Damon, Alonzo Willard, fire and marine insurance president, born Norwell, Mass., Feb. 1847; son of Davis and Lucy (Damon) Damon; educated in public schools of Boston, Mass. Began business life as clerk in office of Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Co., of Boston, 1862; became secretary of company, 1880-1887; special agent for Franklin Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, 1888-1889; became special agent Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance, 1890; was assistant secretary 1891-1895; and in 1895 became president, which position he has held ever since. Elected president National Board of Fire Underwriters in May, 1910. Is director Third National Bank of Springfield, Mass., Springfield Street Railway Co., Holyoke Water Power Co., Cheney-Bigelow Wire Works; trustee Springfield Institution for Savings, New England Investment and Security Co.; commissioner of Sinking Fund, City of Springfield, Mass. Republican. Unitarian. Recreation: Golf. Clubs: Nayasset, Country (Springfield).

Dana, John Cotton, librarian; born in Woodstock County, Vermont, Aug. 19, 1856; son of Charles and Charity (Loomis) Dana. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, A.B., 1878 then studied law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1882. He entered upon his library career in 1889 as librarian of the Denver Public Library, in which position he continued until 1897, when he became city librarian of Springfield, Mass., remaining there until 1902, when he became librarian of the Free Public Library of Newark, N.J., in which position he continues. Mr. Dana has taken a prominent part in the plans and deliberations of the American Library Association of which he was president in 1896, and is still a member. Address: Free Public Library, N.J.

Dana, William Henry, musician, author and lecturer; born in Warren, Ohio, June 10, 1846; son of Junius and Martha (Potter) Dana. After completing the course in the high school of his native city and attending Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass., served in the Union Army in the Civil War, then took musical courses in Kullak's Conservatory of Music in Berlin and the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has since been actively engaged in musical work as teacher and writer of musical text-books the excellence of which procured him the medal and diploma of the Exposition at Bologna, Italy. He is now president of Dana's Musical Institute at Warren, Ohio, is a lecturer on social, political and travel topics in lyceum courses, and at Chautauqua assemblies. His musical text-books, which have attained wide adoption and circulation, include: Dana's Practical Thorough Bass; Dana's Practical Harmony; Dana's Practical Counterpoint; Guide in Orchestration; Guide in Military Band Arranging; The National School for Cornet. Mr. Dana is an extensive traveler having made tours in Europe and especially in Scandinavia, Russia and the Arctic regions. He is a fellow of the American College of Musicians of the University of New York, a member of the Royal Academy of Music of London, England, member of the Authors' Club, London, England, member of

the Luther Burbank Society, Cal., member of the International Society of Literature and Art; the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.; life member of the Music Teachers' National Assn. and the Indiana Assn.; and various political clubs both local and national. He married in Oleon, N.Y., in 1870, Emma Jane Tuttle. Address: Warren, Ohio.

Daney, Eugene, lawyer, born Bordeaux, France, Oct. 11, 1862; son of Michel and Marguerite (Dutruch) Daney. Educated in public schools, San Francisco; LL.B., Hastings College of Law; 1885 University of California. Moved to California, 1865. Asst. dist. atty., San Diego County, three years, 1888-1891; police commissioner San Diego, 1896-1900. Dir. and atty. First Natl. Bank of San Diego; trustee San Diego Co. Law Library. Member Am. Bar Assn., Cal. State Bar Assn., San Diego Co. Bar Assn. (four terms pres.). Clubs: Cuyamaca, University (San Diego). Past master Silver Gate Lodge No. 296, F. & A.M.; past noble grand, Sunset Lodge No. 328, I.0.0.F.; past exalted ruler, San Diego Lodge, B.P.O.E. Republican. Residence: 2131 Albatross St. Office: First Natl. Bank Bldg., San Diego, Cal.

Danforth, Henry Gold, congressman, was born June 14, 1854, in Monroe County, N.Y. He was elected to the sixty-second and sixty-third congresses.

Danforth, Loomis L., physician, surgeon; born at Monticello, Otsego County, N.Y.; son of Hiram D. and Mary Jane (Tanner) Danforth. He was educated in an academy at Utica, N.Y., and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University as M.D. in 1874. He has been engaged in practice as a homeopathic physician and surgeon since 1874. He is professor of obstetrics in the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital and is now senior professor and also head of the Maternity Department of Flower Hospital. Dr. Danforth is a member, and was president in 1902, of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the County of New York. He is a member of the Union League Club. Dr. Danforth married at Willimantic, Conn., in 1874, Emma Augusta Hamlin. Address: 49 West 52d St., New York City.

Danziger, Ernst, physician of 63 W. 90th St., New York City, was born Berlin, Germany, April 18, 1871; son Julius and Seraphine (Maisel) Danziger; grad. Kölnisches Gymnasium, Berlin; studied medicine for a year in Royal Univ., Berlin, and Univ. of the City of N.Y. (Med. Dep't), M.D., 1894; married, N.Y. City, June 2, 1903, Martha Bachmann; one daughter, Juliet, born 1906; one son, Frederick, born April, 1911. Attending ear, nose and throat surgeon in German Dispensary, N.Y. City, attending laryngologist to City and Country Sanitarium of the Montefiore Home; attending laryngologist to the Har Moriah Hospital; mem. Harlem Med. Ass'n, Germany Med. Soc., Am. Med. Ass'n, N.Y. Acad. Medicine.

