renown in his day as a preacher, and the fourth president of Princeton
College. He wrote a number of hymns still in use, and his Sermons in 5
volumes appeared in London in 1767. _See Sermons, 1851, with Memoir by
Albert Barnes, supra._
=Davies, Thomas Alfred.= _N. Y._, 1809-1899. Brother of C. Davies,
_supra_. A Federal officer in the Civil War. Cosmogony, or Mysteries of
Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to Hugh Miller
and Theoretical Geologists; How to Make Money and how to Keep It.
=Davis, Andrew Jackson.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. A noted spiritualist
of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the
following may be considered the most important: The Great Harmonia;
Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual
Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and
Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography, 1885. _Ban._
=Davis, Andrew McFarland.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. Brother of H. Davis,
_infra_. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge. Currency and Banking in
the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. _Mac._
=Davis, Asahel.= _Ms._, 1791-18--. A Massachusetts antiquary who
published Ancient America and Researches of the East (1847); History of
New Amsterdam.
=Davis, Augusta Cordelia.= _Me._, 1836- ----. Poems from Yare.
=Davis, Mrs. Caroline E---- [Kelly].= _N. H._, 1831- ----. A prolific
writer of Sunday-school tales. Among her fifty or more volumes are, No
Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope; That
Boy. _Lo._
=Davis, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1807-1877. Son of D. Davis, _infra_.
A rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted hydrographer.
Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he published Law of
Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and Other Ocean
Currents; and translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium. _See
Life, by C. H. Davis, infra, 1899._
=Davis, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Son of C. H. Davis, _supra_.
A United States naval officer. Chronometer Rates as Affected by
Temperature and Other Causes; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes.
=Davis, Charles Henry Stanley.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. A physician of
Meriden, Connecticut. History of Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as
a Musical Instrument; Education and Training of Feeble Minded Children;
Index to Periodical Literature.
=Davis, Cushman Kellogg.= _N. Y._, 1838-1900. A prominent Minnesota
lawyer and United States senator, who wrote The Law in Shakespeare.
=Davis, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1762-1835. A Massachusetts jurist who was
solicitor-general of his State, 1800-32. Criminal Practice; Precedents
of Indictments.
=Davis, Edwin Hamilton.= _O._, 1811-1888. An archæologist whose chief
work is Monuments of the Mississippi.
=Davis, Emerson.= _Ms._, 1798-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was
president of Williams College, 1861-68. Historical Sketch of Westfield,
Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; The First Half Century, or Events
and Changes, 1800-50.
=Davis, George Thomas.= _Ms._, 1810-1877. A Massachusetts lawyer whose
speeches in Congress were published in 1852.
=Davis, Henry Winter.= _Md._, 1817-1865. A Maryland statesman and
lawyer, conspicuously loyal to the Union during the Civil War. The
War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th Century (1853); Speeches and
Addresses in Congress (1867). _Har._
=Davis, Horace.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. Nephew of G. Bancroft, _supra_. A
manufacturer of California. Dolor Davis, a Sketch of his Life; American
Constitutions and the Relation of the Three Departments as adjusted by
a Century; Shakespeare’s Sonnets, an Essay.
=Davis, Jefferson.= _Ky._, 1808-1889. President of the Confederate
States. After the fall of the Confederacy, in 1865, he was confined as
a prisoner of war in Fortress Monroe, and upon his release, in 1867,
he lived in retirement in Mississippi. His history, which appeared in
1881, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, is a valuable
commentary on the Civil War as it appeared to one of the chief figures
of the time, but it is as narrowly conceived as it is diffuse in
statement and bitter in tone. _See Lives, by Alfriend, 1868; E. A.
Pollard, infra, 1869; Prison Life of, by Craven, 1866; Memoir by his
Wife, 1890; London Times Biographies of Eminent Persons, 4th Series._
_Ap._
=Davis, John A. G.= _Va._, 1801-1840. A Virginia lawyer, professor of
law in the University of Virginia, 1830-40. Estates Tail, Executive
Devises, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes; Treatise on
Criminal Law.
