The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-03
Arrangements for the Funeral-The PAIL
Bearers The Remains Lying in
State-Brief Biographical Sketch
of the Deceased.


BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, June 27.-Judge
David Davis, after six weeks illness,
died at few minutes after eight O'Clock
yesterday morning. He had suffered
from diabetes for some time and since
the first of May had also suffered with
erysipelas and carbuncle. II e became
unconscious Friday noon and gradually
sank. At eleven O'Clock Friday night he
aroused somewhat and was given some
milk punch, but he quietly lapsed in
to state of stupor and so remained. At
| five in the morning he rallied little and
talked incoherently. His dea& was pain
less and quiet and he passed away as ifgo-
ing to sleep. Those present at his bed
ydes were his wife, his son, George p.
Davis, and wife; his daughter, Mrs.
Sarah Swayne, and husband, the latter a
son of Justice Swayne; his granddaugh-
ter, Miss Alice Davis; his niece, Mrs.
Pierrepont, of Chicago; his cousin, John
Walker of this city; his friend, Mr.. Frank
d. Orme, of Washington, and DR.. Luce,
the family physician.
As soon as death came the bells in the
city were toled and flags hung at half
mast. All the business houses were
draped in mourning.
The funeral will occur on Tuesday af-
ternoon at three O'Clock, Rev. W. G.
Pierce, of Champaign, ILL.,, a cousin of
his first wife, officiating. The pall-bear-
erS will be eX-PostmaSter-Gener w. @.
Gresham, Governor r. j. Oglesby, Hon.
Robert T. Lincoln, Judge Thos. Drum
mond of the United States Court Chica-
go; Hon. Lawrence Weldon, of the
United States Court of Claims; Judge
John NJ. Scott, of the Illinois
Supreme Bench; Hon. A. f. Ste
phenson, First Assistant Postmaster
General; L. G. Fisher, a Chicago bust
ness man and son of an old friend of the
Judge; Hon. c. II. Moore, of Clinton,
H.; Colonel R. B. Latham, of Lincoln,
H., and Hon. Jesse w. Felt, of Normal,
H., his lifelong friends; ex-senator
Joseph Mcdonald, Of Indiana, and ex-
mayor Funk; Hon. James Ewing and
Human Burr of this city, and Frank D.
Orme, of Washington. Eight will be
acting pall-bearers and the remainder
honorary.
The body will lie in state at his elegant
home on Monday and Tuesday. The
Judge leaves an estate valued at $780,
600, nearly all being in land. kilograms
of coincidence have been received from
prominent men all over the country.
The widow is much worn out by con-
slant and devoted watching, but bears up
bravely.
SonotCr 7 oron hoe hoon oJJod 70 +t,,
list Of those invited as honorary pail
bearers.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
David Davis was born in Cecil County
Maryland March Q, 1915. lie was educatet
ut the academy in Newark, Del, and at Ken,
yon College, Gambler, o., where he gradu
ated on September 4, 1892. Here he formed
, the acquaintance of men who have become
equally famed with himself Edwin NJ Stan
ton, the great War Secretary under Lincoln
was an intimate college friend OF his. At thI
same institution Stanley Matthews, now As
sociate Justice Of the supreme Court OF the
United States, erected the foundation Of hi.
future. EX.President Hayes here, too, was
a student Henry Winter Davis, the "princC
of parliamentary orators" If not an imme
date associate was a student at the same.
Having made n choice of the law as his
profession, he in October, 1872, entered the
law Office Of Judge Henry w. Bishop n
LenOX, Mass. He was in LenoX for two year,
studying, and completed his preparatory
studies with another years attendance OF
the lectures of the Law school in New
Haven, Conn. where he remained until thu
, fall OF 1885 He then came West, settling
first In Pekin, and making a change of bast
to Bloomington year later. Here among
the hardy pioneers Mr.. Davis laiC
fortune. Here he succeeded to the Law
. business of Mr.. Jesse w. Fell. Hj
took possession of Mr. Fel's office, one doc
east of Whites drug store-the buildnl
standing near where John MOOrphOus p'y
shoe store is Mr.. Davis succeeded in law q
! the very outset. He was not great orator
| or even fluent talker but he was Il clear
t minded man and soon took a front rank IL
his chosen profession On the Both OF Octo
Der, 1888 he married Miss Sarah Walker o
, | LenoN, Mass, a daughter OF in ge Walker
He had become acquainted with her whilt
studying law there and married her in hi
| twenty fourth year.
In the year 1910 Mr.. Davis was the candl
: date of the Wings for the office of State Sen
ator against Governor Moore, but was de
feated The Senatorial district then EN-
braced the counties of Moultre, Macon
1 Platt, De Witt, Mclean and Livingston. II
1912 he declined a nomination for the samt
office, but two years afterward the call t,
t party leadership for the third time was s,
| pr, ssingly urged upon him that he could no
resist it. This contest resulted in his election
J as the Wing representative to the State Leg
islature, in which capacity he served, &C
ceptably to his friends and usefully to tn
| public, during the winter of lSi445, but de
/ clined to be a candidate for reelection
' ( During the session he actively Joined in tn
2 furtherance of the Illinois and Michigan
a | canal at that time a most vital scheme o
internal Improvement for Illinois.
In lS47 he was elected a member OF tn,
a constitutional convention, and in lslS wal
chosen by the people, without opposition, {,
be Judge OF the Eighth judicial district, EN-
bracing fourteen counties.