Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Davis, John D. 1857 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   John D. Davis, attorney at law, with offices at No. 209 North Main street,
Wichita, Kan., is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born at Minersville on July
25, 1857, and was reared at Ashland, Pa. His father was David Davis, a coal
miner, who was killed in a mine accident in the anthracite coal fields in 1869.
His mother was Ann Williams, both the parents being natives of Wales. Mr. Davis'
mother is also dead. He entered the State Normal School at Bloomburg, Pa., and
took a course at the Lock Haven (Pa.) State Normal, from which he was graduated
in the class of 1880. He then took a two years' course at Hopkins Preparatory,
New Haven, Conn. He studied law and was admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania in April, 1885, and in May of the same year came to
Wichita and began practice, and has since been a strong and worthy member of the
Sedgwick county bar. Mr. Davis has practiced alone with the exception of seven
years, when he was associated with Judge Dyer. He served as county attorney
during the years 1895 and 1897. Mr. Davis is a member of the Sedgwick County Bar
Association; of the Masonic order, and has been loyal and done faithfully his
part in the promoting of all matters pertaining to the welfare of Wichita. He
was married in 1885 to Miss M. Alice Hain, of Reading, Pa. From this union two
children have been born- Winnifred, a graduate of Fairmount College, and now a
teacher in the city schools of Wichita, and Grace.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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