A Mayflower descendant of six or more passengers.
h/o Ellen "Nellie" Regal
Birth: 5th of seven known children in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Namesake was Armand Cazallis' brother. "Armany" Cazallis, at age fourteen, July 1827, was brought to Maine from France by Raymond's unmarried father, Captain George Davis, naturalized eight years later, 26 August 1835.
A New Hampshire Davis descendant's comment after viewing the gravestone July 2010 for 1st time:
"Looks large but very plain which reflects what we know of his simple lifestyle and personality."
The University of Michigan's most intnovative and longest serving Librarian (1877-1905)
Author of: "Reminiscences of a Voyage Around the World", Ann Arbor: Dr. Chars's Steam Printing House, 1869.
Raymond Cazallis Davis, along with older brother Noel Byron, circumnavigated the globe aboard newly built merchant vessel, 443 ton, S/V Hampton, captained by his father from September 1849 to August 1851: They layed over in San Francisco, California February 1850 (eight months prior to its statehood) during the Gold Rush days, while sister Virginia and younger brother Ferdinand, were farmed off to schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His account was published in a weekly journal edited by another indulgent relative, who then issued the revised narrative in book form.
The S/V Hampton sailed from Bath, Sagadahoc county, Maine, around Cape Horn (tip of South America), up the Pacific Coast into San Francisco after five months, where most all the crew promptly decamped for the gold mines. Then Captain Davis recruited enough seamen to make it to Hawaii, where he hired a new crew and proceeded to cross the Pacific to Calcutta, returning around Cape of Good Hope (tip of South Africa) to London, England, then across the Atlantic to Boston.
Raymond is mentioned in several of forty transcribed letters, thirty privately held by Davis family in New Hampshire, written by sister "Jennie".
He was a son of mariner Captain George Davis and Catherine Young, of Cushing, Lincoln, Knox after 1 APR 1860, county, Maine, husband of Ellen Regal Davis, brother of Virginia Lafayette (Davis) Gray (1834-1886) (known as "Jennie" to family and "Virgie" to friends in Fayetteville, Arkansas)
Served as Supervisor of Schools in home of Cushing, now Knox county, Maine, spending winter of 1872/3 in Lttle Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with sister Jennie who married, Maine born, Oliver Crosby Gray May 28, 1858 in Cushing, Maine, Gray then teaching in Minnesota later Mississippi, to Arkansas in 1860, ~ ~ where he viewed brother-in-law, Oliver's dictionary, later written about in his autobiography, in which the margins were filled with notations by Senator Solon Borland, M D, Esquire (1811-1864), written while being cared for by "Jennie" in Princeton, Arkansas, before leaving evening of 13th SEP 1863 for Texas where he died New Years Day 1864.
Census: 1870, age 33 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michiagan with the Grant family and others.
Census: 1900, age 63 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michigan with wife.
"An Autobiography or The Reminscences of one More distinguished for Lenghth of Days Than for Greatness of Achievement" by Raymond Cazallis Davis ~ ~ tells of his life as he saw it, is found among Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan's Raymond C Davis papers, along with ten letters written by sister "Jennie".
Father: Captain George Davis b: 21 DEC 1798 in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox count after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Mother: Catherine Young b: 19 SEP 1804 in Cushing, Lincoln now Knox county, Maine
Marriage: Ellen Regal b: in Portage county, Ohio
Married: 6 JUL 1880 in Michigan
No known issues.
Compiled by Bill Boggess, raised at Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah); author of: "The Story of Two ARKANSAS Pioneer School Teachers" and "The Grays From Maine", on file at libraries in Little Rock, Arkansas, Colby College, Waterville, Maine and the University of Arkansas. (Mrs V L Gray's papers: MC-1618, University of Arkansas).
h/o Ellen "Nellie" Regal
Birth: 5th of seven known children in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Namesake was Armand Cazallis' brother. "Armany" Cazallis, at age fourteen, July 1827, was brought to Maine from France by Raymond's unmarried father, Captain George Davis, naturalized eight years later, 26 August 1835.
A New Hampshire Davis descendant's comment after viewing the gravestone July 2010 for 1st time:
"Looks large but very plain which reflects what we know of his simple lifestyle and personality."
The University of Michigan's most intnovative and longest serving Librarian (1877-1905)
Author of: "Reminiscences of a Voyage Around the World", Ann Arbor: Dr. Chars's Steam Printing House, 1869.
Raymond Cazallis Davis, along with older brother Noel Byron, circumnavigated the globe aboard newly built merchant vessel, 443 ton, S/V Hampton, captained by his father from September 1849 to August 1851: They layed over in San Francisco, California February 1850 (eight months prior to its statehood) during the Gold Rush days, while sister Virginia and younger brother Ferdinand, were farmed off to schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His account was published in a weekly journal edited by another indulgent relative, who then issued the revised narrative in book form.
