Palm Beach County FlArchives Biographies.....Davis, Edwin C. 1867 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II   pg. 213-4  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

	DAVIS, Judge EDWIN C., judge of the Circuit Court for Palm Beach 
County, has enjoyed a well earned prominence as a lawyer and citizen of Lake 
Worth during the past half dozen years.  Judge DAVIS before coming to Florida 
was one of the recognized leaders in the Indiana bar, and was associated with 
some of the ablest men of his profession and in the public affairs of that 
state.
	Judge DAVIS was born near Marion, Grant County, Indiana, in 1867, son 
of ELWOOD and RACHEL (SHUGART) DAVIS, Grant County was largely settled by 
people of the Quaker faith, and ELWOOD DAVIS was a regularly ordained minister 
of the Friends or Quaker Church.  Judge DAVIS grew up on a farm, graduated 
from the high-school at Fairmont in his native county, and also attended 
Spiceland Academy, a Quaker school of which his uncle, CLARKSON DAVIS, was 
then principal.  For six years of his youth and early manhood Judge DAVIS was 
in the United States Indian service, first as clerk in Haskell Institute at 
Lawrence, Kansas, then in the Osage Agency at Pawhuska, Indian Territory, and 
subsequently was transferred to Dulce, New Mexico, where he was made agent for 
the tribe of Apache Indians.
	Returning to Indiana, he studied law in the office of his cousin, 
FOSTER DAVIS, a prominent lawyer at Fairmont.  He was admitted to the bar in 
1895, and for several years practiced at Fairmont and then at Madison, 
Indiana.  However, his home and the scene of his most solid achievements as a 
lawyer in Indiana were at Crown Point, county seat of Lake County.  He became 
one of the leaders of the Indiana bar, and exerted a real influence on the 
public affairs of a state that is noted for its brainy men in politics and 
where only the brightest attain to real prominence.  He served several terms 
as representative of Lake County in the Indiana Legislature, and in one 
session was chairman of the railroad committee.  He also acted as special 
judge on the circuit bench in the trial of important cases.  He was chairman 
of the County Republican Executive Committee and a member of the State 
Executive Committee.
	Judge DAVIS came to South Florida in 1916 primarily to benefit his 
son’s health.  He became so enamored of the country that he decided to remain 
and make his permanent home here.  Since then he has been a resident of Lake 
Worth and Palm Beach County, seven miles south of West Palm Beach.  Here he 
resumed the practice of law, and his talents were soon recognized and he has 
served as attorney for a number of important corporations whose interests lie 
at Lake Worth and vicinity.  He was made right-of-way attorney for the Lake 
Worth Drainage District and later general attorney for the district.  He 
organized the Peoples Bank of Lake Worth, and served as its president until it 
was merged with the First National Bank in 1922.
	Early in 1921 Judge DAVIS was appointed judge of the Circuit Court for 
the district of four counties, including Palm Beach.  He was appointed to fill 
the unexpired term of Judge E.B. DONNELL, and under this appointment his 
service continues until June 1923.
	Judge DAVIS married ANNA D. PERKINS near Madison, Indiana.  They have 
one son, LESLIE DAVIS.


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