made a successful tour through Great Britain | diversified by hills and valleys, and nearly all and the United States. In his later pictures of the land is fertile. Gold has been found in we find the classic rigidity of his previous the S. part, and there is a mine of silver and works softened by a great infusion of senti- | lead, and one of copper. The North Carolina ment. He painted some excellent portraits, railroad passes through the county. The chief among which his heads of Marat and Pius productions in 1870 were 152,726 bushels of VII. are most remarkable. Girodet, Gros, Gé- wheat, 287,355, of Indian corn, 120,459 of oats, rard, Drouais, Ingres, Isabey, David d'Angers, 6,904 tons of hay, 29,262 lbs. of wool, 38,937 and many others who became eminent artists, of tobacco, and 100 bales of cotton. There were among his pupils, and disciples of the were 2,859 horses, 3,702 milch cows, 5,338 new school which he inaugurated. His body other cattle, 13,440 sheep, and 19,461 swine; 7 was buried at Ste. Gudule in Brussels, and his grist mills, 4 manufactories of boots and shoes, heart in Père-la-Chaise, where his family have and 1 zinc-smelting establishment. Capital, erected a monument to his memory. Lexington. II. A N. county of Tennessee, intersected by Cumberland river; area, 750 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 62,897, of whom 25,412 were colored. The surface is slightly uneven; the soil is good and well watered, and agriculture flourishes. Excellent limestone is found here. The Cumberland river in this part of its course is navigable for steamboats, and six good turnpike roads meet in this county. The Nashville and Chattanooga, Nashville and Decatur, Nashville and Northwestern, Louisville and Nashville, and Edgefield and Kentucky railroads traverse it. The chief productions in 1870 were 87,166 bushels of wheat, 832,982 of Indian corn, 131,550 of oats, 24,858 of barley, 66,243 of Irish and 62,854 of sweet potatoes, 192,556 lbs. of butter, and 1,416 bales of cotton. There were 5,646 horses, 2,228 mules and asses, 5,428 milch cows, 7,041 other cattle, 12,221 sheep, and 29,667 swine; 15 manufactories of carriages and wagons, 5 of furniture, 6 of iron castings, 11 of machinery, 1 of cottonseed oil, 6 of patent medicines, 3 of sashes, doors, and blinds, 12 of tin, copper, and sheetiron ware, 7 of bricks, 6 of brooms, 5 of confectionery, 13 of saddlery and harness, 1 of wooden ware, 4 book binderies, 6 grist mills, 4 tanneries, 6 currying establishments, 2 distilleries, 2 breweries, 4 saw mills, and 16 planing mills. Capital, Nashville, which is also the capital of the state. III. A S. E. county of Dakota territory, recently formed and not included in the census of 1870; area, 432 sq. m. It is intersected by the Dakota or James river. DAVID, Pierre Jean, a French sculptor, commonly called David D'Angers, born in Angers, March 12, 1789, died in Paris, Jan. 4, 1856. He was not a relative of the famous painter of his name, although he was his pupil and married his niece. When only 20 years old he obtained a medal of encouragement from the academy of fine arts, and in 1811 his bass-relief of Epaminondas, which is in the museum of his native town, gained the first prize for sculpture, and along with it a pension to finish his education in Italy. He passed five years at Rome; then visited London, where, although in indigence, he refused to execute a monument commemorative of Waterloo; and on his return to Paris he estab- | lished his reputation by his statue of Condé. He was elected a member of the academy of fine arts Aug. 5, 1826, and appointed professor Dec. 6, 1826. From 1835 to 1837 he was employed upon his sculptures of the Pantheon, now the church of St. Geneviève, at Paris, which constituted the great work of his life. His other productions embrace bass-reliefs, colossal medallions, busts, statues, and funereal monuments. Among the first are the "Battle of Fleurus" and the "Battle of Heliopolis" for the arch at Marseilles, and the "Epaminondas," which was the beginning of his reputation. Among the busts are those of Washington and Lafayette in the capitol at Washington, of Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Rossini, and Béranger at Paris, of Goethe at Weimar, and of Humboldt at Berlin. The mausoleum of Marco Bozzaris, at Missolonghi, presented by him in sympathy with the Greek struggle for independence, is one among several tombs of great beauty which he produced. His last work, the statue of Bichat, was placed in the great court of the medical school at Paris, July 16, 1857. He was a republican member of the constituent assembly of 1848, and was proscribed after the coup d'état. He took refuge at Brussels, and was not permitted to return to France until after nearly three years, during which he visited Greece. David excelled more by his immense capacity for labor than by originality. DAVIDSON. I. A W. central county of North Carolina; area, 630 