Thomas Jeffrey DAVIS
1879 - 1962 (82 years)
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Name Thomas Jeffrey DAVIS Born 19 Mar 1879 Ritchie Co, WV 
[1] Gender Male Occupation Ritchie Co prosecuting attorney (3 terms), state legislator [1] Residence Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV [1, 2] Died 29 Jan 1962 Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV [3] Buried IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV [3] Notes - "Thomas Jeffrey Davis gained his early education in the public schools of Harrisville, West Virginia, completing his public school education in Washington, D.C., and was thereafter graduated in Woods Commercial College in that city. He also attended Broaddus College, Clarksburg, West Virginia, and in 1900 he was graduated in the law department of the University of West Virginia. He received at this time the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and later he received the degree of Master of Laws from Columbia University, Washington, D.C. In 1901 he was admitted to the bar, and he has since been successfully engaged in the active practice of profession at Harrisville, save for the interval of his service as private secretary of the president of the Senate of the West Virginia Legislature. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Ritchie County in 1912, and that his administration has been specially efficient is indicated by the fact that in 1920 he was re-elected for a third consecutive term." ["The History of West Virginia, Old and New," published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, p. 282]
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Person ID I43055 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 8 Jan 2023
Father Thomas Engle DAVIS, b. 11 Jul 1846, Ritchie Co, (W)VA , d. 15 Feb 1906, Ritchie Co, WV (Age 59 years) Mother Alethea Anna LEGGETT, b. 26 Apr 1846, d. 7 Jan 1915, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV (Age 68 years) Family ID F12644 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Hermione Pearl GOFF, b. 7 May 1895, Hazelgreen, Ritchie Co, WV , d. 27 Nov 1971 (Age 76 years) Married 27 Jun 1917 Ritchie Co, WV [4] Children 1. Thomas Jeffrey DAVIS, Jr., b. 1 Sep 1918 2. George Lathrop DAVIS, b. 4 May 1921, d. 6 Feb 1943, North Africa (Age 21 years)Family ID F17386 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- "Thomas Jeffrey Davis gained his early education in the public schools of Harrisville, West Virginia, completing his public school education in Washington, D.C., and was thereafter graduated in Woods Commercial College in that city. He also attended Broaddus College, Clarksburg, West Virginia, and in 1900 he was graduated in the law department of the University of West Virginia. He received at this time the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and later he received the degree of Master of Laws from Columbia University, Washington, D.C. In 1901 he was admitted to the bar, and he has since been successfully engaged in the active practice of profession at Harrisville, save for the interval of his service as private secretary of the president of the Senate of the West Virginia Legislature. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Ritchie County in 1912, and that his administration has been specially efficient is indicated by the fact that in 1920 he was re-elected for a third consecutive term." ["The History of West Virginia, Old and New," published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, p. 282]
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