DALY, HON. JOSEPH F., LL. D., 54 Wall Street, New York City; chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, New York, 1890–’96; justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1896–’98; member of the Board of Managers, Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; member of the Advisory Board, St. Vincent’s Hospital; served in 1900 on the commission to revise the laws of Porto Rico. DANAHER, HON. FRANKLIN M., Bensen Building, Albany, N. Y.; member of the State Board of Law Examiners; many years judge of the City Court of Albany. DANVERS, ROBERT E., 428 West Fifty-Eighth Street (the St. Albans), New York City; dealer in iron and steel. DAVIES, WILLIAM GILBERT, 32 Nassau Street, New York City, son of Henry E. Davies and Rebecca Tappan Davies, was born in New York City, March 21, 1842. He received a collegiate education at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., from which he graduated in 1860. He also studied at the University of Leipsic, Germany. Mr. Davies read law with Slosson, Hutchins and Platt, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1863, and at once entered earnestly upon the pursuit of the profession his father had so greatly adorned. During the Civil War, then raging, he served in the Twenty-second Regiment, New York Militia, during the Gettysburg campaign. Mr. Davies’ first partnership in practice was formed with Henry H. Anderson, but on August 1, 1866, the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Davies entered the service of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. The law department of that corporation was fully organized in September, 1870, with Mr. Pruyn as solicitor and Mr. Davies as his assistant. He remained in that position until May 20, 1885, at which time he became the head of the department. During the succeeding quarter of a century Mr. Davies, as counsel for one of the leading insurance companies, was largely instrumental in establishing rules of law on insurance matters as they exist today. He resigned in December, 1893, in order to resume the active practice of his profession. He was one of the commissioners on the widening of Elm Street, New York, and extending the street from Great Jones Street to the City Hall. Mr. Davies joined the American Irish Historical Society in 1898 and is a member of the New York Historical Society, the New York Biographical and Genealogical Society, the Medicolegal Society, the New England Society, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the New England Historical Genealogical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association, the Liederkranz Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Century Association, and the Union University Lawyers, Manhattan, Tuxedo, Grolier, Democratic and St. Nicholas Clubs. He belongs also to the American, New York State, and New York City Bar Associations, and the Law Institute. He was married in 1870 to Miss Lucie Rice, daughter of Hon. Alexander H.