Biographical Sketch of Charles H. Davis, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Charles H. Davis, prosecuting attorney of Pulaski County, is one of
the most prominent and successful young legal practitioners of the
county.  His birth occured in Hickory County, MO., in 1860, and in
the family of two sons and two daughters born to Hon. Daniel E. and
Mary P. (Foster) Davis, he was the second.  The parents were natives
of Pulaski and Hickory Counties, respectively, and married in Hickory
County, where they lived until Charles H. was two or three years of
age, when they moved to Pulaski County, which was their home until 
1881; in the latter year they located in Springfield, where the 
father, who is a carpenter and joiner by trade, is now proprietor of
the Robinson Avenue Planing Mills.  He represented Pulaski County
two terms in the General Assembly ten or twelve years ago, and during
the late war was captain of a company in the Forty-eighth Missouri 
Infantry, Federal Army.  He is a member of the A.F.& A.M. and A.O.U.W.,
and he and wife belong to the Methodist Church.  Isaac N. Davis, 
paternal grandfather of our subject, was an early settler of Southern
Missouri, a farmer by occupation, and died in Pulaski County several
years before the war.  Charles H. Davis was reared on a farm, and
received a good common school education at Richland.  When nineteen
years of age he began doing for himself in the insurance business, 
and at the same time studied law with J.A. Bradshaw, with hom he 
remained until about one year after he was admitted to the bar, which
was in September, 1880.  He has since been successfully engaged in 
the practice of his chosen profession in Pulaski and adjoining 
counties, and is one of the promising young lawyers of Missouri.  He
is a fluent speaker, and his career has every promise of being a
brilliant one.  In 1882, when but twenty-two years of age, he was
elected prosecuting attorney, to which office he has been twice re-
elected.  He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of the A.F. &
A.M., of which lodge he has served as secretary and treasurer.  On
May 25, 1882, he married Ida Bryan, daughter of Alexander and Mary
Bryan, of Richland.  Mr. and Mrs. Davis have a fine home in Richland,
and are members of the Methodist Church.  Mr. Davis is also an in-
surance and loan agent, and for six years acted as real estate agent
for the 'Frisco Railroad Company.

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