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of the Virginia legislature in 1809-10, and of the privy council, 1812-;30, being at times lieuten- ant-governor of Virginia and president of the council ex officio. In 1830 a new constitution was adopted, reducing the council from eight mem- bers to three, and he was again elected, seiwing until 1835, when he retired. In 1836 he was appointed by President Jackson judge of the Uaited States district court, to succeed Philip P. Barbour, elected to the supreme bench. On the death of Justice Barbour in 1840, Mr. Daniel succeeded him as associate justice of tlie U.S. supreme court, holding the office until his death. He was married in 1809 to Lucy Nelson, daughter of the Hon. Edmund and Elizabeth Carter (Nicho- las) Eandolph. She died in 1847 and he married in 1853 Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Thomas Harris. He died in Richmond, Va., May 30, 1860.

DANIEL, Raleigh Tra vers, jurist, was born in Stafford county, Va., Oct. 15, 1805; son of John Moncure and Margaret Eleanor (Stone) Daniel; grandson of Travers and Frances (Moncure) Daniel; great-grandson of Peter and Sarah (Travers) Pierson Daniel; and great^ grandson of James and Margaret (Vivian) Daniel. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Stone, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He studied law with his uncle. Judge Peter Vivian Daniel, and after gaining admission to the bar was appointed commonwealth's attorney for Henrico county, liolding the office until 1852. He was chairman of the state committee of the Whig party in Virginia and was elected a dele- gate from Richmond to the state legislature in 1842 and several succeeding years. In 1847 he was elected by the Democratic assembly, one of the three members of the governor's council, thus becoming lieutenant-governor of the state. He was a Union man until Virginia seceded, when he gave the state his co-operation. In 1865 he was made city attorney for Richmond, but "was removed by General Schofield. In 1872 he was elected attorney-general of Virginia and was re-elected Aug. 11, 1877, a few days before his death in Richmond, Va., Aug. 16, 1877.

DANIELS, Charles, representative, was born in New York city, March 12, 1826, of Welsh par- entage. At an early age he was taken to Toledo, Ohio, and learned his father's trade of shoemaker. He removed to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1842, where he was admitted to the bar in 1847, practising law in that city. In 1863 he was elected judge of the New York supreme court as a Republican, and served by re-election until December, 1891, when he was retired, having reached the age limit. In 1886 he was an unsuccessful candidate for judge of the court of appeals. He was a representative in the 53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97. He died in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 20, 1897.

DANIELS, Joseph Leonard, educator, was born at Med way, Mass., Aug. 1, 1833; son of Paul and Eliza (Breck) Daniels; grandson of Jere- miah and Pearllee (Richardson) Daniels, and of Daniel and Martha (Learned) Breck; and a lineal descendant of Robert Daniell, who settled in Watertown, Mass., prior to 1636. He was graduated at Phillips Andover academy in 1856 and at Yale college in 1860. He took the full course in the Yale theological seminary, 1860-63, attended a course of lectures in the Yale medical school in 1861, and was principal of the Guilford institute, Guilford, Conn., 1863-65. In 1865 he accepted the chair of Greek in Olivet college, Mich. He was librarian of the college, 1865-74 and 1883-98. After serving several years as college preacher he was ordained in 1876 by the Olivet conference. He was a trustee of Olivet college, 1876-90 ; acting president of the college, 1892; president of the Michigan home missionary society, 1895-98; and chaplain of the Michigan sons of the Revolution, 1896-98. He was married Nov. 26, 1863, to Julia Burrage Allen of Leomin- ster, Mass., and their son, William Breck Daniels, was graduated at Olivet in 1890 and became a lawyer in Detroit. Professor Daniels received from- Yale the honorary degree of D.D. in 1894. He is the author of Histoi-y of Olivet College (1884) ; and of numerous magazine and new.spaper articles.

DANIELS, Josephus, journalist, was born at W^ashington, N.C., May 18, 1862; son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels. His father died in 1864 and he was educated in the public and private schools of Wilson, N.C., and became editor of the Wilson Advance at the age of eighteen. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1885, but never practised. In October, 1885, he became editor of the State Chronicle, Raleigh, N.C. In January, 1887, he was elected state printer and re-elected by the legislature of 1889, 1891 and 1893. The State Chronicle, under his management, attained the largest daily and weekly circulation of any political newspaper in North Carolina. On May 2, 1888, he was married to Addie W. , daughter of Ma j. W. H. Bagley, granddaughter of Governor Worth and the oldest sister of Ensign Worth Bagley, the first American officer killed in the war with Spain. Mr. Daniels served as president of the Editorial association of his state and twice as a delegate to National editorial conventions. He was a member of the National Democratic executive committee. 1896, and a prominent advocate of bimetallism in the cam- paign of that year. In 1894 he organized a company, purchased the Raleigh Xeics and Ob- server, and consolidated with it the State Chronicle and the North Carolinian, making it the leading newspaper in North Carolina.