From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 263.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


CEPHAS G. DAVIS

Cephas G. Davis, of the firm of Kimberly & Davis, in the flour and 
feed business at Wheeling, was born in that city November 29, 1865.  
He is the son of Cephas and Dorothy (Arkle) Davis, both natives of 
Ohio county, W.Va.  The father died shortly before the birth of his 
son (July 4, 1865) and the mother did not survive longer than May 14, 
1870.  Mr. Davis was then reared in the family of Philo L. Kimberly.  
He was a student for two winters in the Linsly institute and 
Frasher's business college, and then was employed one year by the 
Manchester coal company as weighmaster. Subsequently he held for 
fifteen months the position of mailing clerk in the Wheeling 
postoffice, after which he enaged in his present business. 


(Linda Fluharty)