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corporation. He was promoted major in 1894;
was on duty in the office of the secretary of war,
1893-98; and was president of the board of publi-
cation of the '* Official Record of the War of the
Rebellion " (1893-98). In 1898 he was lieutenant-
colonel of the 14:th U.S. infantry and was pro-
moted brigadier-general of volunteers in the
war with Spain, commanding the 2d division, 3d
army corps. After the close of hostilities he was
placed in command of the military department
of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. In February, 1899, he
was a member of the court of inquiry to investi-
gate allegations of General Miles respecting the
quality of food issued to the army in the war
with Spain. In April, 1899, he was appointed
military governor of Puerto Rico, and was retired
July 26, 1903. He was elected a life member of
the Metropolitan club, Washington, D.C., in 1880,
and was elected a member of the Loyal Legion in
1888. He was married, April 30, 1870, to Carmen
Atocha.
DAVIS, Hasbrouck, soldier, was born in Worcester, Mass., April 18, 1827; son of the Hon. John and Eliza (Bancroft) Davis; and a brother of John Chandler Bancroft Davis. He was graduated at Williams college in 1845; studied in Germany, 1846-47 ; taught in Worces- ter high school, 1847- 48, and was pastor of the Unitarian society, Watertowu, Mass., 1849-54. In 1854 he was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, where he practised his profession, but soon removed to Chi- cago. In 1862 he joined the 11th Illi- nois cavalry as lieu- tenant-colonel. He was with the army of the Potomac under McClellan on the ad- vance on Richmond in 1862 and his regiment made up a portion of Stoneman's command which pursued the Confederates on their re- treat from Yorktown in April, 1862. He was in command of the cavalry operating against Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry; led his com- mand through the Confederate lines to Green- castle, Pa., on the night of Sept. 14, 1862, and in the raid captured an ammunition train. He was promoted colonel, Jan. 5, 1864, and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general. He was elected city attorney of Chicago in 1866. In 1870 he sailed for Europe from New York city on board the steamer Cambria, and was lost at sea with that steamer, Oct. 19, 1870.
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DAVIS, Henry, educator, was born in East
Hampton, N.Y., Sept. 15, 1771; son of John and
Mary (Conkling) Davis. His first ancestors in
America came from Kidderminster, England,
and settled in New Haven, Conn., removing
thence across the sound to East Hampton, Long
Island. He was prepared for college at Clinton
academy, was graduated at Yale in 1796, and
was a tutor at Williams college, 1796-98. He then
studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Charles Backus
at Somers, Conn., and was licensed to preach by
the association of Tolland county. He was tutor at
Yale, 1798-1803, and professor of Greek at Union
in 1807. He was ordained in 1809; was presi-
dent of Middlebury college, Vt., 1809-17, resign-
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ing in 1817 to accept the presidency of Hamilton
college made vacant by the death of President
Backus, Dec. 28, 1816. He served Hamilton as'
its president, 1817-33. He declined the presi-
dency of Yale and the chair of Greek in Union.
He aided largely in the establishment of the
Auburn theological seminary, of which institu-
tion he was a trustee, 1820-34, and president of
the board, 1820-24. He was a promoter of the
American board of commissioners for foreign
missions. He was married, Sept. 22, 1801, to
Hannah Phoenix, daughter of Judge Thomas
Treadwell of Plattsburgh, N.Y., and their son,
Thomas Treadwell Davis, was graduated from
Hamilton in 1831 and became a lawj^er. He
received the honorary degree of M.A. from
Williams college in 1799, and that of D.D. from
Union in 1810. He published: Narrative of the
Embarrassments and Decline of Hamilton College
(1833). He died in Clinton, N.Y., March 8, 1852.
DAVIS, Henry Gassoway, senator, was born
in Howard county, Md., Nov. 16, 1823; son of
Caleb and Louisa (Brown) Davis. His education
was acquired in the neighboring schools and at
the age of twenty he found employment on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In 1858 he removed
to Piedmont, Va., where he was president of
the Piedmont national bank. He soon became
prominent in local politics, and in 1865 was
elected as a Democrat a representative in the
West Virginia legislature. He was a state sena-
tor, 1868-71 ; a delegate to the Democratic na-
tional conventions in 1868 and 1872, and in 1870
was elected a U.S. senator, serving by re-election
