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112 Aug., 1867. He was graduated at Yale with high honor in 1795. When Dr. Dwiglit was appointed president of that college, Mr. Day was invited to be his successor as head-master in Greenfield school, where he remained one year. The following year he became a tutor at Williams, where he remained until 1798, when he was offered a similar place at Yale. He began to preach as a candidate for the ministry, but before taking charge of any parish was elected to the professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy at Yale, in 1801, but was not able to enter upon these new duties until 1803. He was made president of Yale in 1817, which' office he held until his resignation in 1846. Having previously studied theology, Dr. Day was ordained the same day that he was inaugurated president. In 1817 he received the degree of LL. D. from Middlebury, in 1818 the degree of D. D. from Union, and the latter also from Harvard in 1831. His learning and talents, united with kindness of heart and soundness of judgment, secured the respect of his pupils as well as their affection. He published an "Algebra" in 1814, which passed through numerous editions, the latest of which was issued in 1852, by the joint labors of himself and Prof. Stanley. He wrote also " Mensuration of Superficies and Solids " (1814) ; " An Examina- tion of President Edwards's Inquiry as to the Free- dom of the Will " (1814) ; " Plane Trigonometry " (1815) ; " Navigation and Surveying " (1817) ; " An Inquiry on the Self-determining Power of the Will, or Contingent Volition " (1838 ; 2d ed., 1849) ; and occasional sermons. He contributed 2:)apers to the "American Journal of Science and Arts," the " New Englander," and other periodicals. An address com- memorative of his life and services was delivered by President Woolsey (1867).— His daughter, Mar- tha, poet, b. in New Haven, Conn., 13 Feb., 1813 ; d. there, 2 Dec, 1833, attained great proficiency in mathematics and languages. A collection of her " Literary Remains, with Memorials of her Life and Character," was published by her friend and relative. Prof. Kingsley (New Haven, 1834). — Henry Noble, nephew of the second Jeremiah, b. in New Preston, Conn., 4 xVug., 1808 ; d. in New flaven. Conn., 12 Jan., 1890, graduated at Yale in 1828, and was tutor there from 1831 till 1834. He then trav- elled for fifteen months in Europe, and in 1836 was appointed pastor of the 1st Congregational church in Waterbury, Conn., where he remained until 1840. He was professor of rhetoric and homiletics in Western reserve college, Ohio, from 1840 till 1858. During that time he was engaged in the management of the Cleveland and Pittsburg rail- road, and tor ten years that, with three important connecting railroads (of two of which he was presi- dent), occupied his time. In 1858 he became presi- dent of Ohio female college, wiiere he remained until his resignation in 1864. Prof. Day published " The Art of Elocution " (New Haven, 1844 ; re- vised ed., Cincinnati, 1860) ; " Fundamental Phi- losophy from Krug " (Hudson. Oliio, 1848) ; " The Art of Rhetoric " (Hudson, 1850 ; revised under the name of the " Art of Discourse," New York, 1867) : " Rhetorical Praxis " (Cincinnati, 1860) ; " The Art of Book-keeping " (1861) ; " The Logic of Sir Will- iam Hamilton " (1863) ; " Elements of Logic " (New York, 1867) ; " The Art of Composition " (1867); "The American Speller" (1869); "Intro- duction to the Study of f^nglish Literature " (1869) ; " The Young Compusur "' (1S70) ; " Logical Praxis " (New Haven, 1872) ; " The Science of Esthetics " (1872) ; " The Elements of Psychology " (New York, 1876) ; " The Science of Ethics " (1876) ; " Outlines of Ontological Science, or a Philosophy of Knowledge and of Being" (1878); "The Science of Thought" (1886); and "The Elements of Mental Science " (1886). He received the degree of D. D. from Farmer's college, Cincinnati, and that of LL. D. from Ingham university of New York, and also from the State university of Iowa. — Another son, Thomas, jurist, b. in New Preston, Conn., 6 July, 1777 ; d. in Hartford, 1 March, 1855, was graduated at Yale in 1797, studied law at Litchfield, and from September, 1798, till Septem- ber, 1799, was a tutor in Williams college. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1799, and began practice in Hartford. In 1809 he was ap- pointed assistant secretary of the state of Connecti- cut, and in 1810 secretary, an office which he re- tained until 1835. In May, 1815, he became asso- ciate judge of the county com't of Hartford, acting in this capacity, with the exception of one year, till May, 1825, when he was made chief judge of that court, and so continued until June, 1833. He was a judge of the city court of Hartford from 1818 till 1831, and one of the committee to prepare the statutes of 1808, and also of 1821 and 1824. He re- ported the decisions of the court of errors from 1805 till 1853. which were published in twenty vol- umes. He also edited several English law-works, amounting altogether to forty volumes, in which he introduced notices of American decisions, and also of later English cases. He was an original member of the Connecticut historical society, of which he was president from 1839 until his death.

DAY, Mahlon, publisher, b. in Morristown, N. J.. 27 Aug., 1790 ; d. at sea, 27 Sept., 1854. He acquired a competence as a bookseller in New York city, and for fifteen years before his death devoted his life to charitable and educational objects. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He was lost in the wreck of the steamship "Arctic" off Cape Race, Newfoundland.

DAY, Samuel Stearns, missionary, b. in Leeds county, Canada, in 1808 ; d. in Cortlandville. N. Y., in October, 1871. He was graduated at the Hamil- ton literary and theological institution (now Madi- son university) in 1835, was ordained, and sailed for India, landing at Calcutta in February, 1836. He went to Vizigapatam, and in 1837 to Madras, in order to qualify himself for his work. He was appointed to the Telugus, a large and intelligent race of Hindoos, numbering about 14,0,0(H), and occupying the country between Orissa and ^Madras, removed to Nellore, the centre of his field, in 1840, and labored zealously among the Telugus for eigh- teen years He made a short visit to the United States in 1845, and returned to India. He could not endure the cliniate of the Madras coast, and was compelled to return to his native country in 1863. Where he toiled alone in the east and with- out apparent results, several churches and schools are now established for the education and training of native missionaries.

DAY, Thomas, English author, b. in London, 22 June, 1748 ; d. 28 Sept., 1789. He studied law, but never practised, having inherited a large fortune. He sympathized with the American patriots, and advocated their cause at public meetings. Having adopted the peculiar social views of Rousseau, he selected two girls from a foundling hos- pital, with the intention of educating them and making one of them his wife, but the experiment did not succeed. He is the author of " The Dying Negro," written in conjunction with Mr. Bicknell (1773) ; " The Devoted Legions," a poem against the war with America (1776); " The Desolation of America," a poem (1777) ; " Reflections on the Present State of England and the Independence