BIO: Thomas R. 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 485.
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  THOMAS R. DAVIS, postmaster at Ventland, Pa., where he is also express agent, 
also conducts a small store in the same building, which he owns together with 
five other pieces of property.  For twenty years Mr. Davis has lived at this 
place but he was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., February 29, 1848, and is the 
only survivor of a family of eleven children born to his parents who were David 
and Elizabeth (Reese) Davis, natives of Wales.
  Thomas R. Davis had very little chance in his boyhood to gain an education as 
he was sent to work in the mines when he was eleven years of age and mining was 
his main occupation until 1898 when he was appointed postmaster and later added 
his other responsibilities.  For some time before leaving coal mining, he filled 
the office of check-weighman at the mines.
  Mr. Davis was married May 21, 1870, to Miss Margaret Terrell, a daughter of 
John and Hannah Terrill, the former of whom was born in Ireland and the latter 
in Huntingdon county.  Mr. and Mrs. Davis have had the following children:  
David; Richard, who is deceased; T. H. S.; Jennie, who is deceased; Elizabeth, 
who is deceased, was the wife of J. W. Withrow; and Edward, Matilda, Blaine, 
Alfretta, Edith and Clifton M.  Mr. Davis and family attend the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  In politics he is a Republican and has served as school 
director in both Bigler and Decatur townships.  He is identified with the 
organization known as the Brotherhood of America.  He is a well known and highly 
respected citizen.