BIO: J. C. Davis, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

551  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  J. C. DAVIS, M.D., Mount Holly Springs, was born in Cumberland 
County, Penn., April 16, 1848, son of John P. and Catharine (Shipp) 
Davis, also natives of this county.  John P. Davis, a farmer by 
occupation, at present resides in Penn Township, this county; his 
family consists of four children.  J. C., the eldest, was reared on the 
farm and attended common school in his native county and Pennsylvania 
College at Gettysburg, Penn., and after graduating taught school three 
sessions.  He commenced the study of medicine in 1873, afterward 
attended the Jefferson Medical College, and graduated thence in 1875.  
Since completing his medical course the Doctor has built up a large and 
extensive practice.  He was united in marriage, in January, 1879, with 
Ella C., daughter of Benjamin K. Peffer, and of German origin.  To this 
union have been born two children:  Anna Zoe and John Keller.  Dr. 
Davis and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.  The Doctor, who is 
a Republican in politics, has served eight years as school director in 
Mount Holly Springs, and while a member of that body was instrumental 
in getting free text-books introduced into the public schools at Mount 
Holly.  December 2, 1885, the Doctor was called before the Teachers' 
Institute of Cumberland County, Penn., and delivered an address in 
favor of introducing free text-books in all the public schools in the 
county.  He is a member of the K. of P.