From Woman's Who's Who in America 1914-1915
DAVIS Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Arthur Powell Davis), 2212 First St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Born Front Royal. Warren Co. Virginia.Va.; dau. of. Major Victor M. and Mary (Jacobs) Brown; grad. Columbian (now George Washington) Univ., B.S.; post-grad. work in mathematics at Johns Hopkins Univ. by special permission of the faculty through Prof. Simon Newcomb; m. Washington, D.C., June 20, 1888, Arthur Powell Davis (chief engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service); children: Rena (Mrs. Paul N. Peck), Florence, Dorothy, Elizabeth. Computer in the Nautical Almanac Office; has computed the ephemeris of the sun for 25 years; also other portions of Nautical Almanac; assisted largely in every stage of the preparation of Prof. Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun and Planets; also in other research work. Has written magazine articles on mathematical subjects. Mem. Am. Mathematical Soc., Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Auxiliary Board of Regents of Trinity College.
Contributor: Roberta Woods (47900554)
DAVIS Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Arthur Powell Davis), 2212 First St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Born Front Royal. Warren Co. Virginia.Va.; dau. of. Major Victor M. and Mary (Jacobs) Brown; grad. Columbian (now George Washington) Univ., B.S.; post-grad. work in mathematics at Johns Hopkins Univ. by special permission of the faculty through Prof. Simon Newcomb; m. Washington, D.C., June 20, 1888, Arthur Powell Davis (chief engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service); children: Rena (Mrs. Paul N. Peck), Florence, Dorothy, Elizabeth. Computer in the Nautical Almanac Office; has computed the ephemeris of the sun for 25 years; also other portions of Nautical Almanac; assisted largely in every stage of the preparation of Prof. Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun and Planets; also in other research work. Has written magazine articles on mathematical subjects. Mem. Am. Mathematical Soc., Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Auxiliary Board of Regents of Trinity College.
Contributor: Roberta Woods (47900554)
From Woman's Who's Who in America 1914-1915
DAVIS Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Arthur Powell Davis), 2212 First St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Born Front Royal. Warren Co. Virginia.Va.; dau. of. Major Victor M. and Mary (Jacobs) Brown; grad. Columbian (now George Washington) Univ., B.S.; post-grad. work in mathematics at Johns Hopkins Univ. by special permission of the faculty through Prof. Simon Newcomb; m. Washington, D.C., June 20, 1888, Arthur Powell Davis (chief engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service); children: Rena (Mrs. Paul N. Peck), Florence, Dorothy, Elizabeth. Computer in the Nautical Almanac Office; has computed the ephemeris of the sun for 25 years; also other portions of Nautical Almanac; assisted largely in every stage of the preparation of Prof. Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun and Planets; also in other research work. Has written magazine articles on mathematical subjects. Mem. Am. Mathematical Soc., Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Auxiliary Board of Regents of Trinity College.
Contributor: Roberta Woods (47900554)
DAVIS Elizabeth Brown (Mrs. Arthur Powell Davis), 2212 First St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Born Front Royal. Warren Co. Virginia.Va.; dau. of. Major Victor M. and Mary (Jacobs) Brown; grad. Columbian (now George Washington) Univ., B.S.; post-grad. work in mathematics at Johns Hopkins Univ. by special permission of the faculty through Prof. Simon Newcomb; m. Washington, D.C., June 20, 1888, Arthur Powell Davis (chief engineer of U.S. Reclamation Service); children: Rena (Mrs. Paul N. Peck), Florence, Dorothy, Elizabeth. Computer in the Nautical Almanac Office; has computed the ephemeris of the sun for 25 years; also other portions of Nautical Almanac; assisted largely in every stage of the preparation of Prof. Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun and Planets; also in other research work. Has written magazine articles on mathematical subjects. Mem. Am. Mathematical Soc., Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Auxiliary Board of Regents of Trinity College.
Contributor: Roberta Woods (47900554)
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