The history of Warner, New Hampshire, for one hundred and forty-four years, from 1735 to 1879 . early as 1859. He has notgiven his whole attention to the law, but has connect-ed farming and the care of schools with it. In thewar of the Rebellion he was major of the IGth N. Since the war he has served in varioustown offices, and two years in the legislature of thestate. Albert P. Davis was born at Warner, Mav 2, is descended from an ancient family. Willi Davis,a native of Wales, came to New England in took the freemans oath at Amesbury in 1645. Onthe 2d day of Decemb
The history of Warner, New Hampshire, for one hundred and forty-four years, from 1735 to 1879 . early as 1859. He has notgiven his whole attention to the law, but has connect-ed farming and the care of schools with it. In thewar of the Rebellion he was major of the IGth N. Since the war he has served in varioustown offices, and two years in the legislature of thestate. Albert P. Davis was born at Warner, Mav 2, is descended from an ancient family. Willi Davis,a native of Wales, came to New England in took the freemans oath at Amesbury in 1645. Onthe 2d day of December, 1677, his sons, Francis andSamuel, together with a large number of the sons ofthe first settlers, took the same oath. This Willi (orWilliam) and this Francis were the ancestors of and his brother Gideon, the great-grandfatherof the subject of this sketch. Gideon settled on theMoses E. Davis farm in 1782, and the farm has re-mained in the hands of the family to the present day. The sons of Gideon and Mary (Cheney) Davis w^ereJohn, Robert, Gideon, Moses, and Oliver j and the. zjr^- jOch^<^-^ ALBERT P. DAVIS. 453 daughters were Molly, Ruth, and Anna. The childrenof the above-named John and Mary (Pervere) Daviswere John, Sally, Rachel, Lois, Zaccheus, and married Lucinda Pervere of Sandown, andto this couple were born Albert P., Mary, Charles S.,and Zaccheus. Albert P. married Lavonia W., daugh-ter of Abner Harvej^, Jr. They have two children,Ida M. and Woodbury E. Albert P. Davis received a good academic educa-tion, and for some fifteen years was a well known andpopular school-teacher. He served as deputy sheriflfrom 1868 to 1876, and while in the discharge of theduties of this office he devoted his leisure hours tothe study of the law. Being admitted to the bar in1876, after a rigid examination, he went immediatelyinto practice as a lawyer in his native town, wherehis success has been equal to his highest expectation. As a newspaper correspond
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