Davis, David – Davis, James C
Davis, David
vocalist, composer, was born May 3, 1855, in South Wales. About 1881 he established himself as a teacher of singing in Cincinnati, Ohio, in which city he has ever since been choirmaster of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church.
He has also been tenor of the Plum street Jewish synagogue; tenor of the Scottish Rite choir; director of the Welsh Choral society, and director of the Cambrian Male chorus. He has appeared in numerous concerts in London and in many of the principal cities of the United States.
Davis, Edmund J
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in Florida. He was collector of customs on the Texas frontier, bordering on the Rio Grande, from 1850 to 1852; was a district attorney in 1853 and 1854, and was district judge from 1855 to 1860. In 1861 he entered the union army as colonel; served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of brigadier-general. After the close of the war he returned to Texas; in 1866 was a member of the first reconstruction convention; was president of the second reconstruction convention, and was governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874.
Davis, Edwin Hamilton
archæologist, author, was born Jan. 22, 1811, in Ross county, Ohio. He was an archæologist whose chief work is Monuments of the Mississippi. He died May 15, 1888, in New York city.
Davis, Elias G
business man, public official, was born Oct. 15, 1841, in South Wales. In 1868 he emigrated to the United States, and for the past ten years has lived in Colorado. He has been postmaster for eight years, and in 1888 was appointed commissioner by Governor Cooper; re-elected two terms; and served two years as chairman of the board. He is also a successful cattle ranchman on the south fork of the Republican river, Colorado.
Davis, Emerson
clergyman, author, was born July 15, 1798, in Ware, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman who was president of Williams college in 1861- 68. He was the author of Historical Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; and The First Half Century, or Events and Changes, 1800-50. He died June 8, 1866, in Westfield, Mass.
Davis, Garrett
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born 'Sept. 10, 1801, in Mt. Sterling, Ky. He was elected to the state legislature, and was twice re-elected. In 1839 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; and from 1839 to 1847 was a representative in congress from Kentucky, and declined a re-election. In 1861 he was elected a senator in congress from Kentucky for the term ending in 1867. In 1867 he was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1873. He died Sept. 3, 1872, in Paris, Ky.
Davis, George Augustus
physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 8, 1858, in Fayetteville, Ga. He received his education at the Middle Georgia college, and the Atlanta Medical college, Georgia. He was president of the Fayetteville County Medical association, and a member of the leading medical associations. He has a large practice in De Land, Fla., where he is also a prominent druggist.
Davis, George R
soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1840, in Three Rivers, Mass. He entered the union army in 1862 and was promoted from captain to major, serving until the close of the war.
He settled in Chicago, Ill., and engaged in various pursuits. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortysixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat, and declined further nominations.
Davis, George Thomas
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1810, in Sandwich, Mass. He was elected to the senate of Massachusetts in 1839 and 1840; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853. His speeches in congress were published in 1852. He died in 1877.
Davis, Gilbert Asa
merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 18, 1835, in Chester, Vt. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Vermont house of representatives, and in 1876 was elected to the state senate. He has been state's aftorney for Windsor county, and for fifteen years has practiced law with success in Windsor. He is the owner of the Windsor Drug Store, and is prominently identified with various other business enterprises.
Davis, Hasbrouck
soldier, lawyer, was born April 19, 1827, in Worcester, Mass. He was mustered into the United States service in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel of the eleventh Illinois cavalry, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadiergeneral. After returning to Chicago, he was elected city attorney. He died Oct. 10, 1870.
Davis, Henry
clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 15, 1771, in East Hampton, N. Y. He was appointed president of Hamilton college, where he remained until his resignation in 1833. He published a Narrative of the Embarrassments and Decline of Hamilton College. He died March 8, 1852, in Clinton, N. Y.
Davis, Henry Clay
lawyer, was born March 4, 1837, in Franklin county, Vt. He received his education in the common schools of Vermont, and has attained distinction as one of the leading lawyers of the west; and now practices his profession at Yuma, Ariz.
Davis, Henry Eugene
lawyer, soldier, was born July 2, 1836, in New York city. He attended Harvard and Williams colleges, and graduated from the Columbia Law school in 1857. At the commencement of the civil war he became captain of the fifth New York volunteer infantry; rose rapidly through all grades; and was brevetted brigadiergeneral of the United States volunteers.
For three years he was public administrator of New York city, and during 1870-73 was assistant district attorney of the United States. was
Davis, Henry G
railroad president, banker, United States senator, born Nov. 16, 1823, in Howard county, Md. He settled in West Virginia, and in 1858 became president of a bank. In 1865 he was elected to the legislature; in 1868 was a delegate to the democratic national convention; in the same year was elected to the state senate; and in 1870 was re-elected. He was elected a senator in congress from West Virginia for the term ending in 1877, and was reelected for the term ending in 1883. In 1881 he became president of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg railway, and also of the Piedmont and Cumberland railway.
Davis, Henry Lyon
college president, was born about 1775 in Maryland. In 1816 he was elected vice-president of St.
John's college of Annapolis, Md.; in 1818 was appointed to the chair of mathematics, and in 1820 was elected president of this institution. In 1826 he moved to Delaware, where he became president of the college at Wilmington. He died in 1837 in Georgetown, Md.
Davis, Henry Winter
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 16, 1817, in Annapolis, Md. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses; and also elected to the thirtyeighth congress. In 1864 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution.
He was conspicuously loyal to the union during the civil war. He was the author of The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth Century; and Speeches and Addresses in Congress. He died Dec. 30, 1865, in Baltimore, Md.
Davis, Horace
manufacturer, congressman, author, was born March 16, 1831, in Worcester, Mass. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as. a republican. He is the president of the Sperry Flour company of San Francisco, which has a capital of ten million dollars.
He is the author of Dolor Davis, a Sketch of His Life; American Constitutions and the Relation of the Three Departments as Adjusted by a Century; and Shakespeare's Sonnets, an Essay.
Davis, Isaac
patriot, was born in 1745. He was captain of the Acton minute-men, and led them against the British at Concord bridge. He died April 19, 1775, in Concord, Mass.
Davis, Isaac
lawyer, state senator, was born June 2, 1799, in Northborough, Mass. He was mayor of Worcester for three years, and for eleven years a member of the Massachusetts senate. He died April 1, 1883, in Worcester, Mass.
Davis, James
colonial printer, was born Oct. 21, 1721, in Virginia. He removed with his printing outfit to Newbern, N. C., in 1749, and established the first press in that state. He was the only printer in the province until 1764, and did nearly all the book and pamphlet printing prior to and during the revolution. He died in 1785 in Newbern, N. C.
Davis, James
jurist, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1815, in Gloucester, Mass. In 1877 he published a volume of his verse entitled Pleasant Water, a Song of the Sea and Shore. For thirty years he was a judge in his native city.
Davis, James C
physician, author, was born March 16, 1863, in Grand county, Mo. He graduated from the high school in 1883; and from the university of Michigan in 1885; after which he entered the Bellevue Medical Hospital college of New York city, where the degree of doctor of medicine was conferred upon him. He then attended the hospitals of New York city for one year, then studied abroad for two years; and has attained eminence as a successful practitioner of gynecology, obstetrics and surgery in Rochester, N. Y. He is widely known by his valuable contributions to medical literature, and is a prominent member of the leading medical societies of both America and Europe.