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... young lawyer of Clarksburg . " " 30 " " 40 66 56 " " 78 66 96 Mrs. John W. Davis , from a photograph taken while living in Washington 66 130 The Davis home in Clarksburg , the main body of which was built in the seventies , during the ...
... young lawyer of Clarksburg . " " 30 " " 40 66 56 " " 78 66 96 Mrs. John W. Davis , from a photograph taken while living in Washington 66 130 The Davis home in Clarksburg , the main body of which was built in the seventies , during the ...
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... young men attain prominence . The latter was born in Clarksburg May 5 , 1835 , and died there in 1916 at the age of eighty- one . Anna Kennedy Davis , the mother of John W. Davis , was born on Camden Street , Baltimore , November 14 ...
... young men attain prominence . The latter was born in Clarksburg May 5 , 1835 , and died there in 1916 at the age of eighty- one . Anna Kennedy Davis , the mother of John W. Davis , was born on Camden Street , Baltimore , November 14 ...
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... young woman of excellent mental equipment , and for those days had received an unusual education . When she met her future husband she had already graduated from the Baltimore College for Women , the second institution in the south to ...
... young woman of excellent mental equipment , and for those days had received an unusual education . When she met her future husband she had already graduated from the Baltimore College for Women , the second institution in the south to ...
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... young son of the household perched himself on the top , and the caravan started for the new home , built in what was then a cow pasture at the edge of town . Here in his boyhood home John W. Davis was wel- comed by neighbors when ...
... young son of the household perched himself on the top , and the caravan started for the new home , built in what was then a cow pasture at the edge of town . Here in his boyhood home John W. Davis was wel- comed by neighbors when ...
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... her home . After that , in the words of her daughters : " Study was her life . " II Back in the ' seventies and early ' eighties young John Davis was regarded in Clarksburg as a normal boy A MOTHER'S MISSION : EDUCATION 27.
... her home . After that , in the words of her daughters : " Study was her life . " II Back in the ' seventies and early ' eighties young John Davis was regarded in Clarksburg as a normal boy A MOTHER'S MISSION : EDUCATION 27.
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