Columbia-Lycoming County PA Archives Biographies.....DAVIS, Dernest 1869 - 
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  DERNEST DAVIS is classed among the solid and substantial business men of the
  town of Berwick, Pa., and is superintendent of the Berwick Electric Light
  Company. He was born at Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pa., July 16, 1869, and
  is a son of Thomas H. B. Davis, a well-known carpenter and contractor of Summer
  Hill, Briarcreek township, Pa.
  
    For many years our subject had charge of the C. R. Woodin electric light plant
  on the Heights, where he proved himself to be an efficient electrician and
  attracted the attention of the officials of the Berwick Electric Light Company,
  who offered him the superintendency of their plant, which position he accepted,
  succeeding W. E. Boyce. This company was organized in 1892 and immediately
  built, on the site of the Freas Bros.' foundry, a brick plant, 45 by 50 feet,
  with a boiler and engine room 30 by 40 feet, and in addition an office and
  work-rooms. The plant has two engines, one of 100-horsepower, the other of
  150-horsepower, two 1,200-light machines, a Westinghouse and a Warren dynamo,
  one 60-arc light and two 30-arc light machines. The town of Berwick is well
  illuminated by forty-five arc lights on the streets which are well distributed
  throughout the borough, and besides furnishing lights for many dwellings and
  nearly all the stores of the place, the company supplies the lights for the
  mammoth works of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company which are in the town.
  
    Mr. Davis chose for his life companion Iola Miller, a daughter of John F.
  Miller, a prominent citizen of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Davis reside in
  their handsome residence at No. 408 East Front street, which was formerly the
  property of the Berlins. Mr. Davis performs his work in such a manner as to win
  the confidence and esteem of his superior officers. As a citizen he stands high
  in the estimation of his fellow-men and is one of the most prosperous and
  highly-respected citizens of Columbia County.
  
  
  
  Additional Comments:
    Extracted from:
      
      Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
      Published by 
      Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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