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Early life and education. David Davis was born to a wealthy family in Cecil County, Maryland, where he attended public school. After graduating from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1832, he went on to study law in Massachusetts [1] and at Yale University.
One of the most popular features of the Davis Papers website, these charts carry the extended family two generations beyond that of the Confederate president, and the direct line three generations past Davis.
U.S. lawyer and politician David Davis was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1862 to 1877. He served during the American Civil War and postwar eras and was a close associate of Abraham Lincoln. Davis was born on March 9, 1815, in Cecil county, Md.
May 21, 2018 · Davis was born in Sassafras Neck, Maryland, on March 9, 1815. He attended Kenyon College at the age of thirteen. Following graduation he read the law in a Massachusetts law firm, before attending New Haven Law School for less than a year.
Born in Maryland and trained as a lawyer, David Davis (1815–1886) arrived in Illinois in 1836. His law practice in Bloomington grew quickly and Davis was soon deeply embroiled in various political campaigns. By 1848 he was a Circuit Court judge and had become a close friend of another aspiring politician, Abraham Lincoln.
Davis, the youngest of ten children, was born in Fairview, Kentucky, but spent most of his childhood in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. His eldest brother Joseph Emory Davis secured the younger Davis's appointment to the United States Military Academy .
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Background. Mr. Davis was born on March 9, 1815, in Cecil County, Maryland, United States, to Ann Mercer Davis. Davis’s father died eight months before his birth.
