Livingston Davis died at Brookline, Mass., January 11, 1932. He was the son of the late Edward L. Davis,
formerly mayor of Worcester and for many years a member of the Council of the American Antiquarian
Society. He was born in Worcester, August 13, 1882, prepared for college at the Noble Greenough School in Boston, and entered Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1904. Soon after graduation he entered
the banking office of George Mixter and became a partner in the firm in 1907. On the death of Mr.
Mixter in 1910, Mr. Davis carried on the business until it was merged with Bond & Goodwin in 1917. In WWI, he was appointed assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a fellow member of the Harvard Class of 1904. His duties consisted mainly of personnel work and liaison with allied navies. In 1918 he inspected United States naval bases in Europe and later in the year aided in the task of disposing of United States naval property abroad. The following year he resigned his position in the Navy and joined the American Relief Administration, of which Mr. Hoover was director, in Paris. After two months spent chiefly in central Europe, he returned to Boston in 1919 and resumed his association with Bond & Goodwin, of which firm he was vice-president until his retirement in 1928. Davis described these years in detail in his 1922 Report for the Records of the Class of 1904, which can be accessed online. In 1930 Davis was appointed Belgian consul at Boston, a position particularly pleasant to
him because of his personal association with King Albert of Belgium during the war.
Mr. Davis married Alice Gardiner, daughter of Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., and Boston, on
April 23, 1908; they divorced in the period between 1924 and 1926, and on August 31, 1927, he married
Georgia Appleton of New York City, who survived him, with an adopted son, James Hepburn Davis, Jamie, who was born in Philadelphia to unknown parents on May 5, 1915 and adopted November 7, 1916. Davis was a member of the Eastern Yacht Club and competed in many races on the East Coast in a series of vessels. He also enjoyed curling.
Livingston Davis died by suicide on January 11, 1932, aged 49. The Boston Globe on January 12 wrote:
"Livingston Davis, Belgian consul and prominent Boston banker and trustee ended his own life by shooting in a woodshed on the estate of Daniel G. Wing in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline about 4:20 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Davis, in poor health for some time, had been at a sanitarium in Concord for about a week. He returned to his home, 240 Dudley st., Brookline, for a few hours' visit about 1:30 yesterday afternoon. He was missed shortly after 2 o'clock when he is believed to have walked 400 yards through the woods in the rear of his home to the Wing estate." His body was found by a caretaker. The obituary includes the following reminiscence: "In 1923 Mr. Davis engaged in experiments in collaboration with Prof. E. P. Warner of [The Massachusetts Institute] Technology in an endeavor to discover the distribution of aerodynamical forces over the surface of a sail boat in motion. After three months of experiments in a wind tunnel Mr. Davis moored his boat in the Charles River basin and worked for two months on his problem."
Funeral services for Davis were held on January 13 at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill.
formerly mayor of Worcester and for many years a member of the Council of the American Antiquarian
Society. He was born in Worcester, August 13, 1882, prepared for college at the Noble Greenough School in Boston, and entered Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1904. Soon after graduation he entered
the banking office of George Mixter and became a partner in the firm in 1907. On the death of Mr.
Mixter in 1910, Mr. Davis carried on the business until it was merged with Bond & Goodwin in 1917. In WWI, he was appointed assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a fellow member of the Harvard Class of 1904. His duties consisted mainly of personnel work and liaison with allied navies. In 1918 he inspected United States naval bases in Europe and later in the year aided in the task of disposing of United States naval property abroad. The following year he resigned his position in the Navy and joined the American Relief Administration, of which Mr. Hoover was director, in Paris. After two months spent chiefly in central Europe, he returned to Boston in 1919 and resumed his association with Bond & Goodwin, of which firm he was vice-president until his retirement in 1928. Davis described these years in detail in his 1922 Report for the Records of the Class of 1904, which can be accessed online. In 1930 Davis was appointed Belgian consul at Boston, a position particularly pleasant to
him because of his personal association with King Albert of Belgium during the war.
Mr. Davis married Alice Gardiner, daughter of Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., and Boston, on
April 23, 1908; they divorced in the period between 1924 and 1926, and on August 31, 1927, he married
Georgia Appleton of New York City, who survived him, with an adopted son, James Hepburn Davis, Jamie, who was born in Philadelphia to unknown parents on May 5, 1915 and adopted November 7, 1916. Davis was a member of the Eastern Yacht Club and competed in many races on the East Coast in a series of vessels. He also enjoyed curling.
Livingston Davis died by suicide on January 11, 1932, aged 49. The Boston Globe on January 12 wrote:
"Livingston Davis, Belgian consul and prominent Boston banker and trustee ended his own life by shooting in a woodshed on the estate of Daniel G. Wing in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline about 4:20 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Davis, in poor health for some time, had been at a sanitarium in Concord for about a week. He returned to his home, 240 Dudley st., Brookline, for a few hours' visit about 1:30 yesterday afternoon. He was missed shortly after 2 o'clock when he is believed to have walked 400 yards through the woods in the rear of his home to the Wing estate." His body was found by a caretaker. The obituary includes the following reminiscence: "In 1923 Mr. Davis engaged in experiments in collaboration with Prof. E. P. Warner of [The Massachusetts Institute] Technology in an endeavor to discover the distribution of aerodynamical forces over the surface of a sail boat in motion. After three months of experiments in a wind tunnel Mr. Davis moored his boat in the Charles River basin and worked for two months on his problem."
Funeral services for Davis were held on January 13 at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill.
