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Born 1860
From Story of Lee County, Iowa; (1914)
FRANK W. DAVIS.
A modern bank serves the community in which it is located in many ways unknown to the banks of a half century ago. The Keokuk Savings IBank is one of the most progressive institutions of the city and its prosperity is due in part to the efficiency and loyalty of its cashier, Frank W. Davis, the subject of this sketch. He is a native of the city, having been born May 20, 1860, a son of C. F. Davis. The father was one of the founders of the bank of which the son is now cashier and was its first president. He was one of the leading men of Keokuk of his generation and always manifested a lively interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of his town and county.
Frank W. Davis was educated in the public schools of Keokuk, attending until he was eighteen years of age, and then entered the business world as a collector for the Keokuk Savings Bank. He inherits his father's talent for financial matters and his aggressiveness and ability won him promotion to the position of teller, then to that of assistant cashier and finally to that of cashier. He has also served as vice president of the institution. He is a constant student of banking in all its phases and sees to it that the business of the Keokuk Savings Bank is conducted in an efficient and systematic manner. He is largely responsible for the present standing of the bank as one of the reliable and prosperous moneyed institutions of the city.
Mr. Davis is quite prominent in local club circles, belonging to the Elks, being one of the original charter members of the Keokuk lodge. He is also a member of the Keokuk Country Club and an enthusiastic golfer. He realizes, as do so many of our representative business men, that out-of-door recreation is necessary if a man is to do his best work and he finds in golf not only much enjoyment, but the means of increasing his own efficiency. He is a member of the Episcopal church, in whose work he takes a laudable interest.
As printed in Story of Lee County, Iowa; (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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