Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789-1796; address given at special session of U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, on the occasion of the presentation of portrait
Born Grafton County, New Hampshire, son of Nathan and Mary DAVIS; "constructed...the first coal-burning locomotive steam engine ever produced in the United States" in 1831; member of the Society of Friends; built the steamboat CODORUS in 1828, first steamboat on the Susquehanna River