Daugherty
HARRY M., an American public official, born at Washington Court House, Ohio, in 1860. He attended public schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. For a short time he was engaged in newspaper work. His chief interest, however, was in politics, and he soon became prominent in the political circles of Ohio. He served in the Ohio State Legislature for several terms. He was a warm friend of Warren G. Harding, and became the latter's campaign manager and adviser in many of the campaigns in which he was engaged, including the pre-convention campaign and the campaign for election in 1920. He was appointed Attorney General by President Harding and assumed office on March 4, 1921.
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLU- TION, a patriotic society of women in the United States, organized in 1891.
Eligibility to membership is restricted to "women who are lineal descendants of an ancestor who was a military or naval or marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, in actual service under the authority of any of the 13 Colonies or States, or of the Continental Congress, and remained always loyal to such authority, or descendants of one who signed the Declaration of Independence, or of one who as a member of the Continental Congress or of the Congress of any of the Colonies or States, or as an official appointed by or under the authority of any such such representative bodies, actually asin the establishment of American independence by service rendered during the War of the Revolution, becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason against the government of Great Britain, but remaining always loyal to the authority of the Colonies or States." There DAVENPORT are numerous subordinate State organizations.