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mining com- panies, and to Arizona & South Eastern Railway, 1888-91; is visiting physician to New York Foundling, Fordham and St. John's Hospitals, the Seton Hospital for Consumptives; also consulting physician to the French Hospital; has been member of several congresses of physicians and surgeons held. in Washington; author of numerous medical papers; member of New York County and State Medical Associa- tions, and is vice-president of American. Climatology Society; member also of the Society of Colonial Wars, Tilden and Jef- ferson Clubs. Address, Kingsbridge, N. Y.
DAVENPORT, Charles Benedict:
Teacher, investigator and author; born Stamford, Conn., June 1, 1866; son of Amzi Benedict and Jane Joralemon (Dimon) Davenport, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; married Gertrude Crotty Davenport, daughter of William Crotty, ranchman, of Crotty, Kan .; studied at Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute (B. S., 1886), and at Harvard University (A. B., 1889; Ph.D., 1892); instructor of zoology at Harvard, 1890-99; assistant professor of zoology, University of Chicago, 1899-1901; now as- sociate professor of zoology, University of Chicago; also director biological labor- atory of Brooklyn Institute at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island; editor Cold Spring Harbor Monographs; co-editor Biometrika, and American Naturalist. Author "Ex- perimental Morphology," "Statistical Methods," "Introduction to Zoology," and various scientific papers. Address, Uni- versity, Chicago, Ill., and (from June 20, to Sept. 20) Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.
DAVENPORT, Homer C .:
Cartoonist; born in Silverton, Marion County. Oregon, March 8. 1867; son of Timothy Woodbridge and Flora (Geer) D .; 1892, became connected with the San Francisco Examiner; 1895, came East, en- tering the employ of W. R. Hearst, and has since been connected with the New York Journal; originated the figure repre- senting trusts and the Mark Hanna $- mark suit of clothes; published collection of his cartoons, 1898. Author of "The Bell of Silverton" (1899), "Other Stories of Oregon" (1900), "The Dollar and the Man" (1900); married Daisy, daughter of Robert A. Moore, San Francisco, Sept. 7, 1893. Address, New York Journal, New York.
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DAVIDSON, Arnold:
Lawyer and certified public accountant; born Aug. 24, 1840, in Danzig, Germany; educated there; also is a graduate (1883) of Columbia College Law School, New York City; served, in 1861-63, in the Forty-sixth Regiment, New York Volun- teers, and was discharged for disabili- ties contracted in the service as quarter- master sergeant of said regiment; his law practice is large, but mostly con- nected with intricate accounts. Resi- dence, 269 Macon St., Brooklyn; office, 56 Pine St., New York.
DAVIES, Julien T .:
Lawyer; born in New York City, Sept. 25, 1845; his father was Henry E. Davies, justice of the Supreme Court, and chief justice of the Court of Appeals of New York State; received his early education at the Mount Washington Collegiate In- stitute, and at the Walnut Hill School, Geneva; when the Civil War broke out, he and his brother, William G., entered the army, serving in Company A, of the Twenty-second Regiment, through the summer of 1863; in 1866 he was graduated from Columbia University, and in 1869 he received the degree of A. M. from this institution, and in 1868 the degree of LL.B. from the law school; his pre- ceptor in the law was the Hon. Alex- ander W. Bradford; in 1867 he formed a partnership with Richard M. Harrison, a former partner of Judge Bradford's; in 1884 succeeded David Dudley Field as general counsel of the Manhattan Rail- way Company; when the firm of Grant & Ward failed, he was made assignee, and afterwards receiver; was one of the or- ganizers of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company. in 1881, and served as its vice- president for two years; won much dis- tinction among his colleagues by his compilation of the statutes relating to taxation and assessments, which he pre- pared for the Senate Committee on Tax- ation and Retrenchment, in 1886; he also held the office of president of the Tax Reform Association of New York; is the senior member of the firm of Davies, Stone & Auerbach, and a trustee of and counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance Company; he is a member of the Union League, Metropolitan, University, City, Players', and South Side Sportmen's Clubs, and vice-president of St. David's Society and the Robin's Island Club. Address, 17 West 9th St .; office, 32 Nassau St., New York.
