David Batcheller Mellish (January 2, 1831 - May 23, 1874) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools, became a printer in Worcester, taught school in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, was a proofreader in New York City, a reporter on the "New York Tribune", and was a stenographer to the police board of New York City for ten years. Wikipedia
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