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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DA COSTA DAVIS.) 



publication of a memoir on the Zufli myths, 

 printed by the Bureau of Ethnology. He directed 

 the expedition fitted out by Mrs. Phoebe A. 

 Hearst and Dr. William Pepper, sent in 1896, un- 

 der the auspices of the National Museum Bureau 

 of Ethnology and the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, to investigate the remains of the prehis- 

 toric peoples of the key islands of the Florida 

 coast, which resulted in the collection of many 

 remarkable objects, and in the publication of a 

 preliminary report of Mr. Cushing's researches. 

 The complete account was still in manuscript at 

 the time of his death. 



Da Costa, Jacob Mendez, physician, born in 

 the island of St. Thomas, West Indies, Feb. 7, 1833; 

 died in Villa Nova, Pa., Sept. 11, 1900. He was 

 graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 

 phia, in 1852. He passed two years in the schools 

 and hospitals of Paris and Vienna, after which he 

 returned to Philadelphia, in 1854, and began the 

 practice of medicine, making a specialty of heart 

 and lung diseases. In 1864 he was appointed lec- 

 turer on clinical medicine in Jefferson College, and 

 in 1872 was made Professor of the Theory and 

 Practice of Medicine. He contributed to medical 

 periodicals and published the following books: 

 Epithelial Tumors and Cancers of the Skin (Phila- 

 delphia, 1852) ; An Inquiry into the Pathological 

 Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia (1855) ; The Physi- 

 cians of the Last Century (1857); On Serous 

 Apoplexy (1859); Medical Diagnosis, with Special 

 Reference to Practical Medicine (1864); Inhala- 

 tions in the Treatment of Diseases of the Respira- 

 tory Passages (1867); On Strain and Overaction 

 of the Heart (Washington, 1874) ; and Harvey 

 and his Discovery (Philadelphia, 1878). 



Dame. Harriet Patience, army nurse, born 

 in Barnstead, N. H., July 5, 1815; died in Con- 

 cord, N. H., April 24, 1900. With her parents 

 she removed to Concord in 1843, and, with the 

 exception of a short time spent in the West, re- 

 sided there till the 

 outbreak of the 

 civil war. She 

 opened her house 

 in that city as a 

 hospital for the 

 sick volunteers 

 who came from all 

 parts of the State. 

 When the 2d New 

 Hampshire Regi- 

 ment was ordered 

 to Portsmouth to 

 be mustered into 

 service she insisted 

 on going with it, 

 so that she might 

 continue the work 

 she had begun, 

 and when the regi- 

 ment finally went South she accompanied it, 

 despite the protests of Gov. Berry. She was 

 under fire at Fair Oaks, and at the second bat- 

 tle of Bull Run she was taken prisoner by the 

 Confederates, but was passed through the lines on 

 account of her services to the men of both armies. 

 Aug. 15, 1802, she was placed in charge of all 

 supplies for sick soldiers sent from New Hamp- 

 shire. She was at the battle of Gettysburg, and 

 the week following she organized the New Hamp- 

 shire Soldiers' Relief Association; later she was 

 sent to Charleston to investigate the sanitary con- 

 dition of the New Hampshire troops stationed 

 1 here. In the spring of 1864 she took the field with 

 the Army of the James, and had charge of the 

 field hospital at Broadway Landing on the Appo- 



mattox. After the war she returned to Washing 

 ton, and in 1867 was appointed to a clerkship in 

 the Treasury Department, which she held till 1895 

 She was president from its organization of the 

 Army Nurses' Association, and was also a member 

 of the Woman's Relief Corps. 



Davidson, Thomas, philosopher, born in 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. 25, 1840; died in Mont 

 real, Canada, Sept. 14, 1900. He was graduate! 

 at the University of Aberdeen in 1860, as first 

 graduate and Greek prizeman, and till 1863 he 

 was rector of the Grammar (Latin) School of Oh 

 Aberdeen. He spent the following three years 

 teaching in various schools in England and Scot 

 land, and during his vacations studied and trav 

 eled extensively on the Continent. In 1866 he re 

 moved to Canada to accept a professorship in the 

 London Collegiate Institute, and in 1867 came 

 to the United States, spending some months in 

 Boston, and finally settling in St. Louis as clas 

 sical master of the St. Louis High School. He 

 was afterward principal of one of the brand 

 high schools in that city. In 1875 he removed to 

 Cambridge, Mass., and thereafter made that city 

 his home while in the United States. He trav- 

 eled and studied extensively in Europe. His in- 

 terest in Thomas Aquinas led to an invitation 

 from the Pope to settle in Italy and to assist tm 

 professors in the preparation of a new edition ol 

 that philosopher. He was interested in many 

 philanthropic and educational movements, and 

 was the founder of the Glenmore School for Cul- 

 ture Sciences at Keene, in the Adirondacks. Proi 

 Davidson was the author of many pamphlets am 

 magazine articles, and was widely known as a 

 lecturer on history, philosophy, and archaeology 

 He also published The Fragments of Parmenidea 

 (1869); The Origin of Language, from the Ger- 

 man of W. H. J. Bleek (1869); A Short Account 

 of the Niobe Group (1874); The Philosophies 

 System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, translated 

 with a sketch of the author's life, bibliography 

 introduction, and notes (1882); this work firsl 

 introduced Rosmini to English readers, and he 

 also translated Rosmini's Psychology and his 

 Anthropology; The Parthenon Frieze, and Other 

 Essays (1882); Giordano Bruno, and the Rela- 

 tion of his Philosophy to Free Thought (1886); 

 The Place of Art in Education (1886) ;, Handbook 

 to Dante (1887); Aristotle, and Ancient and 

 Modern Educational Ideals; Prolegomena to Ten- 

 nyson's In Memoriam ; and The Education of the 

 Greek People, and its Influence on Civilization. 



Davis, Charles Lindley, actor, born in Balti- 

 more, Md., Oct. 1, 1852; died near Pittsburg, 

 Pa., March 1, 1900. He came of a family of actors, 

 and first appeared in public as a baby in short 

 clothes. In his boyhood he was a business man- 

 ager of theaters, beginning with the Baltimore 

 Museum in 1869. He managed successively the 

 Odeon, Baltimore; the Theater Comique, Provi- 

 dence. R. I.; the Capital Theater, Hartford. Conn.; 

 and the Metropolitan Theater, New York city. 

 In all these he appeared from time to time as a 

 singing comedian. In 1880 he wrote and product*! 

 a comedy of New England rural life, entitled 

 Alvin Joslin. He became at once a great favorite 

 with the humbler audiences in the portrayal of 

 the farmer Alvin Joslin. and was oftener referred 

 to by the name of that character than by his own. 

 During the rest of his life he played nothing elf-e, 

 except for a brief period, when he produced an- 

 other play from his own pen, called One of the 

 Old Stock. He made a handsome fortune, and 

 in 1891 built the Alvin Theater in Pittsburg, 

 which has ever since retained its rank as one of 

 the finest houses of the drama in the world. He 



