. The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means . tages than his fathersbefore him. His best teacher, and the one who madehim a remarkably fine teacher himself, was the Wylie Crawford, a minister of the ReformedPresbyterian Church, who was at that time principal ofthe Chambersburg Academy, and afterwards a morewidely known and eminent teacher in pursued his college course at Washington College,Washington, Pa. On September 9, 1834, he marriedCatherine Wilson Acheson, of a distinguished Wash-ington family. Although he stu
. The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means . tages than his fathersbefore him. His best teacher, and the one who madehim a remarkably fine teacher himself, was the Wylie Crawford, a minister of the ReformedPresbyterian Church, who was at that time principal ofthe Chambersburg Academy, and afterwards a morewidely known and eminent teacher in pursued his college course at Washington College,Washington, Pa. On September 9, 1834, he marriedCatherine Wilson Acheson, of a distinguished Wash-ington family. Although he studied law under JudgeAlexander Thomson, of Chambersburg, with such fellow-students as Vice-President Hendricks, and United StatesSenator John Scott, and had talent enough to havesucceeded well in the profession he never practised law,but remained a teacher all his life, first as principal of theChambersburg Academy, and afterward as principal ofthe Male High School, in Lancaster, Pa. Here he diedFebruary 1, 1874, in the sixty-first year of his age, andwas buried in the Lancaster MRS. A, H. S E N S E N Y WILLIAM STEWART DAVIS
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