Ebenezer Rogers Davis
From the Pettis/Davis History by the Ponwith Sisters
Ebenezer Rogers Davis, son of Orange Davis and Adelaide Barlow was born August 31, 1832 in the Province of Ontario, Canada. He died May 11, 1909, near Kasota on the farm where he had lived for over fifty years. He married Louisa Pettis, daughter of John Pettis and Ann Cummings in 1855. In 1850, "Eb", as he was called, joined the throng of fortune hunters in the gold rush to California. He remained in California until 1852, when he returned to Illlinois and in 1854 moved to Minnesota with his family. (Incidently, he did fine gold and was considered quite wealthy by the relatives.) He participated in the development of the St. Peter - Kasota area. It was he who aided in making the original survey of the town plat of St. Peter, carrying the chain for the surveryor in charge. He was also connected with the management of the flour mills in Kasota. Ebenezer Rogers Davis was a favorite uncle who took time to be interested in the problems of others. (Taken from the Ponwith History, who took the data from Nicollet and Le Sueur Counties, written by Gresham, Volume II.) |