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 17,414, of whom 3,546 were colored. The Yadkin river traverses its W. border, and several smaller streams intersect it. The surface is DAVIDSON. I. Lucretia Maria, an American poetess, born at Plattsburgh, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1808, died Aug. 27, 1825. She wrote verses at four years of age, having learned in secrecy to copy the letters from printed books. The earliest of her productions which are preserved were written when she was nine years old. At 16 she was sent to school in Troy, where her application soon undermined her health; but she was allowed to continue her studies, even when under medical treatment. This induced a hectic consumption, which soon proved fatal. A great part of her compositions were destroyed, but 278 pieces remain, some of which were published in 1829, under the title of" Amir Khan and other Poems," with a memoir by Mr. S. F. B. Morse, afterward republished with a life by Miss Sedgwick. A new edition of her poems, with illustrations by Darley, edited by her brother, M. O. Davidson, was published in New York in 1871. II. Margaret Miller, sister of the preceding, born March 26, 1823, died Nov. 25, 1838. She had the same sensibility and precocity, and began to write at six years of age. At ten she wrote and acted in a passionate drama in society at New York. Her poems were introduced to the world under the auspices of Washington Irving, and the works of the sisters were published together in 1850. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, a post village of Mecklenburg co., N. C., and the seat of Davidson college, an institution founded in 1837 by the Presbyterians. In 1872 it had 7 instructors, 105 students, and a library of 6,000 volumes. DAVIE, a W. central county of North Carolina; area, about 250 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 9,620, of whom 3,093 were colored. It has a rough, hilly surface. Yadkin river and Hunting creek are the principal streams. The chief productions in 1870 were 47,866 bushels of wheat, 186,821 of Indian corn, 59,721 of oats, and 247,555 lbs. of tobacco. The value of live stock was $135,922. Capital, Mocksville. DAVIES, Charles, an American mathematician, born at Washington, Litchfield co., Conn., Jan. 22, 1798. He entered the military academy at West Point in 1813, graduated in 1815, and was made lieutenant of artillery. After a brief service with his regiment, he was transferred to the corps of engineers, and assigned to duty as teacher in the academy in August, 1816. In December of the same year he resigned his commission and accepted the appointment of assistant professor of mathematics, and in 1821 of natural philosophy; and in 1823 he was commissioned professor of mathematics. While engaged in preparing a series of mathematical text books his health failed, and he resigned his post and in 1837 visited Europe. After his return he became professor of mathematics in Trinity college, Hartford; but in consequence of a bronchial affection he relinquished this post for that of paymaster in the army and treasurer of West Point academy. These offices he resigned in 1845, and became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the university of New York. He afterward retired to Fishkill Landing, on the Hudson, to complete his series of text books, but soon résumed his professional duties, first in the normal school at Albany, and afterward in Columbia college, New York, of which institution he is now (1873) emeritus professor of higher mathematics. His works, considered as a series, present a natural order of sequence, extending from a primary arithmetic to the higher mathematics, and including editions of Bourdon's "Algebra" and Legendre's "Geometry." He has also published treatises on surveying and trigonometry, a work on the "Logic of Mathematics," and a "Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopædia of Mathematical Science," written in conjunction with Prof. G. W. Peck of Columbia college. DAVIES, Sir John, an English lawyer and poet, born at Tisbury, Wiltshire, in 1570, died in 1626. He studied at Oxford and at the Middle Temple, from which he was expelled for his unruly temper, and during his exclusion wrote most of his poems. In the reign of James I. he was attorney general and speaker of the commons in Ireland; he afterward sat in the English parliament, and at the time of his death had just been made lord chief justice. His principal work is a didactic poem entitled Nosce Teipsum, or "The Soul of Man, and the Immortality thereof" (London, 1599), which is remarkable for its condensation of thought and precision of style. DAVIES, Samuel, D. D., an American divine, born in New Castle co., Del., Nov. 3, 1724, died at Princeton, N. J., Feb. 4, 1761. He received a careful religious education, studied the classics, sciences, and theology, and was licensed to preach in 1746. Ordained in the next