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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

George W. DAVIS, farmer; P. O. Aurora. The subject of this sketch was born in Rutland Co., 
Vt., and is the son of Jonathan and Jerusha (LOCHLIN) DAVIS, who, in 1842, emigrated West 
and settled in Wheatland Twp., Will Co., IL; here they lived until their death. Jonathan 
DAVIS was a soldier in the war of 1812, died Jan. 10, 1850, aged 64 years and 6 months; 
Jerusha DAVIS died Feb. 9, 1850, aged 61 years; they came to this country very poor; they 
first settled near what is now known as the Vermont School-house, which was erected by 
the settlers from Vermont, in about 1847. Mr. DAVIS is the only male that is left in the 
neighborhood out of a large settlement that settled in here from Vermont; he has been 
engaged in farming and at his trade, wagon-making, in Will and Grundy Counties. Today 
owns a fine improved farm of 160 acres of land. Married in 1847, to Miss Harriet CURTIS, 
of Vermont, daughter of Thaddeus and Charlotte (KIMBLE) CURTIS, of New Hampshire; have 
ten children.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.