Davis, Nelson Henry – Davis, Titus Elwood
Davis, Nelson Henry
soldier, was born Sept. 20, 1821, in Oxford, Mass. He served in the war with Mexico, and received the brevet of brigadier-general for his services in the civil war. He was retired in 1885 as brigadier-general. He died May 15, 1890, on Governor's Island, N. Y.
Davis, Noah
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1818, in Haverhill, N. H. He was a justice of the supreme court of the state from 1857 to 1868. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first and forty-second congresses, but resigned to become United States attorney for the district of New York. In 1873 he was again elected judge of the supreme court.
Davis, Noah Knowles
educator, author, was born May 15, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a professor of moral science in the university of Virginia, and the author of The Theory of Thought, a Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive Logic; and the Elements of Deductive Logic.
Davis, Ozora Stearns
educator, clergyman, author, was born July 30, 1866, in Wheelock, Vt. He received a thorough education, and has the degrees of A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. For several years he was principal of graded schools of White River Junction, Vt., and is now pastor of the First Congregational church of Springfield, Vt. He is the author of Dartmouth Lyrics; A Vocabulary of New Testament Words; John Robinson; and other works.
Davis, Peter Seifert
clergyman, author, was born in 1828 in Maryland.
He is a German reformed clergyman who has written The Young Parson.
Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine
author, was born June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pa. She is a novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of laboring-class life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of the Atlantic Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law Unto Herself; Kitty's Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick's Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; and Frances Walstrup.
Davis, Reuben
lawyer, jurist, general, congressman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Tullahoma, Tenn. He was in the Mexican war as colonel commandant of the Mississippi rifles, but resigned on account of sickness. He was elected to the lower branch of the state legislature from 1855 to 1857; and was elected a member of the thirty-fifth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress, and was a member of the special committee of thirtythree; joined the rebellion in 1861. He was the author of Recollections of Mississippi and the Mississippians. He died in 1890.
Davis, Richard Bingham
poet, was born Aug. 21, 1771, in New York city.
He was the author of numerous meritorious poems, which were collected and published, with memoir, by John T. Irving. He died in 1799 in New Brunswick, N. J.
Davis, Richard D
congressman, was born in New York. He graduated from Yale college in 1818, and was a representative in congress from his native state from 1841 to 1845.
Davis, Richard Harding
author, was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. He is a popular New York writer whose first book, Gallegher and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in 1890. He is the author of Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; and Stories for Boys.
Davis, Robert Stewart
journalist, was born in 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He has held the position of editor of several newspapers in Philadelphia and New York; and in 1883 established The Call, which is one of the best and most popular one cent papers in America.
Davis, Robert T
congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1823, in County of Down, Ireland. He settled at Fall River, Mass., in 1850; was a representative in the state legislature in 1853; and state senator in 1859-61. He was elected mayor of Fall River in 1873, and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyeighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Davis, Robert W
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born March 15, 1849, in Lee county, Ga. His father was an extensive planter and an eminent baptist divine. In 1863 he entered the confederate service, and surrendered with the army of General Johnston. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar, and soon took rank among the most eminent members of the bar in his native state. In 1879 he moved to Florida, where he now also stands at the head of his profession. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Florida state legislature, of which body he was made speaker. In 1888 he received a very flattering vote as a candidate for governor. He is now serving with distinction as a member of the fifty-fifth congress from the second congressional district of Florida.
Davis, Roger
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1815.
Davis, Samuel
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was a representative in congress from that state in 1803-12, and in 1815-16 he was a member of the state legislature.
Davis, Samuel B
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1853 to 1855.
Davis, Samuel Post
journalist, was born April 4, 1850, in Branford, Conn.
He attended the common schools and graduated from the Racine college, Wisconsin. He began his literary career as a humorous writer; wrote for the New York Sun, Chicago Times, San Francisco Examiner, New York Journal, and other prominent newspapers. He was the first writer to advocate the formation of a political party having for its platform the principles of bimetallism solely, and he is the author of several essays on that subject. In 1896 he was a member of the St. Louis bimetallic convention. He is the editor and owner of the Carson Appeal, of Carson City, Nev., and the author of a volume of Short Stories.
Davis, Samuel T
soldier, physician, legislator, was born March 6, 1838, in Huntingdon county, Pa. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of assistant adjutant-general. He is a physician of Lancaster, Pa., and president of the state board of health of Pennsylvania.
In 1884 he was elected to the state legislature and re-elected in 1886.
Davis, Samuel Taylor
D. D., clergyman, missionary, was born March 4, 1845, in Washington, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergyman and has been largely engaged in mission work in the United States and China.
Davis, Sylvanus
pioneer. He commanded Fort Loyal, Falmouth, and after a five days' defence was obliged to surrender it to the French and Indians in May, 1690. He was a counsellor in 1691- 92. He died in 1704, in Boston, Mass.
Davis, Thomas
congressman, was born in Ireland. He emigrated to Rhode Island, and was elected a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855.
Davis, Thomas Frederick
clergyman, was born Feb. 8, 1804, in Wilmington, N. C. In 1846 he moved to South Carolina, and became rector of Grace church, Camden. He was elected bishop of the diocese, and consecrated in St. John's chapel, New York, in 1853. He died Dec. 2, 1871, in Camden, S. C.
Davis, Thomas Kirby
clergyman, librarian, was born Feb. 11, 1826, in Chambersburg, Pa. In 1845 he graduated from Yale college; during 1846-49 he studied theology at the Princeton Theological seminary, and has attained eminence as a clergyman of the presbyterian church. He was a home missionary in California for many years. He has filled pastorates in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and is now librarian of the Wooster university. He has been professor of languages in the Vermilion institute of Hayesville, Ohio; has been trustee of that institution, and also of Wooster university. He has been a frequent contributor to periodical literature.
Davis, Thomas T
jurist. He was appointed in 1803 United States judge for the territory of Indiana.
Davis, Thomas T
manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1810, in Middlebury, Vt. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He died May 2, 1872 .
Davis, Thomas W
lawyer, was born Oct. 15, 1850, in Uniontown, Ala. He received his education at the common schools, and graduated from the law school of the university of Alabama. He has attained distinction as an able lawyer of Thomasville, Ala., and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Davis, Thomas Weston
clergyman, author, was born March 15, 1859, in Sturges, Miss. He graduated from the Rust university, and from the Gammon Theological seminary. He was attained prominence as one of the leading divines of the methodist episcopal church in Mississippi; is an orator of distinction, and the author of From the Selling Block to the Senate.
Davis, Timothy
lawyer, congressman, was born in March, 1794, in Newark, N. J. He spent twenty years of his life in Missouri, and having removed to Iowa, was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fifth congress.
Davis, Timothy
merchant, congressman, was born April 12, 1821, in Gloucester, Mass. In 1854, by an unusually large majority, he was elected a representative in congress from his native district, and was re-elected to the thirtyfifth congress.
Davis, Titus Elwood
clergyman, author, was born April 15, 1851, in Flatbush, N. Y. He has edited several publications and was appointed historian of Washington Camp Ground association.
He is the author of Master's Call; First Houses of Bound Brook; Battle of Bound Brook, and other works. -