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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. tenant governor of New York. He has published addresses on Indians of New York, and other historic subjects. He died in 1906 in Bainbridge, N.Y. Danforth, Frederick Lyman, railroad president, was bom June 17, 1833, in Middletown, Conn. In 1883 he became president of the Buffalo Creek railroad. Danforth, George Franklin, lawyer, jurist, was born July 5, 1819, in Boston, Mass. In 1879 he became judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York. He died Sept. 25, 1899, in Rochester, N.Y. Danforth, John, clergyman, theologian,

was born Nov. 8, 1660, in Roxbury, Mass. He was the author of many single sermons and occasional poems. He died May 26, 1730, in Dorchester, Mass. Danforth, Joshua Noble, clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1798, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a congregational minister of Massachusetts and Virginia. He was the author of Gleanings and Groupings from Pastor's Portfolio. He died Nov. 14, 1861, poet,

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Danforth, Moseley Isaac, engraver, was born Dec. 7, 1800, in Hartford, Conn. He was one of the founders of the New York Drawing association in 1825 and in 1826 of the national academy of design. He subsequently became a partner in a bank-note engraving firm, which in 1858 was merged in the American bank-note company, of which he was vice-president. He died Jan.

19, 1862, in

New York

City.

Danforth, Peter S., lawyer, jurist. He was justice of the New York supreme court. He died July 17, 1892, in Middleburg, N.Y. Danforth, Samuel, clergyman, author, was born in September, 1626, in England. He was a noted Puritan clergyman of Roxbury, Mass. He was the author of An Astronomical Description of the Comet of 1664; An Election Sermon; and The Cry of Sodom Inquired Into. He died Nov. 2, 1674, in Roxbury, Mass. Danforth, Samuel, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 18, 1666, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a congregational clergynjan; and famous for his great learning. He was the author of Eulogy on Thomas Leonard, and Essay Concerning the Singing of Psalms. The manuscript of his Indian Dictionary is now the property of the Massachusetts Historial society. He died in 1727 in Taunton, Mass. Danforth, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, was bom in 1696 in Dorchester, Mass. For several years he was president of the council, and also a judge of probate for Middlesex county. In 1774 he was made a mandamus councillor. He died in 1777 in Cambridge, Mass. Danforth, Thomas, jurist, colonial governor, was bom in 1602 in England. In 165978 he was an assistant under the Massachusetts government, becoming in 1679 deputy governor. In the latter year he was elect-

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ed president of the province of Maine, then independent of the colony of Massachusetts. He died Nov. 5, 1699, in Cambridge, Mass. Daniel, Ferdinand Eugene, physician, jourauthor, was born July 18, 1839, in Emporia, Va. He served as surgeon durmg the civil war in the confederate army; since 1866 he has practiced medicine and surgery; and since 1885 has edited and published the Texas Medical Journal of Austin, Texas. He was president of the state medical association in 1904-05; was president of the American international congress on tuberculosis in 1906. He is the author of Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon; and The Strange Case of Bruno. Daniel, Henry, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1793 in Virginia. He was •a volunteer in the war of 1812, with rank of captain. He was a state representative from Montgomery county in 1812, 1819 and 1826; and in 1827-33 he was a representative from Kentucky to the twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second congresses. He died Oct. 5, 1873, in Mt. Sterling, Ky. nalist,

Daniel, James Jacquelin, soldier, educator, lawyer, was born Aug. 14, 1832, in Columbia, S.C. He took part in the peninsula campaign of 1862, but failing health compelled him to return to Florida, where he was placed in charge of the conscript bureau. This post he held, with the rank of colonel, until the close of the war, when he returned to Jacksonville and resumed the practice of law. He was interested in the development of Jacksonville; was president of its board of health; its auxiliary association, the Florida emigration society; and was an officer or director in various banks, railroads, and other corporations. He died Oct. 2,

1888, in .Jacksonville, Fla.

Daniel, John, physician, scientist, was born July 6, 1863, in Perry county, Ala. In 1894 he was a professor at Vanderbilt university. He has discovered the dipilatory effects of the X-ray. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. Daniel, John Moncure, journalist, diplomat, author, was born Oct. 24, 1825, in Stafford county, Va. In 1847 he edited The

Richmond Examiner; and was minister to Italy in 1853-60. At the beginning of the civil war he returned to the United States; and served on the staff of General A. P. Hill. His arm being shattered he resumed the editorship of the Richmond Examiner of Richmond, Va. He died March 30, 1865, in Richmond, Va. Daniel, John Reeves Jones, lawyer, congressman, was born about 1802 in Halifax county, N.C. He served for several years in the North Carolina general assembly; was elected attorney-general of the state; and in 1841-53 he was a representative from North Carolina to the twenty-seventh to the thirty-second congresses. He removed to Louisiana, where he died.