DAVIES, William Gilbert:
Lawyer; was born in New York City, March 21, 1842; is descended from a Welsh family, some members of which settled at Kingston, Herefordshire, England, whence John Davies, the ancestor in this country, moved to Litchfield, Conn, in 1735; graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1860; subsequently studied at University of Leipsic, Ger-
many; on his return he entered the law office of Messrs. Slosson, Hutchins & Platt; he was admitted to the bar in May, 1863, and, after a partnership of a few years' duration with Henry H. Ander- son, entered the service of one of the large insurance companies, where he was for many years office counsel, a position which he has recently resigned in order to resume the active practice of his pro- fession; he is a member of the State and City Bar Associations, of the Lawyers' Club, and a special lecturer on the law of Life Insurance in the law school of the University of the City of New York; he is an active member of the New York and Virginia Historical Societies, of the New York Biographical and Genealogical Society, and a corresponding member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; is also a member of the Union, University, Century, Tuxedo, Grolier, Man- hattan, Metropolitan, Liederkranz, and St. Nicholas Clubs, of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Associa- tion; served with the Twenty-second Reg- iment, N. G., S. N. Y .. during the Gettys- burg campaign of 1863, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; he married, on Dec. 15, 1870, Lucie Rice, daughter of the Hon. Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, Mass., who has been mayor of Boston, representative in Congress for . several terms, and for three terms gover- nor of Massachusetts, a position which he occupied during the Centennial celebra- tions in 1876. Address, 22 East 45th St., New York.
DAVIS, Boothe Colwell, Ph.D., D.D .:
President of Alfred University since 1895, also professor of ethics; was born at Jane Lew, W. Va., in 1863; gradu- ated from Alfred University in 1890, and from the divinity school of Yale Univer- sity in 1893 (Ph.D., National Normal Uni- versity, 1897; D. D., Alfred University, 1901) ; pastor of First Alfred Church, 1893 to 1895; member of the National Religious Education Association, and of the Nation- al Education Association; prominent preacher and lecturer on educational, social, economical and historical subjects. Address, Alfred, N. Y.
DAVIS, George Allen:
Republican State Senator, representing the Forty-ninth Senate district, which consists of the rural part of Erie County and the Sixth Assembly district in the city of Buffalo; was born Buffalo, Aug. 5, 1858; received his education in the public schools of Buffalo; in 1877 he began the study of law in the office of Day & Romer. where he remained until admitted to the bar in 1880; since that time he has practiced his profession in the city of Buffalo; 1885. married Miss Lillie N. Grimes. daughter of Judge Grimes, of Lancaster, N. Y., and in 1887 took up his
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residence at that place; he was the Re- publican nominee for Congress in the Thirty-third New York district in 1890, but was defeated by a small majority; he enlisted, Aug. 25, 1875, as private in Company D, Seventy-fourth Regiment, soon after being chosen quartermaster- sergeant; he obtained his commission as second lieutenant July 17, 1876; was pro- moted first lieutenant, March 16 of the following year; captain, Feb. 18, 1878, and was honorably discharged Dec. 11, 1880; he was chosen major of the regiment, Jan. 4, 1886, and Oct. 14, 1895, was elected lieutenant-colonel to succeed Colonel Johnson, and for a number of years com- manded the regiment; he is a member of De Molay Lodge, Keystone Council, Buf- falo Chapter, and Lake Erie Commandery and Buffalo Consistory, 30th degree; in 1895 elected Senator, and was re-elected 1898, 1900 and 1902; during his term of service he has secured the enactment of many important laws; that for establish- ing a State Hospital in the Adirondacks for the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis, and the Davis Canal Bill, providing for the appropriation of $101,- 000,000 for the enlargement of the canals of the State-this is the largest appropria- tion ever made by any legislative body in the world for a single purpose; in 1903 he received the following Senate committee appointments: Chairman of the commit- tee Canals, member of Judiciary, Cities, Penal Institutions, and Military Affairs. Address, 936 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y.
