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Rh the battle of Corinth on 3-4 Oct., and commanded the district of Columbus, Ky., in 18(52-'3, that of Rolla, Mo., in 186;J-'4, that of North Kansas in 18G4-'5, and that of Wisconsin from April till June, 1805. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers on 11 July, 1865, and shortly afterward returned to New York city. He has published " Cosmogony : or Mysteries of Creation," an analy- sis of the natural facts stated in the Hebraic ac- count of creation (New York, 1858); "Adam and Ha-Adam" (1859); "Genesis Disclosed" (18G0); " Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geolo- gists " (1861) ; " How to make Money, and How to keep It " (1866) ; and " Appeal of a Layman to the Committee on the Revision of the English Ver- sion of the Holy Scriptures, to have Adam and Ha-Adam restored to the English Genesis where left out by former Translators " (1875). — Henry Eugene's son, Henry Eiig'one, lawyer, b. in New York city, 2 July, 1886 ; d. in Massachusetts, 6 Sept., 1894, was educated at Columbia, where he was graduated in 1857. He then studied law, was ad- niitted to the bar, and began practice. He entered the army in A]n-il, 1861, as a captain in the 5th New York volunteers, became major in the 2d New York cavalry in July, and subsequently its colonel. He was made a brigadier-general of volunteers on 16 Sept., 1863, and served with distinction in the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac till the close of the war. He was brevetted major- general of volunteers, 1 Oct., 1864. given his full commission on 4 May, 1865, and commanded the middle district of Alabama till his resignation on 1 Jan., 1866. He was public administrator of New York city in lS66-'9, assistant district attorney of the southern district of New York in 1870-'2, "and wrote a life of Gen. Sheridan (New York, 1894).

DAVIES, Louis Henry, Canadian statesman, b. in Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, 4 May, 1845. He was educated at the Central acad- emy and Pnnce of Wales college, Charlottetown, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He was solicitor-general of his native province in 1869, and again in 1872-'3 ; was the leader of the oppo- sition in the legislative assembly until September, 1876, when he became premier and attorney- general, which portfolios he retained till 1879, when his administration resigned. He was elected to the local legislature in 1872, and re-elected from time to time till 1879, when he was defeated. In 1882 he was elected to represent Queen's county, Prince Edward island, in the Dominion parlia- ment, and still (1886) represents that constituency. He was counsel for the tenantry of Prince Edward island, before the land commission, presided over by the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers, which sat in 1875-'6, when the estates of all proprietors in the island were expropriated by the province. He was also one of the counsel representing Great Britain before the international fishery commis- sion, which sat at Halifax, N. S., in 1877, under articles of the Washington treaty. He is a liberal. DAVIES, Marianne, musician, b. in New Eng- land about 1736; d. in London in 1792. She was the elder of two sisters, both of whom made a Eu- ropean reputation as musicians. They were daugh- ters of a relative of Benjamin Franklin. Marianne achieved some distinction as a performer on the harpsichord and piano, but about 1762 acquired much greater repute for her skill on the harmonica or musical glasses, which had then been recently improved by Franklin. She was subsequently com- pelled to retire from the profession, owing to the effect on her nerves of constant playing upon the harmonica. This was so frequent a result of its use that it was banished from many continental towns by official prohibition. — Her sister, Cecilia, vocalist, b. in 1740 ; d. in London, England, 3 July, 1836, visited Europe in company with Marianne, with whom she always resided. Her first public appearance was made at the conecrt-i'oom, Dean street, Soho, London, 28 April, 1756. After a suc- cessful career in the English metropolis, Cecilia and Marianne left England in 1768, and visited Paris and Vienna. While they were in the latter city Metastasio wrote, and Hasse composed the music for, an ode that was sung by Cecilia, accompanied by Marianne on the harmonica. In a letter dated 16 Jan., 1772, the poet describes the beautiful tone of the instrument, and the admirable manner in which Cecilia assimilated her voice to it, making it difficult to distinguish the one from the other. From Vienna the sisters went to Milan, where the younger appeared with great success, in 1771, in the opera of " Ruggiero," by Metastasio and Hasse. Cecilia was the first English-speaking woman to whom the Italians accorded the rank of prima donna, be- stowing on her the sobriquet " I'lnglesina," and admitting her to be the superior of any Italian singer of that time, except Gabrielli. Cecilia after- ward sang in Florence, and returned in 1773 to London, where she appeared successfully in Italian opera. Her voice is described as being deficient in both power and volume, but she possessed a neat and facile execution. She revisited Florence, and sang there until 1784, when she once more returned to England, and retired from the profession soon after the death of her sister. About 1817 she pub- lished a collection of six songs by Hasse, Jomelli, Galuppi, and others. She lingered until her ninety-sixth year, borne down by the accumulated weight of years, disease, and poverty.

DAVIES, Samuel, clergyman, b. near Summit Ridge, Newcastle eo., Del.,' 3 Nov., 1724; d. in Princeton, N. J., 4 Feb., 1761. His parents were of Welsh descent. He was educated at home and in Rev. Samuel Blair's seminary at Fogg's Manor, and licensed to preach by Newcastle presbytery in 1746. He was ordained as an evangelist in 1747, and sent to Hanover county, Va., which the enmity of the civil authorities toward dissenters made a very difficult field. Through the influence of the governor he obtained a license to officiate at four places of worship about Hanover, which in 1748 was extended to three additional churches. He subsequently engaged in a controversy with Peyton Randolph, the king's attorney, as to whether the English act of toleration extended to Virginia. Mr. Davies argued his side of the case before the general court, and afterward, when on a visit to England, brought the matter before the king in council, by whom the question was decided in the affirmative. In 1753 Mr. Davies undertook a suc- cessful mission to England, with Gilbert Tennent, to solicit funds for the College of New Jersey, and was received with much favor as a preacher. He returned amid the excitement of the French and Indian war, and shortly after Braddock's defeat delivered a sermon on that event. In a note to another published sermon, delivered in the follow- ing August, he alludes prophetically to "that heroic youth. Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his coun- try." The first presbytery in Virginia was estab- lished in 1755 through his exertions, and in 1758 he was chosen to succeed Jonathan Edwards as president of Princeton. He declined the honor, but it was again urged upon him in the following year, and he then accepted it, but held it only