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John Samuel Davis

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John Samuel Davis

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14 Aug 1922 (aged 83)
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Laytonsville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Married Mary Ellen Phoebus on March 12, 1860, in Frederick, MD.
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Son of Joshua Benjamin Davis (1810-1866) and Margaret Ann POOLE Davis (1813-1847)
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History of DAVIS MILL
A grist mill at this site on Great Seneca Creek first appeared on the tax assessment in 1783 on the farm called "Bradenburgh" owned by Revolutionary war hero Charles Greenbury Griffith. The land was originally patented in 1743 by Benjamin Willingford as "Benjamin's Square." Harry W. Dorsey purchased the farm and mill in 1831. John Samuel Davis, for whom the mill is named, was apprenticed at the Goshen Mills 1860-1869, then became Miller at this mill before purchaseing it in 1885. His home was on the hill across from the mill and he and his wife, Mary Ellen Phebeus, raised eleven daughters there. Zadoc Cooke acquired the property in 1901 and contract with Andrew Shaffer to rebuild the mill and install modern roller mills, but the mill was never prosperous after this and soon closed. It burned down in the 1940s.
[Montgomery County Department Park and Planning sign at the mill]
Married Mary Ellen Phoebus on March 12, 1860, in Frederick, MD.
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Son of Joshua Benjamin Davis (1810-1866) and Margaret Ann POOLE Davis (1813-1847)
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History of DAVIS MILL
A grist mill at this site on Great Seneca Creek first appeared on the tax assessment in 1783 on the farm called "Bradenburgh" owned by Revolutionary war hero Charles Greenbury Griffith. The land was originally patented in 1743 by Benjamin Willingford as "Benjamin's Square." Harry W. Dorsey purchased the farm and mill in 1831. John Samuel Davis, for whom the mill is named, was apprenticed at the Goshen Mills 1860-1869, then became Miller at this mill before purchaseing it in 1885. His home was on the hill across from the mill and he and his wife, Mary Ellen Phebeus, raised eleven daughters there. Zadoc Cooke acquired the property in 1901 and contract with Andrew Shaffer to rebuild the mill and install modern roller mills, but the mill was never prosperous after this and soon closed. It burned down in the 1940s.
[Montgomery County Department Park and Planning sign at the mill]

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