Livingston Davis died at Brookline, Mass., January 11, 1932. He was the son of the late Edward L. Davis,
formerly mayor of Worcester and for many years a member of the Council of the American Antiquarian
Society. He was born in Worcester, August 13, 1882, prepared for college at the Noble Greenough School in Boston, and entered Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1904. Soon after graduation he entered
the banking office of George Mixter and became a partner in the firm in 1907. On the death of Mr.
Mixter in 1910, Mr. Davis carried on the business until it was merged with Bond & Goodwin in 1917. In WWI, he was appointed assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a fellow member of the Harvard Class of 1904. His duties consisted mainly of personnel work and liaison with allied navies. In 1918 he inspected United States naval bases in Europe and later in the year aided in the task of disposing of United States naval property abroad. The following year he resigned his position in the Navy and joined the American Relief Administration, of which Mr. Hoover was director, in Paris. After two months spent chiefly in central Europe, he returned to Boston in 1919 and resumed his association with Bond & Goodwin, of which firm he was vice-president until his retirement in 1928. Davis described these years in detail in his 1922 Report for the Records of the Class of 1904, which can be accessed online. In 1930 Davis was appointed Belgian consul at Boston, a position particularly pleasant to
him because of his personal association with King Albert of Belgium during the war.
Mr. Davis married Alice Gardiner, daughter of Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., and Boston, on
April 23, 1908; they divorced in the period between 1924 and 1926, and on August 31, 1927, he married
Georgia Appleton of New York City, who survived him, with an adopted son, James Hepburn Davis, Jamie, who was born in Philadelphia to unknown parents on May 5, 1915 and adopted November 7, 1916. Davis was a member of the Eastern Yacht Club and competed in many races on the East Coast in a series of vessels. He also enjoyed curling.
Livingston Davis died by suicide on January 11, 1932, aged 49. The Boston Globe on January 12 wrote:
"Livingston Davis, Belgian consul and prominent Boston banker and trustee ended his own life by shooting in a woodshed on the estate of Daniel G. Wing in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline about 4:20 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Davis, in poor health for some time, had been at a sanitarium in Concord for about a week. He returned to his home, 240 Dudley st., Brookline, for a few hours' visit about 1:30 yesterday afternoon. He was missed shortly after 2 o'clock when he is believed to have walked 400 yards through the woods in the rear of his home to the Wing estate." His body was found by a caretaker. The obituary includes the following reminiscence: "In 1923 Mr. Davis engaged in experiments in collaboration with Prof. E. P. Warner of [The Massachusetts Institute] Technology in an endeavor to discover the distribution of aerodynamical forces over the surface of a sail boat in motion. After three months of experiments in a wind tunnel Mr. Davis moored his boat in the Charles River basin and worked for two months on his problem."
Funeral services for Davis were held on January 13 at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill.
formerly mayor of Worcester and for many years a member of the Council of the American Antiquarian
Society. He was born in Worcester, August 13, 1882, prepared for college at the Noble Greenough School in Boston, and entered Harvard, from which he was graduated in 1904. Soon after graduation he entered
the banking office of George Mixter and became a partner in the firm in 1907. On the death of Mr.
Mixter in 1910, Mr. Davis carried on the business until it was merged with Bond & Goodwin in 1917. In WWI, he was appointed assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and a fellow member of the Harvard Class of 1904. His duties consisted mainly of personnel work and liaison with allied navies. In 1918 he inspected United States naval bases in Europe and later in the year aided in the task of disposing of United States naval property abroad. The following year he resigned his position in the Navy and joined the American Relief Administration, of which Mr. Hoover was director, in Paris. After two months spent chiefly in central Europe, he returned to Boston in 1919 and resumed his association with Bond & Goodwin, of which firm he was vice-president until his retirement in 1928. Davis described these years in detail in his 1922 Report for the Records of the Class of 1904, which can be accessed online. In 1930 Davis was appointed Belgian consul at Boston, a position particularly pleasant to
him because of his personal association with King Albert of Belgium during the war.
Mr. Davis married Alice Gardiner, daughter of Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., and Boston, on
April 23, 1908; they divorced in the period between 1924 and 1926, and on August 31, 1927, he married
Georgia Appleton of New York City, who survived him, with an adopted son, James Hepburn Davis, Jamie, who was born in Philadelphia to unknown parents on May 5, 1915 and adopted November 7, 1916. Davis was a member of the Eastern Yacht Club and competed in many races on the East Coast in a series of vessels. He also enjoyed curling.
Livingston Davis died by suicide on January 11, 1932, aged 49. The Boston Globe on January 12 wrote:
"Livingston Davis, Belgian consul and prominent Boston banker and trustee ended his own life by shooting in a woodshed on the estate of Daniel G. Wing in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline about 4:20 yesterday afternoon. Mr. Davis, in poor health for some time, had been at a sanitarium in Concord for about a week. He returned to his home, 240 Dudley st., Brookline, for a few hours' visit about 1:30 yesterday afternoon. He was missed shortly after 2 o'clock when he is believed to have walked 400 yards through the woods in the rear of his home to the Wing estate." His body was found by a caretaker. The obituary includes the following reminiscence: "In 1923 Mr. Davis engaged in experiments in collaboration with Prof. E. P. Warner of [The Massachusetts Institute] Technology in an endeavor to discover the distribution of aerodynamical forces over the surface of a sail boat in motion. After three months of experiments in a wind tunnel Mr. Davis moored his boat in the Charles River basin and worked for two months on his problem."
Funeral services for Davis were held on January 13 at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill.
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