found: Wells, David A. The science of common things, 1857:title page (David A. Wells., A.M)
found: United States. Special Commissioner of the Revenue, 1866-1870. Report of the special commisioner of the revenue upon the industry, trade, commerce, etc., of the United States, for the year 1869, 1869:title page (David A. Wells, United States Special Commissioner of Revenue)
found: Cobden Club (London, England). Cobden club essays, second series, 1871-2, 1872:title page (the Hon. David A. Wells, LL.D., of the United States) page 461 (David A. Wells, LL.D., late Special Commissioner of Revenue of the United States)
found: Wells, David Ames. Recent economic changes, 1889:title page (David A. Wells, LL.D., D.C.L.; membre correspondant de L'Institut de France; correspondente della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Italia; honorary fellow Royal Statistical Society, G.B.; late United States Special Commissioner of Revenue, and President, American Social Science Association, etc.)
found: Who was who in America, 1607-1896:(Wells, David Ames; economist; born, Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1828; grad. Williams College, 1847, Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, 1851; published (with George Bliss) The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Cambridge, Mass., 1850-1866; chairman National Revenue Commission, 1865; special commissioner revenue (post created for him), 1866-1870; leading advocate of free trade policies, from 1868; chairman, N.Y. State Tax Commission, 1870; receiver, Ala. & Chattanooga R.R.; member board of arbitration Asso. Rys.; died Norwich, Conn., Nov. 5, 1898)