Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Davis, William E. 1864 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   William E. Davis, general merchant, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of Edgar
county, Illinois, where he was born on December 6, 1864. He is a son of William
and Lydia (Gossett) Davis, natives of southern Ohio, who, after their marriage,
removed, in 1864, to Edgar county, Illinois, and engaged in farming. In 1865 the
parents removed to Champaign county, Illinois, and remained there until
February, 1877, when they moved to Kansas, locating on a farm in Valley Center
township, Sedgwick county, where they resided until January, 1893, when they
removed to Montreal, Mo. In 1898 they moved to Wichita, where they have since
resided. Mr. Davis, Sr., is retired. He has been active in politics. William E.
Davis is the fourth child of a family of six, four of whom are living. He was
educated in the public schools of Sedgwick county, remaining on the home farm
until he was twenty-one. He taught six terms in the public schools of Sedgwick
county, and engaged in farming in Valley Center and Waco townships, Sedgwick
county. In December, 1891, he moved to Wichita, where he has since resided. He
first attended the Southwestern Business College and afterward began clerking in
a general store, August 1, 1893, and continued until August 7, 1907, when he
organized his present store, general merchandise, on the west side, which he has
since conducted successfully at No. 1005 West Douglas avenue. Mr. Davis is a
member of the West Side Commercial League. Fraternally he is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Encampment Modern Woodmen of America, and the
Rebekas. March 20, 1889, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Mary C. Sweney, daughter
of Samuel and Margaret (Garrison) Sweney, of Sedgwick county. Four children have
been born of this union, viz.: Lawrence L., Ethel N., Warren M. and Glenn H.

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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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