.
Davies, William
jurist, was born in Georgia. Prior to the year 1820 he was appointed a judge of the United States district court for the district of Georgia.
Davies, William Gilbert
lawyer, was born March 21, 1842, in New York city. He entered the service of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York city, and in 1870, when the law department of the company was organized, he became assistant. He held that position until 1885, when he was elected head of the department.
Daviess, Joseph Hamilton
lawyer, was born March 4, 1774, in Bedford county, Va. He served for six months as a volunteer in the Indian campaign of 1793, and then studied law. He died Nov. 7, 1811.
Davis, Aaron Green
journalist, poet, was born March 8, 1865, in Camden, Tenn. In 1889 he began the publication of The Southern; and in 1890 was elected county lecturer of the Agricultural Wheel, now known as the Farmers' Alliance, which position he filled until 1892. He has editorial control of The Dyersburg Times.
Davis, Aaron Jasper
soldier, educator, was born June 21, 1847, in Clarion county, Pa. He served as a union soldier during the civil war; and for twenty-three years has been a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. His life has been spent principally in educational work. He was county superintendent of schools for eight years; was an officer in the department of public instruction at Harrisburg, Pa.; superintendent of the Industrial and Training school of Sitka, Alaska, and is now principal of the State Normal school of Clarion, Pa.
Davis, Alexander Henry
proprietor, was born Oct. 19, 1839, in Syracuse, N. Y. When the civil war broke out he went to the front in 1861 as lieutenant of artillery. He was promoted to be captain and assistant adjutant-general in 1863, and major and assistant inspector-general in 1864.
Davis, Alexander Jackson
architect, was born July 24, 1803, in New York.
He designed the executive department and patent-office in Washington, the capitols of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, the university of Michigan, and the Virginia military institute.
Davis, Amos
lawyer, congressman, was born in Mount Sterling, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature from Montgomery county in 1819, 1825, 1827 and 1828; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 1835. He was a brother of Garrett Davis.
He died June 5, 1835, in Owingsville, Ky.
Davis, Andrew Jackson
author, was born Aug. 11, 1826, in Blooming Grove, N. Y. He is a noted spiritualist of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the following may be considered the most important:
The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love, and Autobiography.
Davis, Andrew Mcfarland
antiquarian and author, was born Dec. 30, 1833, in Worcester, Mass. After practicing a short time in Massachusetts he went to California, and was for several years a partner of his brother in the manufacturing business. He published articles in the Overland and Atlantic Monthly magazines.
Davis, Asahel
author, was born in 1791 in Massachusetts. He is a Massachusetts antiquary who published Ancient America and Researches of the East; and History of New Amsterdam.
Davis, Augusta Cordelia
poet, was born in 1836 in Maine. She is the author of Poems from Yare.
Davis, Benjamin Franklin
soldier, was born in 1832 in Alabama. He distinguished himself in both the infantry and cavalry service in New Mexico. In 1862 he became colonel of the eighth New York. cavalry. He died June 9, 1863, in Beverly Ford, Va.
Davis, Boothe Colwell
educator, college president, author, was born July 12, 1863, in Jane Lew, W. Va. He was made president of Alfred university, in which institution he also fills the chair of philosophy and college pastor. He has written numerous papers, lectures and addresses, and is the author of Catholicism in America: The Beginnings of History; and The Narrative of the Flood and the Lessons It Teaches.
Davis, Mrs. Caroline E
author, was born in 1831 in Northwood, N. H. She is a prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, and is the author of No Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy's Hope; and That Boy.
Davis, Charles
lawyer, state legislator, was born Jan. 1, 1789, in Mansfield, Conn. In 1841-45 he was United States district attorney of Vermont, and in 1845 was elected judge of probate for the district of Caledonia, and re-elected in 1846. He died in 1863 in Vermont.
Davis, Charles C
soldier, was born Aug. 15, 1830, in Harrisburg, Pa. He served as a union soldier during the civil war; was second and first lieutenant during three months' service in 1861, and captain and major during three years' service in seventh regiment Pennsylvania cavalry, army of the Cumberland. He is now connected with the postoffice of his native city.
Davis, Charles Henry
naval officer, author, was born Jan. 16, 1807, in Boston, Mass. He was a rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted hydrographer. Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he published Law of Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and Other Ocean Currents; and translated Gauss's Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium. He died in 1877.
Davis, Charles Henry
naval officer, author, was born Aug. 28, 1845, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a United States naval officer, and the author of Chronometer Rates as Affected by Temperature and Other Causes; and Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes.
Davis, Charles Henry Stanley
physician, author, was born in 1840 in Connecticut. He is a physician of Meriden, Conn., and the author of History of Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as a and Musical Education Instrument; Training of Feeble Minded Children; and Index to Periodical Literature.
Davis, Claude Bernard
educator, was born March 18, 1873, in Mohican, Ohio.
In 1892 he graduated from the Bethany, W. Va.; and the next year studied at Harvard university. He then became city editor of the Ashland Times, Ohio; and since 1894 has been director of the School of Oratory of the university of Wooster, with phenomenal success.
Davis, Clinton B
manufacturer, legislator, was born July 27, 1843, in Hartford, Conn. In 1867 he established the wholesale hardware firm of Davis, Tracy and Co., and subsequently began the manufacture of plows. In 1883 he was elected to the Connecticut general assembly as representative from the town of Haddam, receiving the re-election in 1884 and 1887; and during the latter two terms was speaker of the house.
Davis, Cushman Kellogg
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, author, was born June 16, 1838, in Henderson, N.
Y. He was first lieutenant in the twentyeighth Wisconsin infantry in 1862-64. He was a member of the Minnesota legislature in 1867; was United States district attorney for Minnesota in 1868-73; was governor of Minnesota in 1874-75; and was elected to the United States senate as a republican, to succeed S. J. R. McMillan, republican, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was re-elected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. He is the author of The Law in Shakespeare.
Davis, Daniel
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 8, 1762, in Barnstable, Mass.
He was a Massachusetts jurist who was solicitor-general of his state in 1800-32.
He is the author of Criminal Practice; and Precedents of Indictments.
Davis, Daniel F
governor. He was governor of Maine in 1880-81.
Davis, David
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born March 9, 1815, in Cecil county, Md. He was elected to the Illinois state legislature; and in 1848 was elected judge of the eighth judicial circuit of the state; re-elected in 1855 and also in 1861. He was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States; and was a delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention of 1860, which nominated Mr. Lincoln for president. He resigned from the supreme bench in 1877 to take his seat as United States senator from Illinois for the term of six years. He died June 25, 1886.