Davis, Joshua

DAVIS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/21/2008 at 13:54:19

Joshua Davis

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.210, Pleasant Twp.)
Joshua Davis, farmer, P. O. Avoca, was born in Fayette County, Penn., January 16, 1848, and is a son of G. W. and Mary (Gibson) Davis, natives of Fayette County, Penn., who both died in Pleasant Township, this county. G. W. Davis was born February 14, 1819, and died October 7, 1871; his wife, who was born July 20, 1816, died December 7, 1881. They had eight children, three boys and five girls. Subject received his education at Newtown, this county, and has always been a farmer. He came to this township with his parents, and has been on the farm ever since. He now owns the home farm of 180 acres, of which sixty-five acres are broken; there is running water on the farm, which is well adapted to stock-raising purposes, and on which he carries on general farming. His two brothers and five sisters are - Michael J., William A., Martha, Mary, Sarah, Esther and Louisa. Mary A. Patterson, an adopted girl, is also a member of the family. Mr. Davis is a Republican.