Biography of William Elias B. Davis, MD, Jefferson, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jefferson/bios/webdavis.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Barbara Walker Winge ==================================================================== February 2002 WILLIAM ELIAS B. DAVIS William Eilas B. Davis, of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in the county in which that city is located, November 25, 1863. He graduated in medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1884, and located in Birmingham the same year, where he was associated with his brother, Dr. J. D. S. Davis. In January, 1892, he accepted a partnership with Dr. J. B. S. Holmes, of Rome, Georgia, in a large sanitarium for the diseases of women, but only remained in Rome a few months, when he returned to Birmingham and he and his brother established a private hospital for surgical and gynecological cases... [More on request.] Ref: Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, pp.113-114.