Bio of DAVIS, Edward A. (b.1865), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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EDWARD A. DAVIS - Vol II, pg 577-578
Edward A. Davis occupies a prominent position in the insurance circles of
Min­neapolis as president and treasurer of the Jones-Davis Agency, Incorporated,
with well appointed offices in the McKnight building. He is also a vice
president and director of David P. Jones & Company, mortgage loans and realtors.
For many years he has enjoyed an enviable reputation as a progressive,
enterprising and successful business man. A native of Illinois, he was born in
Kankakee, on the 25th of May, 1865, his parents being Alanson E. and Frank P.
(Dean) Davis. The father, who was engaged in the lumber business at Kankakee,
visited Minneapolis with his family in the sum­mer of 1875 and was so favorably
impressed with the city and its future possibilities that he determined to
establish his home here. He returned to Illinois with the purpose of closing up
his interests but passed away in that state the following year. In 1879 his
widow came to Minneapolis with her four sons.
Edward A. Davis, who obtained his education in the public schools of Kankakee,
was quite young when he located in Minneapolis with his mother and brothers. He
was not strong physically and therefore spent a couple of years in horseback
riding and driving about the city with Dr. Calvin G. Goodrich, an early
Minneapolis physician, deriving great benefit from the outdoor life.
Subsequently he accepted a position in the office of the street car company,
with which he remained for about five years.
During the first two years of this period he and a son of Dr. Goodrich, the late
Calvin G. Goodrich, Jr., constituted the entire office force of the street car
system. He was next associated with the John Martin Lumber Company for a year
and later entered the office of Charles H. Prior in the employ of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. Merited promotion won him the position of
superintendent's clerk under the late E. H. Graves, superintendent of the Iowa
and Minnesota division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and after
a time he entered the service of the Soo Line in the office of Charles F.
Clement, car accountant of the road. About 1887 he retired from railroad service
and became associated with Judge Edwin S. Jones in the loan office which the
Judge conducted in the rear of the Hennepin County Savings Bank, of which
institution he acted as president for many years. After the demise of Judge
Jones, Mr. Davis joined David P. and William O. Jones, sons of his previous
employer, in forming the firm of E. S. Jones Sons & Company, thus establishing
the insurance business which was incorporated as the Jones-Davis Agency in July,
1922. The present officers are: Edward A. Davis, president and treasurer; Walter
E. Davis, secretary; and David P. Jones, vice president.
On the 26th of April, 1894, Mr. Davis was united in marriage to Miss Julia
Thompson of Cincinnati, Ohio, who passed away in January, 1917, leaving a son
and a daughter. The latter, Evelyn, who was graduated from Mount Holyoke College
of Massachusetts in 1916, is at home with her father. The son, Walter E.,
attended Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, later entered the
University of Minne­sota and completed his college course at Dartmouth College
of Hanover,.New Hamp­shire. He was a member of the Students Army Training Corps
at the University of Minnesota at the time of the signing of the armistice and
is now associated with his father in business as secretary of the Jones-Davis
Agency, Incorporated.
The political allegiance of Mr. Davis is given to the republican party and the
principles for which it stands. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic
order, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite,
while with the Nobles of Zuhrah Temple he has crossed the sands of the desert to
the Mystic Shrine. His appreciation for the social amenities of life is
indicated by his membership in the Minneapolis Club, the Minneapolis Athletic
Club, the Lafayette Club and the Lincoln Club. He finds recreation each week-end
at his beautiful country home on the St. Croix. Through his long and active
career in the insurance field he has made many friends throughout the state and
numbers among his close acquaintances many of Minnesota's prominent men.