"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP

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JOHN M. DAVIS is a native of Henry County, Ind., and the fourth son of John
and Lydia (Davis) Davis, natives respectively of North Carolina and
Virginia, and both of Scotch extraction.  Our subject first saw the light
April 4, 1836;  spent the first twelve years of his life in Henry County, at
which period his parents moved to Wabash County, where he lived until he was
thirty years of age, when his mother died, and where his father yet lives,
aged ninety-four years.  September 16, 1857, our subject married Eliza J.,
daughter of Abraham Nordyke, and with an issue of eight children--Alice,
Sabinus A., Marietta, Evington E., Albert L., Leoto, Ulyssus and Elmer
(deceased).  In 1865, Mr. Davis moved to Hendricks County, was engaged in
mercantile business at Plainfield, and in 1870 he came Monrovia, where he
has been engaged in manufacturing drain tile.  Mr. Davis has acquired his
property and business position by his unaided industry and energy.  He is a
much respected citizen, and he and wife and children belong to the Society
of Friends.

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