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David, Thomas Boylston Adams, soldier. In 1862-64 he served as captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States volunteers. He is a member of the military order of the loyal legion.

Davidge, Walter Dorsey, lawyer, was July 5, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. He began the practice of law in 1860. He was the founder and president of the bar association of the fiiatrict of Columbia. He died Oct. 7, 1901, in Washington, D.C. Davidge, William Pleater, actor, was born on April 7, 1814, in London, England. Among his best parts were Bishopriggs in Man and Wife; Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer; and Croaker in The Good-

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Natured Man. He died Aug. 7, 1888, in •Cheyenne, Tenn. Davidson, Alexander, inventor, was bom Sept. 23, 1826, in Pruntytown, W.Va. In 1881 he designed and patented a, paddlewheel for boat propulsion. To him and his genius are owing many of the most important improvements now embraced in the leading typewriters. In 1887 he sold out his various patents to the Yost writing machine company. Davidson, Alexander C, planter, state senator, congressman, was born Dee. 26, 1826, in Mecklenburg county, N.C. He engaged and served as a representative and state senator in the legislature. In 1885-89 he was a representative from Alabama to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses. He died Nov. 6, 1897, in in cotton planting in 1879;

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Davidson, Alfred James, railroad presiwas born April 14, 1863, in Decatur, 111. Since 1904 he has been president of the St. Louis and Santa Fe railroad company; is also president of the Chicago and eastern

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railroad company; is president of Evanston and Terre Haute railroad company; and president of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande railroad company. Illinois

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Davidson, Anstruther, physician, botanist, author, was born Feb. 19, 1860, in Scotland. In 1881 he graduated from the university of Glasgow; and subsequently received the degree of M.D. from that institution of learning. He is wellknown as a student and investigator in

botany and entomology; he was president of the Southern California academy of science; and is now editor of its Bulletin.

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of numerous scientific associations; and has described several new species of plants. He is the author of Plants of Los Angeles County; and numerous Monographs and contributions to scientific journals.

Davidson, Charles, educator, author, was born July 29, 1852, in Streetboro, Ohio. He was an instructor of Belmont, Cal. ; and since 1906 has been a professor at the university of Maine. He is author of The Phonology of the Stressed Vowels of Beowulf; and Studies in the English Mystery Plays.

Davidson, George, astronomer, author, was on May 9, 1825, in England. He was founder of the Davidson observatory in San Francisco. He was in the United States coast survey for fifty years; was president

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academy of sciences for sevenyears to 1887; and since 1881 has been president of the Geographical society of the Pacific. He is the author of The United States Coast Survey of the Pacific Coast; Coast Pilot of Alaska; and Voyages of Discovery on the Northwest Coast of America, 1539-1603. Davidson, George Mosby, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 23, 1856, in Stanford, Ky. In 1871 he began the practice of law; and in 1881-85 was in the internal-revenue service. In 1886-93 he was master of chancery of the Lincoln circuit court; and in 1887 was elected to the Kentucky state legislature from Lincoln county. In 1894 he was judge of the Lincoln county court. In 1897-99 he was a representative from Kentucky to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He claimed to have been elected to the fifty-sixth congress, but did not serve. Davidson, Hannah Amelia, journalist, author, was born Oct. 29, 1852, in Campello, Mass. In 1879-84 she was principal and teacher of Greek, Latin and English history in the Minneapolis academy of Minnesota. She is the author of Reference History of the United States; Literary Study for Busy People; and The Gift of Genius. Davidson, Harlan Page, educator, college president, was born on Sept. 15, 1838, in Hookset, N.H. He is founder and president of Northwestern military academy of Highland Park, 111. Davidson, James H., educator, lawyer, congressman, was born June 18, 1858, in Colchester, N.Y. He was a teacher in the public schools for of California

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several years. He was elected district attorney of Green Lake county in 1888. In

1892 he duly removed Oshkosh city. Wis.; and in 1895 was appointed city attorney of that city for a term of two years. In 1897-1911 he was a

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representative from Wisconsin to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, the fiftyeighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth congresses as a republican.

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