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Portrait and biographical album of Newayco (sp) County, Mich.
containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and
representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and
biographies of all the governors of Michigan and of the presidents
of the United States: also containing a complete history of the county,
from its earliest settlement to the present time.

Published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, 1884

Transcribed and submitted by Joyce Pearson
for the U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org
July 10, 2011
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DAVIS, Martin
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Martin Davis, farmer, section 3, Barton Township, was born March 9, 1840,
in Jackson Co., Mich., and is a son of Asa B. and Caroline R. (Harrington)
Davis. His father was a native of Canada and spent his life in the pursuit
of lumbering; he died in 1851. The mother was born in Vermont, and after
the death of her first husband married a man named Elliot Cheney and
returned to Kent County; she was widowed a second time in Paris, Mecosta
Co., Mich., in 1871. She is now a resident of Barton Township, Newaygo
County.

At 17 years of age Mr. Davis entered the family of Thomas Skinner, of Kent
County, with whom he remained until he attained the estate of legal
manhood. He enlisted under the first call for troops after the assault upon
the United States flag at Fort Sumter, enrolling in April, 1861, in Co. A,
Sixth Mich., Cav., and was in the service until July 4, 1863, when he was
severely wounded in the left thigh by a ball and released from active duty.
He was transferred to the hospital at Little York, Pa., where he remained
until April 27, 1865, when he was finally discharged and returned home.

He came at once to Mecosta County and settled in the township of Greene,
where he was a resident until 1871. In that year he purchased his homestead
in Mecosta County, where he resided until 1873, giving his time and
attention to its improvement and cultivation.

Mr. Davis married June 3, 1865, in Kent County, Phebe A., daughter of
William and Hannah (Morgan) Haynes. The parents were born in England and
came to the United States in 1840. Mrs. Davis was born in Cayuga Co., N.Y.,
Sept. 14, 1847. William E., only child of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, was born
April 9, 1871, in Mecosta County. Mr. Davis is a Republican and has held
the office of School Inspector and Justice of the Peace in his township.

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