BIO: Albert E. DAVIS, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 51.
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REV. ALBERT E. DAVIS
Huntingdon, Pa.

Minister Baptist Church:  Rev. Albert E. Davis was born in Philadelphia, 
Pa., on January 22, 1879, a son of Rev. Edward Davis, who was a primitive 
Methodist minister for twenty-two years.  He died in 1924, at the age of 
seventy-nine years.  He married Annie Davies, deceased, who died Dec. 1, 
1929.  Rev. Davis' primary education was obtained at Philadelphia, Pa., at 
the grade and high schools.  He took special work at Temple University, that 
bulwark of learning which Dr. Russell H. Conwell made famous.  These courses 
were in 1910 to 1914.  In 1912 he took up a commercial course with the 
Peirce Business College, Philadelphia, Pa., and later on a correspondence 
course with Crozier Theological Seminary at Upland, Pa.  He commenced his 
ministerial career at Olivet Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., for one 
year, and for three years was at Phillipsburg, New Jersey; also at Hamburg, 
New Jersey, for three years; Doylestown, Pa. for three years; followed by 
Scranton, Pa., for four years, from which place he came to Huntingdon, Pa., 
in 1928, succeeding Dr. Madison Hare.  During the World War he held a 
pastorate at Hamburg, N.J., in Sussex Co.  He is a member of the P.O.S. of 
A., Huntingdon, Pa.; Jr. O.U.A.M., Hamburg, New Jersey, and the County 
Ministerial Association.  As to politics, he believes in the principles of 
the Republican party.  He has one brother, Herbert, who resides at 
Philadelphia, Pa. two brothers died in infancy.  He has two sisters:  Agnes, 
married to Harry Hingley, Philadelphia, Pa.; Maude, married to Wm. Kearney, 
Philadelphia, Pa.  Two sisters are deceased.  Rev. Albert E. Davis was 
married to Rebecca Wright, a daughter of Alfred and Martha L. Wright; both 
are deceased.  Rev. Davis is well versed in the tenets of the church, and 
expounds the gospel in its true meaning.  He is a mighty force in 
maintaining peace, law and order in the community where he resides.