Dr. Francis F. Davis and Sarah B. Reid

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Husband Dr. Francis F. Davis ^{1 2}

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           Born: 2 Jun 1838 - near Independence, Hopewell Twp, Beaver Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1902
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: John Davis (      -1884) 1 3
         Mother: Margaret Flannegan (      -Aft 1888) 4

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Wife Sarah B. Reid ²

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           Born: 1841
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           Died: 1922
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Capt. Thomas Reid (1821-1891) 2
         Mother: Frances Irwin (1820-1896) 5

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Children

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1 F Fannie Davis ⁶

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2 M John F. Davis ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Francis F. Davis

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He was educated in the common schools and Beaver Academy. He read medicine in the office of Doctor J. S. Elliott, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and entered the medical department of the University of Michigan in the fall of 1861, graduating from that institution in 1867. He entered the army as assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, October 24, 1862, and was mustered out with the regiment on the expiration of the term of service, July 25, 1863; he was mustered into the service of the state of Pennsylvania as a medical officer, August 1, 1863, and was mustered out on or about August 27, 1863, to be mustered into the One Hundred and Twenty-First Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which regiment he served to the close of hostilities, being discharged from the service June 2, 1865. At the close of the war he located in Oil City, where he then practiced medicine and surgery. During the period from December, 1867, to November, 1871 or ’72, he edited the Venango Republican, the only newspaper published in Oil City during that time. He was a member of the Oil City Medical Club, the Venango County Medical Society, the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, and the American Medical Association. He was also a member of and examining surgeon for Lodge No. 14, A. O. U. W., and Evans Post, G. A. R. He was appointed surgeon for the Allegheny Valley railroad in 1871; he also served in a similar capacity for a number of years for the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad, and for the Oil City and Ridgway road. He was appointed United States examining surgeon December 13, 1873, and filled that position from that time till the organization of the Oil City pension board, which took place about June 26, 1884; of this board he was made president and served as such until removed by the Cleveland administration, December 8, 1885. He was reappointed examining surgeon for pensions, June 1, 1889, made a member of the Oil City pension board October 15, 1889, and was secretary of the same. He also served many years as school director. [HVC 1890, 864]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 864.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 826.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 405.

4 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 841.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1383.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 865.