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tees of the College of New Jersey selected Mr, Pavies and Gilbert Tennant to visit England for the purpose of soliciting funds for the college, and the result of the mission placed the institu- tion on a substantial financial basis. He estab- lished the first presbytery in Virginia and in J758 was elected to succeed Jonathan Edwards as president of the College of New Jersey. He declined to leave his work in Virginia, but on receiving anotlier urgent request the following year le accepted and held the oflice until liis death .it Princeton, X.J., Feb. 4, 17G1.

DAMES, Thomas Alfred, soldier, was born at Plack Lake, St. Lawrence county, N.Y., Dec. 3, 1809; son of Thomas John and Ruth (Foote) Pavies. He was graduated at the L"r.S. military academy in 1829 and served on frontier duty as lieutenant in the 1st U.S. infantry at Fort Craw- ford, "Wis., and as post quartermaster at West Point. He resigned his commission in 1831 to accept a position in the mercantile house of Goodhue & Co.. New York city, and in 1837 he engaged as civil engineer on the Croton aque- duct and in the erection of the High bridge across the Harlem river in connection with the aqueduct. On May 15, 1861, he entered the vol- unteer service of the U.S. army as colonel of the 16th N.Y. regiment, and was present at the first battle of Bull Run, Va., as commander of the 2d brigade, oth division, army of the Poto- mac, successfully repulsing an attack upon the left wing after the main body of the Federal army was in full retreat, thus preventing the capture of Washington. At the close of the day of the battle, Colonel Pavies was placed in command of the left wing of the army by Gen- eral McDowell. Afterward he was engaged on fortifications around Washington, D.C., and Al- exandria. Va., 1861-62. On March 7, 1862, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, as his com- mission stated, "for gallant conduct at the battle of Bull Run," and joined the army of Gen. H.W. Halleck at Corintli. He engaged in the siege of that place in April and May, 1862, and took a prominent part in the battle of Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1862, commanding a division. He commanded Columbus, Ky., 1862-63, Rollo. Mo., 1863-64, the district of North Kansas. 1864-6.5, and that of Wisconsin, 1865. On July 11, 1865, he was brevetted major-general of vol- unteers "for gallant and meritorious service" and his services in the di.strict of Wisconsin being no longer needed, he resigned and returned to New York city. His published works include: Cosmogony: or Mysteries of CrcntUm (1858); AOara and Ha-Adnm (18.59); Genesis Disrlosed (1860); Ansicer to Ilur/h Miller and Theoretical Geologists (1861); How to Make Money and Iloin to Keep It (1866); and Appeal of a Layman to the Committer on

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the Itevision of the English Version of the Holy Scrip- tures to have Adam and Ha-Adam restored to the English Genesis where left oiit by Former Trans- lators (1875). He died at his summer home at Black Lake, N.Y.. Aug. 19, 1899.

DAVIES, Thomas Frederick, third bishop of Michigan and 152d in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 31. 1831; son of the Rev. Thomas Frederick and Julia (Sanford) Davies; grandson of Dr. Thomas Davies, and directly descended from John Davies who came from Here- fordshire, England, in 1735. purchased land at Davies Hol- low, in Litchfield county, Conn., and named and endowed St. Michael's parish in 1745, the first Epis- copal parish in that section of Connecti- cut. John Davies's son built at his own expense St. John's church, Washington, Conn. His grandson, the Rev. Thomas Davies, M.A., a mis- sionary of the Venerable society for the propaga- tion of the gospel for Litchfield county, was born in Herefordshire, England, Dec. 21, 1736, was graduated at Yale in 1758, and was ordained by the archbishop of Canterbury, Aug. 23, 1761. The church at New Milford, and several others in the limit of his missionary field were built under his direction. He died in New Milford, Conn., May 12, 1766. Tnomas Frederick Davies was graduated at Yale in 1853 and remained as a Berkeley scholar until 1855. He served as pro- fessor of Hebrew in Berkeley divinity school, 1856-62. He was made deacon in 1856 by Bishop Williams and by him was advanced to the priest- hood in 1857. He was rector of St. John's church, Portsmoutli, N.H., 1862-68, and of St. Peter's, Philadelphia, Pa., 1868-89, meanwhile serving on important diocesan committees, on the board of missions, and as a delegate to the general convention. He was con- secrated bishop of Michigan at St. Peter's, Pliila- delphia, Oct 18, 1889, Bishops Williams, Whipple, Tuttle, Whittaker, Scarborough, Gillespie, Potter and Worthington officiating. He was elected a member of the American liistorical association. He received the degree of M.A. from Yale in 18.56, and from Trinity in 1860. the degree of D.D. from the University of Penn,sylvania in 1871, and from Yale in 1891, and that of LL.D. from Hobarl in 1889.