Robert_T._Davis

Robert T. Davis

Robert T. Davis

American politician

Robert Thompson Davis (August 28, 1823 – October 29, 1906) was an American physician and politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts, and served as Mayor of Fall River from 1873 to 1874.

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Biography

Robert T. Davis was born in County Down, Ireland on August 28, 1823. His family emigrated to the United States when he was three years old.[1]

He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1848, and practiced medicine in Waterville, Maine for three years, before moving to Fall River, Massachusetts.[1]

He married Sarah C. Wilbur in 1848. She died in 1856, and he remarried to Susan A. Haight in 1862. They had one child.[1]

Davis died at his home in Fall River on October 29, 1906.[2] He is interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.

References

  1. [1]
    Bacon, Edwin M., ed. (1896). Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: The New England Magazine. pp. 379–380. Retrieved January 21, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. [2]
    "Dr. R. T. Davis Dead". Fall River Daily Globe. October 30, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved January 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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