Obit: Davis, William (1812 - 1918)

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Surnames: Davis

----Source: Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/7/1918

Davis, William (1812 – abt. Nov 1918)

William Davis, believed the oldest man in the northwest, died at Superior at the age of 106. Born in Wales in 1812, he came to the United States while still young. He worked in Pennsylvania coal mines and after service in the Civil War, was a Mississippi River steamboat captain. He came to this county from St. Paul after his wife died there at the age of 80 in 1912.

 

 


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