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 708 DAVIDSON COLLEGE Darley, edited by her brother, M. O. David- son, was published in New York in 1871. II. Margaret Miller, sister of the preceding, born March 26, 1823, died Nov. 25, 1838. She had the same sensibility and precocity, and began to write at six years of age. At ten she wrote and acted in a passionate drama in society at New York. Her poems were introduced to the world under the auspices of "Washington Irving, and the works of the sisters were pub- lished together in 1850. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, a post village of Meck- lenburg co., N. 0., and the seat of Davidson college, an institution founded in 1837 by the Presbyterians. In 1872 it had 7 instructors, 105 students, and a library of 6,000 volumes. DA VIE, a W. central county of North Caroli- na ; area, about 250 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 9,620, of whom 3,093 were colored. It has a rough, hilly surface. Yadkin river and Hunt- ing creek are the principal streams. The chief productions in 1870 were 47,866 bushels of wheat, 186,821 of Indian corn, 59,721 of oats, and 247,555 Ibs. of tobacco. The value of live stock was $135,922. Capital, Mocksville. DA VIES, Charles, an American mathematician, born at Washington, Litchfield co., Conn., Jan. 22, 1798. He entered the military academy at West Point in 1813, graduated in 1815, and was made lieutenant of artillery. After a brief service with his regiment, he was transferred to the corps of engineers, and assigned to duty as teacher in the academy in August, 1816. In December of the same year he resigned his commission and accepted the appointment of assistant professor of mathematics, and in 1821 of natural philosophy ; and in 1823 he was commissioned professor of mathematics. While engaged in preparing a series of mathematical text books his health failed, and he resigned his post and in 1837 visited Europe. After his return he became professor of mathematics in Trinity college, Hartford; but in consequence of a bronchial affection he relinquished this post for that of paymaster in the army and treasurer of West Point academy. These offices he resigned in 1845, and became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the university of New York. He afterward re- tired to Fishkill Landing, on the Hudson, to complete his series of text books, but soon re- sumed his professional duties, first in the nor- mal school at Albany, and afterward in Colum- bia college, New York, of which institution he is now (1873) emeritus professor of higher math- ematics. His works, considered as a series, present a natural order of sequence, extending from a primary arithmetic to the higher math- ematics, and including editions of Bourdon's " Algebra " and Legendre's " Geometry." He has also published treatises on surveying and trigonometry, a work on the "Logic of Math- ematics," and a " Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopaedia of Mathematical Science," written in conjunction with Prof. W. G. Peck of Columbia college. DAVIESS DAVIES, Sir John, an English lawyer and poet, born at Tisbury, Wiltshire, in 1570, died in 1626. He studied at Oxford and at the Middle Temple, from which he was expelled for his unruly temper, and during his exclusion wrote most of his poems. In the reign of James I. he was attorney general and speaker of the commons in Ireland ; he afterward sat in the English parliament, and at the time of his death had just been made lord chief justice. His principal work is a didactic poem entitled Nosce Teipsum, or " The Soul of Man, and the Immortality thereof" (London, 1599), which is remarkable for its condensation of thought and precision of style. DAVIES, Samuel, D. D., an American divine, born in New Castle co., Del., Nov. 3, 1724, died at Princeton, N. J., Feb. 4, 1761. He received a careful religious education, studied the classics, sciences, and theology, and was licensed to preach in 1746. Ordained in the next year, he was appointed to officiate at different places of worship in Hanover co., Va. His labors were highly successful, and led to a controversy between him and the king's attorney general as to whether the act of toleration, passed in England for the relief of Protestant dissenters, extended also, to Virginia. The ultimate de- cision was in the affirmative. In 1753 he was sent with Gilbert Tennent to England to solicit funds for the college of New Jersey ; he was received with favor as a preacher in England and Scotland, and was successful in the object of his mission. He resumed his pastoral labors on his return, amid the excitement of the French and Indian war, and after the defeat of Braddock preached a sermon, which was published, in a note to which occurs the pas- sage: " . . . . that heroic youth, Col. Wash- ington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The first presbytery in Virginia was established through his exertions in 1755 ; and in 1759 he succeeded Jonathan Edwards as president of the college of New Jersey. A collection of his sermons was published in London in 1767 (5 vols.), and republished several times in England and America. An edition in 3 vols. was pub- lished in New York in 1851, with an essay on his life and times by the Rev. Albert Barnes. DAVIESS. I. A N. W. county of Kentucky, separated from Indiana by the Ohio river, and bounded W. by Green river; area, about 400 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 20,714, of whom 3,603 were colored. The surface is level and the soil generally good. Coal is found in large quantities. The chief productions in 1870 were 68,681 bushels of wheat, 1,085,492 of Indian corn, 65,394 of oats, 4,727 tons of hay, 173,244 Ibs. of butter, and 6,273,067 of tobacco. There were 5,184 horses, 3,363 milch cows, 4,457 other cattle, 12,368 sheep, and 24,216 swine; 9 distilleries, 11 saw mills, 3 grist mills, 7 manufactories of barrels, and 3 of tobacco and snuff. Capital, Owenborough. II. A S.