Davis, E. W.

DAVIS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/3/2008 at 13:42:23

E. W. Davis, banker, Avoca, born in Danielsonville, Conn., in 1839; his mother still lives there; father died in 1861. They had a family of eight children - five girls and three boys - all living. Subject went to Michigan in 1863; remained there three years; traveled for one year; went to Harlan, this State, in 1867, remaining there four years, when he moved to Avoca, in April, 1871, engaging in merchandise, under the firm name of E. W. Davis & Co.; opened a bank in August, 1872, and built a new building in 1874, the firm name being J. W. & E. W. Davis, organized with a capital of $25,000, but in 1876 the capital was raised to $50,000. Subject is a Freemason, and was married, May 20, 1874, to Miss May Benham, of Cascade, Dubuque County, this State. They have two children - Vinnie D., aged seven; and Joseph V., aged two. (From the 1882 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa)