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Source: The Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia
Author: Unknown

The Toccoa Record, 12 Nov 1908, p. 1.  

Biographical Sketches


Col. B. F. Davis.  Just across the Blue Ridge mountains, at the foot of those 
peaks which lift their heads through the clouds and touch the sky beyond, was 
born the subject of this sketch, Benjamin Franklin Davis, September 2, 1882.

He is the youngest of a family of five children.  Two of his brothers, J. H. 
Davis, of Hiawassee, and Joseph T. Davis, of Clayton, are both successful 
lawyers.  He has two married sisters, both of whom live near the old Union 
county home.

Gaining inspiration from the scenes of childhood while yet a boy, he 
disengaged himself from the routine duties on a mountain farm, and, by dint of 
energy and to gratify an ambition which had grown within him, entered the 
Hiawassee High School.  It was at this place that it was made possible for him 
to obtain a splendid English education.

The brothers and sisters were all school teachers and he followed in their 
footsteps.  Every one of the children of this remarkable family taught four 
years or more.  Col. Davis himself taught in the counties of Lumpkin and 
Franklin.  Like the other boys, his attention soon turned to law, and he 
studied it before discontinuing his educational work.  His examination was 
held in December, 1905, and the following April his papers were passed upon, 
giving  him a license to practice in the courts of our State.

The time had now come when he must select a location where he could begin 
active practice—a town with a future.  A North-Georgian, to the manner born, 
he could not decide to live in any other section.  There were too many ties 
binding him to the “old red hills” and mountains of Georgia.  It did not take 
him long to decide.  Stephens county was created about that time, and Toccoa 
appeared most prominently on the map, hence his decision to take up his abode 
with us.

Col. Davis is a member of the Baptist church, is Noble Grand in the order of 
Odd Fellows, and is secretary of the Retail Merchants and Business Men’s 
Association of Toccoa.

He is a hard worker; the lamp always burns late in his office or his room.  He 
has conducted himself in a most exemplary manner, and has won the confidence 
of an already large clientage.  Able, honest and conscientious, he will 
accomplish greater and more difficult problems in the years to come.    


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