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Born 1843
From The history of Nodaway county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens (1882)
HENRY DAVIS, proprietor of the Maryville Woolen Mills, is a native of Trowbridge, England, and was born in 1843..His father was a woolen manufacturer, and the son early in life commenced the same occupation, in which he became very proficient. In 1863 he immigrated to the United States, and settled in Malvern, Massachusetts, near the manufacturing town of Woonsocket, working in the leading factories of the place. He then spent two and a-half years in the employ of the Clinton Woolen Mills, Michigan, and returned to the East, where he remained two years, and upon coming West he entered the employ of the Hanover Woolen Mills, in Illinois; and it is owing to his experience and skill that this manufactory was raised from a non-paying to a profitable investment, and the product the best reputation in the West. After spending four years in Hanover, he came to Maryville and became proprietor of the above named mills, and in which he is fast building up a reputation for the quality of his work that will give him a prominent place among the enterprising business men of the town. Mr. Davis was married in 1874, to Miss Mary A. Rhodes, daughter of Samuel Rhodes, of Yorkshire, England. They have four children: Edwin F., Florence E., Jesse and Alfred T.
As printed in The history of Nodaway county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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