=Davis, John Chandler Bancroft.= _Ms._, 1822- ----. Brother of H.
Davis, _supra_. A diplomatist who was agent for the United States
before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims, and
afterwards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. The Massachusetts Justice;
The Case of the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration at
Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes; United States
Supreme Court Reports; Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims. _Hou._
=Davis, John Woodbridge.= _N. Y._, 1854-1902. Son of E. H. Davis,
_supra_. A civil engineer who, besides contributing much to engineering
journals, published Formulæ for the Calculation of Railroad Earth Work
and Average Haul (1876), which speedily came into use as a text-book.
=Davis, Lemuel Clarke.= _Md._, 1835- ----. A Philadelphia journalist,
editor of The Inquirer, and author of The Stranded Ship, a Story of Sea
and Shore.
=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn [Moore].= _Al._, 1852- ----. A prominent
writer of New Orleans, on the editorial staff of the Picayune. Minding
the Gap, and Other Poems; In War Times at La Rose Blanche, sketches
for young people; Under the Man-Fig, a novel; An Elephant’s Track and
Other Stories; The Wire-Cutters. _Har. Hou. Lo._
=Davis, Matthew L.= _N. Y._, 1766-1850. A Washington journalist who
published a Life of Aaron Burr.
=Davis, Nathan Smith.= _N. Y._, 1817-1904. A Chicago physician, dean of
the Northwestern University, whose principal writings include Lectures
on Various Important Diseases; Principles and Practice of Medicine;
Verdict of Science concerning the Effects of Alcohol on Man; Medical
Education and Reform.
=Davis, Noah Knowles.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A professor of moral science
in the University of Virginia since 1873. The Theory of Thought, a
Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive Logic; the
Elements of Deductive Logic. _Har._
=Davis, Peter Seibert.= _Md._, 1828-1892. A German Reformed divine who
wrote The Young Parson.
=Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine [Harding].= _Pa._, 1831- ----. Wife of
L. C. Davis, _supra_. A novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron
Mills, a powerful but sombre study of labouring-class life, attracted
great attention in the earlier pages of The Atlantic Monthly. Her later
works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas
Galbraith; A Law unto Herself; Kitty’s Choice; John Andross; Doctor
Warrick’s Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a
Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; Frances Waldeaux.
_Har. Lip. Scr._
=Davis, Reuben.= _Tn._, 1813-1890. A Mississippi lawyer and a general
in the Confederate service, who was the author of Recollections of
Mississippi and the Mississippians. _Hou._
=Davis, Richard Bingham.= _N. Y._, 1771-1799. A verse-writer of New
York city. _See Poems, with Memoir edited by John T. Irving, 1807._
=Davis, Richard Harding.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. Son of L. C. and R. H.
Davis, _supra_. A popular New York writer whose first book, Gallegher
and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in 1890. His
work is always characterized by dash and spirit, but exhibits some
defects of style, and touches scarcely more than the superficial side
of life. Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The
West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers of
the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for Boys. _Har.
Scr._
=Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson.= _Va._, 1864-1898. Daughter of Jefferson
Davis, _supra_. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century, a Sketch of Robert
Emmet; The Veiled Doctor. _Har._
=Davis, William Bramwell.= _O._, 1832- ----. A physician and surgeon
of Cincinnati. Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance;
Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; The
Alcohol Question.
=Davis, William Morris.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A professor of physical
geography in Harvard University since 1890. Nimrod of the Sea, or the
American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; Elementary
Meteorology. _Gi. Har. Le._
=Davis, William Watts Hart.= _Pa._, 1820- ----. El Gringo, or New
Mexico and her People; History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment; The
Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards. _Har._
=Dawes, Anna Laurens.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A daughter of Senator Dawes
of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and periodicals.
How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and Future; Biography
of Charles Sumner. _Do. Gi._
=Dawes, Rufus.= _Ms._, 1803-1859. A witty jurist of Massachusetts, who
won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of the Nashaway, and
Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Historical
Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.
