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Davis, isfis. Rebecca Blaine, litterateur, author, was born June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pa. She has been editorial writer on the New York Tribune. She is the author of Life in The Iron Mills; Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Gallbraith;

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Unto Herself; Kitty's Choice; John

Andross; also Doctor Warrick's Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; and Frances Walstrup. Davis, Reuben, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in TuUahomea, Tenn. He was in the Mexican war as colonel commandant of the Mississippi rifles, but resigned on account Of sickness. He was a member of the lower branch of the state legislature in 1855-57. In 1857-61 ae was a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He served in the confederate army during the civil war. He was the author of Recollections of Mississippi and the Mississippians. He died on Oct. 14; 1890, in Huntsville, Ala, Davis, Richard Bingham, author, poet, was born Aug. 21, 1771, in New York City. His poems were collected and published, with memoir, by John T. Irving. He died in 1799 in New Brunswick, N.J. Davis, Richard D., congressman, was born in New York. In 1841-45 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses. He died in

New

York.

Davis, Richard Harding, journalist, author, was bom in 1864 in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Gallegher and Other Stories of Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The West from a Car Window; Our English "Cousins About Paris; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for Boys; Year from a CorresCuba in War Time; pondent's Note Book; and Cuban and Porto

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Rican Campaigns. Davis, Robert Stewart, journalist, founder,

was bom April Pa.

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23, 1839, in Philadelphia, has held the position of editor of

several newspapers in Philadelphia and New York; and in 1883 established The Call, which is one of the most popular one cent papers in America. i^avis, Robert T., congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1823, in County of Down, Ireland. He was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature in 1853; and state

senator in 1859-61. He was elected mayor of Fall River in 1873; and in 1883-89 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican. Davis, Robert W., lawyer, congressman, 15, 1849, in Lee county, Ga. In 1863 he entered the confederate service, and surrendered with the army of General

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Johnston. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Florida state legislature. In 1897-1905 he was a representative to the fifty-fifth, fifty-eighth fifty-seventh, and congresses. Davis, Roger, congressman. In 1811-15 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twelfth and thirteenth congresses. He

fifty-sixth,

died in Pennsylvania. Davis, Samuel, state legislator, congressman, was bom in 1774 in Bath, Maine. In 1813-15 he was a representative to the thirteenth congress; and in 1815-16 he was a member of the state legislature. In 1803-12 and 1815-16 he was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives. He died April 17, 1831 in Bath, Maine. Davis, Samuel, spy, was born in 1842 in Rutherford county, Tenn. He entered the confederate army in 1861 as a member of Ledbetter's company of the first Tennessee regiment. He was detached from his regiment soon afterward and assigned to scout duty. An appropriate monument to his memory has been erected over his grave at Pulaski. He was executed as a spy, Nov. 37, 1863, in Pulaski, Tenn. Davis, Samuel B., congressman, was bom in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana in 1853-55. He died in Louisiana. Davis, Samuel Post, journalist, author, was born April 4, 1850, in Branford, Conn. He was the first writer to advocate the formation of a political party having for its platform the principles of bimetallism solely; and in 1896 was a member of the St. Louis bimetallic convention. Heis the editor and owner of the Carson Appeal, of Carson City, Nev. and the author of a. volume of

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Davis, Samuel T., soldier, surgeon, physicstatesman, was born March 6, 1838, in Hvmtiiigton county. Pa. He served four years in his father's blacksmith shop. During the ian,

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the rank of assistant In adjutant-general. graduated ]865 he from the Long Island college hospital; and for ten years practiced medicine in Millers1874 ville. Pa. From his death he until practiced his profession in Lancaster, Pa. and was a specialist in surgery and gynecology. In 1878-81 he was a member of the Lancaster city council; was president in 1881; and was also a member at the time of his death. In 1855-57 he was a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature; and took an active part in securing the passage of the state pharmacy law and the law creating a state board of health, of