A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa . WILLIAM T. DAVIS. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 375 family. Harrison Davis spent the days ofhis hoyhoocl and youth in llie state <if hisnativity, and after arrivini;- at years of ma-turity he wedded Lovina Dawson, who Ije-longed to a good family of that westward, they tcjok u^) theirabode in Atchison county, Missouri, on tliestate hue separating Fremont county fromMissouri. In that locahty the father passedaway. The mother, who was a member otthe Methodist Episcopal church, has alsopassed away. At the death of her hrst
A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa . WILLIAM T. DAVIS. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 375 family. Harrison Davis spent the days ofhis hoyhoocl and youth in llie state <if hisnativity, and after arrivini;- at years of ma-turity he wedded Lovina Dawson, who Ije-longed to a good family of that westward, they tcjok u^) theirabode in Atchison county, Missouri, on tliestate hue separating Fremont county fromMissouri. In that locahty the father passedaway. The mother, who was a member otthe Methodist Episcopal church, has alsopassed away. At the death of her hrst hus-band she was left with the care of six chil-dren, in i860 she again married and re-moved to Saunders county, Nebraska, whereshe died in 1863. William T. Davis was a lad of onlytwelve summers when thus left an or[)han,without means of support. He immediatelybegan to earn his own living by herdingcattle on the prairies and driving teamsacross the plains. His youth was a periodof hardships and trials, but it developed theelemental strength of his character; and theself-rel
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