Bio of David N. DAVIS (d.1898), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/wright/wright.html
Under HISTORY.

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be some typos.


488             HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 


David N. Davis was one of the honored pioneers of Wright county. With 
undaunted courage he brought his family into a thinly settled country 
where comforts were few, and by hard work, intelligent effort, and 
perseverance and integrity, he won for himself a competence, and achieved 
a place of honor, respect and leadership in the community where he lived 
for so many years. He reared a large family, which is a credit to the 
community, and to it he left the heritage of a blameless life and an 
unsullied name. Mr. Davis was born in England, and married Helen Bailey, 
a native of Canada. As a young man he located in Canada, and in 1858 he 
came to the United States and located in Monticello township, this 
county. He died in December, 1898, and since then, his widow, who has 
proved herself a devoted wife and loyal and affectionate mother, has 
made her home in Monticello village with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Starmer. 
Mr. and Mrs. Davis were the parents of fourteen children. Martha is 
dead. David W., a retired farmer of Monticello village, is the father 
of three children, Mortimer, Mary and Hazel, and the grandfather of one, 
David. Sadie is dead. Jennie is the wife of Charles Lord, of Monticello, 
and they have two children, Clarice and Effie, and three grandchildren, 
Etheleen, Babe and Brina, George Alfred is a Monticello farmer, and has 
two children, Freeman and Echo. Walter Isaac lives in Dundurn, Saskatchewan, 
Canada, and has one child, Wallace. Freeman is dead. Bert V. is a 
Monticello blacksmith, and has nine children, Violia, Lyle, Clifford, 
Brighton, Vera, Vernetta, Evelyn, David and Merrill. Ruby is the wife 
of Frank Drake of Minneapolis, and they have three children, Gerald, 
Helen and Ruth. Franklin W. lives in Hancock, Mich.  Fredrick is a 
Monticello farmer.  Irving S., of Long Beach, Cal., has one child, Melvin.  
Chester is dead.  Dora E. is the wife of Roy Starmer, and they have one 
child, Marjorie.