DAVIS, GEORGE B .:
Major, U. S. Army; born in New York; appointed from N. Y .; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1882; grad- uated, July 1, 1886; actual rank-second lieutenant, Twenty-third U. S. Infantry, July 1, 1886; served in garrison at Fort Mackinac, Mich., 1886 to Feb., 1888; Fort Brady, Mich., to June, 1888, and Fort Mackinac, Mich., to Aug., 1889, and at the infantry and cavalry school of applica- tion at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Sept., 1889; first lieutenant, Aug. 14, 1893; cap- tain commissary subsistence, Oct. 14, 1896; major commissary subsistence, Feb. 12, 1900. Address, Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
DAVIS, Wm. C .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born New York; appointed U. S. Military Academy from New York, July 1, 1886; graduated, and appointed additional second lieutenant, Fifth Artillery, June 12, 1890; second lieutenant, Third Artillery, May 22, 1891; transferred to Fifth Artillery, Aug. 12, 1891; first lieutenant, Sixth Artillery, March 8, 1898; captain, Artillery Corps, May 8, 1901; volunteer service, captain, A. Q. M., Oct. 29, 1900, to honorable dis- charge, June 30, 1901. Address, Fort
Williams, Me.
DAVIS, Nathan Smith:
Physician; born Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y., Jan. 9, 1817; graduate of Medical College at Fairfield, N. Y., 1837; practiced at Binghamton, N. Y .; active in found- ing of National Medical Association, be- coming president, 1864-65; to New York, 1847; editor of the Annalist, 1848; profes- sor of physiology and pathology, Rush Medical School, Chicago, 1849; also profes- sor of Medicine, 1850; associated in estab- lishment of State and city medical or- ganizations and of Mercy Hospital; 1860, editor of the Chicago Medical Examiner; since 1855 editor of the Northwestern Journal; 1883, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association; 1886, pres- ident of the International Medical Con- gress; also professor of principles and practice of medicine and of clinical medi- cine, Chicago Medical College, and is dean of faculty; associated in founding of Northwestern University, Chicago Acad- emy of Sciences, and Washington Home for Inebriates; also of Mercy Hospital, and one of its physicians for over forty years. Author of "Essay on the Philosophy of Medicine," "Medical Education and Re- form," "Remedial Value and Proper. Use of Alcoholic Drinks," "History of Medical Education in the United States," "An Ex- perimental Inquiry Concerning the Func- tions of Assimilation, Nutrition and Ani- mal Heat," "Insanity from Acute and Chronic Alcoholism" (1866). Address, 291 Huron St .; office, 65 Randolph St., Chi- cago, Ill.
DAVIS, Richard Harding:
Novelist, journalist; born Philadelphia, 1864; son of L. Clarke Davis, editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and of Re- becca Harding Davis, the well known au- thor; received his education at Lehigh and the Johns Hopkins Universities; after graduating from the latter institution he turned his attention to literary work; in 1887 became reporter on the Philadelphia Record; he continued engaged in this line of literary labor for two years, part of this time being spent in England as cor- respondent to the home press; he then went to New York, under an engagement to write special articles for the Evening Sun; his first success in the purely liter- ary line was the story of "Gallagher"; in consequence of. this he was offered and accepted, in 1890, the editorial manage- ment of Harper's Weekly, and held it successfully for a year, when he resigned in order to devote his time wholly to literary work of a more original and at- tractive class. Author of "Our English Cousins"; an historical work, "The Rulers of the Mediterranean," and "The Exiles." He has received from the Sultan of Tur- key the Order of the Medjidie, in recog- nition of the justice of his descriptions of Eastern affairs; 1896, present at corona- tion of Czar Nicholas II., reporting spectacle for Harper's Magazine; has
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traveled much, getting material for his books. Among his later books are "Cin- derella and Other Stories" (1896); "Van Bibber and Others" (1893); "Soldiers of Fortune" (1897); "The King's Jackal," "Cuba in War Time" (1898). Address, Marion, Mass.