Danzinger, Jake Morris, lawyer and oil operator, born New York City, May 7, 1882; son of Morris and Lena (Mendelson) Danziger. Educated in public schools, Los Angeles; Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles; Univ. Sou. Cal. Married Daisy C.

Canfield, July 25, 1900, at Salt Lake City. Counsel for oil and petroleum men, 1905; oil dept. Santa Fe R.R., 1906-09; mgr. and dir. land dept. Am. Oilfields Co.; dir. Huasteca Petroleum Co.; pres. Ruby and Opal Oil Cos. ; treas. Jade Oil Co.; dir. Mexican Natl. Gas Co.; treas. Sapphire Oil Co. Clubs: Los Angeles Athletic, Sierra Madre Country. Member: Elks No. 99, Shriners, Scottish Rite Masons. Republican. Residence: 828 Lake. Office: Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Director and vice-pres. Mexican Petroleum Co. of Cal.; Mexican Pet. Co., Ltd., of Delaware. Pres. and dir. of Petroleum Transport Co., Southern Oilfields Co. Director Sacramento Valley Sugar Co., Rodes Land and Water Co., California Petroleum Corporation, American Petroleum Co., Mexican Asphalt Paving and Const. Co.

Davant, Thomas S., vice-president in charge of traffic, Norfolk & Western Ry. Office: Roanoke, Va. Born at Gillisonville, S.C. Entered railway service 1865, since which he has been consecutively to Jan. 1, 1869, station agent Charlotte & South Carolina Rd. at Ft. Mills, S.C.; Jan. 1 to June 15, 1869, agent Columbia & Augusta Rd. at Columbia, S.C.; June 15, 1869, to 1871, chief clerk consolidated agency Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Rd. at Columbia; 1871 to July, 1874, chief clerk general freight and passenger agent's office same road; July, 1874, to July, 1877, general freight and passenger agent Pt. Royal Rd.; July, 1877, to Feb. 28, 1886, assistant general freight and passenger agent Memphis & Charleston Rd. at Memphis, Tenn.; Feb., 1886, to May 1, 1892, general freight agent East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Ry.; May 1, 1892, to July 15, 1903, general freight agent Norfolk & Western Rd. and its successor, the Norfolk & Western Ry.; July 15, 1903, to July 1, 1907, freight traffic manager Norfolk & Western Ry. July 1, 1907, to Dec. 1, 1912, third vicepresident and traffic manager same road; Dec. 1, 1912, to date, vice-president in charge of traffic, same road.

Davenport, James Sanford, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1864, near Gaylesville, Ala. Since 1893 he has practiced law in Vinita, Okla. Has been twice mayor of that city; and has served two terms in the Cherokee legislature. He was elected to the sixtieth and sixty-second congresses as a democrat and was reelected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Vinita, Okla.

Davidson, James Wheeler, former consul-general and war correspondent; born in Austin, Minn., June 14, 1872. He was graduated from the Northwestern Military Academy of Highland Park, Ill., in 1891, and was a member of the Peary Arctic Expedition in 1894. This adventurous opening of his career was followed by service as a war correspondent with the Chinese Army, during the war between Japan and China in 1894; and with the Japanese Army in 1895 and 1896. He was American Consular Agent and Consul at Formosa, from 1897 to 1903 during which time he wrote several valuable monographs on Formosan affairs as well as a large volume entitled "Formosa, Past and Present," which is considered as the standard book of reference on this subject. In 1904 he was American consul at Dalny, Man

churia, and, when refused recognition on account of the closing of that port, was made special agent of the Department of State. He was acting Consul General of the United States at Shanghai in 1905, and is at present the president of Crown Lumber Co. Ltd., a lumber corporation with its head office at Calgary, Canada. Mr. Davidson is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Arctic Club and has received the order of the Rising Sun from the Emperor of Japan given for services rendered the Japanese Army during the war with Japan and China. Mr. Davidson married at San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 9, 1906, Mabel Lillian Dow. Residence: Royal Ave. Office: Care of Crown Lumber Co., Ltd., Calgary, Canada.

Davis, Asa Barnes, physician of 42 East Thirty-fifth St., New York City, was born Sept. 28, 1861, in Norwich, Conn. He has been a member of the Vermont Society in New York; and a member of the Alumni Association of Vermont Academy in New York. He has been a fellow of Medical Association of the Greater City of New York, New York Obstetrical Society, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; and is a trustee of the Vermont Academy. He is a fellow of the College of Surgeons of America.

