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=Davies, Thomas Alfred.= _N. Y._, 1809-1899. Brother of C. Davies,
_supra_. A Federal officer in the Civil War. Cosmogony, or Mysteries of
Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to Hugh Miller
and Theoretical Geologists; How to Make Money and how to Keep It.
=Davis, Andrew Jackson.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. A noted spiritualist
of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the
following may be considered the most important: The Great Harmonia;
Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual
Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and
Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography, 1885. _Ban._
=Davis, Andrew McFarland.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Brother of H. Davis,
_infra_. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge. Currency and Banking in
the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. _Mac._
=Davis, Asahel.= _Ms._, 1791-18--. A Massachusetts antiquary who
published Ancient America and Researches of the East (1847); History of
New Amsterdam.
=Davis, Augusta Cordelia.= _Me._, 1836- ----. Poems from Yare.
=Davis, Mrs. Caroline E---- [Kelly].= _N. H._, 1831- ----. A prolific
writer of Sunday-school tales. Among her fifty or more volumes are, No
Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope; That
Boy. _Lo._
=Davis, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1807-1877. Son of D. Davis, _infra_.
A rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted hydrographer.
Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he published Law of
Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and Other Ocean
Currents; and translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium. _See
Life, by C. H. Davis, infra, 1899._
=Davis, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Son of C. H. Davis, _supra_.
A United States naval officer. Chronometer Rates as Affected by
Temperature and Other Causes; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes.
=Davis, Charles Henry Stanley.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. A physician of
Meriden, Connecticut. History of Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as
a Musical Instrument; Education and Training of Feeble Minded Children;
Index to Periodical Literature.
=Davis, Cushman Kellogg.= _N. Y._, 1838-1900. A prominent Minnesota
lawyer and United States senator, who wrote The Law in Shakespeare.
=Davis, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1762-1835. A Massachusetts jurist who was
solicitor-general of his State, 1800-32. Criminal Practice; Precedents
of Indictments.
=Davis, Edwin Hamilton.= _O._, 1811-1888. An archæologist whose chief
work is Monuments of the Mississippi.
=Davis, Emerson.= _Ms._, 1798-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was
president of Williams College, 1861-68. Historical Sketch of Westfield,
Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; The First Half Century, or Events
and Changes, 1800-50.
=Davis, George Thomas.= _Ms._, 1810-1877. A Massachusetts lawyer whose
speeches in Congress were published in 1852.
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