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76 Northern Virginia. In 1865-'6 he studied law at the University of Virginia, and soon after entering upon practice gained a high reputation as an advo- cate. He has published "Attachments" (1869) and '• Negotiable Instruments " (1876). He was elected to the state house of delegates in 1869, and to the state senate in 1875 and 1879. In 1876 he was an elector-at-large on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket. He was nominated for governor, in 1881,. by the debt-paying democracy, and resigned from the state senate to accept the nomination, but was defeated by William E. Cameron, the readjuster candidate. On 4 Nov., 1884, he was elected a rep- resentative in congress, and on 15 Dec, 1885, was chosen U. S. senator to succeed William Mahone, and was re-elected in 1891.

DANIEL, William, candidate for the vice-presi- dency, b. on Deal's island, Somerset co.. Md., 24 Jan., 1826. He was graduated at Dickinson college in 1848, and admitted to the bar in 1851. He was elected to the legislature in 1858, and introduced a bill similar to the Maine liquor law, was re-elected on the temperance issue by the American party, and on the completion of his term sent to the state senate in 1857 as a supporter of local option. After the first session he resigned, and removed to Balti- more. He became an earnest anti-slavery republi- can, and in 1864 was a member of the State consti- tutional convention for the emancipation of the slaves. He was chosen president of the Maryland temperance alliance on its organization in 1872, and continued in that post in subsequent years. Through the efforts of that society and the energy and elo- quence of its president, the Maryland option law was enacted, and adopted by thirteen counties of tlie twenty-three composing the state. On 14 July, 1884, the alliance joined the national prohibition party. Mr. Daniel appeared at the head of the Maryland delegation in the prohibitionist conven- tion in Pittsburg, Pa., acted as temporary chairman of the convention, and was nominated by it for vice-president of the United States. The St. John and Daniel ticket received 150,369 ballots, or 1-49 per cent, of the total poi)ular vote.

DANIELS, William Haven, author, b. in Franklin, Mass., 18 May, 1836. He entered Wesleyan university, then travelled in Europe, became librarian in Northwestern university in 1866, and was professor of rhetoric in Illinois Wesleyan university in 1868-'9. He joined the Rock River conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1869, was a minister in Chicago, Ill., in 1870-'4, then at River Forest, went to Europe with Dwight L. Moody, the revivalist, in 1875, became a supernumerary in 1876, and since 1881 has devoted himself to literature, and to the work of an evangelist, to enter upon which he resigned his connection with the New England conference in 1885. He is the author of "D. L. Moody and his Work" (London and Hartford, 1875); "That Boy: Who shall Have Him?" (Cincinnati and London, 1878); "The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers" (New York, 1878); "Moody, his Words, Work, and Workers" (1879); "The Illustrated History of Methodism in the United States" (1880); "Graduated with Honor: Memorials of Gilbert Haven" (Cincinnati, 1880); and "A Short History of the People called Methodist" (London, 1882).

DANIELSON, Timothy, patriot, b. in Brimfield, Mass., in 1733; d. there, "l9 Sept., 1791. He was graduated at Yale in 1756, and studied theology, but did not preach. He was chairman of the Hamp- shire county convention in September, 1774, and a delegate to the provincial congress that met at Con- cord in the following month. In May, 1774, being a representative, he was chosen a member of the council, but his election was annulled by Gov. Gage. In February and May, 1775, he attended the pro- vincial congress at Cambridge and Watertown. He commanded one of the twenty-five regiments of provincial militia organized under the act of May, 1775, but served the cause of independence chiefly in the legislative body, where he sat for several years. He was a member of the State constitu- tional convention of 1779, and afterward of the senate and executive council. In his last years he was chief justice of Hampshire county.

DANKS, Hart Pease, musician, b. in New Haven, Conn., in 1834. He removed with his parents to Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and in 1850 went to Chicago, 111. His first musical composition was inserted in Bradbury's " Jubilee," under the name of " Lake Street," and is well known. In 1856 his first song, arranged with piano-forte accom- paniment, "The Old Lane," was published in Chi- cago, since which time he has issued several hundred. Two of them, " Silver Threads among the Gold " and " Don't be angry with me, Darling," have at- tained immense popularity, each selling to the ex- tent of several hundred thousand copies. The pub- lishers paid the author thirty dollars for the copy- right, and realized several thousands. From 1858 till 1861 Mr. Danks lived in Cleveland, Oliio, from 1861 till 1864 in Chicago, and from 1864 till 1887 in New York city. He has published books of an- thems that have met with favorable acceptation.

DAOUST, Jeau Baptist, Canadian politician, b. in guel»ec, 18 Jan., 1817: d. there, 28 Dec, 1891. After having been magistrate and nmnicipal of- ficei', he was elected by acclamation in 1854, for Two Mountains, to the old parliament of Canada, in which he held his seat until the confederation of the provinces in 1867, when he was elected to the house of commons by acclamation. In 1872 he retired for a short time from political life. In 1876 he was re-elected to the house of commons by ac- clamation, being chosen again at the general elec- tion in 1878, and again in 1882.

DA PONTE, Lorenzo, dramatist, b. in Venice, Italy, 10 March, 1749; d. in New York city, 17 Aug., 1838. His name was an assumed one. He was for two years professor of rhetoric in the seminary of Porto Gruaro, and then removed to Venice. But, after a short stay in that city, he was exiled for writing a political satire. His next place of residence was in Vienna, where he wrote opera libretti and dramas for the theatres. Among his productions were &ldquo;Don Giovanni&rdquo; and &ldquo;Nozze di Figaro,&rdquo; both rendered famous and enduring by the musical setting of Mozart. Da Ponte next passed several years in London as secretary and dramatist of the Italian opera, and also kept a book-store. In 1805, becoming financially involved, he emigrated to the United States, and settled in New York city, where for many years he gave private lessons in the Italian language and literature. In 1828 he was appointed professor of Italian in Columbia college. Besides his many plays, he wrote sonnets and translations from the English into Italian, and also several books of elementary instruction in the Italian language. He published his own &ldquo;Life&rdquo; (3 vols., New York, 1823), and &ldquo;History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici&rdquo; (2 vols., 1833).

DARBY, John, educator, b. in North Adams, Mass., 3 Sept., 1804; d. in New York, 18 Sept., 1877. He was graduated at Williams in 1831, and remained there as an instructor till he accepted a professorship in Wesleyan female college at Macon, Ga. Afterward he became professor of mathematics at