SOURCE: History of Clinton County, Indiana
Agriculture in Clinton County has a worthy representative in the person of William Linden Davis of Jackson township. He is a large landowner, amid his many acres are very productive, resulting from the best methods of tillage and care.
Mr. Davis is honored and respected by his fellow citizens because he has assisted them in every laudable enterprise they have ventured into for the prosperity of the county. He is a man of the strictest integrity and his every action is based upon the principles of doing right.
Mr. Davis was born in Ironton, Ohio, on March 17, 1855, and was the of John J. and Catherine (Marshall) Davis, the father being a native of Wales. John J. Davis first settled in New York state. He came to Ironton, Ohio, where he worked in furnaces, and also kept a hotel for a number of years, then to Fulton county, Illinois, where he spent eighteen years in farming; then to Champaign county, Illinois, still farming. He died in 1888, and Mrs. Davis died in June 1908 in Champaign county.
William L. Davis had a common school education, after which he worked on the farm. He came to Clinton county in 1900 from Champaign county, Illinois, and now owns three hundred and ten acres of land in Jackson township, all of which is tillable, well-fenced, tiled, and improved. For the last five years, Mr. Davis has managed the place but has led a retired life. Politically, Mr. Davis is a Progressive but voted for the Republican ticket in 1877. At one time he was a township commissioner in Champaign County, Illinois.
He is a member of the Christian church and is a teacher of the men’s Bible class of Antioch. He is a Mason at Frankfort, belonging to the Council, Royal Arch, the Chapter, Knights Templar, and Commandery of Frankfort. On September 25, 1879, he was married to Mary E. Barrick, born in Champaign county, Illinois, on December 28, 1857, the daughter of William R. and Louisa Barrick.
Six children have tren born to Mr. and Mrs. Davis: Fred on the farm; May died when five years old; Wood W., of Lebanon, Indiana; Ray of Frankfort; John W., of Los Angeles, California; and Merle C., wife of Charles T. Knobes, of Frankfort, Indiana.
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