Amelia H. Davis
Amelia H. Davis (b. Hurd) (1844-1913) was born in New York and died in
Lansing, Michigan. She married Charles J. Davis. He started out in the lumber camps of
Chippewa and Saginaw, then worked on the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, and
then became cashier of the land department. He amassed a fortune in the gravel and
timber business before serving as Mayor of Lansing from 1897 to 1899. He was renowned
for having a taxidermied menagerie which included deer, otter, beaver, and rare albino
raccoons. Davis wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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Amelia H. Davis
Amelia H. Davis (b. Hurd) (1844-1913) was born in New York and died in
Lansing, Michigan. She married Charles J. Davis. He started out in the lumber camps of
Chippewa and Saginaw, then worked on the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, and
then became cashier of the land department. He amassed a fortune in the gravel and
timber business before serving as Mayor of Lansing from 1897 to 1899. He was renowned
for having a taxidermied menagerie which included deer, otter, beaver, and rare albino
raccoons. Davis wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886 to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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