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David.jpg  DAVIS, David, jurist, b. in Cecil county, Md., 9
March, 1815; d. in Bloomington, Ill., 26 June, 1886. He was
graduated at Kenyon college, Ohio, in 1832, studied law in
Massachusetts, and went through a course at the law-school of
New Haven, removed to Illinois in 1835, and was admitted to the
bar, after which he settled in Bloomington. He was elected to
the state legislature in 1844, was a member of the convention
that formed the state constitution in 1847, elected judge of the
eighth judicial circuit of the state in 1848, re-elected in
1855, and again in 1861, resigning in October, 1862. He was an
intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, and rode the circuit with
him every year. He was a delegate at large to the Chicago
convention that nominated Mr. Lincoln for the presidency in
1860, accompanied him on his journey to Washington, and in
October, 1862, was appointed a justice of the sup