Person:Henry Davis (74)

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Rev. Henry Lyon Davis
b.1775
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Name Rev. Henry Lyon Davis
Gender Male
Birth[2] 1775
Education[2] 1795 Dickinson College
Marriage to Jane Brown Winter
Occupation[1] From 1820 to 1824 Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United StatesPresident of St. Johns College
Occupation[1] Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United StatesRector of St. Anne's Parish
Death[2] 1837 Anne Arundel, Maryland, United Stateson his plantation near Woodbine

Research Notes

  • Rev. Ethan Allen wrote of him as "a man of much learning, of vigorous mind and of commanding personal stature." (Steiner's Education in Maryland, p 106)
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Barringer, Paul Brandon; James Mercer Garnett; and Rosewell Page. University of Virginia: its history, influence, equipment and characteristics, with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1904)
    1:374.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Family Recorded, in Steiner, Bernard Christian. Life of Henry Winter Davis.