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pated in both attacks on Fort Fisher, and was 

 honorably discharged with the thanks of the 

 Navy Department, Dec. 19, 1867. He served on 

 the Mayflower and Pinta during the Virginius 

 affair in 1873, and afterward on the flagship Hart- 

 ford, the Blake, and the Yantic. During the war 

 against Spain in 1898 he commanded the Indiana, 

 and he was present at the destruction of Cervera's 

 fleet, for which service the President advanced 

 him three numbers. At the close of the war he 

 was sent to the Philippines, and later he was as- 

 signed to duty at the New York Navy- Yard. 



Crocker, Uriel Haskell, lawyer, born in Bos- 

 ton, Mass., Dec. 24, 1832; died there, March 8, 

 1902. He was graduated at Harvard University 

 in 1853, studied at Harvard Law School, was 

 admitted to the bar. in 1856, and was in active 

 practise till his death. He was a member of the 

 Common Council in 1874-'78, and was appointed 

 one of the commissioners to revise the statutes 

 of Massachusetts in 1881. Among his publica- 

 tions were Notes on the Public Statutes of Massa- 

 chusetts; Notes on Common Form; and Notes on 

 the Revised Laws. He was prominent in chari- 

 table and philanthropic work, and was connected 

 officially with several financial and public insti- 

 tutions. 



Cummings, Amos Jay, journalist, born in 

 Conkling, N. Y., May 15, 1841; died in Balti- 

 more, Md., May 2, 1902. When a boy he entered 

 his father's printing-office, but he soon afterward 

 set out for himself, and for four years worked 

 as a compositor in the West and South. Later he 

 worked in the New York Tribune office. When 

 the civil war broke out he enlisted in the volun- 

 teer service. He participated in many battles, 

 ind in 1863 was compelled by illness to return to 

 New York, where he arrived in time to take 

 part in the defense of the Tribune office when 

 it was mobbed by the rioters in July. Subse- 

 quently he became successively night editor, city 

 editor, and political editor of the Tribune, and 

 still later he was on the staff of the New York 

 Express and the Sun successively. He was 

 elected to Congress in 1887, and retained his seat 

 until his death. His publications include Sayings 

 of Uncle Rufus and Ziska Letters. 



Cutler, Henry Stephen, musician, born in 

 Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1824; died in Swampscott, 

 Mass., Dec. 5, 1902. He was organist and choir- 

 master of Trinity Episcopal Church, New York 

 city, in 1860-'68. When King Edward VII, then 

 Prince of Wales, visited the United States in 

 1860, Dr. Cutler robed the boys and men in the 

 choir according to the custom of the English 

 Church, out of respect to the prince. The idea 

 was at onpe taken up in several Episcopal church- 

 es, and vested choirs soon became general. In 

 1864 Columbia College conferred on him the de- 

 gree of doctor of music. His musical composi- 

 tions were numerous. He compiled The Psalter, 

 with Chants (1858); Trinity Psalter (1863); and 

 Trinity Anthems (1868). His musical setting of 

 the hymn The Son of God goes forth to War is 

 perhaps the best known of any American tune 

 in the Hymnal. 



Davidson, Andrew, military officer, born in 



loxburghshire, Scotland, Feb. 12, 1840; died in 



Bath, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1902. He came to the 



United States with his parents, who settled in 



tsego County, N. Y., in 1846. When the civil 

 war broke out he enlisted as a private. Later 

 " was commissioned a 1st lieutenant in the 30th 

 Jnited States Colored Infantry, of which he sub- 

 sequently became adjutant. At the battle of 

 Salem Church he was shot through both legs; 

 it Hatcher's Run was wounded in the hand; and 



at Petersburg in the face. After the war he studied 

 law and practised till 1874, when he purchased 

 the Otsego Republican, which he was then ed- 

 iting. He was a State Senator in 1884-'85; First 

 Deputy Commissioner of Pensions under Presi- 

 dent Harrison; Deputy Secretary of State of New 

 York in 1894; then Deput}' State Treasurer; and 

 afterward commandant of the New York State 

 Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Bath. Col. David- 

 son received the congressional medal of honor. 



Davis, Noah, jurist, born in Haverhill, X. H., 

 Sept. 10, 1818; died in New York city, March 20, 

 1902. He studied law, was admitted to the bar 

 in 1841, and practised in Gaines, N. Y., and Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. In 1844 he entered into partnership 

 with Sanford E. Church, with whom he practised 

 in Albion, N. Y., till 

 1857, when he was 

 made a justice of 

 the State Supreme 

 Court. He was 

 twice reelected to 

 this office, but in 

 1868 he resigned, 

 having been elected 

 to Congress, where 

 he served from 

 March 4, 1869, till 

 July 20, 1870, when 

 President Grant ap- 



Eointed him United 

 tates Attorney for the Southern District of 

 New York. He resigned this office Dec. 31, 

 1872, on being elected justice of the Supreme 

 Court of New York, where he served till Decem- 

 ber, 1887. A short time after Justice Davis took 

 his seat on the bench the trial of William M. 

 Tweed for malfeasance in office was held before 

 him. He sentenced Tweed to a year's imprison- 

 ment for each of the 12 counts of the indictment ; 

 but two years later the Court of Appeals decided 

 that this cumulative sentence was contrary to 

 law. He resumed private practise in New York 

 city as head of the firm of Davis & Marsh till 

 1901, when he retired. 



Dazian, Wolf, theatrical costumer, born in 

 Wurzburg, Bavaria, in 1816; died in New York, 

 Jan. 10, 1902. He came to America in 1835, and 

 in 1842 he founded the first and the most impor- 

 tant costume establishment in this country. He 

 imported theatrical and fancy dresses, and built 

 up a large and profitable business. He furnished 

 the costumes for the most notable dramatic and 

 operatic productions of his time, chief among 

 which was the first spectacular play presented in 

 this country, The Black Crook, which was played 

 at Niblo's Garden, New York city. He was the 

 chief costumer for the Metropolitan Opera House. 

 New York, in all its great productions of grand 

 opera that required brilliant accessories of dress- 

 ing and drapery. 



Dean, John* Ward, genealogist, born in Wis- 

 casset, Me., March 13, 1815; died in Medford. 

 Mass., Jan. 22, 1902. He was educated in the 

 public schools of Portland, and, after learning 

 the bookbinder's trade, removed to Boston, pres- 

 ently setting up in business in Providence, but 

 subsequently returning to Boston, where he con- 

 ducted a bookbinding establishment till in 1872 

 he was appointed librarian of the New England 

 Historic Genealogical Society, in which office he 

 continued, save from 1889 to 1893, until the time 

 of his death. He had become a member of that 

 society in 1850, and his wide knowledge of New 

 England family and local history was thereafter 

 so constantly extending that he became almost, if 

 not quite, the chief authority in such matters. 



