Burton E. Davis Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: DAVIS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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   BURTON E. DAVIS, who is successfully engaged in the farming and
poultry business in Salem, N. H., is one of the wide-awake and progressive
men of the community. He was born at Bethel, Vt., December 20, 1873, a
son of Clark S. and Harriett (Towne) Davis, He is a grandson of Samuel
and Desire (Chamberlain) Davis and a great-grandson of Samuel and Sally
(Coffin) Davis.
   Samuel Davis, the grandfather, born in Weathersfield, Vt., May 12, 1812,
was a millwright and lumberman. He moved to Bethel, Vt., in 1829 and
lived there at the time of his death on May 1, 1886. September 30, 1839,
he married Desire Chamberlain, who was born in Stockbridge, May 30, 1800,
a daughter of Isaac and Azubia (Bailey) Chamberlain. Their children were
as follows: Clark S.; James S., born in Bethel, August 28, 1845, who resides
in Vassalboro, Me.; and Abby, who died aged thirteen years.
   Clark S. Davis, the father of Burton E., was born in Bethel July 17, 1840,
and died January 17, 1904. On April 17th, 1866, he married Harriet M.,
daughter of Enos and Martha (Holden) Town. She was born in Barre, Vt.,
April 21, 1841. They had three children: Willis Clark, born June 10, 1867,
who died in October, 1907; Fred Lincoln, born May 9, 1871, who died in
November, 1911, and Burton Enos, born December 20, 1873. Clark S. Davis
was a farmer and stock falser, making Jersey cows hls specialty. He was
also a large contractor and dealt extensively in wood and lumber and for
nine years had the contract to saw all the wood for the Central Vermont
Railroad. He had charge of the roads in his native town for fifteen years.
Burton E. Davis attended the public schools and remained on the home
farm until he was twenty-seven years old. He then located at Stillwater,
where he resided two and a half years. At the end of that time he took the
civil service examination and in 1904 was appointed to the railway mail

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service. He continued in that occupation until 1911, when he gave it up to
settle on his farm in Salem, N. H., where he is now engaged in farming and
raising poultry. He was a trustee of the public library for three years and
in 1913 was elected selectman, being at the present time chairman of the
board. In 1912-1913 he was master of the Grange. He has charge of build-
ing the state road in Salem.
   March 5, 1896, Burton E. Davis married Miss Annie Miller, a daughter
of George M. and Amelia (Hammond) Miller, and they have two daughters:
Edna, born April 12, 1898; and Grace, born September 22, 1900. Mr.
Davis and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he
is one of the trustees.

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