HENRY H. DAVIS

 

 

HENRY H. DAVIS, attorney and counselor at law, was born in Exin, Germany, in the latter half of the fifties, and comes of that stalwart stock which has given force and direction to the civilization of these later centuries.  Arriving in New York while the subject of this sketch was yet a child, after a brief stay his father pushed on to California, leaving his family to follow him in due time if he found matters to his liking in that far-off State.

 

Evidently they were so, for after a year's residents here he concluded it was a good enough place to stay, and he proceeded to make a home, to which they came in 1868.  Henry was immediately sent to the public school, and by dint of diligent application, passed with distinction through all the various classes of the primary and grammar grades.  Having prepared for a collegiate course of study he was sent to the State University, took the classical course in that institution and graduated with honors in 1876.

 

Although scarcely out of his teens, by unremitting study and tireless industry he had possessed himself of a liberal education.  He improved a year of relaxation by a trip to Europe, visiting his native Germany, Russia, England and various countries and places of note in the Old World.  Returning to California and enriched by observation and the experiences of extensive travel, he entered on a course of law study at the Hastings College of Law of the State University.  As his natural inclination lay in the direction of his studies, his progress was both rapid and thorough, so that on graduating in 1882 he was immediately admitted to practice.  Without wealth or family or political influence, he had to rely on his unaided individual exertions to obtain success and standing in his profession.  Nonetheless, the energy and native capacity which has carried him through successfully thus far, still stood him in good stead, and he had gradually worked up to a lucrative and enviable practice, his operations being mostly in the Superior and Supreme Courts, and his clients of the solid and respectable character which insures safe and substantial remuneration.  He occupies several offices in the building No. 420 California street, San Francisco, and has one of the largest law libraries in the State; owns an attractive and elegant residence on California street, besides a lot of other valuable real estate in different parts of the city, -- all the result of his own efforts.

 

Mr. Davis is an active member of numerous fraternal and benevolent associations, and as he unites to great natural intelligence, genial manners and great affability, his counsel and assistance are in great request in these organizations.  He is a member of King Solomon's Lodge, No. 260, F.  & A. M., Chancellor Commander of Laurel Lodge, No. 4, K. O. P., has been three times elected Exalted Ruler of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 6, of the B. and P. Order of Elks, Past Chief Ranger of Court Robin Hood, No. 3951, A. O. F. of A. M., member of Cremieux Lodge, No. 325, I. O. B. B., member of Division No. 2, Uniform Rank K. of P., member of the Independent Order of Old Friends, etc. Of political organizations he is a member of the famous Bear Club, and though always a warm partisan and staunch supporter of his party and its principles, never, in the sense of being an office-seeker -- a politician.  Mr. Davis has many warm friends who rejoice in his success, and who wish him abundant prosperity and happiness in the future.