Managing editor of the Baltimore News. Formerly with the Urbana Illinois News-Gazette.
Married Inez White 10/28/1911 in Urbana, Illinois. They had 2 sons, Robert and Charles, both of whom were newspapermen. Robert wrote for the US Marines publication "Leatherneck". Charles Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize twice and was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, among many others.
After the death of his first wife Inez at an early age, Charles Sr. married Mae Laules Hyde 6/6/1936.
obit from the Urbana News Gazette 9/13/1958:
C.E. DAVIS SR., DIES; VETERAN NEWSMAN
Funeral services for Charles Ernest (Babe) Davis, Sr., 67 Albany, N.Y., former Urbana resident and newspaperman, will be at 8 a.m. Monday at McVeigh Funeral Home, Albany, N.Y. Burial will be in Albany.
Mr. Davis died at 10:30 a.m. Friday (Sept. 12, 1958) at Albany, N.Y. He had been ill for about two months.
Mr. Davis was born Feb. 14, 1891, at 1002 E. Main, Urbana, son of N.W. Davis and Maud Chamberlain Davis. He graduated from Urbana High School and attended the University of Illinois.
At one time he was employed for the old Champaign Gazette and the Courier. He later moved to Chicago where he was with the Chicago Daily News serving there for four years. He also was employed with the Chicago American.
He had served as managing editor for the Baltimore American, Baltimore Md., and until his illness was employed for the Albany Times Union, Albany, N.Y.
He was married to the former Inez E. White, October 28, 1911, at Urbana. She died in August 193(5). He later married Mrs. Mae Hyde, in September 1936.
Surviving his wife, two sons, Robert E. Davis, Falls Church, Va; and Charles E. Davis Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.; a step-daughter, Elayne Hyde, Albany, N.Y.; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Tipps, 1002 E. Main, Urbana, and Mrs. Grace O. Davis, Hendersonville, N.C.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister.
Married Inez White 10/28/1911 in Urbana, Illinois. They had 2 sons, Robert and Charles, both of whom were newspapermen. Robert wrote for the US Marines publication "Leatherneck". Charles Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize twice and was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, among many others.
After the death of his first wife Inez at an early age, Charles Sr. married Mae Laules Hyde 6/6/1936.
obit from the Urbana News Gazette 9/13/1958:
C.E. DAVIS SR., DIES; VETERAN NEWSMAN
Funeral services for Charles Ernest (Babe) Davis, Sr., 67 Albany, N.Y., former Urbana resident and newspaperman, will be at 8 a.m. Monday at McVeigh Funeral Home, Albany, N.Y. Burial will be in Albany.
Mr. Davis died at 10:30 a.m. Friday (Sept. 12, 1958) at Albany, N.Y. He had been ill for about two months.
Mr. Davis was born Feb. 14, 1891, at 1002 E. Main, Urbana, son of N.W. Davis and Maud Chamberlain Davis. He graduated from Urbana High School and attended the University of Illinois.
At one time he was employed for the old Champaign Gazette and the Courier. He later moved to Chicago where he was with the Chicago Daily News serving there for four years. He also was employed with the Chicago American.
He had served as managing editor for the Baltimore American, Baltimore Md., and until his illness was employed for the Albany Times Union, Albany, N.Y.
He was married to the former Inez E. White, October 28, 1911, at Urbana. She died in August 193(5). He later married Mrs. Mae Hyde, in September 1936.
Surviving his wife, two sons, Robert E. Davis, Falls Church, Va; and Charles E. Davis Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.; a step-daughter, Elayne Hyde, Albany, N.Y.; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Tipps, 1002 E. Main, Urbana, and Mrs. Grace O. Davis, Hendersonville, N.C.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister.
Managing editor of the Baltimore News. Formerly with the Urbana Illinois News-Gazette.
Married Inez White 10/28/1911 in Urbana, Illinois. They had 2 sons, Robert and Charles, both of whom were newspapermen. Robert wrote for the US Marines publication "Leatherneck". Charles Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize twice and was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, among many others.
After the death of his first wife Inez at an early age, Charles Sr. married Mae Laules Hyde 6/6/1936.
obit from the Urbana News Gazette 9/13/1958:
C.E. DAVIS SR., DIES; VETERAN NEWSMAN
Funeral services for Charles Ernest (Babe) Davis, Sr., 67 Albany, N.Y., former Urbana resident and newspaperman, will be at 8 a.m. Monday at McVeigh Funeral Home, Albany, N.Y. Burial will be in Albany.
Mr. Davis died at 10:30 a.m. Friday (Sept. 12, 1958) at Albany, N.Y. He had been ill for about two months.
Mr. Davis was born Feb. 14, 1891, at 1002 E. Main, Urbana, son of N.W. Davis and Maud Chamberlain Davis. He graduated from Urbana High School and attended the University of Illinois.
At one time he was employed for the old Champaign Gazette and the Courier. He later moved to Chicago where he was with the Chicago Daily News serving there for four years. He also was employed with the Chicago American.
He had served as managing editor for the Baltimore American, Baltimore Md., and until his illness was employed for the Albany Times Union, Albany, N.Y.
He was married to the former Inez E. White, October 28, 1911, at Urbana. She died in August 193(5). He later married Mrs. Mae Hyde, in September 1936.
Surviving his wife, two sons, Robert E. Davis, Falls Church, Va; and Charles E. Davis Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.; a step-daughter, Elayne Hyde, Albany, N.Y.; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Tipps, 1002 E. Main, Urbana, and Mrs. Grace O. Davis, Hendersonville, N.C.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister.
Married Inez White 10/28/1911 in Urbana, Illinois. They had 2 sons, Robert and Charles, both of whom were newspapermen. Robert wrote for the US Marines publication "Leatherneck". Charles Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize twice and was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, among many others.
After the death of his first wife Inez at an early age, Charles Sr. married Mae Laules Hyde 6/6/1936.
obit from the Urbana News Gazette 9/13/1958:
C.E. DAVIS SR., DIES; VETERAN NEWSMAN
Funeral services for Charles Ernest (Babe) Davis, Sr., 67 Albany, N.Y., former Urbana resident and newspaperman, will be at 8 a.m. Monday at McVeigh Funeral Home, Albany, N.Y. Burial will be in Albany.
Mr. Davis died at 10:30 a.m. Friday (Sept. 12, 1958) at Albany, N.Y. He had been ill for about two months.
Mr. Davis was born Feb. 14, 1891, at 1002 E. Main, Urbana, son of N.W. Davis and Maud Chamberlain Davis. He graduated from Urbana High School and attended the University of Illinois.
At one time he was employed for the old Champaign Gazette and the Courier. He later moved to Chicago where he was with the Chicago Daily News serving there for four years. He also was employed with the Chicago American.
He had served as managing editor for the Baltimore American, Baltimore Md., and until his illness was employed for the Albany Times Union, Albany, N.Y.
He was married to the former Inez E. White, October 28, 1911, at Urbana. She died in August 193(5). He later married Mrs. Mae Hyde, in September 1936.
Surviving his wife, two sons, Robert E. Davis, Falls Church, Va; and Charles E. Davis Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.; a step-daughter, Elayne Hyde, Albany, N.Y.; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Tipps, 1002 E. Main, Urbana, and Mrs. Grace O. Davis, Hendersonville, N.C.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister.
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