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Adlai Stevenson III

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Adlai Stevenson III

U.S. Senator from Illinois

    William Osborne Davis

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    • Great-grandfather of Adlai Stevenson III — 4th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 10 
    • Birth Date:
    • 5 Aug 1837 
    • Birth Location:
    • Chester County, Pennsylvania 
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    • Death Date:
    • 22 May 1911 
    • Death Location:
    • Bloomington, McClean, Illinois 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McClean, Illinois 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 17 Jun 1863 
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    • Notes: 

    • Owner of the Bloomington Weekly Pantagraph

      In the Spring of 1860, William Davis headed to the Rocky Mountains as part of the Pike's Peak gold rush in Colorado. He and his companions visited the “Gregory Diggings” as the earliest discoveries were called. There they were able to sell their large stock of provisions at high prices after which William Davis accompanied their two wagons back for more provisions. But by Fall, he and his companions, poorer in pocket, were ready to call it quits and head back home.

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  • Sources for William Osborne Davis

    • 1 Federal Census, IL, McLean County, 1870, Bloomington, p.32, Image 85 of 413.
    • 2 Federal Census, IL, McLean County, 1880, Normal, E.D. 166, p. 15, Image 15 of 68.
    • 3 Federal Census, IL, McLean County, 1900, Bloomington Ward 6, E.D. 91, Sheet 14A, Image 27 of 34.
    • 4 Federal Census, IL, McLean County, 1910, Bloomington Ward 6, E.D. 91, Sheet 14A, Image 24 of 40.
    • 6 Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935, Marriage record for Lewis Green Stevenson and daughter Helen Louise Davis.
    • 7 The Weekly Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois), 26 MAY 1911, p. 5, Obituary for William Osborne Davis.
    • 8 The Weekly Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois), 15 JUN 1906, p. 5, Obituary for mother-in-law Mrs. Hester V. Fell.
    • 9 Craig, Blanche, Pennsylvania Heritage: The Fells of Longlands, West Newton, Pennsylvania: The Times-Sun (1959), 86.
    • 10 Fell, Sarah M., Genealogy of the Fell Family in America Descended from Joseph Fell Who Settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Press of A. H. Sickler and Co. (1891), 141, 299.