California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


FRANK C. DAVIS. � Among Central Californians distinguished for their 
honesty of purpose, and integrity of their lives inspired by noble ideals and 
the commendable desire to do unto others as they themselves would wish 
to be done by, is Frank C. Davis who first came to Coalinga in 1908. He was 
born in Jasper County, Mo., in 1861, the son of James H. Davis, whose native 
state was Michigan. The latter located in Missouri, where he was married 
to Sarah Grubb, a native of Illinois, and he became a stone-cutter at Carthage 
and worked at his trade until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he went 
to Fort Leavenworth. He enlisted in the Union Army in the Sixth Kansas 
Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and served throughout the War; and then he 
returned to farm in Jasper County. He improved his place, and had one of 
the attractive farms of that period and section. Both parents died in Mis- 
souri. There were five sons, and two are still living; and of these our subject 
is the only one in California. 

He was brought up on a farm in Jasper County, Mo., and educated in 
the public schools. When seventeen years old he started out for himself 
and traveled widely through the Middle and Central states. Near Aitkin, 
Minn., he bought forty acres of timber land and engaged in logging � getting 
out pine timber and driving logs on different rivers. Then he went to Ruluff, 
Texas, with the Sabine Tram Lumber Company, as assistant engineer in 
the mills, and for a while was at Spindletop, the same state, in the Beaumont 
oil fields, and while in Texas was married to Miss Sallie Elliott, from Ala- 
bama. Two children � Alice and May � brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Davis. 

In 1908 Mr. Davis came to Coalinga and entered the employ of the asso- 
ciated Pipe Line Company and took part in the construction of their west 
side pipe line ; and after eleven months he was transferred to the Associated's 
loading rack at Coalinga and was in charge of the important work of load- 
ing. He returned to Texas in 1909 and spent a year there ; but in August. 
1910, came back to Coalinga, and was again with the Associated on National 
30. Since August 14, that year, he has been foreman of the lease, which has 
ten producing w r ells. In national politics, Mr. Davis is a Republican.