year, he was appointed to officiate at different places of worship in Hanover co., Va. His labors were highly successful, and led to a controversy between him and the king's attorney general as to whether the act of toleration, passed in England for the relief of Protestant dissenters, extended also to Virginia. The ultimate decision was in the affirmative. In 1753 he was sent with Gilbert Tennent to England to solicit funds for the college of New Jersey; he was received with favor as a preacher in England and Scotland, and was successful in the object of his mission. He resumed his pastoral labors on his return, amid the excitement of the French and Indian war, and after the defeat of Braddock preached a sermon, which was published, in a note to which occurs the passage: that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country." The first presbytery in Virginia was established through his exertions in 1755; and in 1759 he succeeded Jonathan Edwards as president of the college of New Jersey. A collection of his sermons was published in London in 1767 (5 vols.), and republished several times in England and America. An edition in 3 vols. was published in New York in 1851, with an essay on his life and times by the Rev. Albert Barnes. DAVIESS. I. A N. W. county of Kentucky, separated from Indiana by the Ohio river, and bounded W. by Green river; area, about 400 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 20,714, of whom 3,603 were colored. The surface is level and the soil generally good. Coal is found in large quantities. The chief productions in 1870 were 68,681 bushels of wheat, 1,085,492 of Indian corn, 65,394 of oats, 4,727 tons of hay, 173,244 lbs. of butter, and 6,273,067 of tobacco. There were 5,184 horses, 3,363 milch cows, 4,457 other cattle, 12,368 sheep, and 24,216 swine; 9 distilleries, 11 saw mills, 3 grist mills, 7 manufactories of barrels, and 3 of tobacco and snuff. Capital, Owenborough. II. A S. W. county of Indiana, between the E. and W. forks of White river, which unite at its S. W. angle; area, 423 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 16,747. The greater part of the land is level or rolling, and fertile. There are large beds of bituminous coal in the county. The Wabash and Erie canal and the Ohio and Mississippi railroad traverse it. The chief productions in 1870 were 251,923 bushels of wheat, 702,642 of Indian corn, 98,530 of oats, 39,895 of potatoes, 9,648 tons of hay, 208,468 lbs. of butter, 63,382 of wool, and 39,830 of tobacco. There were 5,969 horses, 4,122 milch cows, 7,280 other cattle, 25,205 sheep, and 27,689 swine; 3 grist mills, 11 saw mills, 12 manufactories of carriages and wagons, 5 of saddlery and harness, and 2 of woollen goods. Capital, Washington. III. A N. W. county of Missouri, intersected by Grand river; area, 576 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 14,410, of whom 324 were colored. The surface is moderately uneven and most of the soil fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 85,362 bushels of wheat, 624,012 of Indian corn, 244,963 of oats, 47,620 of potatoes, 7,613 tons of hay, 211,787 lbs. of butter, and 64,339 of wool. There were 8,465 horses, 5,831 milch cows, 10,512 other cattle, 25,652 sheep, and 26,228 swine; 2 grist mills, 5 saw mills, and 3 wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishments. Capital, Gallatin. United States attorney for the district of Kentucky. As such, on Nov. 3, 1806, he moved for an order requiring Aaron Burr to appear and answer to a charge of levying war against a nation with which our government was at peace. The judge overruled the motion; but Burr appeared in court next day, and requested that the motion be granted. This was done, Burr boldly courting investigation, and Henry Clay becoming his counsel. Some of the witnesses upon whom Daviess had relied could not be brought into court, and the prosecution fell through. This affair almost entirely destroyed the popularity of Jo Daviess, which even the subsequent revelation of Burr's plot could not fully restore. In the summer of 1811 he joined the army under Gen. Harrison, for the campaign against the northwestern Indians. In the battle of Tippecanoe, seeing that an exposed angle of the line was likely to give way before a determined assault, he led a cavalry charge against the savages at that point. The manoeuvre was completely successful; but Daviess fell, shot through the breast. DAVILA, Enrico Caterino, an Italian historian, born near Padua, Oct. 30, 1576, murdered near Verona in the summer of 1631. He was the youngest son of Antonio Davila, several of whose ancestors had been constables of Cyprus, from which position the elder Davila was driven impoverished when the island was taken by the Turks. He sought refuge at the court of France in 1572, and Catharine de' Medici took him into favor. He named his young son in honor of the queen and her son Henry III. The boy commenced