John True Davis Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire


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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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     JOHN TRUE DAVIS, one of Portsmouth's progressive men, pro-
prietor of a wholesale fruit, produce and grocery establishment at Nos.
173 and 175 Market Street, was born in Bethel, Me., February 23, 1867.
His parents were Richmond and Sarah M. (True) Davis, the former a
farmer; he also dealt extensively in lumber. The subject of this sketch
was one of six children. He attended Gould's Academy and later in
1889 graduated from the Portland, Me., Business College. In the same
year he located in Portsmouth, first finding employment as clerk with
J. V. Huston in his present line of business. In 1897 he succeeded Mr.
Huston, adding a grocery stock to the business, which had previously
been confined to fruit and produce. He has been very successful and is
now numbered among the prosperous and substantial merchants of the
city.
     In politics a Republican, he represented Ward 4 for two years in the
City Council, beginning with the year 1907, and also served Portsmouth
as acting mayor in March and April, 1907. He is fraternally a member
of St. Andrews Lodge, No. 56, A. F. & A. M., being past master of the
same; and is past district deputy grand master of the First Masonic
District of New Hampshire. He is an honorary member of the Lodge
Edinburgh Defensive Band, NO. 151, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a
Scottish Rite Mason of the 32d degree. He served three years--1911 to
1914 inclusive--as president of the Young Men's Christian Association
of Portsmouth.
     Mr. Davis married Miss Alice M. Bassett, a daughter of James M.

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Bassett of New Market, N. H., and this union has been blessed with
three children, namely, Merle Evelyn, Philip Bassett and Raymond
Caldwell.