=Dawson, George.= _S._, 1813-1883. A once influential Albany
journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The
Pleasures of Angling.
=Dawson, Henry Barton.= _E._, 1821-1889. An historical writer of New
York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and editor of
The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles of the United
States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts;
Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the Revolution. _Scr._
=Day, Henry.= _Ms._, 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer
Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a volume of
Spanish travels.
=Day, Henry Noble.= _Ct._, 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A
Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president,
and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric,
reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics;
The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of
Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton;
Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater
number of his writings. _Scr._
=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman of
Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.
=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1773-1867. Son of J. Day, _supra_. A noted
mathematician who was president of Yale College, 1817-46. Introduction
to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; Examination of
Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane Trigonometry; Navigation and
Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will
and Contingent Volition.
=Day, Richard Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist of Syracuse.
Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.
=Dayton, Amos Cooper.= _N. J._, 1813-1865. A Baptist clergyman and
physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith,
was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel’s Daughter, a
novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book;
Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion.
=Dean, Amos.= _Vt._, 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures on
Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical
Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of
Civilization.
=Dean, John.= _Ms._, 1831-1888. A physician who published Microscopic
Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray Substance of
the Medulla Oblongata.
=Dean, John Ward.= _Me._, 1815-1902. A noted antiquarian of Boston,
editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and
one of the founders of the Prince Society. Memoir of Nathaniel Ward,
_infra_; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth, _infra_; Life of John H.
Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles
Firmin; The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.
=Dean, Paul.= _Vt._, 1789-1860. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor in
Boston, 1813-40, who was author of Lectures on Final Restoration.
=Deane, Charles.= _Me._, 1813-1889. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge,
who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First
Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation;
John Smith’s True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens of early
American literature.
=Deane, Margery.= _See Pitman, Mrs._
=Deane, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1784-1834. A Baptist clergyman of Scituate,
Massachusetts. The Populous Village, a poem; History of Scituate.
=Deane, Silas.= _Ct._, 1737-1789. A diplomatist who, with Franklin and
Lee, negotiated a treaty of peace and amity between France and the
United States. He was subjected to much misrepresentation, and died
abroad in poverty and exile. Letters to Robert Morgan; Paris Papers,
or Mr. Silas Deane’s late Intercepted Letters to his Brother and Other
Friends.
=Deane, William Reed.= _Ms._, 1809-1879. An antiquary of Mansfield,
Massachusetts, who published genealogies of the families of Deane,
Leonard, and Watson.
=Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell.= _N. H._, 1783-1851. A lawyer
and public-spirited citizen of Boston, a son of Commodore Dearborn.
Commerce of the Black Sea; Biography of Commodore Bainbridge; History
of Navigation and Naval Architecture.
=De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson.= _S. C._, 1820-1867. A noted
statistician of New Orleans, who founded De Bow’s Review. Industrial
Resources of the South and West; Statistical View of the United States;
The Southern States, their Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (1850).
=De Charms, Richard.= _Pa._, 1796-1864. A Swedenborgian divine of
Baltimore and New York city. Freedom and Slavery in the Light of the
New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; Lectures at Charlestown.
