James Topham Davis (1867 - 1927)

Born 25 Feb 1867 in Bloomington, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States

Ancestors

Died 4 Jun 1927 at age 60 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States

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Biography

James was born in 1867. He was the son of James Davis and Margaret Temple. He passed away in 1927.

Sources

• Obituary of James Temple Davis, 9 Sept 1905 page 20 in the Minneapolis Journal

James Topham Davis... is survived by three sons, William T. Davis of Bloomington, and Richard H. Davis and James T. Davis of Minneapolis; also three daughters, Mrs. William A. Harrison and Mrs. Warner A Layman of Bloomington and Miss. Frances M. Davis of Minneapolis.

From family notes: Visited Ireland on his wedding trip with his wife Elizabeth Dick. His letters are the main source for much of what we know so far. Lived in upper half of 3300 Clinton Ave S in 1906. He owned land in Bloomington that Josephine Elizabeth Layman and Blaine Ross McCutchan tried to farm for a few years in the early 1920's.

€ Josephine McCutchan interview, 1979: Thought of him as a "stuffed shirt". Lived on farm with the woods called Mounds View with Indian mounds on it about the creek in Bloomington with the spring and the ram, east of Portland at about Chicago & Old Shakopee Rd. I was also told it was closer to Cedar Avenue off Orchard Springs Road. Was the first principal at Lincoln School in St. Louis Park

Daughter said he died of rheumatic fever from childhood