he effected its consolidation with the Wilmerding and Lux schools. He served as president of the University of California 1887-1890. Married twice and a devout Unitarian, he contributed greatly to Starr King School for the Ministry, (formerly the Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry). He was an active student of history and literature, his most noted work being an essay entitled American Constitutions. He died after an appendicitis operation in San Francisco in 1916 and was buried in Cypress Lawn Cemetery. See also Davis political family References Johnson, Allen; Malone, Dumas. Dictionary of American Biography. vol. III. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, N.Y. 1959. External links 1831 births 1916 deaths 1906 San Francisco earthquake American librarians American Unitarians Harvard Law School alumni Politicians from San Francisco Politicians from Worcester, Massachusetts People of California in the American Civil War University of California, Berkeley faculty University of California regents Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley Williams College alumni Gardiner family Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California Members of the American Antiquarian Society 19th-century American politicians Stanford University trustees Burials at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park