life as page to Catharine, and at 18 entered the army under Henry IV., and distinguished himself at the sieges of Honfleur and Amiens. Having returned to Italy, he devoted himself to study, and became a member of the society of the Innominati at Padua. A duel with a poet who lampooned him, and whom he ran through the body, caused him to flee to Venice. That republic was then raising troops for one of its frequent wars. Davila enlisted 300 men, and entered the army, holding commands successively in Friuli, Candia, Dalmatia, and elsewhere. He received a pension, as well as restoration to his hereditary rank of constable of Cyprus. Being cos-appointed governor of Crema, he stopped with his family and attendants at the hamlet of San Michele, near Verona, to demand a relay of horses. This was refused by the postmaster, who on being reproved shot Davila dead with an arquebuse. In a general struggle which followed Davila's chaplain was killed, and Davila's son killed the postmaster, whose accomplices were arrested and hanged. Davila is known chiefly for his famous work, the Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia, which describes the period from the death of Henry II. in 1559 to the peace of Vervins in 1598. It is a full and trustworthy record of facts, although too favorable to Catharine de' Medici. first published by Baglioni (Venice, 1630). The DAVIESS, Joseph Hamilton (known as Jo DAVIESS), an American lawyer and soldier, born in Bedford co., Va., in 1774, killed at the battle of Tippecanoe, Nov. 7, 1811. In 1779 his parents emigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Lincoln county, and afterward near Danville. He was educated in an academy at Harrodsburg, where he became a good classical and mathematical scholar, and pursued a wide course of reading. After six months' service as a volunteer against the Indians in 1793, he studied law, and in 1795 settled at Danville and entered on a career which soon made his name a household word in the west. Being a federalist, he was excluded from any hope of political advancement, and devoted himself to his profession. Many stories are told of his eccentricities. Instead of "riding the circuit," he used to shoulder his rifle and range the woods from town to town; and he often appeared in court in a picturesque hunting tume. In 1799 he acted as second to John Rowan in a duel in which Rowan's antagonist was killed. Both principal and seconds fled, to avoid prosecution. Daviess was for some time a fugitive; but finally hearing that Rowan had been arrested, he returned, appeared in court as his counsel, and secured his acquittal. Daviess is said to have been the first western lawyer that ever argued a case in the United States supreme court. He made his appearance in the national capital in a remarkably picturesque and dilapidated costume, gained an important suit, and returned in nearly the same guise. Soon afterward he married a sister of Chief Justice Marshall, and was appointed It was best editions are those issued from the royal press (folio, Paris, 1644), and by Apostolo Zeno (2 vols. folio, Venice, 1733), the latter with a biography of Davila. It has been translated into many languages. The first English translation was published in 1647, the latest in 1757, in 2 vols. fol. An Italian edition was published at London in 1801, in 8 vols. 8vo. DAVIS. I. A N. E. county of Texas, bounded N. by Sulphur fork of Red river, E. by Arkansas and Louisiana, and watered by John and James creeks; area, 927 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 8,875, of whom 3,379 were colored. The surface is undulating, and partly occupied by uncultivated swamps. The uplands are fertile. It is heavily timbered with oak, blackjack, ash, hickory, and pine. There are extensive beds of iron ore and copperas springs. The chief productions in 1870 were 256,505 bushels of Indian corn, 36,228 of sweet potatoes, and 5,966 bales of cotton. There were 1,156 horses, 2,584 milch cows, 5,888 other cattle, 3,527 sheep, and 13,126 swine; several saw mills, steam flour mills, and iron founderies. Capital, Linden. II. A S. E. county of Iowa, bordering on Missouri; area, about 480 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 15,565. Fox river flows through it, and it is drained by the sources of Wyaconda and Fabius rivers. has an undulating surface and a rich soil; timIt ber is scarce, but coal is found. The Des Moines Valley railroad touches the N. E. corner, and the St. Louis and Cedar Rapids railroad crosses it. The chief productions in 1870 were 155,817 bushels of wheat, 1,142,635 of Indian corn, 296,013 of oats, 55,135 of potatoes, 18,835 tons of hay, 346,277 lbs. of ter, and 111,137 of wool. There were 7,450 horses, 5,994 milch cows, 10,830 other cattle, 36,364 sheep, and 26,923 swine; 5 grist mills, 10 saw mills, 5 manufactories of saddlery and harness, and 2 wool-carding and cloth-dressing establishments. Capital, Bloomfield. III. A