BIOGRAPHY 



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but was worsted in the strife, and suffered on the guillo- 

 tine in 1794. 



D'Arblay, Francesoa Burney. English novelist; 

 born in 1752, wa^ the third child of Dr. Charles Burney. 

 From the age of eighteen to twenty-six she worked at 

 "Evelina," which appeared anonymously in 1778, and 

 won her fame, and the admiration ana friendship of 

 Dr Johnson. "Cecilia" (1782) was not so successful; 

 her works gained her a position at the court in 

 1786, and in her " Diary " she gives a graphic description 

 of its decorous dullness. In 1793. she married General 

 D'Arblay, a French refugee. Her later works are 

 aille" (1796), "The Wanderer" (1814), and the 



ire" of her father. Died, 1840. 



Darius, born in 548 B. C.; son of Hystaspes, de- 



-merdis the usurper, and became King of 



;i in 521. He captured Babylon after a siege of 



ty months, conquered Thrace, and defeated the 



hians. He sent two armies to Greece to avenge 



the destruction of Sardis by the Athenians, the first of 



which was repulsed by the Thracians, and the second 



.e Athenians at Marathon in 490. He died in B. C. 



tile organizing a third expedition. 

 Harrow, < Ian-nee S., lawyer; born in Kinsman, O.. 

 April 18. 1857; educated in Ohio public schools; studied 

 law; admitted to bar, 1875. Formerly attorney for 

 hwestern Railway. Has been identified with many 

 prominent cases: of recent years, notably in cases against 

 monopolies, including litigation against gas trust in 

 Chicago; chief counsel for anthracite miners in the 

 anthracite coal strike arbitration at Scranton and Phila- 

 delphia, 1902-03, commission appointed by President 

 Roosevelt. Elected Illinois Legislature, 1902. Active 

 in political campaigns as Independent Democrat; twice 

 married. Counsel in Debs strike case and large number 

 of labor injunction and labor conspiracy cases on side of 

 labor; platform speaker. Author: Persian Pearl" 

 (essays), "Resist Not Evil," "Farmington" (novel). 

 "An Eye for an Eye," various pamphlets on social and 

 economic questions. 



Da ruin. Charles Robert, an English naturalist; 

 born in Shrewsbury, February 12, 1809; was the son of 

 Dr. Robert Darwin and grandson of Dr. Erasmus Dar- 

 win. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and at 

 the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. He early 

 devoted himself to the study of natural history. In 1839, 

 he married his cousin Emma Wedgwood, and hence- 

 forth spent the life of a quiet country gentleman, en- 

 grossed in scientific pursuits experimenting, observ- 

 ing, recording, reflecting, and generalizing. In 1859, 

 his name attained its great celebrity by the publication 

 of "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection." 

 This work, scouted and derided though it was at first in 

 certain quarters, may be said to have worked noth- 

 ing less than a revolution in biological science. In it 

 f..r the fir>t tiiae was given a full exposition of the theory 

 of evolution as applied to plants and animals, the origin 

 of species being explained on the hypothesis of natural 

 selection. The rest of his works are largely based on 

 the material he had accumulated for the elaboration of 

 this great theory. He died April 19, 1882, and was 

 buried in Westminster Abbey. 



Darn-In, Erasmus, a poet and physician; born in 

 Eltham near Newark, in 1721. He studied at Cam- 

 bridge, obtained a doctor's degree at Edinburgh, and 

 '.licit! as a physician. He was a man of 

 great and varied talent, but some of his opinions were 

 deemed extravagantly eccentric. His "Hot a: 

 den" was admired as a fine specimen of polished verse, 

 and his "Zoonomia," or "The I^aws of Organic Life." 

 was admitted to be ingenious, though limit m..,,, an 

 hypothesis which won repudiated as absurd In 17M. 

 he removed from Lichfield to Derby, where he died in 

 1808, 



l>:i\enport. H..MI.T ( .il\ in. 



Silverton. Ore.. March 8, 1867; reared on farm in Oregon;' 



never attended art schools; no school education: has 



been jockey; railroad fireman ; clown in circus. Given 



employ Examiner"; 



taken to New York by W. H. Ilonr 



on "New York Journal"; originated the Mark 



f-mark suit of clothes and the giant figure of the truM* 



in 1899: his work caused attempt to pass ant. 



lull n. New York. 1897. Author: "Davenport's Car- 



"The Hell 



Stories of Oregon," "The Dollar or the ManT" 



l>avld i ./-!./>. ti.,-,,,n.,f .1, -.-... f the tril f.I... !.!,. 



was born in Bethlehem, A. M. 2919. He watched the 



iel was sent by < 



High to Bethlehem, to anoint him King of l-ni.-| in the 

 placrof Sa.il whom ) I, a, I ,. t,-|. ,n |0M \\.-.r I. .-.-. 



ing broken out between the Israelite* nn.l the P 



he fought and vanquished the giant Goliath. Saul gave 



j him the command of a body of men, but having con- 

 ceived a great hatred of him, he was exposed to imminent 

 danger, and compelled to seek a refuge among the Philis- 

 After the death of Saul, in 2949, he was recognised 

 as King of Israel, and defeated the Philistines, the Moa- 

 bites, the Syrians, and the Ammonites. Many acts of 

 weakness were committed by him, but he obtained for- 



B'veness from the Almighty by exemplary penitence, 

 e transported the ark to Jerusalem, and is the reputed 

 author of many of the psalms Died, - H 90. 



