Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Davis, C. C. 1830 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  DR. C. C. DAVIS, physician, Robinson, was born January 23, 1830, and is a son
of the Hon. John Wesley Davis. The latter was born April 16, 1799, in New
Holland, Lancaster Co., Penn., where most of his time was spent on his father's
farm, until he was seventeen years of age. He graduated at the University of
Maryland, in Baltimore, April 2, 1821, and after several unsuccessful attempts
to practice medicine in different towns in Maryland, he, in 1823, came to
Carlisle, Ind. Here he soon gained his share of practice. His political career
dates from 1829, when he was elected Sergeant-at Arms of the Indiana State
Senate. From this time until his death in 1859, he was one of the prominent men
of Indiana. He was a judge of the court, often a legislator, repeatedly a
Congressman. In 1846, he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives; he
was several times Speaker of the House in the State Legislature. In 1847, he was
appointed by President Polk Minister to China; in the following year asked
permission of his Government to be relieved, and accordingly returned home,
visiting Egypt, England and France on his way. Again he served in the
Legislature, and was appointed by the President Governor of Oregon Territory,
which position he resigned after one year's service. In June, 1852, he was
chairman of the National Democratic convention at Baltimore, which nominated
Gen. Franklin Pierce for President, and in the convention caucus he came within
one vote of being selected as the choice of the convention instead of Pierce-
receiving sixteen votes to Pierce's seventeen votes. This is only a brief
statistical statement of this great man's crowded and eventful public career. He
was married in Pennsylvania in 1823, to Miss Ann Hoover, and raised a family of
ten children, six of whom still survive-John L. Davis, who has been Commodore in
the United States Navy for two years, entering the navy forty years ago as
midshipman, and resides in Washington City; Mrs. Aiken, of Evansville, Ind., Dr.
C. C, the subject, Caroline W., wife of James C. Denny, ex-Attorney-General of
the State of Indiana; and two twins-William J., resides near Sullivan, Ind., and
Henry B., a resident of Indianapolis. Dr. Davis, the subject, attended Asbury
University three years, and then the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from
which he graduated in 1853. He soon after located in Robinson, where he has
since practiced his profession. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a Democrat in politics. He was married
in October, 1853, in this county, to Miss Lucretia J. Payne, who died in 1864.
She was the mother of four children, only two of whom now survive, viz.: Charles
E., born in April, 1856, and James, born in January, 1863. He was again married
in the fall of 1864, to Sarah A. Showers. She is the mother of two children, one
of whom is living-Mary J., born in November, 1868.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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