. The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means . A. H. S E N S E N Y, M. D. WILLIAM V. DAVIS III. WILLIAM 95 The Lancaster Daily Express said: Our communitywas thrown into no ordinary gloom by the announcementthat Mr. William V. Davis had breathed his last. . .The hundreds of boys now grown to manhood in thiscity who sat under his kind, fatherly instruction duringthe long years that he occupied the position of principalof the Male High School, could scarcely realize theannouncement, for all felt toward him as they wouldtoward a faithful parent. As a
. The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means . A. H. S E N S E N Y, M. D. WILLIAM V. DAVIS III. WILLIAM 95 The Lancaster Daily Express said: Our communitywas thrown into no ordinary gloom by the announcementthat Mr. William V. Davis had breathed his last. . .The hundreds of boys now grown to manhood in thiscity who sat under his kind, fatherly instruction duringthe long years that he occupied the position of principalof the Male High School, could scarcely realize theannouncement, for all felt toward him as they wouldtoward a faithful parent. As a teacher it is perhaps notsaying too much to assert that he was without a superiorin the country. Calm, patient, dignified — gentle, yetfirm, he had a most genial and attractive manner, draw-ing all persons to him. A Chambersburg paper said:For many years he taught with great success and bril-liancy, almost every one of the educated men of thisplace having been trained under his care. His systemwas thorough, no scholar being too dull to be brightened,and none too bright to be polished
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