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Dolor Davis: A Sketch of His Life with a Record of His Earlier Descendants
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Horace Davis was an American manufacturer, congressman and president of the Sperry Flour Company. His most important activity as a member of the House was in connection with the Chinese question.
Background
Horace Davis was born on March 16, 1831 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of “Honest John” Davis and Eliza (Bancroft) Davis, sister of George Bancroft, the historian. His brothers were J. C. Bancroft Davis and Andrew McFarland Davis.
Education
Upon his graduation from Harvard College in 1849, Davis entered the Law School, but because of failing eyesight soon withdrew. He thereupon sailed for San Francisco, via Cape Horn.
Career
Upon his arrival in California, Davis started for the gold-mines and for a short time ran, unsuccessfully, a store at Shaw’s Flat.
Returning to San Francisco, he successively found employment as lumber-surveyor on the water-front, as supercargo on a coasting steamer owned by his cousin, Isaac Davis, and as a purser in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Since the enterprise was suffering from lack of financial support, he was persuaded to assume the duties of librarian in February 1854. Under his administration popular interest was revived, and the library was soon operating upon a substantial foundation.
His duties, however, especially in compiling the first catalogue, strained his eyes and so undermined his health that he resigned in December 1855. He and his brother Andrew had loaned their savings to a miller, and in satisfaction of the unpaid debt were obliged to take over the milling property; in 1860 he established the Golden Gate Flouring Mills, which proved to be highly profitable. He became an accepted authority on wheat and the production of flour; and at his death, was president of the Sperry Flour Company.
At the beginning of the Civil War, he was active in the “Home Guard, ” a secret league formed in San Francisco to insure the loyalty of California to the Lincoln administration.
Elected to Congress in 1876, he served two terms there. After his retirement from that body, he became president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (1883 - 84), president of the Savings and Loan Society (1885).
Davis was an active member of the Sanitary Commission. After his retirement from Congress, he became a member of the Republican National Committee (1880 - 88).
In February 1888 he was elected president of the University of California, but resigned in April 1890. He was also closely associated with Stanford University, having been named by its founder as one of the original trustees, and in his last years served as president of the board. One of his chief interests was the School of Mechanic Arts in San Francisco, established by James Lick. He served as president of its board of trustees, and was instrumental in effecting its consolidation with the Wilmerding and Lux schools. A devoted Unitarian, he was deeply interested in the Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry, to which he contributed generously. Davis found time to take an active interest in historical and literary studies, and to publish a number of essays. The most important of these was his monograph, “American Constitutions, ” in which he traced the changes in the relations of the three departments of government “which have been silently going on in the United States for the past century”.
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Connections
Davis was twice married. His first wife, the daughter of Captain Macondray, died in 1872 after years of invalidism. Three years later, he married Edith, the daughter of Reverend Thomas Starr King.