Horatio N. Davis Explained

Horatio N. Davis
Order:13th & 15th
Mayor of Beloit, Wisconsin
Term Start:April 1875
Term End:April 1876
Predecessor:David S. Foster
Successor:Charles F. G. Collins
Term Start1:April 1872
Term End1:April 1874
Predecessor1:David S. Foster
Successor1:David S. Foster
State2:Wisconsin
State Senate2:Wisconsin
District2:17th
Term Start2:January 1873
Term End2:January 1877
Predecessor2:Charles G. Williams
Successor2:Hamilton Richardson
Party:Republican
Birth Date:17 June 1812
Birth Place:Henderson, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Restingplace:Prairie Home Cemetery,
Spouse:Clarissa F. Cushman
Allegiance:United States
Branch:United States Volunteers
Union Army
Serviceyears:1863 - 1866
Battles:American Civil War

Horatio Nelson Davis (June 17, 1812February 15, 1907) was an American banker, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was the 13th and 15th mayor of Beloit, Wisconsin, and represented Rock County in the Wisconsin State Senate for four years. He was the father of Cushman Kellogg Davis, who served as a U.S. senator and Governor of Minnesota.

Biography

Davis was born in Henderson, New York.[1] During the American Civil War, he was commissioned a captain in the Union Army for the commissary and subsistence department. At the end of the war, he received an honorary brevet to major. Afterwards, he became a bank president. His son, Cushman Kellogg Davis, became a member of the United States Senate and Governor of Minnesota.

Political career

Davis represented the 17th District in the Senate during the 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1876 sessions.[2] Other positions he held include Mayor of Beloit, Wisconsin from 1873 to 1877. He was a Republican.

Davis was alive to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary in 1887,[3] and to receive his son on the family farm in 1890.[4] Davis died in Buffalo, New York at the age of 94, having "retained his mental and physical faculties almost to the end".[5] [6]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin. 15th. Madison, Wis.. 1876. 455.
  2. Book: Lawrence S. Barish. 2007. State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007 - 2008. 104.
  3. "Northwestern News", The Eau Claire News (September 3, 1887), p. 2.
  4. "Hon. H. N. Davis", Portage Daily Democrat (June 30, 1890), p. 1.
  5. "Late Horatio Davis", Buffalo Evening News (February 16, 1907), p. 1.
  6. "News Facts in Outline", Portage Daily Democrat (February 16, 1907), p. 1.