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tive from Massachusetts to the thirty-secone congress. His speeches in congress were published in 1853. He died June 17, 1877, in Portland, Maine. Davis, George Thompson Brown, journalist, author, was born July 4, 1873, in Staunton, 111. In 1894-1901 he was assistant editor of Ram's Horn; and since 1904 has been manager of the Davis literary syndicate. He is the author of D. L. Moody, the Man and His Mission; Wlien Christ Was Here; Torrey and Alexander; and Twice Around the World With Alexander. ^ Davis, George Whitefield, soldier, was born Thompson, He enConn. July 26, 1839, in tered the eleventh Connecticut infantry in 1861 as a quartermaster's sergeant; and he

rose

major

the

to

rank

of

and

quartermaster. He was appointed as a captain in the fourteenth United in States infantry 1867; was promoted to major in the eleventh infantry in 1894; became a lieutenantcolonel in 1898; and

he was then appointed brigadier-general of volunteers,

commanding

In 1899-1900 he was governor general of Puerto Pico. In 1901 he became brigadier-general in the United States army, serving in the Philippines. Davis, Gilbert Asa, manufacturer, lawyer, legislator, author, was born Dec. 18, 1835, in Chester, Vt. He was educated at Chester academy of Vermont. In 1873 and again in 1874 he was elected a member of the Vermont house of representatives from the town of Reading; and in 1876 was elected to the state senate. He has been states attorney for two years for Windsor county; and for forty-seven years has practiced law with success in the Vermont courts and in the state and the United States courts of New England. He has been the owner of the Windsor drug store; and is an extensive owner of real estate. He was for ten years president of the Windsor machine company; and is president of the Windsor canning company. For twenty-five years he has been clerk of the Windsor congregational church.

Pittsburg, Pa.; and prominently identified with the business and public affairs of that city. In 1880-97 he served as private, corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, adjutant-quartermaster and captain in the eighteenth regiment Pennsylvania national guard; and on request in 1897 was placed on the retired list. In 1891, 1892 and in 1903 he served in the Pittsburg. riots; and in 1903 was ordered on active duty as quartermaster of his regiment in the coal riots of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the chamber of commerce, American club, and of the veteran corps of the eighteenth regi-

ment. Davis, Hasbrouck, soldier, lawyer, was born April 19, 1837, in Worcester, Mass. He was mustered into the United States service in 1863 as lieutenant-colonel of the eleventh Illinois cavalry; and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadier-general. After returning to Chicago, he was elected city attorney.

referee in bankruptcy; and is chairthe Vermont board of bridge commissioners. He is the author of History of the Town of Reading; The Congregational Church in Windsor; and a compilation of the School Laws of Vermont. Davis, Harriet Riddle, litterateur, author, She is the author of In Sight of the Goddess and other works.

A

Davis, Harry F., soldier, business man,

was

born Dec. 13, 1859, in Allegheny City, Pa. He received a thorough education; and graduated from the Western university of Pennsylvania.' He is a successful business man of

died Oct. 10, 1870, in Chicago,

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Davis,

a division.

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Davis, Henry, clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 15, 1771, in East Hampton, N.Y. He was president of Hamilton college in 1818-33. He was the author of Narrative of the Embarrassments and Decline of Hamilton College. He died March 8, 1853, in Clinton, N.Y. dent,

Henry Gasaoway, railroad

banker, United States

bom

presisenator, was

Nov. 16, 1833, in Howard county, Md. In 1865 he was elected to the West Virginia state legislature; in 1868 was a delegate to the democratic national convention; in the same year was elected to the state senate; and in 1870 was re-elected. In 187183 he was United States senator. He was a senator from West Virginia for the term ending in 1877. In 1881 he became president of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg railway; and also of the Piedmont and Cumberland railway. Davis, Henry Greene, soldier, was born in Vermont. In 1861 he was first lieutenant in the twenty-ninth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted

brigadier-general Aug. 26, 1898.

of

volunteers.

He

died

Henry Lyon, educator, college preswas born about 1775 in Maryland. In 1816-20 he was elected president of St. John's college of Annapolis, Md. In 1836 he moved to Delaware, where he became president of Davis,

ident,

the college at Wilmington. in

He

died in 1837

Georgetown, Md. Davis,

Henry Winter, lawyer, congress-

man, author, was born Aug. 16, 1817, in Annapolis, Md. In 1864 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution. He

was conspicuously

loyal to the union during war. In 1855-65 he was a representative from Maryland to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth and thirty-eighth congresses. He was the author of The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth

the

civil