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Rh resigned pastoral duties and became editor-in-chief of the " Morning Star," a Free-will Baptist weekly paper, published in Dover, jST. H., and afterward removed to Boston. In this editorship he con- tinued until his death. See his " Memoirs " by the Rev. William H. Bowen, D. D. (Dover, N. H., 1876).

DAY, Hannibal, soldier, b. in Vermont. 1804 ; d. in Morristown, N. J., 25 March, 1891. He was the son of Dr. Sylvester Day. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1823, and made sec- ond lieutenant in' the 2d infantry. On 4 April, 1832, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and in the same year took part in the Black* Hawk expedition, but was not on duty at the seat of war. He also served in the Florida wars in 1838-'9 and 1841-'2, and in the war with Mexico in 1846-'7. He was commissioned captain, 7 July, 1838, major, 23 Feb., 1852, lieutenant-colonel, 25 Feb., 1861, and colonel, 7 Jan,, 1862. He commanded a brigade of the 5th corps in the Pennsylvania campaign in 1863, taking part in the battle of Gettysburg. He was retired from active duty, " on his own application after forty consecutive years of service," 1 Aug., 1863, and employed on military commissions and courts- martial from 25 July, 1864. On 13 March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general for long service.

DAY, Henry, lawyer, b. in South Hadlev, Mass., 25 Dec, 1820; d. in "New York city, 9 Jan., 1893. He took charge of the classical academy at Fair- field, Conn., until 1847, studied in the Harvard law-school, was admitted to the bar in the autumn of 1848, and settled in New York city. He was a member of the Presbyterian (old school) general assembly that convened in St. Louis in 1867, and of the assembly that met in Albany in 1868. He strongly advocated the union of the old and new schools, and was one of the committee that visited the new-school assembly, then in session in Harris- burg, and laid before it the views of the old-school assembly on the subject of union. He afterward drafted the articles for the basis of union, which were ratified in 1869 at Pittsburg by the joint meeting of the two assemblies. He became a di- rector in the Princeton theological seminary in 1865, and a trustee and director in the Union theo- logical seminary in 1870. He published "The Lawyer Abroad, or Observations on the Social and Political Condition of Various Countries" (New York, 1874) ; and '• From the Pyrenees to the Pil- lars of Hercules " (1883).

DAY, Henry Wright, Canadian physician, b. in the townsJiip of Kingston, 6 Sept., 1831. He was educated at Newburg academy, and at Queen's university, Kingston, being graduated M. D. in 1859. He began practice in Trenton, and in 1869 was elected a member of the council of physicians and surgeons of Ontario for the Quinte and Cata- raqui districts. He has also been president of the council of the College of physicians and surgeons of Ontario. When the first Fenian raid occurred, in 1866, he organized a battery of garrison artillery. He was the first mayor of Trenton, and has been president of the provisional board of directors of the Central Ontario railway.

DAY, Horace H., manufacturer, b. in 1813 ; d. in Manchester, N. H., 23 Aug., 1878. He was a licensee under Charles Goodyear's rubber patents, which were granted in 1842, and identified with the India-rubber trade from its inception. He was the exclusive licensee under the patents for the manufacture of shirred goods, which were sub- sequently found to be objectionable. Charles Good- year, owner of the patents, brought suits against Mr. Day for infringement of the woven-goods right of the patent. Mr. Day instituted cross-suits, and extensive litigation was the result. The most cele- brated of all the suits was tried at Trenton, N. J., Daniel Webster appearing as counsel for Mr. Good- year, and Rufus Choate for Mr. Day. Mr. Webster left his seat in the U. S. senate to try the case. He received $15,000 as a retainer, and his argument at the trial was regarded as one of his best. He won the case, and Mr. Day surrendered his license, transferred his factory and machinery to William Judson, a representative of Mr. Goodyear, and agreed to retire from the business for the sum of $350,000, and counsel-fees amounting to $21,000 ad- ditional, all of which amounts were paid to him in 1862. Previous to this time Mr. Day had conceived the idea of utilizing the watei'-power of Niagara falls. As early as 1856 he had discussed the sub- ject in pamphlets and newspapers, and had organ- ized a company, with himself as vice-president, treasurer, and leading director. A canal was con- structed at great cost, the estate of Walter Bryant alone expending $200,000. The canal began about half a mile above the falls, and terminated one fourth of a mile below them. It was 100 feet wide, with a depth of ten feet along its whole length. Wiien Mr. Day bought the property the canal was not finished, and the Bryant estate had been ex- hausted in the enterprise. Mr. Day completed the canal, bought Grass island for a harbor, and ex- pended $700,000. But the work was sold out to satisfy mortgages in 1877. Mr. Day's next venture was the establishment of a mammoth rubber enter- prise in New Jersey, but he received $40,000 to withdraw from it. His later specvdations were un- fortunate, his large fortune was gone, and he be- came comparatively poor.

DAY, Jeremiah, clergyman, b. in Colchester, Conn., 26 Jan., 1738 ; d. in Connecticut, 12 Sept., 1806. He was descended from Robert Day, who emigrated from England in 1634, and whose name is recorded upon a monument erected to the memory of the first settlers of Hartford by the 1st Congregational ch'u-ch of that city. His father, Thomas, great-grandson of Robert Day, settled upon a farm, and, on discovering the boy's fondness for study, sent him to Yale, where he was graduated in 1756. After leaving college, he taught in Sharon until he began his clerical studies, in 1757, with the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, of Bethlehem. Having a valuable farm on Sharon mountain left to him by his brother's will, he occupied it, and devoted his life to mathematical and ethical studies, as well as to agricultural labor. In reference to this period he afterward wrote a " Poem on the Pleasures of a Country Life." After the death of his wife he resolved again to devote his life to the ministry, and resumed his theological studies, under the direction of the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith. In September, 1769, he was licensed to preach, and ordained pastor of the Congregational church in New Preston. Conn. He was one of the first missionaries from Connecticut to the new settlements in the country, making his first tour in 1788. At the Commencement of Yale in 1791 he preached the " Conscio ad Clerum," his subject being the eternal pre-existence of the world. Mr. Day published a sermon delivered before the Litchfield county association on the " Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin " (1774). There is a volume of his discourses entitled " Sermons Collected " (1797). He also planned a long poem, " The Vision of St. John," which was not published. He was one of the editors of the " Connecticut Evangelical Magazine " from its establishment until his death. — His son, Jeremiah, educator, b. in New Preston, Conn., 3 Aug., 1773; d. in New Haven, Conn., 22