Davis, Benjamin, grain merchant, Oelwein; born in Susquehanna Co.,
Pennsylvania in 1843; located in Mower Co., Minnesota in 1868, and in this
county in 1874; he has been in the grain business in this place four
years; he owns two dwellings and stores, corner of Main and Charles
streets, in this town, worth $4,000.
Page 647, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"
Contributed by Dorothy Gosse