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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. gress of Therapeutics; and The Alcohol Question. Davis, William Edmonds, soldier, railroad president, was born July 26, 1831, in Hamilton county, Ohio. He received a thorough

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Cincinnati,

Ohio.

For three years he was principal of the Ohio farm reform state school for boys at Lancaster. In 1863-65 he w as chief clerk of the state senate of Ohio. During the civil war he was correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette;

and saw much

prison life and the hardships of the war. In 1S65-70 he served as pension agent. He was one of a commission of three to locate and build an asylum for the insane in southern Ohio. In 1873 he was appointed assistant treasurer of the United States. He is president of the Cincinnati and Westwood of

railroad company. Davis, William Elias Browiilee, physician, surgeon, was born Kov. 25, 1863, in Truasville, Ala. He began the practice of medicine in Birmingham, Ala.; where he has since founded a private sanitarium. In 1888-1902 he was president of the southern surgical gynaecological association which he had founded. He died Feb. 24, 1903, in Birmingham, Ala. Davis, William Hope, physician, author, was born Sept. 1, 1837, in Attica. N.Y. In

1858 he was in the government employ as' mail agent; and took the first mail that was ever taken across the continent. He organized and was secretary of the Eclectic Medical association of Illinois. He was secretary of the National medical association for ten years. Davis, William M., congressman, was bom in Pennsylvania. In 1861-63 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyseventh congress. He died in Pennsylvania. Davis, William Morris, educator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1850 in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a professor of geology in Harvard university. He is the author of Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; Elementary Meteorology; and Physical Geography. Davis, William Stearns, writer, educator, author, was born April 30, 1877, in Amherst, Mass. He has received the degrees of A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard universFriend of Caesar; ity. He is the author of Belshazzar, God Wills It; and FalaiBe of the Blessed Voice. Davis, William Thomas, lawyer, state senator, author, was born March 3, 1822, in Plymouth, Mass. In 1858-59 he was a member of the Massachusetts state senate; was a republican presidential elector in 1872; a

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delegate to the republican national convention in 1876. He was the author of History of Plymouth; Ancient Landmarks of Ply-

mouth; and History of Bench and Bar of Massachusetts. He died Dec. 3, 1907, in Plymouth, Mass. Davis, William Watts Hart, soldier, author. He served in the civil war; reaching brevet rank of brigadier-general. He is the author of El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People; History of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards; History of the Hart Family; Life of General John Lacey; Life of John Davis; and other works. Davis, William Zephaniah, soldier, lawyer,

was born June 10, 1839, in Loydsville, Ohio. He served a three months' enlistment in the fourth Ohio regiment in 1861; and then re-enlisted in the ninety-sixth Ohio volunteers; and remained in service until physically disabled and honorably dischajged. In 1864-1900 he practiced law at Marion, Ohio. Since 1900 he has been judge of the state supreme court of Ohio. Davis, Wirt, soldier, was born May 28, 1839, in Richmond, Va. During the civil war he served from private to first lieutenant. In 1901 he was retired with the rank of brigadier-general of the United States army after forty years of service. Davis, Woodbury, lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 25, 1818, in Standish, Maine. In 1855-65 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Maine. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster of Portland. He was the author of The Beautiful City, a religious book. Died Aug. 15, 1871, in Portland, Maine. Davidson, Alvin, mathematician, was born Jan. 2, 1866, in Galveston, Ind. He has made researches on geodesic lines in higher space. jurist,

Davison, Andrew, lawyer, jurist, was

bom

in Pennsylvania. He was elected in 1853 one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of Indiana.

Davison,

Charles

Stewart, lawyer, poli-

was bom April 14, 1855, in New York City. He was educated at Harvard university; attended the university of Cambridge in England; and the Columbia university law school of New York City. He has attained success as an emiment lawyer of New York City; and has been chairman of the executive committee of the New York tical economist,

bar association. He has been chairman of good government clubs; chairman Parker independent clubs; and is one of the vicepresidents of the anti-imperialist league for New York. Davison, George Mosby, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 23, 1856, in Stanford, Ky. In 1881-85 he was in the internal revenue service. In 1886-93 he was master of chancery of the Lincoln circuit court. In 1887 he was elected to the legislature from Lincoln county as a republican.