N. W. county of Kansas, intersected by Kansas river, which together with the Republican forms most of the N. and N. E. boundary; area, 386 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 5,526. The surface is undulating prairie; the soil is good. Building stone is abundant. The Kansas Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads traverse it. The chief productions in 1870 were 46,550 bushels of wheat, 160,125 of Indian corn, 21,130 of oats, 18,285 of potatoes, 11,431 tons of hay, and 58,525 lbs. of butter. There were 1,308 horses, 1,539 milch cows, and 4,801 other cattle. City. IV. A N. county of Utah, lying on the Capital, Junction E. shore of Great Salt Lake; area, 320 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 4,459. The Wahsatch mountains are in the E. part. The W. part is good agricultural land; small streams from the mountains furnish irrigation. The Union Pacific and the Utah Central railroads cross it. The chief productions in 1870 were 35,146 bushels of wheat, 5,970 of Indian corn, 9,789 of potatoes, and 737 tons of hay. The total value of live stock was $80,180. Capital, voyant, born at Blooming Grove, Orange co., DAVIS, Andrew Jackson, an American clairN. Y., Aug. 11, 1826. Early in 1843, while he was a shoemaker's apprentice in Poughkeepsie, William Levingston by mesmerism developed though quite uninstructed, it was said that he in him remarkable clairvoyant powers. Alpsychological, and general scientific subjects. was able to discourse fluently on medical, Soon after, associated with Mr. Levingston, he commenced the treatment of the diseased, giving diagnoses and prescriptions while in the magnetic trance. fell into a trance, during which for 16 hours he On March 7, 1844, he conversed, as he asserts, with invisible beings, and received intimations and instructions concerning the position he was subsequently to occupy as a teacher from the interior state. In 1845, while clairvoyant, he dictated to the Rev. William Fishbough his first and most considerable work, "The Principles of Nature, her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind.” It embraces a wide range of subjects, and repudiates any special authority in the teachings of the Bible. book Mr. Davis ceased to submit himself to After the completion of this eral other works, while more or less illuminamagnetic manipulations, but has written sevted, as he claims, by the influence of invisible spirits. "The Great Harmonia" (4 vols.), "The ApThese works are severally entitled proaching Crisis," "The Penetralia," "The Present Age and Inner Life," Staff" (his autobiography), "History and Phibut-losophy of Evil," "Death and the After Life," The Magic tures," "Arabula, or the Divine Guest,” "The Harbinger of Health," "6 Morning Leeoranda of Persons, Places, and Events," "Stel"Fountain with new Jets of Meaning," "Memlar Key to the Summer Land," and "Tale of logical portions of these works are regarded by a Physician." The philosophical and theohis friends as little more than repetition of his first work, interspersed with startling asseverations concerning things in heaven and earth that admit of no direct verification. writer he has been more successful than as a lecturer, though in this latter capacity he has As a had some influence; and to his general instrumentality "spiritualism auguration. He resides in Orange, N. J. partly owes its incer, born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 16, 1807. DAVIS, Charles Henry, an American naval offifrom 1844 to 1849 was assistant in the coast entered the navy as midshipman in 1823, and He survey. In 1846-'9 he was engaged in a surcourse of which he discovered the "new south vey of the waters about Nantucket, in the shoal," and several smaller shoals, directly in the track of ships sailing between New York and Europe, and of coasting vessels from Boston. count for several wrecks and accidents before These discoveries were thought to acunexplained, and they called forth the special Yale college in 1796, became tutor successively at Williams and Yale colleges, and in 1806 professor of Greek at Union college. In 1809 he was chosen president of Middlebury college, Vermont, and in 1817 accepted the presidency of Hamilton college, New York, having in the year preceding declined the presidency of Yale college. He continued at the head of Hamilton college till 1833, and was meanwhile active in establishing the theological seminary at Auburn, and the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. In 1829 and 1830 no students were graduated at the college because of a dispute between the president and the trustees upon a case of discipline. After his resignation in 1833 he published a "Narrative of the Embarrassments and Decline of Hamilton College." He also published several sermons. acknowledgments of insurance companies and merchants. During and after his connection with the coast survey, he was appointed on several commissions