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Title: A history of Texas and Texans
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884 Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Subjects: Texas -- History Texas -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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s. He takes special personalsatisfaction in the enthronement of a national adminis-tration pledged to the execution of policies of govern-ment of which he is and has been for twenty years aleading, active and forceful exponent. Victory does notalways come to the brave, nor is the race always to theswift, but a combination of the qualities of courage andspeed avail much when enlisted for humanity and di-rected toward the destruction of political and economicevils. Cyclone Davis, as he is familiarly known, isa man of rare qualities and services in these moderntimes of politics. The remote ancestors of Mr. Davis were Welsh, andthe family name was originally Davies, when intro-duced into the colonies of the south. The exact rankand station of the Welsh progenitor is not a matter ofknowledge, but appeared in the Carolinas as a subjectof the English king and lived to raise up a small armyof posterity to help beat back the soldiers of his sove-reign. They fought under Francis Marion and with
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TEXAS AND TEXANS 1863 other squads and troops engaged in the Eevolution, andseven great-uncles of William B. Davis, father of JamesH., were all engaged in the struggle for national inde-pendence. As a family they have been civilians by nature, soldiersonly to meet a public necessity and to defeat a publiccalamity. The industry of the farm and conformity tothe established customs of the south seem to haveafforded the regular -channels of their energies. Asplanters of the old school, they employed the labor ofthe bondmen, and when their title to this property wasthreatened they met the emergency with an oifer of theirlives. Strong convictions were a feature of every char-acter, and love their neighbor as themselves was aruling principle of every nature. Col. Harvey Davis, grandfather of James HarveyDavis, was born after the Eevolution and passed his lifein South Carolina, his home being in the Piciiens District.He manifested strong characteristics as a citizen, wasan enthusiastic follow

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