Born in Pennsylvania in 1837. As a boy he attended Airy View Academy in his native state, and to gain his medical education he went to the University of New York. There was a great demand for doctors at the front during the war and Dr. Davis was among those who braved the hardships of army life and worked so valiantly in relieving the sufferings of the wounded. He was acting assistant surgeon of the United States army, and surgeon in chief of the artillery brigade of the Second Corps, remaining in the service during the entire period of the war. Since then he has practiced medicine actively for twenty years, and now has a drug store at Lewis. For seventeen years he was postmaster at his home and for six years one of the board of medical examiners for the pension department. He has always been a Republican in politics. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity. Dr. Davis was married in 1865 to Miss Priscilla K. Shuman. They have three children: William B., Brodie B. and Charles P. Davis. In the Twenty-fifth General Assembly Dr. Davis was chairman of the committee on pharmacy. He succeeded in having several measures of special interest to the medical profession enacted into laws. He was an active worker also in the committees on suppression of intemperance, medicine and surgery, printing, industrial schools, board of public charities, penitentiaries, congressional districts and schools and text books.

Born in Pennsylvania in 1837. As a boy he attended Airy View Academy in his native State, and to gain his medical education he went to the University of New York. There was a great demand for doctors at the front during the war and Dr. Davis was among those who braved the hardships of army life and worked so valiantly in relieving the sufferings of the wounded. He was acting assistant surgeon of the United States army, and surgeon in chief of the artillery brigade of the second corps, remaining in the service during the entire period of the war. Since then he has practiced medicine actively for twenty years, and now has a drug store at Lewis. For seventeen years he was postmaster at his home and for six years one of the board of medical examiners for the pension department. He has always been a Republican in politics. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity.