. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . territorial extentwas, indeed, a wide one, but sparsely populated,a good part of the county being, doubtless, atthat early day, a wilderness. Although, in thecourse of years, other lawyers came in fromother counties, and others still sprang up indig-enous t the soil, the talents and industry ofMr. Davis speedily gave him a leading positionat the bar, which he never relinquished untilbodily infirmities compelled him to abandon hispractice. As a lawyer he has, during his whole pro-fessional career, been noted for the most ex-haustive p
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . territorial extentwas, indeed, a wide one, but sparsely populated,a good part of the county being, doubtless, atthat early day, a wilderness. Although, in thecourse of years, other lawyers came in fromother counties, and others still sprang up indig-enous t the soil, the talents and industry ofMr. Davis speedily gave him a leading positionat the bar, which he never relinquished untilbodily infirmities compelled him to abandon hispractice. As a lawyer he has, during his whole pro-fessional career, been noted for the most ex-haustive preparation of his cases and the mostunflagging zeal in their presentation to court andjury. No adjudicated case, however remote itsbearing upon the question at bar, escaped him ;there was no legal principle available that hedid not quickly seize upon and turn it to hisadvantage. He always seemed to delight in hisprofessional work for the works sake, and theamount of time and labor expended in a causewas very frequently out of all proportion to the. *&7L& pecuniary importance of the case or the amountof fees accruing from it. The triumph of thelegal principle, the establishment of the factscontended for—these were the prime objects,and to their accomplishment he enthusiasticallydevoted unwearied days and nights of research,and secured the reports of the judicial decisionsof both hemispheres. As a cross-examiner, Mr. Davis was alwaysparticularly strong and searching. It wassometimes almost like putting a witness into achemical retort and resolving him into his con-stituent elements, and woe to the man in whomthe analysis disclosed the slightest falsehood or WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. prevarication ! Witnesses sometimes faintedunder the ordeal. Apropos to this is a story that Mr. Davis hasoften told himself, with much gusto, of a casein which his peculiar talent for cross-examina-tion received due recognition. The case oc-curred in Pike County, where he was a
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