to examine the harbors of Boston, New York, Charleston, &c. These investigations led him to the study of the laws of tidal action, the results of which are given in his "Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and other Currents of the Ocean ("Memoirs of the American Academy," new series, vol. iv.), and the "Law of Deposit of the Flood Tide" ("Smithsonian Contributions," vol. iii.). The “American Nautical Almanac owes its foundation directly to his efforts. He was appointed the first superintendent of the work in 1849, and continued at the head of this establishment till the autumn of 1856, when he was ordered to naval service in the Pacific, as commander of the sloop of war St. Mary's. After the breaking out of the civil DAVIS, Henry Winter, an American politician, war he was assigned to the Mississippi squad- born in Annapolis, Md., in 1817, died in Baltiron, of which he was appointed flag officer, more, Dec. 30, 1865. He graduated at KenMay 9, 1862, and on the 11th repulsed an attack yon college in 1837, studied law at the univerby the confederate flotilla. He in turn attack- sity of Virginia, and settled in practice at Alexed the latter, June 6, opposite Memphis, cap- andria, Va., but in 1850 removed to Baltimore. turing or destroying all but one vessel; this ac- He was elected to congress from Maryland as a tion was immediately followed by the surrender democrat in 1855, and was reelected the two of Memphis. He then joined Farragut, and following terms. In 1859 he ended a long conwas engaged in various operations near Vicks- test for the speakership resulting from a tie by burg and in the Yazoo river. He was made voting for Mr. Pennington, the republican canlieutenant in 1834, commander in 1854, captain didate for speaker; whereupon the legislature in 1861, commodore in 1862, and rear admiral in of Maryland passed a resolution that he had 1863. In 1862 he was appointed chief of the misrepresented the state and forfeited the conbureau of navigation; in 1865-'7 he was super- fidence of her people. After the opening of intendent of the naval observatory at Washing- the civil war, when Maryland seemed about to ton, and in 1867-'9 commander of the South join the seceding states, he opposed this purAtlantic squadron, after which he resumed his pose, and its prevention was due in no small scientific duties at Washington. Besides arti- measure to his efforts. In 1863 he was recles on astronomy and geodesy, he has pub-elected to congress, and was made chairman lished a translation of Gauss's Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium (Boston, 1858). DAVIS, Edwin Hamilton, an American physician and archæologist, born in Ross co., Ohio, Jan. 22, 1811. From 1829 to 1833, while a student of Kenyon college, Ohio, he explored the mounds of that vicinity, and read paper on the subject before the philomathesian society, afterward enlarged and read at the commencement of 1833. The suggestions of Daniel Webster, then making a tour of the West, stimulated him to continue these researches. Their results during 15 years are embodied in "Monuments of the Mississippi Valley," which forms vol. i. of the "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge." He received his medical degree at Cincinnati in 1837, after which he practised in Chillicothe until 1850, when he was called to fill the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the New York medical college. He is the author of a "Report on the Statistics of Calculous Diseases in Ohio" (1850), and has been an occasional contributor to some of the scientific and medical journals. DAVIS, Henry, an American clergyman, born at East Hampton, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1770, died at Clinton, March 7, 1852. He graduated at of the committee on foreign affairs. Being a southerner and representing a slave state, his advocacy of emancipation and suffrage for the blacks made him one of the most conspicuous civilians during the war. In 1852 he published "The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth Century." A volume of his speeches was published in 1867. DAVIS, Jefferson, an American soldier and statesman, born June 3, 1808, in that part of Christian co., Ky., which now forms Todd county. Soon after his birth his father removed to Mississippi, and settled near Woodville, Wilkinson county. Jefferson Davis received an academical education, and was sent to Transylvania college, Ky., which he left in 1824, having been appointed by President Monroe a cadet in the military academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1828. He remained in the army seven years, and served as an infantry and staff officer on the N. W. frontier in the Black Hawk war of 1831-'2, and in March, 1833, was made first lieutenant of dragoons, in which capacity he was employed in 1834 in various expeditions against the Comanches, Pawnees, and other hostile Indian tribes. He resigned his commission. |