DAVIS, Thomas F .:
Lieutenant colonel, U. S. Army; born in New York and appointed at large; was graduated from the Military Academy and promoted to second lieutenant, June 16, 1875; served on frontier duty in New Mexico, Oct. to Nov., 1875; constructing military telegraph line, 1875 to 1876; at Fort Craig, New Mexico, 1876 to 1878; promoted to first lieutenant, March, 1879; acting assistant adjutant general of New Mexico column of the Ute Expedition, to Feb., 1880; at Fort Bliss, Texas, to Jan. 2, 1882; Fort Randall, Dakota, 1882 to April, 1887; regimental quartermaster, March 31, 1887, to, and at Buford, Dakota, May 20, 1887; captain, April 25, 1892; major, Twelfth Infantry, Dec. 7, 1900; transferred to Fifteenth Infantry, May 28, 1902; lieutenant colonel, 1903. Address, San Francisco, Cal.
DAVIS, Vernon Mansfield:
Jurist; a native of New York City; born in the year 1855; received his education in the public schools of the metropolis, and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1876, and from Columbia University Law School; after graduation he became instructor in the college in the department of Greek and mathematics; he devoted himself also to the prosecution of his legal studies, and in 1879, at the general term of the Su- preme Court, he was admitted to the bar of the State of New York. He was at this time in his twenty-fifth year, and he then entered upon the active duties of his pro- fession, and in it obtained, almost from the start, an extensive practice; in 1885 was appointed assistant district attorney, and served under District Attorneys John R. Fellows and W. M. K. Olcott, and their predecessors, R. B. Martine and Delancy Nicoll, and continued in the office for a period of twelve years, at the end of which time he resigned his position and continued his professional practice at the bar, in which he has been eminently suc- cessful. During the last term of District Attorney Fellows, he, as first assistant district attorney, gained much prominence by his successful prosecution of arson cases, and conducted some of the most important prosecutions ever brought in the City and County of New York; he was district attorney of New York County, 1897; has since practiced actively both in' civil and criminal law; he has also been commissioner of education in the City of New York, a position which he filled with signal ability; president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
succeeding Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry in that responsible position; elected, 1902, justice of the Supreme Court, 1st district of New York, for term, Jan. 1, 1903, to Dec. 31, 1916; Democrat; he is a member of the Church, Metropolitan and Manhattan Clubs, the Society of Medical Jurispru- dence, and of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Address, 194 Lenox Ave., New York.
DAVY, John M .:
Jurist; born Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 29, 1835; removed early to Rochester, N. Y .; studied for the legal profession; served for some time in the Union Army during the Civil War; 1863, was admitted to bar; 1868 to 1871, was district attor- ney of Monroe County; 1872 to 1875, U. S. Collector of Customs, Rochester; was in Congress for the term 1875-77; took office of justice of the Supreme Court, 7th judicial district, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1889, term expiring, Dec. 31, 1916. Address, Rochester, N. Y.
DAY, Frederick R .:
Captain, U. S. Army; born New York; appointed from the army a second lieu- tenant, Twenty-second Infantry, Feb., 1891, to rank from July 15, 1884; accepted, Feb. 9, 1891; first lieutenant, Ninth In- fantry, June 15, 1891; transferred to Twentieth Infantry, July 20, 1891; cap- tain of Infantry, Nov. 1, 1898; assigned to Third Infantry, Jan. 1, 1899; previous regimental service, private and sergeant, Signal Corps, Aug. 6, 1880, to July 24, 1884; second lieutenant, Signal Corps, July 15, 1884; accepted, July 25, 1884. Ad- dress, Fort Thomas, Ky.
