William M. Davis | |
State: | Pennsylvania |
District: | 5th |
Term Start: | March 4, 1861 |
Term End: | March 3, 1863 |
Preceded: | John Wood |
Succeeded: | Martin Russell Thayer |
Birth Date: | 16 August 1815 |
Birth Place: | Keene, New York |
Death Place: | Keene, New York |
Party: | Republican |
William Morris Davis (August 16, 1815August 5, 1891), was an abolitionist, author and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Among his friends were the New York sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, and the lock inventor Linus Yale.[1]
William Morris Davis was born in Keene, New York. He moved to Pennsylvania and became a sugar refiner in Philadelphia. Davis was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1883.[2]
He died in Keene Valley in 1891. Interment in Friends Fair Hill Burial Ground in Germantown, Philadelphia.