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represent their grievances under the exclusive laws then in force in Massachusetts; and took the ground that the charter granted religious equality, and that Congregationalism was not the established religion of the commonwealth. He died Dec. 13, 1772, in Ohio. Davis, John, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 25, 1761, in Plymouth, Mass. He was some years in the state legislature; a member of the convention to adopt the federal constitution; and member of the .state senate in 1795. He was appointed comptroller of the United States treasury in 1795; district attorney for Massachusetts in 1796; and was United States district judge in 1801-47. He died Jan. 14, 1847, in Boston,

Mass. Davis, John, lawyer, jurist, governor, United States senator, was born Jan. 13, 1787, in Northborough, Mass. In 1825-35 he was a representative to the nineteenth, the twentieth and twentyfirst, the twenty-second and twenty-third congresses; he was the fourteenth governor of Massachusetts in 183436 and 1841-43; and in 1835-41 and 1845-53 he was United States senator. He died April 19, 1854, in Worcester,

Mass. for his great philanthrophy

He was noted and kindness.

Davis, John, merchant, soldier, congressin 1788 in Pennsylvania. He served as captain in the war of 1813; and rose to the rank of major-general of militia. In 1839-41 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty- sixth congress as a democrat. He was appointed collector of the port of Philadelphia, Pa. He died April 1, 1878, in Davisville, Pa. Davis, John, journalist, congressman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1826, in Sangamon county. 111. For a quarter of a century he

man, was born

was

actively

in journalism.

95 he tative

engaged In 1891-

was a represen-

to the fiftysecond and fifty-third congresses. He was the author of The Conquest of the Prairies by Abraham Lincoln in 1830; Sketch of Napoleon Bonaparte; and pamphlets on the monetary question and political

economy.

He

died Aug. 2, 1901, in Junction City, Kan. Davis, John, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1851, in Newton, Mass. He was appointed assistant counsel for the United States before the French-American claims commission in 1881; in 1882 was appointed assistant

secretary of state; and in 1885-1900 was an associate justice of the United States court of claims. He died in 1902 in Washington, D.C. Davis, John A. 6., lawyer, author, was bom in 1801 in Middlesex county, Va. He was professor of law in the university of Virginia in 1830-40. He was the author of Estates Tail, Executive Devices, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes and Treatise on Criminal Law. He died Nov. 4, 1840, in Williamsburg, Va. Davis, John Angell, clergyman, author. He

was a Missionary of the Reformed Dutch Church in China for two years. He then returned to America and became a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Jersey. He was the author of the Chinese Slave Girl; The Chinese Boy Who Became a Preacher; Upton; Flan in the Bar of Iron; and the Young Mandarin. He died Sept. 24, 1897, in Kyack, Ky. Davis, John Chandler Bancroft, diplomat, author, was born Dec. 29, 1822, in Worcester, Mass. He was agent for the United States before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims; and in 1873-77 was minister to Germany. In 1869-71 and 1873-74 he was assistant secretary of state at Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Massachusetts Justice; The Case of the United States Before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes; United States Supreme Court Reports; and Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims. Davis, John D., educator, author, was bom March 5, 1854, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is professor of oriental and old testament literature in Princeton theological seminary. He is the author of Genesis and Semitic Tradition; and A Dictionary of the Bible. Davis, John Ward, lawyer, banker, was born March 30, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. to 1874-1903 he practiced law. He is vicepresident of the Mississippi Valley Trust company. For many years he was president of the Princeton club of St. Louis; and since 1901 has been a trustee of Princeton university. In 1898-99 he was president of the university club of St. Louis, Mo. Davis, John 6., congressman, was bom Oct. 10, 1810, in Fleming county, Ky. In 1851-55 and 1857-61 he was a representative from Indiana to the thirty-second, thirtythird, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died Jan. 18, 1866, in Terre Haute, Ind.

Davis, John

bom May.

J.,

lawyer, congressman, was

1835, in Clarksburg, Va. He was a member of the state legislature of Virginia in 1861; and of West Virginia in 1870. He was a presidential elector in 1864; and was one of the delegates from the state at large to the national democratic convention at New York in 1868. In 1871-75 he was a representative to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a democrat. 1,