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of Abraham Tappanof Newburyport, Mass., 1630. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Amherst in ISS-i and that of LL.D. from the University of the city of New York in 1860. He died in New York city, Dec. 17, 1881.

DAVIES, Henry Eugene, lawyer, was born In New York city, July 2, 1836; son of Judge Henry Ebenezer and Rebecca Waldo (Tappan) Da vies. He was a student at Harvard and Wil- liams colleges and was graduated at Columbia in 1857, gaining admission to the bar in the same year. In August, 1858, he was married to Julia, daughter of John S. and Julia (Van Voorhies) Rich of Fishkiil-ou-Hudson, N.Y. He entered the volunteer service in April, 1861, as captain in the 5th N.Y. regiment, was made major of the 2d N.Y. cavalry in July, 1861, served in the calvary corps. Army of the Potomac, as colonel and brigadier-general, and was in command of a division at the close of the war. He was brev- etted major-general of volunteers Oct. 1, 1864, and became a full major-general May 4, 1865. He commanded the middle district of Alabama during reconstruction, 1865, and resigned from the volunteer army, Jan. 1, 1866. He was public administrator of New York city, 1866-69, assistant U.S. district attorney, 1870-73, and thei-eafter refused public office. He devoted himself to the practice of law, and made his home at Fish- kill-on-Hudson, N.Y., on the family estate. He received his A.M. degree from Columbia in 1860. He died in Middleboro, Mass., Sept. 6, 1894.

DAVIES, John Eugene, educator and scient- ist, was born at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Wales, April 23, 1839 ; son* of Ebenezer and Ann (Lewis) Davies; and grandson of John and Margaret Davies, and of Edward and Ann Lewis. He came with his parents to the United States in 1841, and acquired his early education in the public school? and Free academy of New York city. In 1853 he removed with his parents to Wisconsin, and in 1863 was graduated at Law- rence university, Appleton, Wis. He served from the autumn of 1863 until the close of the civil war in the 14th army corps. As 1st lieu- tenant, 21st Wisconsin volunteer infantry, he took part in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission- ary Ridge, Resaca, Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, and the battle of Bentonville. In 1868 he was graduated at the medical depart- ment of the Northwestern university, Evanston, 111., having been made lecturer on chemistry in that institution for one year to succeed Dr. Mabla, Ph.D., a pupil of Liebig. In the summer of that year, he was elected professor of chemis- try and physics in the University of Wisconsin, and in 1888 he was made professor of mathemati- cal physics, electricity and magnetism in that university. He was elected a member of the

American association for the advancement of science at Chicago in 1870 ; was secretary of the Wisconsin academy of sciences from 1871 to 1880; was made a member of the Wisconsin state medical society in 1869, and of the American mathematical society in 1891 ; and a fellow of the American academy of medicine, in 1889. He was married in 1866, to Anna Elizabeth Burt of Sacket Harbor, N.Y., who died in 1889. He was married again in 1891, to Olive Merrill Thayer of Madison, AVis. He received the degree of LL.D from the Northwestern university in 1887. In 1878 he was placed in charge of the triangulation of Wisconsin under the superin- tendence of the coast survey. He publislied scien- tific papers in the transactions of the Wisconsin academy of sciences and in various scientific jovu-nals. He died in Chicago, 111., Jan. 22, 1900. DAVIES, Jullen Tappan, lawyer, was born in New York city, Sept. 25, 1845; son of Judge Henry Ebenezer and Rebecca Waldo (Tappan) Davies. He was graduated at Columbia in 1866, and during his college course served in the army as a member of the 22d regiment, N.Y. N.G., in the thirty-days campaign of July, 1863. He studied law in the oflice of Alexander W. Bradford and in the law school of Columbia col- lege where he graduated LL.B. in 1868, succeed- ing on the death of Mr. Bradford by the terms of his will to part of his practice. He was associ- ated in the law business with his father after the latter's retirement from the court of appeals in 1868. He became counsel for the N.Y. ele- vated railroads and for the Mutual life insurance company. He was married in April, 1869, to Alice, daughter of Henrj' H. Martin of Albany, N.Y. He was elected a member of the Ameri- can academy of political and social science. He received from Columbia his A.M. degree in 1869.

DAVIES, Samuel, educator, was born near Summit Ridge, Newcastle county, Del., Nov. 3, 1824. When fifteen years old, he entered the classical and theological school of the Rev. Sam- uel Blair at Fogg's Manor, Del. He was licensed to preach, July 30, 1746, and was ordained an evangelist by the Newcastle presbytery, Feb. 19, 1747. He was sent in April of the same year to Hanover county, Va., where through the influence of the governor, he obtained a license to preach, notwithstanding the fact that he was a dis- senter. He met the opposition of tlie civil authorities, and had a bitter controversy with Peyton Randolph, the king's attorney, before the general court. This was carried by Davies before the king in council while he was on a visit to England and it was there decided that the act of toleration extended to Virginia. In 1753 the synod of New York, at the request of the trus-