Harry Eyer Davis and Kate C. Haas

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Husband Harry Eyer Davis ¹

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           Born: 7 Jun 1845 - Selinsgrove, Snyder Co, PA 1
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         Father: James K. Davis (1815-1894) 2
         Mother: Agnes D. Swineford (1821-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 13 Oct 1869 4

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Wife Kate C. Haas ⁴

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         Father: Henry Haas (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 F Annie C. Davis ⁴

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2 F Helen A. Davis ⁴

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3 F Annie Davis ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Harry Eyer Davis

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He was educated in the public schools and in Selins Grove Missionary Institute and at the age of twenty years he began his business career. His first experience was as clerk in a store in his native town, in which position he served one year. Then he removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he obtained a position in a large retail dry-goods store, and remained a year. In 1867 he entered the First National Bank of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, the most extensive institution of its kind in that section. He remained there some years, and mastered every detail of the business. But the arduous nature of the work impaired his health, and he was compelled to relinquish the position and seek employment of a less confining character.
In 1871 he became the representative of Hall Brothers & Co., a Baltimore firm, which was the sole agent for the sale of anthracite coal mined by the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company and the Lykens Valley Coal Company. His district embraced Pennsylvania and the West, and his office was located in Sunbury. He held this important relation to the business interests of his community for ten years. At the expiration of that time he severed his connection with the firm, and went into the business of buying and shipping anthracite coal on his own account. The venture met with success from the outset and some years later he added to his business the industry of mining and shipping bituminous coal from mines which he acquired in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
He was one of the promoters and for a number of years president of the Sunbury and Northumberland Street railway. He was president and general manager of the Bethel Coal Co., of Somerset County, Pennsylvania; was one of the promoters and for a number of years a director in the Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg railroad, and a director in the First National Bank of Sunbury, the institution in which he spent several years of his early life. He was also a director in the First National Bank of Selins Grove, and was one of the foremost promoters and for a number of years president of the Sunbury Electric Light and Power Co.; also one of the promoters and for some years president of the Northumberland Electric Light Co. He was also a trustee of the Mary M. Packer Hospital of Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Davis was an active and earnest Democrat. He was called on by his party to serve on him in the town council, the school board and other honorary capacities. He frequently was a delegate to State and County Conventions. But he never consented to take an office of emolument, and to those who have suggested such compliment his invariable answer has been that he had too much business to attend to to sacrifice his time in the discharge of public duties which there were plenty of competent persons willing to assume. But while he thus abstained from political aspirations on his own account, he was always zealous and active in the advancement of his friends, and thus exercised an important influence in the affairs of the county. Of honorary offices, however, he had a full share, and in 1876 the Democrats of Northumberland County named him State Senator, but he readily yielded the district nomination to his friend, Hon. A. H. Dill. When Mr. Dill resigned to become the Democratic candidate for Governor two years later, the eyes of the party naturally turned to Mr. Davis; but he was among the most earnest advocates of the nomination of Hon. S. P. Wolverton. In 1878 he was a member of the State Committee, and in 1880, during the Hancock campaign for the Presidency, was on the Electoral ticket for the Twenty-seventh Congressional District. In 1886 he was one of the secretaries of the Democratic Convention, and was an earnest advocate of the nomination of Hon. William A. Wallace for Governor. He was always a liberal contributor to the party campaign funds, and was regarded by the Democratic leaders of the state as one of the safest party counselors and most sagacious political advisers. In 1892 Mr. Davis yielded to the wish of his friends and his party, and became the Democratic candidate for State Senator, but was not elected. Commenting on his candidacy the Milton Record in October of that year observed:
No man stands higher in the estimation of the citizens of his adopted town. In the prime of a vigorous manhood, honest, generous and faithful to his friends, it is a pleasure to take the warm and sympathetic grasp of his hand. Possessing every qualification requisite to fill this high position in a manner creditable alike to himself and to the diversified interests of the people of the district, he will make an ideal Senator. Energetic and industrious in the pursuit of life, he will be untiring in the duties assigned him in the Senate of the State if the voters of the district are true to themselves and elect him.
[CBRCP-CCUS, 1042]

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1042.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1040.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1041.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1043.