Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-02-20
NJ. ID. DAVE,
Master Of the State Grange OF Ken
tucky.
- Brief Sketch Of His Life.

Col. NJ. ID. Davie, the present Master
of the State Grange of Kentucky, was
born In Christian county, ten miles
south of Hopkinsville, in the year
1927. His father, the late Major Am-
brose- Davie, emigrated to Kentucky
about the year 1920 from Person
county, North Carolina HIS mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Davie (nee Wood
SON. was a native of Buckingham
county, Virginia.
During his early childhood M. d.
Davie lived on the farm and attended
the country schools in his native
county until his seventeenth year,
when he was sent to college at New
Haven, where he entered the class at
Yale which graduated in 1913 At the
end of the first session, however, he,
in company with some others Of his
associates left Yale and entered the
Freshman class at Princeton, New
Jersey. He continued at this venera-
bic Institution until he graduted in the
summer of 1913. He then returned to
his home in Kentucky, where he re-
manned few months, when he remov-
ed to Montgomery county, Tenn, and
engaged actively in farming and mill
ing, which pursuits he followed for
several years, until he sold his mill
property, and theneeforward became
entirely employed in agricultural and
financial business.
In 1850 he married Cornelia, the
daughter Of the late Lewis Leavell, of
Trenton, Ky.
During 1867, Col. Davie represent
ed Montgomery county in the Tennes-
see Legislature, and became quite
prominent among her politicians.
While a member of the Legislature he
took very active part in all questions
affecting the policy and success of the
State, and was placed prominently
among the leading men in Tennessee.
He was repeatedly spoken of as a can
didate for Governor, and also for Con-
gress, when the outbreak of the civil
war changed the face ofaffairs through
out the South
Colonel d. was the owner of valu-
able estate, including large number
of negroes, located on farms In Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. These
interests required his strictest atten-
ton, and withdrew him for some years
from the political field.
During the war he was not ac-
lively engaged on either side,
though his sympathies were, of
course with his own people and
his own interests. The result of
the war destroyed his estates, and left
L., e. Ho1,,, al n r-o-i1 onox., - g..
pecuniary affairs were concerned, with
large and growing family on his hands,
and nothing but his own exertions to
depend on for their education and sup
port.
When the Grange movement started
in Kentucky, Col. Davie was one Of
the first to embrace it as the compass
which. was to direct the oppressed and
detected farmers from their almost
hopeless condition into the paths of
peace and plenty, and at the first State
convocation of the order at Frankfort,
Kentucky, in 1873, he was chosen to
preside as State Master CT Kentucky.
How Col. Davie has filed the re-
sponsible position is known to all the
craftsmen of the land. The brother
hood has grown under his mastership
from about 60 to over 1000 oranges,
all in most prosperous and thriving
condition.
As a presiding officer he is quick
and prompt, thoroughly understanding
parliamentary ussges, and fearless In
the discharge of all duties while in the
chair. Probably there is no better
parliamentarian than Col. Davie in the
State.
With the executive committee, and
as general head and Master Of the or
der, he upholds on all proper occas-
ions the dignity of the brotherhood,
and promotes the interest and growth
of its institutions
In the National Grange he deserved
" stands in the front rank, being con-
sidered one of its best speakers and
most logical writer's, and one of the
best and most thorough committee
workers in the order.
His address to the Kentucky State
Grange is one of the best Grange pa
pers which has yet appeared, aud has
Justly received the eneomiums Of the
entire press Of the land.
Col. Davie has been given the honor
by the National Grange of represent
ing the order at the Centennial Expo
sition in 1876, at Philadelphia, the du-
ties of which he will perform no doubt
with honor to himself and his State.
He is now attending the session Of the
National Grange at Charleston, where,
through his influence, Kentucky will
rank among the foremost in the sister
hood of States Courier Journal.