Tuscola-Wayne County MI Archives Biographies.....Davis, Jasper W. 1858 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JASPER W. DAVIS. Passing along the streets of Caro, Tuscola County, the visitor
will observe the neat establishment of Mr. Davis, where he carries a large stock
of boots and shoes and is busily engaged in satisfying the desires of his
customers. He has become known as a reliable business man and by his tireless
exertions to build up a large trade, and by his honorable dealings with all he
has won the confidence of the community. His present business was started in
June, 1884, in Caro, and as he has always furnished only first-class goods it
was not long until he was enjoying a lucrative trade.

  Many years ago the ceremony was performed; which united the destinies of John
M. Davis and Margaret Reynolds, both natives of New Hampshire. While they
resided in Dover, that State, there was born to them a son, August 25, 1858,
whom they named Jasper W. This lad was only a few years old when his father left
home to battle for his country. At the battle of Antietam he was wounded and
soon afterward died, leaving a widow and one child to mourn the loss of a loving
husband and kind father. Our subject, who was then five years old, was taken
into the home of his maternal grandfather Stephens Reynolds and there reared to
manhood, gaining considerable knowledge of farming pursuits.

  Until he was fourteen our subject attended the district school where he
gleaned a good common-school education from the text books in use. He then began
to work at the shoe business and was for four years thus engaged. When
thoroughly familiar with the trade he came West to Michigan and worked for a
time in Detroit; he has also been employed in the boot and shoe business in
Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago, and has traveled for a New York boot and
shoe house. Politically Mr. Davis is a Republican, but takes no more active part
in the work of the party than to cast his vote. Socially he is identified with
the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Chapter at Caro.

  For almost a decade Mr. Davis has had the cheerful co-operation of his
estimable wife, with whom he was united in marriage in August, 1882, in Detroit,
this State. The bride was the daughter of P. G. and Jane A. Turner, and is a
native of Detroit, Mich. As she grew to womanhood she was the recipient of good
advantages educationally and at the same time she received the practical
training which fitted her to make a happy home of her own. It may truly be said
of her that she has divided all the sorrows and doubled all the joys which have
fallen to the lot of Mr. Davis, and the esteem of her neighbors is also hers.
One child has blessed the congenial union, Ivy, who was born in Detroit, July
31, 1884.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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