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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 454-455]

    CHARLES DAVIS, of Pilot Township, section 19, is an intelligent and
    enterprising citizen, having settled in the county in 1871.  He was
    born in Herkimer County, New York, December 18, 1852, and is a son
    of SILAS and CATHERINE (SIMMONS) DAVIS, also natives of Herkimer
    County.  CHARLES was two years old when his parents removed to
    Jefferson County, New York. In 1867 the family were caught in the
    tide of western emigration, and settled in Cedar County, Iowa.  Mr.
    DAVIS was reared to the occupation of a farmer, and received a
    common-school education.  He was united in marriage in Cedar County,
    Iowa, August 6, 1871, to Miss MARY E. LEE, a daughter of JOSEPH and
    SARAH (COLLINS) LEE.  She was born and reared in Cedar County, Iowa.
    Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother was born in
    the South.  A few weeks after his marriage Mr. DAVIS came to Cherokee
    County, and took a homestead of Government land in Pilot Township,
    section 30, making his home there until 1885, when he came to his
    present farm.  He still owns the eighty acres deeded to him by the
    Government, and 120 acres in his home farm, which is in an advanced
    state of cultivation.  He has a substantial two-story residence, a
    good barn, and a grove, one of the most ornamental and valuable
    improvements of the prairie farmer.  He is engaged in general farming
    and stock-raising, and has been successful in his chosen occupation.
    Mr. and Mrs. DAVIS have had born to them two children: FRANK and BESS.
    In political thought and action Mr. DAVIS is Republican.  He has
    served as a member of the School Board, and has taken an interest in
    the advancement of educational facilities in his township.

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