George Davis, M.D.
One of the most recent additions to the corps of physicians now practicing their profession in the city of Xenia, is Dr. George Davis, who located in that city in the spring of 1918. He had been engaged in the practice of his profession in the village of New Jasper for eighteen years before his removal to Xenia. Doctor Davis is a native son of Ohio, born in the neighboring county of Fayette, son of James M. and Margaret E. (Dowell) Davis, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families in that section of the state, and who are now living at Columbus, the capital of the state. James M. Davis was born in 1840, a son of George W. Davis and wffe, Virginians and pioneers in that section of Fayette county lying between Washington Court House and Good Hope. Reared in that county, James M. Davis was living there when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served for three years and was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant. He later became engaged in the manufacture of drainage tile and brick in the vicinity of Washington Court House and there continued thus engaged until his retirement in 1914 and removal to Coumbus. where he and his wife are now living. James M. Davis married Margaret E. Dowell. who was born in Fayette county in 1845. and to that union were born six children, of whom Doctor Davis was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow: Lincoln, who is engaged in the oil business in Chicago; Grant, a civil engineer, now residing at Greenfield, this state; Mrs. Jennie Chambers, a widow, living at Columbus; Nellie, wife of Harry Drake, also of Columbus, and Dr. Homer Davis, a dental surgeon, who is practicing his profession at Kansas City. James M. Davis is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Doctor Davis supplemented the schooling he received in the public schools of Washington Court House by attendance at the Normal School at Ada and at the National Normal University at Lebanon, and then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and upon completing his medical studies in that institution served an internship in the Cincinnati Maternity Hospital. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession, Doctor Davis came to Greene county in the latter part of 1900 and located at New Jasper, where he engaged in practice until the spring of 1918 when he moved to Xenia. The Doctor is a member of the Greene County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. He has invested in farm lands in New Jasper township. He finds his chief recreation in hunting and fishing and is an ardent devotee of these healthful outddoor sports.
On January 8, 1902, in New Jasper township. Doctor Davis was united in marriage to Jennie L. Smith, who was born in that township, daughter of James M. and Eliza (Huston) Smith, the latter of whom is still living there. James M. Smith, a veteran of the Civil War, who died in 1911, was for years regarded as one of the most substantial farmers of the New Jasper neighborhood and elsewhere in this volume there will be found in detail a history of his family, as well as that of the Huston family. Doctor and Mrs. Davis are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Doctor is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Xenia.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918