Davidson. Samuel, D. D M LL. D~ born in 1807; 

 biblical critic; was educated in Ireland at the Royal 

 College of Belfast. He entered the Presbyterian min- 

 istry, and was called in 1835 to the chair of biblical 

 criticism in his own college. In 1842 he became pro- 

 fessor of biblical literature and Oriental languages in the 

 Congregational College at Manchester. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Old Testament Revision Committee. 



Davis, Henry Gassaway, capitalist; bora in Balti- 

 more, November 16, 1823; educated at country schools, 

 but being left fatherless went to work young; became 

 superintendent of a plantation, then hrakeman. con- 

 ductor, and biter agent at Piedmont. W. Va., of the 

 Baltimore <fc Ohio Railroad ; later merchant and a leading 

 collier; projected and carried on to success the West 

 Virginia Central & Pittsburgh Railway, which was sold 

 { to the Wabash, 1902; then built the Coal & Coke Rail- 

 [ way of West Virginia, of 200 miles, of which is president ; 

 also president Davis National Bank of Piedmont, West 

 Virginia. Trust Company of West Virginia, etc.; mem- 

 ber house of delegates. West Virginia, 1865; State sena- 

 tor. 1867-69; United States senator, 1871-83, declining 

 reelection; Democrat delegate to six National Demo- 

 crat conventions; one of American delegates to Pan- 

 American congress; is member United States Intercon- 

 tinental Railway Commission; was candidate of Demo- 

 crat party for vice-president, 1904. 



Davis, Jefferson, born in 1808; American states- 

 man and soldier, graduated at West Point in 1826, and 

 served in the army for seven years. In 1845 he was 

 elected to Congress, and was appointed colonel of the 

 first regiment of Mississippi volunteers. In 1853 he was 

 secretary of war, and from 1858-61 was again member 

 of the senate. On February 9. 1861 . he was unanimously 

 elected " President of the Confederate States of America/' 

 War followed, and commenced with a Confederate vic- 

 tory at Bull Run, but the South soon sustained serious 

 reverses, then finances failed, and Grant's defeat of I.ee 

 concluded the war. Davis was captured at Irwinsville, 

 and conveyed to Fort Munroe. where he was imprisoned 

 for two years. He was prosecuted in 1867 for treason, 

 was discharged, and his name included in the general 

 amnesty. Died. 1889. 



la\i-. Kirharil Harding, novelist, journalist: 

 , born in Philadelphia, 1864; son of the late L. Clarke and 

 I Rebecca (Harding) Davis: served as war correspondent 

 1 " London Times and " New York Herald " in Turkish- 

 Greek. Spanish American. Booth African, and Russian- 

 Japanese Wars. Author: "Soldiers of Fortune." "Gal- 

 lagher ami other Stories," "The Princess Aline," "Our 

 English ( \.usiim." "Van Bibber and Others." "About 

 Pans." "The Rulers of the Mediterranean." "Three 

 Gringoain Veneiuela." "0,1,1 u, \ 

 from a Correspondent's Note-Book." "Stories for Boys." 

 "Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns." "Cinderella and 

 Other Stories." "Dr. Jameson's Raiders." "Exiles." 

 "The King's Jackal," "The Lion and the Unicorn." 

 :i Car Win.low." " K,, !**!,-.< in Van Milliter's 

 '\\ith Both Armies in South Africa." "In the 

 "Ranson's Folly." "Captain Mnrklm." "Tl* Bar 

 i\it.M and On 



I r. \ v . -ir Humphry. U.tn in 1 h chemist. 



was a native of I'cnutnce. Two paper* on nitrous < 



him the IM.M of axv..tnt let tu: 



to the Royal Institution, London, and in .> 

 was raised to the chief lortumihip. In 1803 he became 

 a fellow, and in 1807 secretary of the Royal Society. 

 BftMM kwton :> 1806 p m lUn to SMM 





In-titu 1 . he in' 



He was knighted m 1MJ. 



i.-l elected president 



.: health compelled him to leave England, 

 t Geneva in 1829. from paralysis. 



Daw-son. x,, joi.n \\ in MM.,,.', land i ;,;.. 



was born it P.. t., . -ia. 1820. He studied in 



"asapatoont 



irgh. ami dintiniruih*<l himself Mag 



ttOlOf ' 



h and Man," "Origin of 

 the World," and "Geology and History." Dawson 

 mlled in question the Darwinian theory as to the origin 

 of species. For many years he was chancellor of MeGill 



t noted of Canadian edu- 

 Died, at Montreal, 1809. 