Davis, Bergen, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., was born, White House, N.J., March 31, 1869. B.S., Rutgers, 1896; fellow, Columbia, 1899-1900, A.M., 1900, Ph.D., 1901, John Tyndall fellow, 1901-03 (Göttingen, 1901-02; Cambridge, 1902-03), Ernest Kempton Adams research fellow, 1907-09. Teacher, N.Y. City, 1896-99; asst. physics, Columbia, 1900-1901, tutor, 1903-07, instr., 1907-09, adj. prof., 1909-13, associate prof., 1913-, F.A.A.; Physical Soc. Sound waves; motion of ions in varying magnetic field; electrical phenomena of various gases in the electrodeless discharge; relation between electrical and gravitational forces; etc.-Constants of the ether considered as an elastic solid.

Davis, Cameron J., clergyman of Buffalo, N.Y., was born Watkins, N.Y., Dec. 13, 1873; son Frederick and Frances (Hewette) Davis; grad. Trinity Coll. (Hartford, Conn.), B.A., 1894 (M.A., 1897); Gen. Theol. Sem. (N.Y.), B.D., 1897; married, Brookline, Mass., Aug. 8, 1900, Elizabeth M. Sacker; children: Elizabeth Sacker, born 1901; Frances Hewette, born 1905. Curate, Trinity Ch., Buffalo, 1897-1899; in charge, 1899-1901, rector since 1901. Member standing committee of the diocese, Cathedral Chapter, Diocesan Committee on Missions. Charity Org'n Soc. (council), Delta Kappa Epsilon. Clubs: Thursday, Saturn, Buffalo Country. Address: Trinity Church, Buffalo, N. Y.

Davis, Champion McDowell, General Freight Agent Atlantic Coast Line Rd. Office Savannah, Ga. Born July 1, 1879, near Hickory, N.C. Educated in the public schools. Entered railway service March 1, 1893, as messenger in local freight office Wilmington & Weldon Rd., now the Atlantic Coast Line Rd., at Wilmington, N.C., since which he has been consecutively to July 1902, in various clerical positions in local freight office, clerk in freight claim department, stenographer in freight traffic department, rate clerk and chief rate clerk; July, 1902, to Jan. 1, 1906,

chief clerk in traffic department; Jan. 1, 1906, to Nov. 21, 1911, assistant general freight agent in charge of traffic bureau; Nov. 21, 1911, to date, general freight agent same road.

Davis, Charles Russell United States congressman from the third district of Minnesota, was born Sept. 17, 1849, in Pittsfield, Ill. He was elected to the house of representatives of the state legislature in 1888 and to the senate in 1890. He was captain of Company I, Second Regiment, Minnesota National Guard, for four years. He was a member of the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses from Minnesota as a republican. He was re-elected to the sixty-third congress from the third district of Minnesota for the term of 1913-15; and resides in St. Paul, Minn.

Davis, Edward Parker, physician, obstetrician and author, of Philadelphia, Pa., was born Sept. 16, 1856, near Syracuse, N.Y. Graduate of Princeton University, and M.A. of Princeton; graduate of medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; also studied in Europe. Superintendent of Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, professor of obstetrics in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; editor of the American Journal of Medical Sciences, 1890-98; author of "Treatise on Obstetrics," "Operative Obstetrics," "Obstetric Gynecologic Nursing, "Mother and Child," "Monographs and Papers." Ex-president and member American Gynecological Society, International Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Medical Association, College of Physicians of Philadelphia; ex-president Philadelphia Obstetrical Society; honorary member Academy of Surgery of Bucharest, Ophthalmological Society of Egypt, Gynecological Society of Chicago, Medical Society State of Virginia. Obstetrician to the Jefferson Hospital, obstetrician and gynecologist to the Philadelphia Hospital, consultant to the Preston Retreat.

Davis, Francis William, physician, born Champion, Jefferson County, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1862; son of Richard and Elizabeth (Richards) Davis; educated in public schools in Jefferson County, N.Y.; N.Y. Univ. Med. Coll., M.D., 1893; State Normal Coll., Albany, N.Y.; diploma Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 1892; received diploma from State Med. Board of N.J., 1905; married, N.Y. City, 1895, Emma Schultze. Public school teacher in Jefferson County, N.Y., 1881-89. Engaged in practice of medicine in N.Y. City from graduation, 1893; physician to N.Y. Hosp., out-patient dept. Captain Nat. Vol. Emergency Service. Republican. Member M.E. Church, Am. Med. Assn. of Greater N.Y., N.Y. State Med. Soc., Alumni Assn. N.Y. Univ., East Side Med. Soc., Jefferson County Soc., F. & A. M., mem. of Half-Past Nine Club, of Chas. Dickens' Sons of St. George. Physician for the Albion Mutual Benefit Soc., N.Y. City; also physician for Burdett Coutts Lodge No. 41, Daughters of St. George, Metamora Tribe, Improved Order Red Men. Mem. Sons of St. George, Republican Club of 25th Assembly Dist. Address: 142 W. 12th St., N.Y. City. Member of The National Geographic Society; physician for Mohawk Tribe No. 1, Improved Order Red Men; also