[David Josiah]. American jurist, born in Asia Minor on the 20th of June 1837, son of an American missionary. He was graduated at Yale in 1856, studied law with his uncle, David Dudley Field; was graduated at Albany Law School in 1858, and practiced in Leavenworth, KS, where, in 1862, he was elected probate judge, and in 1864 judge of the first judicial district of Kansas. In 1870 he became associate justice of the state supreme court, was re-elected in 1876, again in 1882, and resigned in 1884 to become United States circuit judge for the eighth circuit. On December 4, 1889, President Harrison nominated him associate justice of the United States supreme court, in succession to Stanley Matthews, deceased.
