History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . rfor the firm of Brunes & Finkle, and also was agent for the AmericanExpress Company. At that time express matter was carried by a stage linerunning from Breckinridge by way of Moorhead, to Minneapolis, alsofrom Aloorhead to Vt. Gary. Following this employmerit Mr. Davy was forseveral years engaged in the grocery Inisiness. Later he started in the grain,flour, building-material and fuel busines
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . rfor the firm of Brunes & Finkle, and also was agent for the AmericanExpress Company. At that time express matter was carried by a stage linerunning from Breckinridge by way of Moorhead, to Minneapolis, alsofrom Aloorhead to Vt. Gary. Following this employmerit Mr. Davy was forseveral years engaged in the grocery Inisiness. Later he started in the grain,flour, building-material and fuel business, in partnership with I*. Goodsell,under the firm name of W. H. Davy & Company. After about eight ornine years in that business Mr. Davy retired from active management andleft the business in the hands of Mr. Goodsell, his partner. For the past thirty years Mr. Davy has been interested in farming andhas large land investments. He now owns about three sections of land inClay county and carries on farming on an extensive scale. His time forthe past eleven or twelve years has been mostly occupied in superintendinghis farms. In 1914 he had a patch of potatoes within the citv limits, adjoin-. W. H. DAVY. •: NEW YORK A F CLAY AND NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. II3 ing- the Normal Scliool grounds, on which was produced over fifteen thous-and bushels of potatoes. For the last twenty-five years ^Ir. Davy has spent most of his wintersin Florida or California and has thus been able to escape the rigor of Minne-sota winters. He is among the wealthiest farmers in the state, yet he is veryunpretentious and li\es in ]\Ioorhead in a modest way. He is a member ofthe Episcopal church of Moorhead and has served for many years as wardenin that church. He served several years as county commissioner of Claycounty, and was chairman of that board for several years. He served twotenns as mayor of Moorhead. Mr. Daw is one of the living pioneers of Moorhead and is still one ofthe citizens of
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