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of LL.D. He revised and publislied : Chartei'S Granteil in Massacliusetts (1811) : The Statutes of Massachusetts {\S12) : A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law (9 vols, and appendix, 18'J:5-':30). He died in Beverly. Mass., Feb. 15, 1835.

DANFORD, Lorenzo, representative, was born in Belmont county, Ohio. Oct. 18. 18"29 ; son of Samuel and Ellen (Mecliem) Danfc)nl : and grandson of Peter Danford. He attended college at W.iynesburg, Pa., and was admitted to the bar at St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1854. He was prose- cuting attorney of Belmont county from 1857 to 1861, when he resigned to enter the 15th 01)io volunteer infantrj- as a private. He served until 1864, reaching the rank of captain. He was a member of the electoral college of Ohio in 1864 and in 1890, being its president in the latter year. He was a representative from the sixteenth dis- trict of Ohio in the 43d, 44th and 4oth congre.sses, serving. 1873-79, and was returned to the 54th, 55th and 56th congresses, serving from 1895 until June 19, 1899, when he died, near St. Clairsville, Oiiio.

DAN FORTH, George Franklin, jurist, was born in Boston, Mass., July 5, 1819. He was grad- uated at Union college in 1840, and began prac- tising law in Rochester. N. Y. He was elected judge of tlie Court of Appeals of New York in 1879. and held the office until 1891. He died in Rocliester. Sept. 25, 1899.

DANFORTH, John, clergyman, was born in Roxljury. Mass., Nov. 8, 1660: .son of the Rev. Samuel and Mary (Wilson) Danforth. He was graduated from Harvard in 1677, studied theology, and in 1681 was chosen minister over the Congre- gational churcii in Dorchester, where lie was or- dained in 1682. He was married Nov. 21, 1682, to Elizabeth, daughter of James Minot. He pub- lished : An Almanack (1679) ; Kneeling to God at Parting of FrjV«'/.s- (1697); The Vile Prophaiiaiions of Prosperity bij the Degenerate among the Peopleof God (1704) ; Tlie Blackness of Sins Against Light (1710); Holy Striving Against Sinful Strife {\7 12); Judgment Begun at the House of God: and the Righteous Scarcely Saved (1716); and many ser- mons. He died in Dorchester. Mass., May 26, 1730.

DANFORTH, Joshua Noble, clergyman, was born in Pitt^field, :\Iass., April 1, 1798; son of Joshua Danforth, an officer of the Revolution and for a time aiile to General Washington. He was gra<iuated at Williams college in 1818. at- tended Princeton theological seminary for two years, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Nov. 30, 1825. He was pastor at Newcastle. Del., 1825-'28 ; stated supply at Wfisliington. D.C.. 182H-"32; agent of the Ameri- can colonization society. 1832-"34 : pastor of the Congregational church at Lee, 1834-'3-^: an<l pastor of tiie .second Presbyterian church, Alexandria,

Va., for a number of years. He resumed the agency of the colonization society in 1860, in which he continued until his death. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Delaware col- lege in 1855. He wrote (Hfnnimjs and (ironpings from (I Pastor's Purtfoli" (1852). He died in New- castle, Del., Nov. 14, lS(il.

DANFORTH, Moseley Isaac, engraver, was born in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 7, 1800. He learned bank-note engraving and in 1821 removed to New Haven, where he engraved a plate of the " Parce somniim rumpere "after Raphael Morghen, so well- executed that the publisher for whom the work was done suppressed it for a long time, intending finally to sell the proofs as original ^lorghens. Later lie studied drawing in New York and was one of the founders of the New York drawing association, 1825, and of the National academy of design, 1826. While in New York he won recog- nition by a full length engraving of " Lafayette," which also secured his welcome by the London artists when he went to England in 1827. He spent ten years in London studying at the Royal academy- and working principally on small plates for books. At this time he reproduced in steel Leslie's celebrated portraits of Sir Walter Scott and W^ashington Irving and his "Sentry Box," also an excellent "Don Quixote." Upon his return to New York he again took up bank-note engrav- ing and became partner in a firm which was incorporated in 1858 as the American bank-note company, of which he was vice-president. He died in New York city, N.Y., Jan. 19, 1862.

DANFORTH, Samuel, clergj'man, was born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, in September, 1626; son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Danforth. He was brought to America in 1634, was gradu- ated from Harvard in 1643 and remained there as tutor until 1649, and as fellow of the college until 1654. On Sept. 24, 1650, he was ordained colleague of John Eliot, "The Apostle to the Indians." at the First church in Roxbury and remained there until his death. He was married Nov. 5, 1651, to Mar}-, daughter of the Rev. John Wilson of Boston. Many of his sermons were published, several almanacs, and An Astronomical Description of the Lote Comet or Blazinfj Star, as it appenrrd in Neic Enrilond in the 9th, 10th, 11th and in the hp(finnin(i of the 12th month, 1G64. tof/ether trith n liriof Theohtf/irnl Application thereof (1665). He died in Roxbury. Mass., Nov. 19, 1674.

DANFORTH, Thomas, colonial governor of Massachu,setts, was born in Framlingham, Suf- folk, England, in 1622; .son of Nicholas and Eliza- beth Danforth. His mother died in 1631 and he was brought by his father to America in 1634. with three sisters and two brothers, the family settling in Cambridge, Mass. His father died in April. 1638. In 1643 Thomas was made a free