Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson – Dawson, Henry Barton
Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson
author, was born in 1864 in Virginia. She is the author of An Irish Knight of the Nineteenth Century, a Sketch of Robert Emmet; and The Veiled Doctor. She died Sept. 19, 1898.
Davis, Warren R
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1793 in South Carolina. He was appointed solicitor for South Carolina in 1818, and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1825 to 1835. He died Jan. 29, 1835, in Washington, D. C.
Davis, Werter Renick
clergyman, educator, college president, was born April 1, 1818, in Circleville, Ohio. He was elected president of Baker university, but afterward resigned, and for fourteen consecutive years was appointed to a presiding eldership. During the civil war he went to the front as chaplain of the twelfth Kansas infantry. He was a member of the first state legislature of Kansas.
Davis, William Bramwell
physician, author, was born July 22, 1832, in Ohio. He is a physician and surgeon of Cincinnati, and the author of Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; and The Alcohol Question.
Davis, William Hope
physician, author, was born Sept. 1, 1837, in Attica, N. Y. He attended the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and subsequently graduated in medicine. He has attained prominence as one of the leading physicians of the west, and now has a lucrative practice in Springfield, Ill. In 1858 he was in the government employ as mail agent, and took the first mail that was ever taken across the continent. He has been a member of the board of health, and organized and was secretary of the Eclectic Medical association of Illinois. He was appointed secretary of the National Medical association for ten years, and read papers before that body on various topics. In 1892 he was appointed a member of the advisory council of the world's congress of eclectic physicians, and has filled numerous other positions of honor in medical bodies, and has contributed extensively to medical literature.
Davis, William M
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-seventh congress.
Davis, William Morris
educator, author, was born in 1850 in Pennsylvania.
He is a professor of physical geography in Harvard university, and the author of Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; and Elementary Meteorology.
DAVIS, WILLIAM WATTS HART. He is the author of El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People; History of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; and History of the Doylestown Guards.
Davis, Woodbury
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 25, 1818, in Standish, Maine. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster of Portland, and relinquished law He published The Beautiful practice.
City, a religious book. He died Aug. 15, 1871, in Portland, Maine.
Davison, Andrew
lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected in 1853 one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of Indiana.
Davison, George Mosby
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 23, 1856, in Stanford, Ky. In 1881 he was appointed to a position in the internal revenue service, which he held until 1885. In 1886 he was appointed master of chancery, or commissioner, of the Lincoln circuit court, and resigned in 1893. In 1887 he was elected to the legislature from Lincoln county as a republican. He was elected judge of the Lincoln county court in 1894, and for ten consecutive years has been chairman of the Lincoln county republican committee. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Davy, John M
lawyer, congressman, was born June 29, 1835, in Ontario. He was elected district attorney for Monroe county for three years; in 1872 was appointed collector of customs for the port of Genesee, which office he held until 1874, when he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.
Dawes, Anna Laurens
author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. She has written much for journals and periodicals, and is the author of How We Are Governed; The Modern Jew, His Present and Future; and Biography of Charles Sumner.
Dawes, Henry Laurens
journalist, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 30, 1816, in Cummington, Mass. He edited a paper called the Greenfield Gazette; was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts during the years 1848, 1849, and 1852; of the state senate in 1850, and of the state constitutional convention in 1853. He was district attorney for the western district of his native state, from 1853 until elected to the thirty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and forty-third congresses; and was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1875, and was reelected for another term of six years for term ending in 1889.
Dawes, James W
merchant, lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1845, at McConnellsville, Ohio. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1875; and was elected state senator in 1876. In 1882 he was elected governor of Nebraska for the term of two years, and was re-elected governor in 1884.
Dawes, Rufus
jurist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was a witty jurist of Massachusetts, who won notice both as orator and poet. He is the author of The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix's Mate, an Historical Romance; and Miscellaneous Poems. He died Nov. 30, 1859, in Washington, D. C.
Dawes, Rufus R
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born July 4, 1838, in Malta, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861, as captain, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He engaged in business at Marietta, Ohio, and was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortyseventh congress as a republican.
Dawes, Thomas
soldier, state senator, was born Aug. 5, 1731, in Boston, Mass. He was a mechanic. During the controversy with Great Britain he was made colonel of the Boston regiment in 1773, serving until 1778. He was a member of the house and of the senate, as well as state councillor. He died Jan. 2, 1809, in Boston, Mass.
Dawes, Thomas
jurist, was born July 8, 1757, in Boston, Mass. He was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts from 1792 till 1803, judge of the municipal court from 1803 till 1823, and judge of probate until his death. He published an Oration on the Boston Massacre; and the Law Given on Mount Sinai. He died July 22, 1827, in Boston, Mass.
Dawes, Thomas
educator, clergyman, was born March 11, 1818, in Baltimore, Md. He attended the Chauncy Hall school and the public Latin school of Boston, Mass.; graduated from Harvard university in 1839, from the Divinity school in 1842, and has received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. For six years he was a member of the school committee of Boston, Mass., and has always taken an active part in educational affairs. He is a successful clergyman of the unitarian church, and for a quarter of a century has filled a pastorate in Brewster, Mass.
Dawes, William
patriot, of Lexington. He was despatched to Lexington, with Paul Revere, on April 18, 1775, and rode through Roxbury, Revere going by way of Charlestown. In the morning of April 19 the message from Warren reached Adams and Hancock. Revere and Dawes, joined by Samuel Prescott, from Concord, rode forward, calling the inhabitants.
Dawson, Andrew H. H
soldier, lawyer, orator, was born Nov. 26, 1819, in Cynthiana, Ky. For ten months he spent hunting buffalo and fighting Indians under Kit Carson, the renowned old hunter. He studied law under Thomas F. Marshall, was admitted to the bar and settled in St. Louis, and subsequently became the leading lawyer of Georgia. In 1866 he moved to New York city. He has been attorney-general of Georgia, assistant district attorney of New York city and county. He is now engaged as a Mason in editing an Analysis of the facts which make the full and complete history of the Maybrick case.
Dawson, Benjamin Frederick
surgeon, inventor, journalist, author, was born June 28, 1847, in New York city. He invented a new galvanic battery for galvano-caustic surgery in 1876. In 1868 he founded the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, which he edited until 1874.
Dawson, Daniel L
manufacturer, poet, was born in 1855 in Lewistown, Pa.
He was the author of a book of poems entitled The Seekers in the Marshes, and Other Poems. He died Oct. 31, 1893.
Dawson, George
journalist, author, was born March 14, 1813, in Scotland. He was an influential Albany journalist, editor of the Evening Journal in 1846-77, and author of The Pleasures of Angling. He died in 1883.
Dawson, Henry Barton
journalist, author, was born June 8, 1821, in England. He was an historical writer of New York city, editor of the Historical Magazine in 1866-77, and editor of the Federalist, reprinted from the original text. He was the author of Battles of the United States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions Tested by Uncurrent Facts; Rutgers against Waddington; and Westchester County in the Revolution. He died May 23, 1889, in Morrisania, N. Y.