Switch to EncyclopediaClose XDAVIS, CLARKSON: 1833-1883.
Clarkson Davis, son of Willis and Ann Coggshall
Davis, was born in Wayne
County, Ind.,
on Jan. 7, 1833, and moved with his family to Grant
County in 1838. He attended the district schools of Grant
County, was a student for one term at Bloomingdale Academy, and
spent five months at Earlham College. Private study led to the
conferring of the A.M. degree upon him by Earlham College in
1868.
From 1857 to 1863 he was in charge of
the mathematical department at Earlham, and from 1863 to 1873 he was in charge of Spiceland
Academy, resigning to work for Harper & Brothers, publishers, as
their special agent for Iowa and Minnesota. In 1876 he returned to Spiceland
Academy as principal.
Clarkson Davis married Hannah E. Brown of
Wayne County on Sept. 4, 1862.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I.
Switch to EncyclopediaClose XDAVIS, HANNAH E. BROWN (MRS. CLARKSON): 1841-1898.
Hannah E. Brown was born near Richmond,
Ind., on Nov. 5, 1841, and was educated in the country schools
and at Earlham College. In 1862 she married
Clarkson Davis and began her career as a teacher at
Spiceland Academy when her husband became principal the following year. She taught
at the Academy for twenty-eight years.
After her husband's death in 1883 she studied art
and languages in Europe. She died in North Dakota on March
24, 1898.
Information from Parker and
Heiney—Poets and Poetry of
Indiana and Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I.
