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OSCAR KING, an American journalist, born in Baldwinsville, N. Y., in 1866. He graduated from Colgate University in 1888. He served as special correspondent on the New York "Sun" and other papers during the Spanish- American War and the Philippine Insurrection. He also served as correspondent in the Boxer troubles in China in 1900 and in the Russo-Japanese War. He was secretary of the Progressive National Committee in 1912. He wrote "Our Conquests in the Pacific"; "Dewey's Capture of Manila"; "The Storm Birds," etc.
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Davis (VIII)
REBECCA HARDING, an American novelist; born in Washington, Pa., June 24, 1831. She contributed many short stories and sketches to periodicals, and has written several novels, including: "Life in the Iron Mills" (1861); "A Story of Today" (1861), published later under the title "Margaret Howth"; and "A Law Unto Herself" (1878). (1878). Her later works include: "Waiting for the Verdict"; "Dallas Galbraith"; "Natasqua," and "Frances Waldeaux." She died Sept. 29, 1910.
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Davis (X)
VARINA ANNE JEFFER- many foreign geographical societies. His SON, "the Daughter of the Confederacy"; born in Richmond, Va., June 27, 1864. Her father was Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States, and she was born in the Executive Mansion. Her education was obtained partly in the United States and partly in Germany and France, and she wrote "The Veiled Doctor," a novel, and numerous essays and tales. She died at Narragansett Pier, R. I., Sept 18, 1898. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
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Davis (XI)
WILLIAM MORRIS, an American geographer and geologist, born in Philadelphia in 1850. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1869 and took post-graduate studies in several foreign universities. He was assistant in the Argentine National Observatory from 1870 to 1873. In 1878 he became instructor of physical geography at Harvard University and was successively assistant professor and professor of this subject. In 1899 he was appointed Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology and continued to occupy this chair until 1912, when he became professor emeritus . He took part in many important geographical expeditions in Africa , Asia, and Australia. He was an honorary member of works include "Physical Geography" (1898); "Geographical Essays" ( 1909); and numerous scientific essays. He was associate editor of the "American Journal of Science."
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Davis (XII)
WILLIAM STEARNS, an American author and university -professor, born at Amherst, Mass., in 1877 . He graduated from Harvard in 1900 and took his doctor's degree in 1905. In 1907 he became associate professor of mediæval and modern history at Oberlin College, and in 1909 professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His writings include historical works and also some historical romances . Most impor tant of these are: "A Victor of Salamis " (1907); "The Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome" (1910); "The Friar of Wittenberg" (1912); "A History of Mediæval and Modern Europe" (1914).
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Davis Strait
a strait that washes the W. coast of Greenland, and connects Baffin Bay with the Atlantic Ocean. At its narrowest point, immediately N. of the Arctic circle, it measures about 200 miles across. In 1888 the identity between Ginnunga Gap, referred to in the Sagas, and the present Davis Strait was demonstrated. DAVIT. 1. A beam projecting from a ship's bow, for the attachment of the tackle whereby the anchor -fluke is lifted without dragging against the side of the The operation is nautically vessel. called fishing the anchor. 2. One of a pair of cranes on the gunwale of a ship, from which are suspended the quarter or other boats. The boattackles are attached to rings in the bow and stern of the boat respectively , and the fall is belayed on deck . When the boat is lowered the hooks of the fallblocks are cast off simultaneously , or great danger results when the ship is under way.
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Davis, Andrew Jackson
Known as the "Poughkeepsie Seer" from his residence in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was a prophet, clairvoyant, and mystic philosopher, who commenced his mission to the world about 1844, some time before the Rochester Rappings had inaugurated the movement known as "modern spiritualism." In 1847 he published a volume of trance discourses, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind. In the same year he issued the first number of the Univercœlum, a periodical devoted to clairvoyance and trance phenomena generally, which continued till 1849. Not until 1850, however, did Davis and his followers identify themselves with the spiritualists. In his Revelations the Poughkeepsie Seer propounds his Harmonial Philosophy, afterwards to be elaborated in many volumes. His mission, revealed to him by Galen and Swedenborg, was the prophesying of a new dispensation, preceded by a social revolution. He was associated, throughout his career, with many prominent spiritualists.
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Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine Harding
Mrs. Rebecca Blaine Harding (1831-), an American story writer. She was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. She was the first American writer to make use of the labor question in fiction. Her novels include Life in the Iron Mills-A Story of Today, published later as Margaret Howth, A Law unto Herself, Waiting for the Verdict, and others. Mrs. Davis has written many short stories which have been more widely read than her novels. Her style is simple and direct, and the tone of her stories invariably wholesome.
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Davis, Richard Harding
Richard Harding (1864-), an American novelist, war correspondent, and newspaper writer. He is a son of Rebecca Harding Davis, and was born in Philadelphia. He received his education at Lehigh University, and began his journalistic life in Philadelphia. Gallegher, his first literary success, is a story from his own newspaper experiences. It appeared with other stories in 1891. Since that time Davis has produced many novels and short stories which have won popular favor. Soldiers of Fortune, Van Bibber and Others, The King's Jackal, The Bar Sinister, and The Princess Aline are among those best Known. Davis acted as war correspondent during the Spanish-American War, and in South Africa.
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Davison
HENRY POMEROY, an American financier, born in Troy, Pa. , in 1867, and educated privately at South Williamstown, Mass. In 1891 he became teller of the Astor Place National Bank in New York City and rose gradually in the financial world until in 1899. he became president of the Liberty National Bank of New York. A year or two later he became Vice-President of the First National Bank. Later he entered the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and became an active partner in that concern. 1917 he was appointed chairman of the war council of the American Red Cross and during the World War he largely directed the huge undertakings of this society. After the close of the war he devoted himself to reconstruction problems in Europe. In
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