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German and Hebrew in the Ohio Wesleyan university, lie is a methodist clergyman; and is editor of the department of archseology and biblical research of the Methodist Review. He is the author of The Universal Bible Encyclopedia, in two volumes; and The Codes of Hammurabi and feasor of

Moses, Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, soldier, lawyer, 4, 1774, in Bedford county, Va. He served for six months as a volunteer in the Indian campaign of 1793, and then studied law. It is said that he was the first western lawyer that ever argued a ease in the United States supreme court. He was United States attorney in 1806. He died Nov. 7, 1811. Davis, Aaron Jasper, soldier, educator, was born June 21, 1847, in Clarion county. Pa. He served as a union soldier during the civil war; and for twenty-six years was a member of the national guard of Pennsylvania. His life has been spent principally in educational work. He was county superintendent of schools for eight years; was an officer in the department of public instruction at Harrisburg, Pa.; superintendent of the industrial and training school of Sitka, Alaska; and was principal of the state normal school of Clarion for fifteen years. During the Spanish- American war he served as captain of company D fifteenth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. He is now principal of schools of Rimersburg, Pa. Davies, Achilles Edward, physician, author, was born Feb. 18, 1866, in Harrodsburg, Ky. Since 1889 he has practiced medicine in New York City; and has made a specialty of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is professor of diseases of the eye in the New York graduate medical school and hospital; and is consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Manhattan state hospital.. He is the author of The Refraction of the Eye; and other medical Monographs. Davis, Alexander Henry, soldier, proprietor, was born Oct. 19, 1839, in Syracuse, N.Y. When the civil war broke out he went to the front in 1861 as lieutenant of artillery. He was promoted to be captain and assistant adjutant-gentral in 1863; and major and assistant inspector-general in 1864.

was a representative from Kentucky to the twenty-third congress. He was a brother o: Garrett Davis. He died June 5, 1835, in Owingsville, Ky. Davis, Amos, congressman, was bom in Kentucky. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Kentucky to the sixty-first congress as a democrat.

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Davis, Alexander Jackson, designer, architect, was born July 24, 1803, in New York. He designed the executive department and patent office in Washington; the capifola of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina; the university of Michigan; and the Virginia military institute. He died Jan. 14, 1892, in West Orange, N.J. Davis, Alexander M., statesman. In 1873 he was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-third congress, but his election was contested, and he did not serve. Davis, Amos, lawyer, congressman, was

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1819,

1825, 1827

Mount Sterling, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky state legislature in and 1828. In 1833-35 he

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Andrew Jackson,

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spiritualist, au-

11, 1826, in

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the author of The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual InGrove, N.Y.

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tercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography; and Spirit Mystery

Explained. Davis, Andrew McFarland, antiquarian, author, was born Dec. 30, 1833, in Worcester, Mass. After practicing a short time in Massachusetts he went to California-; and was for several years a partner of his brother in the manufacturing business. He published articles in the Overland and Atlantic

Monthly magazines.

Aquilla J., soldier, banker, was born in 1830 in Tazewell county, HI. For four years he served as a union soldier during the civil war; and was lieutenant-colonel of the eleventh regiment Hlinois volunteer cavalry. For the past twenty years he has been in the banking business in Tremont. 111. and prominent in business and public affairs. His grandfather, Aquilla Davis, moved from Virginia to Kentucky in 1800, and to Illinois in 1821. Davis,



Davis, Arthur Powell, civil engineer, auwas born Feb. 9, 1861, in Decatur, 111. In 1884-94 lip Mas topographer in the United States geological

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survey; and conducted surveys and explorations in Arizona, New

Mexico and California. In 1898-1901 he was hydrographer in charge of hydrographic examination of the Nicaragua and Panama routes; and is chief engineer in the United States re-

canal

now

clamation service.

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the author of Elevation and Stadia Tables Progress of Stream Measurements; Hydrography of Nicaragua; and Irrigation Investigation in Arizona.

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Davis, Asahel, author, was bom in 1791 in Massachusetts. He was the author of Ancient America and Researches of the East; and History of New Amsterdam. He died in Massachusetts.

Davis, Augusta Cordelia, poet, was bom 1836 in Maine. She is the author of Poems from Yare. She died in Yarmouth, in

Maine.