DAY, James Roscoe:
Clergyman; born in Whitneyville, Me .; educated at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Bowdoin College; minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church; preached at Bath, Portland, Maine, Boston and New York; received degree of D. D. from Wes- leyan University and Dickinson College; S. T. D. from Bowdoin College; LL.D. from Northwestern University; elected chancellor of Syracuse University in 1894. Address, Syracuse, N. Y.
DAYTON, Charles W .:
Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, Oct. 3, 1846; descended from an old New England family; his grandfather became a leading merchant in New York, and his father, Abraham C. Dayton, whose tastes were literary, contributed much to the periodi- cals of his day, and was the author of "Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York;" on his mother's side he is de- scended from Andrew Adams, a colonel in the Revolutionary War, speaker of the Continental Congress in 1779 and 1780, and chief justice of Connecticut; Mr. Dayton was educated in New York, and in 1861 entered the College of the City
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of New York; on account, however, of financial reverses to his father at the out- break of the Civil War, he left college and entered a law office, studying also in the Columbia College Law School, where he graduated in 1868; he was immediately admitted to the bar, and soon had a profitable practice; since then he has been actively engaged in legal labors; aside from his professional duties has been very active in metropolitan affairs; he is a trustee of the Church of the Puritans, a director of the Twelfth Ward Bank and the Twelfth Ward Savings Bank, of both of which he is the legal counsel; trustee of the Harlem Library and the Harlem Law Library, and president of the "Board for the Improvement of Park Avenue above One Hundred and Sixth Street," a work which has involved the expenditure of several million dollars, much to the public benefit; this work was authorized by the Legislature in 1892, largely through his efforts. In addition to these corpora- tions he is a member of various clubs and societies, including Harlem Democratic, Sagamore, Manhattan, Down Town and Players' Clubs, Geographical Society, and the Sons of the Revolution; he was one of the corporators of the Post-Gradu- ate Medical School; belongs, in addition, to the Bar Association of the State of New York and the City of New York; early took an active interest in politics, as a member of the Democratic party; in 1864 he made speeches advocating General Mc- Clellan as candidate for the Presidency, and in 1881 was elected to the State Legislature, where he became very prom- inent in the deliberation's of that body; municipal reform was earnestly advocated by him, and the primary election law of 1881 owed its passage largely to his ef- forts. He declined a renomination, owing to the pressure of professional duties; in 1882 he organized the Harlem Democratic Club, which has since then been highly influential; in the same year he acted as secretary of the Citizens' Reform Movement. On a number of occasions he has served as a delegate to Democratic state conventions; when Grover Cleveland was nominated for President in 1884, he worked energetically in the campaign for his election, and was one of the electors; in the campaign of 1888 he was equally active, making numerous speeches in favor of Cleveland, not only in New York but in other states; one delivered by him in Burlington, Iowa, was circulated as a campaign document by the Democratic National Committee; he again became active for his favorite candidate in 1892, and used all his powers to aid Cleveland's second election. In 1889 he served on the Centennial Committee of the Washington Inauguration. and in 1893 was elected a member of the New York State Consti- tutional Convention; June 5, 1893, he was nominated by the President as postmaster of New York; this nomination was unani- mously confirmed by the Senate: delegate
New Nork State Constitutional Conven- tion, 1893. Address, 13 Mount Morris Park, N. Y.
DEAL, Charles:
Consul; was born in New York, and ed- ucated in the common schools of that State; is fifty-eight years of age; served in Company D, Thirty-fourth New York Infantry, 1861-63, and in Company H, Six- teenth New York Cavalry, 1864-65; was a merchant and insurance agent for thir- ty-six years; collector of customs four- teen years; July 17, 1897, appointed consul at St. Johns, Quebec, Canada.
