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Death Of Elder Davis

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Day
24
Month
December
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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In the dèath of Lorenzo Davis at tlie county hnufc last Sundsy nftcrnnnn, one of the d1(I pioneer?, and a man who In his (Iny dij a gfeat deal for that society, being for many yearsits secretary, passed awiiy. licin II n fortúnate in a business waj .i'l leiii}r rendered lielplet-s by paralysi?, lie lias been For some ycars all inmute f tlie connty in u-t whei'e lie din). TIn' [ollowlng iketCh of lila üfe is taken frono Uit' Conuty Iflatory, lo trhich lm contributed n ;jreil deal, and to whose cit'oi is lts Muoeu waa largely due : Lorenzo Dnvis was born in Oovinglon, N. Y., April 29, 1819, and Ib a son of Junattiun E, and Hannah (Curtís) Davis, nattves of Masacbusetts. Tnc fornior punaed ffirmlng and teaching un'ii Lorenzo was 10 yoars oll, wlien be cngitgfd la the ltlneracy of a Methodist EplHRopul Mirilst.-r. In is-:s at the death f hls inother, Lorenxo lelt hls pater nal roof and lived wit h Mr. NorrlH, a ini-rohnntof Covlnfíton. Mr. Norrls removed to Yp.'iliintl in 1818, and Mr. Davls accorapanled tiini. Jle retumed to New York 1d 1820 and asaln carne to Michigan In 1831. In 18S4 he ohialned h license to pruach, and was received Into the Ohlo confereDce, which then erubraced the territory oí Michigan. He war pastor at the lollowlug plnces: Plymouih, Mission, FarmliiKton circuit, Bea)i Creek Mlcslon, Coldwater circuit, Uexter circuit. Manchester circuit and Oakvllle, Falllng health tben lnduced hlm to lócate. He came to Ann Arbor In lSiö iinil clerked In a drug store lor lx years. In 1350 he was elected Keuistof of Deedt, whlch office he held for twoyears. He Ihcn publlshed the Ann Arbor Journal lor tlve years, when he sold lt and pnrobMOd 'he Local News, and changed the naiae to that of the Michigan State N'cws. He alKo ran thla paper aboat flve years. sinre that time lie has been engagcd In larmini;. He was raarrled Jutie 11, 1638, to Miss Minerva Derby, a Datlve of Vermom. I'Im'v hml live cliildren. Tlie subject of thls sketch Ie the ekleut of ten brotbers, seven of whimi are living. He has held the ofrloes of Towu Clerk and Superintendent of the Poor. He bas been a member of the Pioneer Society of Washtenaw county ever since lts organlzatlon, iindisitK present íáecretary. He has been connected wlth the Agrlcultural Soolety of Washt.enaw county for 30 years, and was lts Pecretary for 10 years. He took the census ol Ann Arbur towDsblp In 1KS0.

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Ann Arbor Courier