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Born 1844
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
REESE DAVIS (1871). One of the oldest settlers of Lyon county now residing in the county and a highly respected citizen of Marshall is Reese Davis. For more than forty-one years he has had a continuous residence in the county and he has seen it develop from a sparsely settled, treeless expanse of prairie to the populous and prosperous conditions of today. Only a few men have had more opportunity than he to participate in the history making of Lyon county.
In South Wales, on April 15, 1844, Reese Davis was born. At the age of three years he accompanied his parents to the New World and grew to young manhood in Jackson county, Ohio. When a little past seventeen years of age, on October 15, 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army and fought for the preservation of his adopted country- He served four years and seven months as a member of Company C, Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, having been discharged in May, 1866.
Among the battles in which Mr. Davis residents of Marshall and Pioneers of Lyon County.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Reese Davis: Thomas E. Davis (b. 1877) D. L. Kennedy
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