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William Morris Davis (congressman)

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John Wood


Political party
  
Republican

Name
  
William Davis

William Morris Davis (congressman) William Morris Davis Wikipedia

Born
  
August 16, 1815 Keene Valley, New York (
1815-08-16
)

Died
  
August 5, 1891(1891-08-05) (aged 75) Keene Valley, New York

Succeeded by
  
Martin Russell Thayer

William Morris Davis (16 August 1815 Keene Valley, New York – 5 August 1891 Keene Valley, New York), was an abolitionist, author and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Among his friends were the New York sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, and the lock inventor Linus Yale.

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William Morris Davis was born in Keene Valley, New York. He moved to Pennsylvania and became a sugar refiner in Philadelphia. Davis was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress. He died in Keene Valley in 1891. Interment in Friends Fair Hill Burial Ground in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Works

  • Nimrod of the Sea or The American Whaleman – AOSTON (Harper & Bros., New York 1874)

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