Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Davis, Wilbur B 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Wilbur B. Davis, who follows farming in Channahon township, was born in that 
township, August 22, 1860, and is one of the eight children of George B. and 
Olive (Comstock) Davis. He has two brothers and one sister still living, 
namely: George H., who was born September 9, 1850, and is now a resident of 
Chicago; Sadie, who was born April 18, 1853, and lives in Joliet; and Oliver 
C., who was born April 12, 1857, and also makes his home in Joliet. The father 
of this family was born in Schoharie county, New York, May 7, 1821, and on the 
12th of January, 1843, was married to Miss Olive Comstock, whose birth 
occurred in Tompkins county, New York, January 8, 1824. For about sixteen 
years George B. Davis remained a resident of the Empire state and then 
accompanied his parents on their removal to Will county, Illinois, in 1837, 
settling in Channahon township, when this was still a frontier district, 
giving little promise of the development and progress was soon to transform 
it. He was a successful farmer and for many years was closely associated with 
agricultural interests. He died April 7, 1901, having for a number of years 
survived his wife, who passed away November 12, 1891. Upon the home farm 
Wilbur B. Davis was reared, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors 
that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In 1878 he started out in life on 
his own account as a farmer and is today the owner of a valuable tract of two 
hundred and forty acres of well improved land on section 16, Channahon 
township. In the midst of the farm stands a fine residence and substantial 
barns, together with other modern equipments and improvements. Everything 
about the place indicates his careful supervision and progressive business 
methods, and he is well known as a leading agriculturist of the community. On 
the 12th of October, 1882. Mr. Davis was united in marriage to Miss Harriet 
Sage, who is one of the five children of Elizur W. and Sabrina (Eaton) Sage. 
She was also a niece of Russell Sage and was liberally remembered in the terms 
of his will. Her father, Elizur W. Sage, was born April 13, 1812, and died in 
February, 1884. He was first married September 18, 1834, to Miss Mary Willard, 
by whom he had several children, those still living being Mrs. Mary Jane 
Wignall, who was born October 16, 1837, and is now living in Vandervoot, 
Arkansas; Mrs. Emily Chadwick, who was born May 20, 1843, and lives in Odell, 
Illinois; Elizur, who was born April 28, 1849, and resides in Rensselaer, 
Indiana; and Mrs. Leni Schoonmaker, who was born December 22, 1851, and lives 
in Crete, this county. After the death of his first wife the father of this 
family married Sabrina Eaton, a native of Vermont, who was born November 13, 
1824, and is still living with a son in Channahon. Five children blessed this 
union, of whom four are still living: Harriet, the wife of our subject; Mrs. 
Helen S. Holbrook, who was born February 25, 1862, and lives at Park Ridge, 
Illinois; Mrs. Fannie E. Crosier, who was born June 7, 1864, and is also a 
resident of Park Ridge; and Olin A., who was born January 5, 1871, and makes 
his home in Channahon township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have become 
the parents of four children: H. Ina, born October 19, 1883; Bertha M., May 
25, 1889; Ralph W., November 30, 1890; and Rufus O., January 21, 1895. All are 
yet at home. In politics Mr. Davis is a republican and has served as school 
director, but otherwise has neither sought nor desired office, preferring to 
give his attention to his business affairs, which have brought him a goodly 
measure of success.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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