Pinellas County FlArchives Biographies.....DAVIS, JOSEPH S. December 16, 1867 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 June 30, 2012, 9:30 pm

Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol.III   pg130-1.  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

        DAVIS, JOSEPH S.  In a point of time was the second lawyer to 
establish a practice in what is now Pinellas County at St. Petersburg.  He 
took a prominent part in the organization in Pinellas County and in the 
settlement of the county seat while attorney for the Board of County 
Commissioners.
	Mr. DAVIS is a self-made man, educated himself for the law, and has 
had a varied experience in both the North and the South.  He was born at 
Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana, December 16, 1867, son of GIDEON C. and 
MARTHA A. DAVIS.  His parents were natives of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  His 
father, who died in Nebraska, laid out the town of Hoopeston, Illinois.  The 
mother is still living in Western Nebraska.  In their family of 10 children 
Joseph was the second, and five are still living.
	Mr. DAVIS was reared in Nebraska, attended the schools there, and 
studied law in the office of NELLIS E. CORTHELL at Laramie, Wyoming, and with 
B. S. BAKER of Fairbury and Omaha, Nebraska.  He was admitted to the bar in 
Nebraska, and practiced in the Federal courts in 1893.  While a qualified 
lawyer, he was for several years employed as a stenographer in the master 
mechanic’s and superintendent's offices of the Union Pacific Railway.  Later 
he was in the typewriter business and was manager of the Smith Premium 
Typewriter Company at Milwaukee.
	After Mr. DAVIS located in St. Petersburg he engaged in the practice 
of law, and has made a specialty of titles, chancery and probate work.  For 
eight years he has served as attorney for the Board of County Commissioners, 
and is still their attorney.  He is a director in the Citizen's Ice & Cold 
Storage Company and the West Coast Title Company.
	Mr. DAVIS married NELLIE M. VANDERBECK of Pocatello, Idaho.  Their 
five living children are LOREN V., JOSEPH W., HAROLD G., VIVIAN L. and CARL M.
       Mr. DAVIS is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, is a trustee of the 
First Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in the Young Women's Christian 
Association; is also on the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian 
Association.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/pinellas/bios/davis39bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/

File size: 2.8 Kb