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I)avis and Major Powell entered into business relations with 

 the lamented C. R. Overman, then of Fulton County, Illi 

 nois, and started a branch nursery in Macon County, under 

 the firm name of &quot; Davis & Powell.&quot; This relationship was 

 mutually pleasant to all the parties, and lasted for several 

 years. 



While engaged as a nurseryman a business which he 

 continued, on a limited scale, after the termination of the 

 partnership above named Mr. Davis made himself a most 

 comfortable home, about five miles east of Decatur, where 

 he reared a family of six boys and three girls, devoting 

 himself, on his home farm, to the raising of fruit and stock. 



During his whole life, Mr. Davis has been an indefatigable 

 planter of trees, and has found it pay. Several places 

 which he has improved for sale have brought more money 

 than other places naturally as good, with better buildings, 

 but lacking orchards and shade. 



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At length, a growing family induced Mr. Davis, in 1869, 

 to visit Kansas, for the purpose of securing homes for his 

 children; and he is now engaged in improving a farm of 

 four hundred and eighty acres, near Junction City, Davis 

 County, old Fort Eiley being in full view from his premises. 

 His entire family removed to their new home in Kansas, 

 where they are all now permanently located, in 1872. 



Mr. Davis is a good speaker and a forcible writer, and in 

 his new home he could not long remain in obscurity. In 

 January, 1873, at the invitation of President Dennison, of 

 the State Agricultural College, he delivered an address on 

 the &quot; Transportation of American Products,&quot; which was 

 favorably noticed by the press. 



