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WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS

 

     DAVIS, WILLIAM HENRY, General Counsel the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1868, the son of Edwin A. Davis and Imogene (Waggoner) Davis.  One of his ancestors was Gen. Herkimer, a Revolutionary hero, who was killed in the battle of Oriskany, and for whom the town of Herkimer, N. Y., is named.  Mr. Davis was married at Los Angeles, March 19, 1896, to Bertha Samme. 

     His family locating in Marysville, Cal., Mr. Davis was reared and educated there.  He entered school at fourteen, following with attendance at Berkeley Gymnasium, a preparatory school, from which he was graduated in 1886.  In the fall of the same year he entered the University of California and was graduated in 1890 with the degree B. L.  Mr. Davis took up the study of law under his father, for years on the bench in Yuba and Sutter Counties, California, and at the end of two years was admitted to practice.

     He removed to Los Angeles and practiced until 1899, when he accepted appointment as Secretary to Governor Henry T. Gage of California, for his term of four years.  Upon its expiration Mr. Davis resumed his law practice in San Francisco, Cal., and there became an active factor in politics.  He has always been a staunch supporter of the Republican Party and in 1905-06 served as Chairman of the Republican Central Committee for the City and County of San Francisco.  In 1908 he served as Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee.  In 1909 Mr. Davis retired from politics and accepted his present office.

     Mr. Davis is a prominent member of the Bar Association, the California, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country clubs; Bohemian Club of San Francisco, and Sutter Club of Sacramento.

 

 

Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 809, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Bill Simpkins.

 

 

 

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