DAY, American educator: b. Whitneyville, Me., 1845. He studied at Bowdoin and was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872. He was pastor at Bath, Me., 1872-74; Portland, Me., 1876-78; Boston, 1881-82, New York, 1883-85 and 1889-93. In 1893 he became chancellor of Syracuse University. He was elected bishop in 1904, but resigned to continue in present position. He has written niany magazine articles and sermons and has published in book form 'The Raid on Prosperity' (1907).
DAY, Jeremiah, American educator: b. New Preston, Conn., 3 Aug. 1773; d. New Haven, Conn., 22 Aug. 1867. He was gradu ated at Yale 1795. Having early made choice of the profession of theology, while acting as tutor he began to preach as a candidate for the ministry; but before taking charge of any parish was in 1801 elected to the professorship of mathematics in Yale College. In 1817 he became president of the college, continuing in that position till his resignation in 1846. He published 'An Introduction to (1814); 'Navigation and Surveying' (1817) ; and other works.
DAY,John, English dramatist: fl. about 1600. Of his life hardly anything is known. He is mentioned in Henslowe's in 1598 as an active playwright. But few of his earlier works have come down to us save 'The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green.' Day collab orated freely with contem rary writers, as Chettle and Dekker. Ben onson in his con versations with Drummon of Hawthornden grouped him with some other admirable gentle men and authors as a rogue and a base fellow. His best works that have reached us are a graceful comedy, 'Humor out of Breath' ; and 'The Parliament of Bees,' a kind of allegorical masque in which all the characters are bees. ((The very air,' says Charles Lamb, replete with humming and buzzing melodies. Surely bees were never so be-rhymed before.* An edition of Day's works was privately printed by A. H. Bullen in 1881. Consult Swinburne's essay in Nineteenth Century (October 1897); and 'Cambridge History of English Literature' (Cambridge and New York, 1907-13).
DAY, Richard Edwin, American author and editor: b. West Granby, Oswego County, N. Y., 27 April 1852. He was graduated at Syracuse University engaged in teach ing, then journalism, being associate editor of the Syracuse Standard for 18 years. Since 1899 he. has edited State publications at Albany, N. Y., since 1904 in the State historian's office. He has published 'Lines is the Sand'. (1878) ; 'Thor: a Drama' (1880) • 'Lyrics and Satires' (1883) • 'Poems' (1888) • Poems' (1909) ; Catalogue of- Sir William Johnson Manuscripts in New York ,State Library) (1909).
DAY, or DAYS, Stephen, American colo nial printer: b. London about 1610; d. Cam
bridge, Mass., 22 Dec. 1668. He was ,employed by the Rev. Joseph Glover to accompany hiM to America in 1638, to operate a printing press, which he was going to set up in Massachusetts. Mr. Glover died on the voyage and the press was placed in the house of Rev. Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College. The first book printed in the colonies was issued from it in 1640, and was entitled 'The Whole Booke of Psalmes, faithfully translated into English metre,' commonly styled 'The Bay Psalm Book.' The printing house was taken from him about 1648, and put into the hands of Samuel Green. Consult Thomas, 'History of Printing in America' (1810).
DAY, Thomas, English writer: b. London, 22 June 1748; d. 28 Sept. 1789. Hi was edu cated at Oxford, and was called to the bar but never practised. He published several works in favor of the American Revolution and against slavery. His principles led him to re nounce most of the indulgences of a man of fortune that he might bestow his superfluities upon those who wanted necessaries. He wrote, in prose and verse, on various subjects, but his name is kept alive chiefly by the well-known book written for the young, entitled 'History of Sanford and Mertcin.' His 'Poems' were published in 'British Poets' (Vol. LVIII). His 'Life) was written by Keir (London 1791) and by Blackman (ib. 1862).
DAY, William Rufus, American jurist: b. Ravenna, Ohio, 17 April 1849. He was grad uated from the University of Michigan in 1870, and from the law school of the same insti tution in 1872. In the latter year he was ad mitted to the Ohio bar, and began the practice of law at Canton where he soon gained local and State distinction; in 1886 he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court of the ninth judicial district, being the candidate of both politicalparties, In 1889, President Harrison U appointed him United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio, but he was obliged to decline the appointment on account of ill health. In 1897 he was made Assistant Secretary of State by his friend, President McKinley, and in April 1898 he succeeded Sher man as Secretary of State, as such conducting all the negotiations of the Spanish War. Later in 1898 he resigned the secretaryship, and was appointed chairman of the United States Peace Commission to frame a treaty of peace with Spain, in which capacity he had a conspicuous and responsible part in all peace negotiations. He then returned to his law practice, but in 1899 was appointed to succeed Judge Taft as United States circuit judge, and on 26 Jan. 1903 was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt.