 1823 - 1916 (92 years)
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| Name |
Henry Gassaway Davis |
| Title |
Sen. |
| Born |
16 Nov 1823 |
Woodstock, Howard, Maryland, USA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1880 |
Piedmont, Mineral, West Virginia, USA |
| Residence |
1900 |
Leadsville, Randolph, West Virginia, USA |
| Burial |
1916 |
Maplewood Cem, Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, USA [2] |
| Buried |
1916 |
Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, USA [2] |
| Died |
11 Mar 1916 |
Washington, District of Columbia, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I13268 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Father |
Caleb Dorsey Davis, b. 7 Mar 1792, Woodstock, Baltimore, Maryland, USA , d. 4 Sep 1850, Howard, Maryland, USA (Age 58 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Louisa Warfield Brown, b. 10 Mar 1799, Maryland, USA , d. 23 Jul 1868 (Age 69 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Married |
9 Mar 1819 [3] |
| Family ID |
F4933 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Catherine Ann Sowers Bantz, b. 22 Dec 1827, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA , d. 6 Dec 1902, West Virginia, USA (Age 74 years) |
| Married |
22 Feb 1853 |
Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA [2] |
| Children |
| + | 1. John Thomas Davis, b. 31 Mar 1874, Piedmont, Mineral, West Virginia, USA , d. 27 Jun 1935, Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, USA (Age 61 years) [natural] |
| + | 2. Louise Hallie Davis, b. 19 Dec 1853, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA , d. 1 Mar 1933, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Age 79 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Henry Gassaway Davis, Jr., b. 10 May 1871, West Virginia, USA , d. 24 Apr 1896 (Age 24 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Grace Thomas Davis, b. 19 Oct 1869, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA , d. 1931, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA (Age 61 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Katherine Bantz Davis, b. 1 Dec 1856, d. 21 Jan 1903, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Age 46 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Anderson C. Davis, b. 1859, Piedmont, Mineral, West Virginia, USA , d. Dec 1862 (Age 3 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jul 2022 |
| Family ID |
F4954 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Born - 16 Nov 1823 - Woodstock, Howard, Maryland, USA |
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 | Married - 22 Feb 1853 - Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA |
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 | Residence - 1880 - Piedmont, Mineral, West Virginia, USA |
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 | Residence - 1900 - Leadsville, Randolph, West Virginia, USA |
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 | Burial - 1916 - Maplewood Cem, Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, USA |
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 | Buried - 1916 - Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, USA |
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 | Died - 11 Mar 1916 - Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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| Notes |
- In 1865 Davis was elected a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. The following year, he founded the Potomac and Piedmont Coal and Railway Company with the intent of furnishing transportation to his coal mining and timbering interests. The company was given the right to construct railroads grades in Mineral, Grant, Tucker and Randolph Counties. He became a state senator in 1869. In 1871, he was elected to the United States Senate, serving two terms, with his service ending in 1883.
Following his service in the Senate, Davis retired to Elkins, West Virginia, where he resumed banking and coal mining. Daviss company now controlled 135,000 acres, employed 1,600 men of sixteen nationalities, operated two power plants, and worked over 1,000 coke ovens and 9 mines within one mile of the central office at Coketon in Tucker Co.. By 1892, the Davis Coal and Coke Company, a partnership between Davis and Senator Stephen Benton Elkins, was among the largest coal companies in the world.
Davis represented the U.S. at the Pan-American Conferences of 1889 and 1901.
In 1904, Davis became the Democratic nominee for Vice President on a ticket with Alton B. Parker. Parker and Davis lost to the Republican ticket of Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Fairbanks. At age 80, Davis was (and is) the oldest person to be nominated for President or Vice President on a major party ticket.
In 1909, the wife of his son John T. Davis was aboard the White Star liner RMS Republic, when it collided with another ship and sank off Nantucket. Her children Hallie Elkins Davis and Henry Gassaway Davis II were with her. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_G._Davis)
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