DEAN, Bashford:
Zoologist; born New York City, Oct. 28, 1867; received degrees of A. M. and Ph.D. from Columbia University; is ad- junct professor of zoology at Columbia University; associate curator of verte- brate palæontology, American Museum of Natural History; member of the Advisory Board of New York Aquarium. Ad- dress, 20 West 82d St., New York.
DEARBORN, Henry Martin:
Professor of dermatology; born Epsom, N. H., 1846; prepared for college at Blan- chard Academy, Pembroke, N. H .; stud- ied medicine at Harvard University Med- ical College and Bowdoin Medical College and graduated from the latter in 1869; practiced medicine in Boston until 1880, and since that year in New York City; professor of dermatology, New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- pital; professor of principles of medicine and clinical professor of dermatology New York Medical College and Hospital for Women; visiting physician to the Metropolitan Hospital; visiting derma- tologist to the Laura Franklin Free Hos-
pital for Children; consulting dermatolo- gist to the Flower Hospital, the St. Mary's Hospital (Passaic, N. J.), and the Women's Hospital of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Wo- men; ex-president and member of the Hom. Medical Society of the County of New York; member New York State Hom. Medical Society, American Insti- tute of Homeopathy, National Society of Electro-Therapeutists, Academy of Pa- thological Science, New York Materia Medica Society, Jahr Club, New York Medical Club; honorary member New Hampshire Medical Society; ex-associate editor North American Journal of Hom- eopathy, ex-member Medical Council University of the State of New York. Author of "Diseases of the Skin" (illus- trated), and numerous contributions to medical journals; married in 1873, to Sadie Smith, daughter. of the late Ed- ward Smith, of London. Residence, 146 West 57th St., New York; summer home, Hopkinton, N. H.
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DEARTH, Henry Golden:
Artist; born in Bristol, R. I., April 22, 1863; began the study of painting with Horace Johnson, a portrait painter in Waterbury, Conn .; went to Paris in 1883, and was received at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in the studio of Hébert; in 1887 studied in the private class of Aimé Morot; exhibited first in the National Academy of Design of New York, about 1887; was elected a member of the So- ciety of American Artists in 1889; re- ceived the Webb prize for landscape in 1893; received a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900; a silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, in 1901, and a silver medal at the Charles- ton Exposition in 1902; his picture "Har- vest Time in Normandy," went to the Berlin International Picture Exhibition in May, 1903; was purchased by the Ger- man government; was elected associate of the National Academy of Design in 1902; is a member of the Fencers, Cen- tury and Lotos Clubs of New York. Ad- dress, 883 Seventh Ave., New York.
De FOREST, Henry P., M.D .:
Born Fulton, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1864; grad- uated, 1884, from Cornell University with the degree of Ph.B .; during the two fol- lowing years taught school; 1887, received the degree of M.S., for graduate work at Cornell; the next year took med- ical course at Columbian University, Washington, D. C., and during 1888-90 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the university, receiving M.D. degree in 1890; has since 1893 practiced his pro- fession and has been connected with vari- ous hospitals in this country and in Europe; after graduation spent two years on house staff of Charity, Seney and Sloane Maternity Hospitals, and a year of graduate study in Freiburg and Vien- na; during the Spanish-American War was acting assistant surgeon, Third Division Hospital, Seventh Army Corps; 1902 to 1903, was medical examiner in police and fire departments, New York City; 1902 to date has been police sur- geon; he is a member Seney Hospital, Sloane Maternity Alumni, the Kings County Medical, Brooklyn Pathological, Brooklyn Gynecological, New York State Medical, and other societies. Author of "One Thousand Miles Afoot," Magazine of Travel. 1894, and of various profession- al papers. Residence, Hotel Stanley, 124 West 47th St., New York. -
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