Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Davis, Dr. John January 19, 1833 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  DR. JOHN DAVIS, for more than forty years a practicing 
physician at Pottstown, is one of the prominent citizens of 
that place. He is a native of an old Chester county family 
of Welsh descent and was born near Marshallton, January 19, 
1833. He is the son of Aaron and Hannah (Woodward) Davis, 
who were both natives and almost lifelong residents of 
Chester county. They had five children, three of whom are 
now living, as follows: Dr. John Davis and Mary Elizabeth, 
wife of George Shenk, of Pottstown; and George W. Davis, of 
Philadelphia.

  Aaron Davis (father) was a farmer by occupation. He lived 
three years in Montgomery county near the close of his life 
and died there in 1883, aged sixty-three years. His widow 
survived until June 1902, and was ninety-four years of age 
at the time of her death. They inclined toward the faith of 
the Society of Friends.

  John Davis (grandfather) was born in Chester county, and 
was a farmer. His wife was Marjorie Hall, and they had five 
children. He lived to the age of eighty years.

  Jacob Woodward (maternal grandfather) was a well-known 
resident of Chester county of English decent. He was a 
wheelwright. His wife was Lydia (Woodward) Woodward. He died 
at the age of seventy years. The couple had six children.

  Dr. John Davis was reared on the farm in Chester county, 
attending the district schools of the neighborhood. He 
engaged in teaching school for seven years and in the 
merchandising in Marshallton for several more years. In 1850 
he began studying medicine and in 1812 graduated from the 
Ecletic Medical College in Philadelphia, beginning the 
practice of medicine that year in Pottstown, where he has 
followed it continuously and very successfully since.

  On August 26, 1858, he married Sarah A. Hoopes, daughter 
of Enos and Ruth Ann Hoopes, of Chester county. They had 
three children, but one is now living Helena, wife of Dr. 
Alfred Mullhaupt, of St. Marys, Elk County, Pennsylvania, 
where she, as well as her husband, is a practicing 
physician. They have two sons, Alfred and John.

  Mrs. Sarah A. Davis died in September 1865, aged 
thirty-five years. She was a Methodist in religious faith.

  March 5, 1867, Dr. Davis married second wife Elizabeth 
Missimer, daughter of James and Matilda (Reifsnyder) 
Missimer. They have had five children, of whom one is now 
living, Dr. William J. Davis, of Pottstown, who married 
Clara Linderman, they having three children, Florence, 
Helena and John. He graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1889.

  Dr. John Davis and wife are members of the Methodist 
church. He is a steward in the church. Politically Dr. 
Davis, is a Prohibitionist, being entirely opposed to the 
manufacture, sale and use of intoxicants

  He is one of the directors of the Ellis Keystone 
Agricultural Works, a director in the Pottstown Power, Heat 
& Light Company, a director in the Pottstown Security 
Company, and in the Guardian Building & Loan Association. He 
is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society. Dr. 
John Davis stands high in the medical profession, his 
practice extending over a large section of Montgomery, and 
Chester counties, adjacent to Pottstown. He is earnest, 
progressive and highly esteemed by all who know him.

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