Biographies from The History of Columbia County,
Wisconsin, 1880 


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From The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880,
publ. by Western Historical Company, Chicago, Page
961-962

DAVID C. DAVIS, M.D., Columbus; was born in
Cardiganshire, South Wales, Dec. 25, 1833.  The Doctor
received his literary education at Newcastle, Emlyn,
Wales; at the age of 18, he entered the Bartholomew
Medical College, of London, but owning to an aversion
to the dissecting-room, he gave up the study; his
uncle, being then a member of the British Parliament,
secured for him a position in the Government Printing
Office, where he remained two years; during a three-
months vacation given him in 1854, he came to visit
America and an uncle at Utica, N.Y.; such inducements
were offered him to remain in America, that he never
returned to Europe, but was connected with the Morning
Herald, of Utica, for two or three years; he was next
publisher of the Mirror, a well-known Welsh paper of
Utica, for three years; in 1861, he removed to
Milwaukee, Wis., and was there connected with a
publishing house for nearly a year; he located at
Cambria, Columbia Co., Wis., in 1862, and there engage
in merchandising for one and a half years; there, in
1863, with Dr. J. H. WILLIAMS, he again took up the
study of medicine; he attended lectures at Rush
Medical College during the terms of 1865-66, but took
his diploma from the Columbia County Medical Society
in 1866, and from the State Medical Society in 1868;
he began the practice of his profession with Dr.
WATERHOUSE of Portage, and continued there from 1967
till near the close of the year 1868; he removed to
Columbus in November 1868, where he has since
successfully practiced his profession.  While in
Cambria, he served as Town Clerk, as Justice of the
Peace and Police Justice, and was at one time a member
of the Wisconsin Assembly from that district, and was
the author of the bill that was passed by that body
and the Senate, legalizing dissection; the Doctor has
been a member of the State Medical Society since 1868.
He was married in 1858 to Miss Dorothy, daughter of
Richard and Gwen ROBERTS, of Lewis Co., N.Y.  Their
children are Julia M., now the wife of the Rev. L. H.
MITCHELL, and lives at Portage City, Wis.; Charles M.;
John H.; Lemuel T., Robert W.; George W.  The family
is connected with the Congregational Church.  The
Doctor was a charter member of the Masonic Lodge of
Cambria.  He was a member of the City Council of
Columbus in 1876, 1877 and 1878; has been President of
the School Board during the years of 1879 and 1880.

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