Biographies:  Abel DAVIS, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Abel Davis, who was one of the early settlers of Eau Claire, was born 
January 16, 1842, in the town of New Portland, Maine.  He spent his early 
life on a farm, receiving a common school education, and in January, 1862, 
enlisted in the Fourth Maine Battery, serving until August 9, 1862, when 
he was wounded at the battle of Cedar Mountain, for which he received his 
honorable discharge.  Returning home he resumed his former occupation, at 
which he worked until the spring of 1868, when he came to Eau Claire, Wis. 
and from that time until 1872 labored in the saw mills and woods.  In the 
last named year he commenced the study of law in the office of J. F. Ellis 
and later entered the law department of the Wisconsin State University, 
from which he graduated in 1874.  Returning to Eau Claire he engaged in 
practice with J. F. Ellis, remaining in that firm for five years, when, 
on account of ill health, he retired from active practice and returned to 
Main in 1888.  He resumed the practice of law in Pittsfield, Maine, where 
he died on October 12, 1905.        

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 286.