"In August 1879, he was married to Miss Maggie A. Wolfersperger, daughter of John and Lydia Wolfersperfer, prosperous farmers of Jordan township, north of Sterling. After two years of domestic happiness at Birdwood, west of Emerson, a pleasant rural retreat, Mr. and Mrs. Davis removed to Sterling in 1881, where they have since resided in a charming cottage on the banks of Rock river."
"Two children have blessed the union. John, after enjoying four years at high school in Sterling, took four years in civil engineering at Illinois University, Champaign, and is now married and enged in his profession in Chicago. The younger child, Susanna Roland, also passed through the high school and is now in her second year of a general classical course at Oberlin College, Ohio."