The S/V Hampton sailed from Bath, Sagadahoc county, Maine, around Cape Horn (tip of South America), up the Pacific Coast into San Francisco after five months, where most all the crew promptly decamped for the gold mines. Then Captain Davis recruited enough seamen to make it to Hawaii, where he hired a new crew and proceeded to cross the Pacific to Calcutta, returning around Cape of Good Hope (tip of South Africa) to London, England, then across the Atlantic to Boston.
Raymond is mentioned in several of forty transcribed letters, thirty privately held by Davis family in New Hampshire, written by sister "Jennie".
He was a son of mariner Captain George Davis and Catherine Young, of Cushing, Lincoln, Knox after 1 APR 1860, county, Maine, husband of Ellen Regal Davis, brother of Virginia Lafayette (Davis) Gray (1834-1886) (known as "Jennie" to family and "Virgie" to friends in Fayetteville, Arkansas)
Served as Supervisor of Schools in home of Cushing, now Knox county, Maine, spending winter of 1872/3 in Lttle Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with sister Jennie who married, Maine born, Oliver Crosby Gray May 28, 1858 in Cushing, Maine, Gray then teaching in Minnesota later Mississippi, to Arkansas in 1860, ~ ~ where he viewed brother-in-law, Oliver's dictionary, later written about in his autobiography, in which the margins were filled with notations by Senator Solon Borland, M D, Esquire (1811-1864), written while being cared for by "Jennie" in Princeton, Arkansas, before leaving evening of 13th SEP 1863 for Texas where he died New Years Day 1864.
Census: 1870, age 33 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michiagan with the Grant family and others.
Census: 1900, age 63 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michigan with wife.
"An Autobiography or The Reminscences of one More distinguished for Lenghth of Days Than for Greatness of Achievement" by Raymond Cazallis Davis ~ ~ tells of his life as he saw it, is found among Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan's Raymond C Davis papers, along with ten letters written by sister "Jennie".
Father: Captain George Davis b: 21 DEC 1798 in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox count after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Mother: Catherine Young b: 19 SEP 1804 in Cushing, Lincoln now Knox county, Maine
Marriage: Ellen Regal b: in Portage county, Ohio
Married: 6 JUL 1880 in Michigan
No known issues.
Compiled by Bill Boggess, raised at Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah); author of: "The Story of Two ARKANSAS Pioneer School Teachers" and "The Grays From Maine", on file at libraries in Little Rock, Arkansas, Colby College, Waterville, Maine and the University of Arkansas. (Mrs V L Gray's papers: MC-1618, University of Arkansas).
A Mayflower descendant of six or more passengers.
h/o Ellen "Nellie" Regal
Birth: 5th of seven known children in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Namesake was Armand Cazallis' brother. "Armany" Cazallis, at age fourteen, July 1827, was brought to Maine from France by Raymond's unmarried father, Captain George Davis, naturalized eight years later, 26 August 1835.
A New Hampshire Davis descendant's comment after viewing the gravestone July 2010 for 1st time:
"Looks large but very plain which reflects what we know of his simple lifestyle and personality."
The University of Michigan's most intnovative and longest serving Librarian (1877-1905)
Author of: "Reminiscences of a Voyage Around the World", Ann Arbor: Dr. Chars's Steam Printing House, 1869.
Raymond Cazallis Davis, along with older brother Noel Byron, circumnavigated the globe aboard newly built merchant vessel, 443 ton, S/V Hampton, captained by his father from September 1849 to August 1851: They layed over in San Francisco, California February 1850 (eight months prior to its statehood) during the Gold Rush days, while sister Virginia and younger brother Ferdinand, were farmed off to schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His account was published in a weekly journal edited by another indulgent relative, who then issued the revised narrative in book form.
The S/V Hampton sailed from Bath, Sagadahoc county, Maine, around Cape Horn (tip of South America), up the Pacific Coast into San Francisco after five months, where most all the crew promptly decamped for the gold mines. Then Captain Davis recruited enough seamen to make it to Hawaii, where he hired a new crew and proceeded to cross the Pacific to Calcutta, returning around Cape of Good Hope (tip of South Africa) to London, England, then across the Atlantic to Boston.
Raymond is mentioned in several of forty transcribed letters, thirty privately held by Davis family in New Hampshire, written by sister "Jennie".
He was a son of mariner Captain George Davis and Catherine Young, of Cushing, Lincoln, Knox after 1 APR 1860, county, Maine, husband of Ellen Regal Davis, brother of Virginia Lafayette (Davis) Gray (1834-1886) (known as "Jennie" to family and "Virgie" to friends in Fayetteville, Arkansas)
Served as Supervisor of Schools in home of Cushing, now Knox county, Maine, spending winter of 1872/3 in Lttle Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with sister Jennie who married, Maine born, Oliver Crosby Gray May 28, 1858 in Cushing, Maine, Gray then teaching in Minnesota later Mississippi, to Arkansas in 1860, ~ ~ where he viewed brother-in-law, Oliver's dictionary, later written about in his autobiography, in which the margins were filled with notations by Senator Solon Borland, M D, Esquire (1811-1864), written while being cared for by "Jennie" in Princeton, Arkansas, before leaving evening of 13th SEP 1863 for Texas where he died New Years Day 1864.
