BIO: J. T. DAVIS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 908.
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  J. T. DAVIS,* owner and proprietor of the Grampian Electric Light plant at 
Grampian, Pa., where he is also interested in other business enterprises, was 
born July 12, 1863, in Penn township, Clearfield county, Pa., and is a son of 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Wall) Davis.
  J. T. Davis is a member of one of the old and representative Penn township 
families.  He was educated in this township and at Pennville and the 
Curwensville Normal School, afterward teaching one term in Bloom township and 
one term in Penn township.  His family is largely an agricultural one but his 
talents and inclinations led him in another direction.  He built the first 
planing mill at Grampian, Pa., which he operated for three years and then turned 
his attention more particularly to lumbering and with a portable saw mill, cut 
over a large tract of timber near Curwensville.  He then bought a farm of 140 
acres in Penn township, but disposed of it and returned to Grampian, where he 
erected the first electric light plant and still operates it, supplying Grampian 
with all its electric power.  Mr. Davis also started the first five-cent theater 
in the place and still owns this property.  Mr. Davis is recognized as an 
enterprising and forceful business man.  He takes no very active part in 
politics, casting his vote independent of any party affiliations.
  On December 13, 1888, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Jennie E. Kester, who was 
born in Penn township, September 23, 1871, a daughter of S. Lewis and Alice 
(Wall) Kester.  They have six children, namely:  Alice Elizabeth, who teaches 
music at Verona, Pa.; Joseph L., who is a graduate of the electric department of 
the Scranton Correspondence School; and Beulah Zelma, Dorsey, Harold and 
Wilford.  Mr. Davis and family are members of the Society of Friends.