The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-02

Judge Davis physician says the imme
date cause OF his death was ervsipelas, the
outcome Of malignant carbuncle which
first appeared April 80, but that dia.
betes, which must have been in
eidiously working for two years,
was the primary cause and to it is attrib-
uted his rapid decline in flesh. For a week
before the end he had been unconscious
most of the time. His last hours were calm
and peaceful,
Judge David Davis was born in Cecil
County, Maryland, March O. 1916 He re-
I ceived a careful education in the best
American schools of the early part of the
century. He studied law with Judge
Bishop in Lennox, Mass, and afterward in
the law school at New Haven, Conn.,,
graduating as the first of his
class. Judge Davis removed to Bloom
ington, Ill, in 1885, being then
twenty-one years of age. His home was
in that city from that date until his
death. He soon gained prominence as
lawyer and local politician. In 1916 he
was chosen a member of the lower house
of the Illinois Legislatures He was mem
Der of no party, and he soon attracted at
tentlon by his conscientious work and his
freedom of action on all questions. He
was chosen to the constitutional conven-,
ton of 1S47 and the next year elected
judge of the Eighth Judicial circuit of Hi
nolS He was reelected to this office in 1855
and again in 1861. His capacity for work
and his clear-cut decisions soon became
proyerbial all over the State and beyond
It's borders. He and Abraham Lincoln be-.
came warm friends long before the latter
rose to more than local prominence. He
became one of Lincoln's most ardent sup.
porters for the Presidency and took an i'm
portant place in national affairs as adj
wiser of Lincoln after Lincoln's election
to that high office. President Lincoln
appointed Judge Davis Associate Justice
OF the Supreme Court of the United States
December s, 1862. After Lincoln's death
Judge DAVIS became administrator of his
estate. At the national convention of the
o., February u, 1872, Judge DAVIS was
nominated for President of the United
States, the candidate for President
on the same ticket being Joel Parker, of
New Jersey. When the Liberal Republic.
ans nominated Horace Greeley for Presl-
dent at the Cincinnati convention of the
same year Judge. Davis, who had been
candidate before the same convention,
receiving 9217 votes on the first ballot
Withdrew from tho field. Judge Davis re.
manned on the Supreme Court bench until
1877. when he resigned to take his seat in
the United States Senate, he having been
elected to that body by the Independents
and Democrats of the Thirtieth General
Assembly of Illinois. After the death of
President Garfield Judge Davis was
chosen President of the Senate,
in which position he was vir-
tually, Vice-President of the United
States. Soon after retiring from the SEN
ate in 1883, he was married to niece of
I Judge Green, member of Congress from
North Carolina. From that time to his do
mise he resided quietly at his home in
Bloomington. Judge Davis leaves an i'm
mense estate. He is said to be the owner
of some sixty farms III Illinois, He leaves
two children son in Bloomington and a
daughter whose husband resides in To-
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