. Compendium of history and biography of Linn County, Missouri. ounders of the Brookfield Paving BrickCompany, and was a stockholder and one of the directors of the LinnCounty Bank, a financial institution of acknowledged strength. Inpolitics he was a pronounced Republican, and while living in NewYork was very active in the service of his party. Mr. Davis was married three times. His first wife, whom he mar-ried in 1867, died in 1871. In 1873 he was united with Miss Helen , a daughter of A. 0. and Fannie (Holloway) Clarke. Thisunion resulted in the birth of two children, both of whom a
. Compendium of history and biography of Linn County, Missouri. ounders of the Brookfield Paving BrickCompany, and was a stockholder and one of the directors of the LinnCounty Bank, a financial institution of acknowledged strength. Inpolitics he was a pronounced Republican, and while living in NewYork was very active in the service of his party. Mr. Davis was married three times. His first wife, whom he mar-ried in 1867, died in 1871. In 1873 he was united with Miss Helen , a daughter of A. 0. and Fannie (Holloway) Clarke. Thisunion resulted in the birth of two children, both of whom are are: Mabel F., the wife of Leon R. Lane, of Topeka, Kansas,and Albert C, a resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their mother diedin 1891, and in 1894 the father married his last wife, whose maidenname was Katharine Roberts. They had five children: Robert V.,Helen, Louise, Frances and Theodore, all of whom are living at homewith their mother, and adding life, light and warmth to the familycircle. The father was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. C?Ot^ HISTOEY OF LINN COUNTY 363 and commander of the post at the time of his death. His last servicewas the day before his death, when he was in command of the post onMemorial Day at Brookfield and marched with his old comrades forthe last time. He was an enthusiastic Freemason of the Knights Tem-plar degree. Although not to the manner of Missourians born, hereadily adapted himself to his surroundings and the ways and aspira-tions of the people, and became as one of them. He had shown an intel-ligent and helpful interest in their welfare and done what he could topromote it, and had won their full confidence and esteem by his highcharacter, sterling manhood and wide-awake and serviceable citizen-ship. Missouri was to him all that New York ever was, and he was toMissouri all he ever was or could have been to New York in the valueof his devotion to the common weal of the state and his contributionsto its advancement. ZACHAR
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