Biography of Howard W. Davis
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Davis, Howard W., was born in Bolton, on Lake George, September 23, 1841. He has been engaged in farming and
the lumber and timber business for many years, and in the latter nearly all his life. He has dealt quite largely
in timber and lumber from Vermont and all the northern country. He married Harriet Norton, adopted daughter of
Dr. Reynolds, and they have three children, Addie, Mary and William. His parents, John and Jane (Waters) Davis,
are both living at the ages of eighty.six and seventy-nine respectively. H is grandparents, Ichabod and Lydia Davis,
were early settlers and encountered all the difficulties and - experiences of life in a new country. John Davis
was once a large boat owner on Lake George. A curious item in the history of this family is that Mr. Davis, his
father, mother, grandmother and himself were all born in the month of September.
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