=De Costa, Benjamin Franklin.= _Ms._, 1831-1904. A prominent Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, well known as an historical writer. The
Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, illustrated by translations
from the Icelandic Sagas; The Northmen in Maine; The Moabite Stone;
Verrazano, the Explorer; The Rector of Roxburgh, a novel; and a number
of historical monographs. _See Bibliography of Maine._
=Deems, Charles Force.= _Md._, 1820-1893. A Methodist clergyman,
prominent for many years in New York city as pastor of the Church of
the Strangers. Triumphs of Peace, and Other Poems; Home Altar; Twelve
College Sermons; Life of Dr. Adam Clarke; Devotional Melodies; Weights
and Wings; The Light of the Nations; The Gospel of Common Sense as
Contained in the Epistle of James; The Gospel of Spiritual Insight;
A Scotch Verdict in re-Evolution; My Septuagint, comprise the larger
number of his writings. _Cas. Fu._
=Deering, Nathaniel.= _Me._, 1791-1881. A writer of Portland,
Maine, whose work enjoyed a local fame. Carabasset, a tragedy; The
Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both in Portland and Boston; Bozzaris,
a tragedy. _See Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine._
=De Forest, John William.= _Ct._, 1826- ----. A novelist of New
Haven who was a Federal officer in the Civil War. His stories are
skillfully constructed, and the characterization is strong, but they
have hardly won the reputation that, as a whole, they deserve. History
of the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Oriental Acquaintances, or
Travels in Asia Minor; European Acquaintances; Witching Times; The
Lauson Tragedy; Seacliff, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to
Loyalty; Overland; Kate Beaumont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody Chasm;
The Wetherel Affair; Justine Vane; Irene Vane; Irene the Missionary;
Playing the Mischief. _Ap. Har._
=De Hart, William Chetwood.= _N. Y._, 1800-1848. An officer in the
United States army who published Observations on Military Law and
Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial.
=Dehon, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1776-1817. The second Protestant Episcopal
bishop of South Carolina. A once popular preacher. Ninety Sermons on
the Public Means of Grace.
=De Kay, Charles.= _D. C._, 1849- ----. Grandson of J. R. Drake,
_infra_. A New York journalist and poet, literary editor of The Times
since 1877. Hesperus; Vision of Nimrod; Vision of Esther; Love Poems
of Louis Barnaval; The Bohemians, a Tragedy of Modern Life; Barye, his
Life and Works. _Ap._
=De Kay, James Ellsworth.= _Pl._, 1792-1851. A physician and naturalist
of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Sketches of Turkey; Natural History of New
York.
=De Koven, James.= _Ct._, 1831-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of
Wisconsin, very prominent at one time as a leader of ritualistic
thought, whose views more than once prevented his elevation to the
episcopate. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions was issued after his
death. _Ap._
=De Kroyft, Mrs. Susan Helen [Aldrich].= _N. Y._, 1818- ----. A writer
living in Dansville, New York, who became blind soon after her marriage
in 1845, her husband having died on their wedding day. A Place in thy
Memory, a very popular collection of letters; Darwin and Moses, a
lecture; Little Jakey, a story.
=Delafield, Francis.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A physician and surgeon
of New York city, who was the first president of the Association
of American Physicians and Pathologists. Handbook of Post Mortem
Examinations and Morbid Anatomy; Studies in Pathological Anatomy;
Handbook of Pathological Anatomy.
=De Lancey, Edward Floyd.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. A lawyer and historical
writer of New York city. Memoir of James De Lancey; The Capture of Fort
Washington the Result of Treason; Memoir of James W. Beekman; Memoir
of William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; Origin and History of
Manors in the Province of New York; History of Mamaroneck, New York.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A popular writer of
stories for young people. Oakleigh; In the Old Herrick House; Malvern,
a Neighbourhood Story. _Har. We._
=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade [Campbell].= _Pa._, 1857- ----. A novelist
and poet of Boston who became suddenly famous on the publication of
John Ward, Preacher, a story upon lines similar to Mrs. Ward’s “Robert
Elsmere.” Other works by her include The Old Garden and Other Verses;
Sydney; The Story of a Child; Mr. Tommy Dove and Other Stories; Philip
and his Wife; Florida Days, a volume of travels. _Hou. Lit._
=Delano, Amasa.= _Ms._, 1763-1817. A once noted Massachusetts sea
captain who was an extensive traveller, and published Narrative of
Voyages and Travels.
=Delavan, Edward Cornelius.= _N. Y._, 1793-1871. A retired
wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer.
Adulterations of Liquors; Temperance in Wine Countries.
