Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Davis, J. F. M. January 12 1839 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. J. F. M. DAVIS, an eminent physician of Calhoun county, was born in
South Carolina, January 12, 1839. His parents, John and Catharine (Savage) Davis
were both natives of South Carolina. The father was a mechanic and was a son of
Miram Davis. Mrs. Catharine Davis was a daughter of Robert Savage, whose father
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Dr. J. F. M. Davis was reared in South
Carolina
received but a common school education, and his parents being [transcriber’s
note - missing text] he had to make his own way in the world, and let it be said
[transcriber’s note - missing text] that he is a self-made man. By hard work and
close economy he man-aged to save enough to make his own way through college. In
1859 he entered the Atlanta Medical college, and graduated in 1860. He located,
in 1861, at the old home at Unionville, but before he started in his practice,
he enlisted in April, 1861, in company A, Johnston's rifles. He shouldered his
gun and went to the front as a private and after serving one year the regiment
was reorganized into a regiment known as the Palmetto Sharpshooters, and in
1862, he was put into the medical department and there remained until the close
of the war. After hostilities ceased, he located in Louisa county, Va., where he
remained until 1867, when he came to Alabama, located at Choccolocco and began
the practice of his profession and has since met with abundant success. In
February, 1865, he married Mary Britt, of Virginia, daughter of John T., and
Malinda B. Britt. Mrs. Davis died in 1869, and in 1871 the doctor married Alice
Mallory, daughter of William and Eliza J. (Lowery) Mallory, who were early
settlers of Calhoun county, and bought their landTs from the Indians. The
children of this union still living are: Jessie M., Lida G., Mallory, James and
Cleveland. The mother was born and reared near Choccolocco. The doctor and wife
are members of the Baptist church, and he, also, is a member of the Masonic
order. The doctor has been very successful as a practitioner and he is a man
that has the entire confidence of all who know him. He has served as justice of
the peace of his beat, and has been postmaster since Grant's last term. He has
also been engaged in mercantile business since before there was any town of
Choccolocco.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 592-593

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