Davis, Richard Harding. Novelist, journalist. Born in Philadelphia 1864, son of the late L. Clarke and Rebecca (Harding) Davis. Served as war correspondent "London Times" and "New York Herald" in Turkish-Greek, Spanish-American, South African, and Russian-Japanese Wars. Author: "Soldiers of Fortune," "Gallegher and Other Stories," "The Princess Aline," "Our English Cousins," "Van Bibber and Others," "About Paris," "The Rulers of the Mediterranean," "Three Gringos in Venezuela," "Cuba in War Time," "A Year from a Correspondent's Note-Book," "Stories for Boys," "Cuban ad Porto Rican Campaigns," "Cinderella and Other Stories," "Dr. Jameson's Raiders," "Exiles," "The King's Jackal," "The Lion and the Unicorn," "West from a Car Window," "Episodes in Van Bibber's Life," "With Both Armies in south Africa," "In the Fog," "Ranson's Folly," "Captain Macklin," "The Bar Sinister," "Kits and Outfits." Plays: "Taming of Helen," "Ranson's Folly," "The Dictator." Died 1916.

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