=De Leon, Edwin.= _S. C._, 1828-1891. A Washington journalist who was
European diplomatic agent of the Confederacy during the Civil War
period. Thirty Years of my Life on Three Continents; The Khedive’s
Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Copt, a novel; Under the Star and Under the
Crescent. _Lip._
=Del Mar, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A New York writer on
political economy. Gold Money and Paper Money; Essays on Political
Economy; The Great Paper Bubble; What is Free Trade?; Resources,
Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt; Why Should the Chinese
Go?; History of the Precious Metals; History of Money in China;
History of Money in Various Countries; The Science of Money; Money and
Civilization; Statistical Handbook; The National Banking System; The
Worship of Augustus Caesar.
=De Long, George Washington.= _N. Y._, 1844-1881. An Arctic explorer
who was a lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Voyage of
the Jeannette, including his journals of his latest expedition, edited
by his wife, appeared in 1884.
=Demarest, David D.= _N. J._, 1819-1898. A Dutch Reformed clergyman,
professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church;
Practical Catechetics; The Huguenots on the Hackensack.
=Demarest, John Terhune.= _N. J._, 1813-1897. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman. Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration;
Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle
of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Christocracy (with W. R.
Gordon).
=Demarest, Mrs. Mary Augusta [Lee].= _N. Y._, 1838-1888. A writer of
popular, unpretentious verse, who published My Ain Countree and Other
Poems.
=Deming, Henry Champion.= _Ct._, 1815-1872. A prominent lawyer of
Hartford who published translations of the novels of Eugène Sue and a
Life of General Grant.
=Deming, Philander.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A stenographic court reporter
of Albany until 1882, whose sketches are characterized by much
originality. Adirondack Stories; Tompkins and Other Folks. _Hou._
=Dempster, John.= _Fl._, 1794-1863. A noted Methodist preacher and
educator, and one of the founders of the theological school of Boston
University. Lectures and Addresses was issued in 1864. _Meth._
=Denio= [de-ni´o], =Hiram.= _N. Y._, 1799-1871. A Utica jurist who
published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court, and the Court for
Correction of Errors.
=Denison, Charles Wheeler.= _Ct._, 1809-1881. A clergyman who as a
young man was editor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery journal of New
York. During the Civil War he served as chaplain in the Federal army.
The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair, a temperance
tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an exposure of the
padrone system; Life of General Grant; Out at Sea, a volume of verse;
Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; Winfield, the
Lawyer’s Son, form a series of biographies of noted men for juvenile
reading.
=Denison, Daniel.= _E._, 1613-1682. A famous colonial soldier of
Massachusetts. Irenicon, or Salve for New England’s Sore.
=Denison, Frederic.= _Ct._, 1819-1901. A Baptist divine of Rhode
Island. The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; History of
the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and its Witnesses, 1626-1876;
Picturesque Narragansett; Picturesque Rhode Island, are his principal
writings.
=Denison, John Henry.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A Congregational clergyman
retired from active service, but at one time college pastor at
Williamstown, Massachusetts. Christ’s Idea of the Supernatural. _Hou._
=Denison, John Ledyard.= _Ct._, 1826- ----. Brother of F. Denison,
_supra_. A publisher of Norwich, Connecticut. Picturesque History of
the Wars of the United States; Illustrated History of the New World.
=Denison, Mrs. Mary [Andrews].= _Ms._, 1826- ----. Wife of C. W.
Denison, _supra_. A prolific author of tales, mainly of home life,
some of them to be classed as Sunday-school literature, while others
are of a more ambitious character. Among them are Opposite the Jail;
That Husband of Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an
extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine; Rothmell;
His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; If
She Will, She Will. _Har. Le. Lip._
=Dennie, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1768-1812. A journalist and essayist of
Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his deserts.
The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers, is his only
literary legacy. _See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892._
=Denton, Franklin Evert.= _O._, 1859- ----. A journalist of Cleveland
who published in 1883 The Early Poems of Franklin Denton.
=Depew, Chauncey Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A very prominent
lawyer and railway president of New York city, of wide fame as a ready
after-dinner speaker. He has published Orations and After-Dinner
Speeches; Later Speeches. _Cas._