Census: 1870, age 33 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michiagan with the Grant family and others.
Census: 1900, age 63 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michigan with wife.
"An Autobiography or The Reminscences of one More distinguished for Lenghth of Days Than for Greatness of Achievement" by Raymond Cazallis Davis ~ ~ tells of his life as he saw it, is found among Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan's Raymond C Davis papers, along with ten letters written by sister "Jennie".
Father: Captain George Davis b: 21 DEC 1798 in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox count after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Mother: Catherine Young b: 19 SEP 1804 in Cushing, Lincoln now Knox county, Maine
Marriage: Ellen Regal b: in Portage county, Ohio
Married: 6 JUL 1880 in Michigan
No known issues.
Compiled by Bill Boggess, raised at Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah); author of: "The Story of Two ARKANSAS Pioneer School Teachers" and "The Grays From Maine", on file at libraries in Little Rock, Arkansas, Colby College, Waterville, Maine and the University of Arkansas. (Mrs V L Gray's papers: MC-1618, University of Arkansas).
h/o Ellen "Nellie" Regal
Birth: 5th of seven known children in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Namesake was Armand Cazallis' brother. "Armany" Cazallis, at age fourteen, July 1827, was brought to Maine from France by Raymond's unmarried father, Captain George Davis, naturalized eight years later, 26 August 1835.
A New Hampshire Davis descendant's comment after viewing the gravestone July 2010 for 1st time:
"Looks large but very plain which reflects what we know of his simple lifestyle and personality."
The University of Michigan's most intnovative and longest serving Librarian (1877-1905)
Author of: "Reminiscences of a Voyage Around the World", Ann Arbor: Dr. Chars's Steam Printing House, 1869.
Raymond Cazallis Davis, along with older brother Noel Byron, circumnavigated the globe aboard newly built merchant vessel, 443 ton, S/V Hampton, captained by his father from September 1849 to August 1851: They layed over in San Francisco, California February 1850 (eight months prior to its statehood) during the Gold Rush days, while sister Virginia and younger brother Ferdinand, were farmed off to schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. His account was published in a weekly journal edited by another indulgent relative, who then issued the revised narrative in book form.
The S/V Hampton sailed from Bath, Sagadahoc county, Maine, around Cape Horn (tip of South America), up the Pacific Coast into San Francisco after five months, where most all the crew promptly decamped for the gold mines. Then Captain Davis recruited enough seamen to make it to Hawaii, where he hired a new crew and proceeded to cross the Pacific to Calcutta, returning around Cape of Good Hope (tip of South Africa) to London, England, then across the Atlantic to Boston.
Raymond is mentioned in several of forty transcribed letters, thirty privately held by Davis family in New Hampshire, written by sister "Jennie".
He was a son of mariner Captain George Davis and Catherine Young, of Cushing, Lincoln, Knox after 1 APR 1860, county, Maine, husband of Ellen Regal Davis, brother of Virginia Lafayette (Davis) Gray (1834-1886) (known as "Jennie" to family and "Virgie" to friends in Fayetteville, Arkansas)
Served as Supervisor of Schools in home of Cushing, now Knox county, Maine, spending winter of 1872/3 in Lttle Rock, Pulaski county, Arkansas with sister Jennie who married, Maine born, Oliver Crosby Gray May 28, 1858 in Cushing, Maine, Gray then teaching in Minnesota later Mississippi, to Arkansas in 1860, ~ ~ where he viewed brother-in-law, Oliver's dictionary, later written about in his autobiography, in which the margins were filled with notations by Senator Solon Borland, M D, Esquire (1811-1864), written while being cared for by "Jennie" in Princeton, Arkansas, before leaving evening of 13th SEP 1863 for Texas where he died New Years Day 1864.
Census: 1870, age 33 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michiagan with the Grant family and others.
Census: 1900, age 63 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, Michigan with wife.
"An Autobiography or The Reminscences of one More distinguished for Lenghth of Days Than for Greatness of Achievement" by Raymond Cazallis Davis ~ ~ tells of his life as he saw it, is found among Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan's Raymond C Davis papers, along with ten letters written by sister "Jennie".
Father: Captain George Davis b: 21 DEC 1798 in Cushing, Lincoln county (Knox count after 1 April 1860), Maine.
Mother: Catherine Young b: 19 SEP 1804 in Cushing, Lincoln now Knox county, Maine
Marriage: Ellen Regal b: in Portage county, Ohio
Married: 6 JUL 1880 in Michigan
No known issues.
Compiled by Bill Boggess, raised at Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri(ah); author of: "The Story of Two ARKANSAS Pioneer School Teachers" and "The Grays From Maine", on file at libraries in Little Rock, Arkansas, Colby College, Waterville, Maine and the University of Arkansas. (Mrs V L Gray's papers: MC-1618, University of Arkansas).
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