The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-07-03
DAVID DAVIS pEsn.

% % Hon. David Davis died at his home II
Bloomington, H., about G o'clock OF
Saturday morning last. The immedi
D ate cause of his death was erysirelas
the outcome of malignant carbuncl,
which first appeared on April 80, bu
that diabetes, which must have been in
sidiously working for two years, was tn,
primary cause, and to it is attributed hi!
rapid decline in flesh.
~ David Davis, the son of David anf
Ann Davis, was born in Cecil county
Maryland, March Q, 1915; graduated Al
Kenyon College in 1882; settled as :
{ lawyer at bloomington, H., in 1885 ,anr
was a Circuit Judge in Illinois from
lSlS to 1882, when he was appointed b,
President lincoln as Associate JusticC,
OF the Supreme Court Of the United
States, which position he resigned in
the spring Of 1877 TO accept that Of
z United States Senator from Illinois. lt
which he had been elected by ccmbin.
alton of Democrats and anti-Ioran Re
, pnblicans just when the probability wa.
being canvassed of his selection as one
= OF the Supreme Court Judges to sit on
the Electoral Commission which decid.
ell that II. B. Hayes had been elected
President of the United States instead
of 5. J. Tilden.
Mr.. Davis was classed in the Senate
asa Democrat, yet he did not hesitate
In OctotAr, 1881, when the Senate was
tie as TO politics, to accept the position
OF President pro tem., aud thus give DO.
litical control to the Republicans (ous =
ing Mr.. Bayard, who had been chosen
for the place by the Democrats). There
were at that time thirty-eight Republi-
cans and thirty-eight Democrats In the
Senate, chasing Mr.. Davis as Demo.
crat, and so The Republicans nominated
and were enabled to choose Davis by a
majority of two. Davis not voting at
all, ,and Bayard, of course. refusing to
vote on a question. affecting himself.
BY the Succession of Vice President
Arthur to the vacancy created bv Presi-
dent Gartield's S death Mr.. Davis became
acting Vice President. ...-.-'-'
n Upon the expiration OF his term in
the Senate Mr.. Davis was not seriously
thought of by his latest party friends for
reelection, and he had since lived i'm
retirement. Apart from taking the pre-
siding officers chair in the manner
stated, Mr.. Davis was chiefly prominent
In the Senate for his persistent but nm
successful efforts to secure the passage
OF Bill organizing Court of Appeals
TO relieve the Supreme Court of the
great accumulation of cases before il.
Mr.. Davis was possessed of unusual
wealth, was popular at his home, was
said TO be fair lawyer and Judge, and
good keeper of secrets, though he was
never able TO conceal his inordinate
ambition to reach the Presidency of the
United States.
Mr.. DAVIS was twice married, the last
time to Miss Adeline Burr (who sur
wives him) at Tokay, near Fayetteville,
N. C., on March II, 1888. when the
lady was 40 and the ex-senator 6S wears
Old. The acquaintance had begun at
the deatl-bed of the eX-Senator's first
wife, few years before. He leaves n
son and a daughter, children by his first
wife. The daughter married a son of
Associate Justice Swayne, of the United
States Supreme Court, and the son is n
farmer Mr.. Davis, in health. usually
weighed about 325 pounds. While his
death Is probably largely due to a nahlr-
al decline, a carbuncle on his shoulder
last spring superinduced the breakdown
which ended in death.