U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Davis, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------- Aler's History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia by F. Vernon Aler, 1888 Printed for the Author by The Mail Publishing Company, Hagerstown, MD. CHAPTER VIII. Historical Pen Sketches of the Early Residents of Berkeley County by the late Hon. Chas. James Faulkner. Pages 115-117, THOMAS DAVIS, M. D. Was born in Kentucky, and was a favorite protege of the distinguished Dr. Lewis Marshall of that State. He became a resident and citizen of this county about the year 1820. He practiced his profession as a physician for about ten years in Martinsburg, but his excessive devotion to literature and history caused him to become indifferent to the practice of his profession, and after his marriage to the daughter of a very wealthy farmer of the county, he abandoned it altogether and retired to the country. He was a man of acute and powerful intellect, of extensive reading and a vigorous and forcible writer. In literary attainments and in profound historical research, he was almost without an equal. He left here for Natchez in 1843, with a view there of resuming the practice of his profession. Within a month after his arrival there, the yellow fever broke out with fearful mortality, and he fell a victim himself to the fearless discharge of his professional duties. The writer of this paid a visit to his grave in January, 1845, and dropped a tear to the memory of one of the noblest and truest of men. He founded the Martinsburg Library, which for so many years was supported and cherished in this place; and in the important session of 1831 represented this county, with signal ability, in the House of Delegates of Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Berkeley County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/berkeley/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------