Son of Daniel Weston Davis and his wife Sarah Eliza Ladd.
Clarence Ladd Davis was a brillant inventor, patent attorney, and published poet. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 in Michigan, and practiced law in both Farwell and East Saginaw, MI. He was also a notary public in Saginaw.
He wrote a series of articles in 1885 for the Saginaw Evening News on the labor question, which garnered the attention and support of laboring men. He was their candidate for city recorder in early 1886. He was a circuit court commissioner in Saginaw in 1887.
Soon after, he moved to New York City where he worked as a journalist for some time, before resuming his law career, making a name for himself as a successful patent attorney.
Clarence was vice-president of the Western Association of Writers in 1886-7, and a trustee of the organization in 1888. Some of his poems were compiled in the volume, "The Legend of the Nightingale and Other Poems".
He married Alvesta Cleora Scott-Browne in 1894 in New York City-- when he was 33 and she 53. Scott-Browne had been a long-time prominent leader in the new field of phonography or shorthand as a profession, being a co-founder and teacher at the "Scott-Browne College of Phonography", and author of textbooks.
He in known to have received at least three patents for inventions, including an automatic fire extinguisher, and a method for preventing water tanks from freezing.
Mr. Davis and his wife were both interested in modern religious thought and teachings, such as the Christian Scientist and Unity churches. He suffered from several ailments later in life including depression, which caused a tragic event in 1905. He attempted suicide by stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck on a Brooklyn street. He narrowly survived.
Little is known about his subsequent years, other than it appears he separated from his wife before her death in 1916. He also lived and practiced patent law in Boston from about 1923 to 1926. He apparently never remarried nor had any children.
According to his death certificate in 1927, he died of throat cancer and exhaustion at the age of 65, at the Kings Park State Hospital in Brooklyn. He was apparently buried with his parents in Manchester, NH, but there are no tombstones for any of them.
Clarence Ladd Davis was a brillant inventor, patent attorney, and published poet. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 in Michigan, and practiced law in both Farwell and East Saginaw, MI. He was also a notary public in Saginaw.
He wrote a series of articles in 1885 for the Saginaw Evening News on the labor question, which garnered the attention and support of laboring men. He was their candidate for city recorder in early 1886. He was a circuit court commissioner in Saginaw in 1887.
Soon after, he moved to New York City where he worked as a journalist for some time, before resuming his law career, making a name for himself as a successful patent attorney.
Clarence was vice-president of the Western Association of Writers in 1886-7, and a trustee of the organization in 1888. Some of his poems were compiled in the volume, "The Legend of the Nightingale and Other Poems".
He married Alvesta Cleora Scott-Browne in 1894 in New York City-- when he was 33 and she 53. Scott-Browne had been a long-time prominent leader in the new field of phonography or shorthand as a profession, being a co-founder and teacher at the "Scott-Browne College of Phonography", and author of textbooks.
He in known to have received at least three patents for inventions, including an automatic fire extinguisher, and a method for preventing water tanks from freezing.
Mr. Davis and his wife were both interested in modern religious thought and teachings, such as the Christian Scientist and Unity churches. He suffered from several ailments later in life including depression, which caused a tragic event in 1905. He attempted suicide by stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck on a Brooklyn street. He narrowly survived.
Little is known about his subsequent years, other than it appears he separated from his wife before her death in 1916. He also lived and practiced patent law in Boston from about 1923 to 1926. He apparently never remarried nor had any children.
According to his death certificate in 1927, he died of throat cancer and exhaustion at the age of 65, at the Kings Park State Hospital in Brooklyn. He was apparently buried with his parents in Manchester, NH, but there are no tombstones for any of them.
Son of Daniel Weston Davis and his wife Sarah Eliza Ladd.
Clarence Ladd Davis was a brillant inventor, patent attorney, and published poet. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 in Michigan, and practiced law in both Farwell and East Saginaw, MI. He was also a notary public in Saginaw.
He wrote a series of articles in 1885 for the Saginaw Evening News on the labor question, which garnered the attention and support of laboring men. He was their candidate for city recorder in early 1886. He was a circuit court commissioner in Saginaw in 1887.
Soon after, he moved to New York City where he worked as a journalist for some time, before resuming his law career, making a name for himself as a successful patent attorney.
Clarence was vice-president of the Western Association of Writers in 1886-7, and a trustee of the organization in 1888. Some of his poems were compiled in the volume, "The Legend of the Nightingale and Other Poems".
He married Alvesta Cleora Scott-Browne in 1894 in New York City-- when he was 33 and she 53. Scott-Browne had been a long-time prominent leader in the new field of phonography or shorthand as a profession, being a co-founder and teacher at the "Scott-Browne College of Phonography", and author of textbooks.
He in known to have received at least three patents for inventions, including an automatic fire extinguisher, and a method for preventing water tanks from freezing.
Mr. Davis and his wife were both interested in modern religious thought and teachings, such as the Christian Scientist and Unity churches. He suffered from several ailments later in life including depression, which caused a tragic event in 1905. He attempted suicide by stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck on a Brooklyn street. He narrowly survived.
Little is known about his subsequent years, other than it appears he separated from his wife before her death in 1916. He also lived and practiced patent law in Boston from about 1923 to 1926. He apparently never remarried nor had any children.
According to his death certificate in 1927, he died of throat cancer and exhaustion at the age of 65, at the Kings Park State Hospital in Brooklyn. He was apparently buried with his parents in Manchester, NH, but there are no tombstones for any of them.
Clarence Ladd Davis was a brillant inventor, patent attorney, and published poet. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 in Michigan, and practiced law in both Farwell and East Saginaw, MI. He was also a notary public in Saginaw.
He wrote a series of articles in 1885 for the Saginaw Evening News on the labor question, which garnered the attention and support of laboring men. He was their candidate for city recorder in early 1886. He was a circuit court commissioner in Saginaw in 1887.
Soon after, he moved to New York City where he worked as a journalist for some time, before resuming his law career, making a name for himself as a successful patent attorney.
Clarence was vice-president of the Western Association of Writers in 1886-7, and a trustee of the organization in 1888. Some of his poems were compiled in the volume, "The Legend of the Nightingale and Other Poems".
He married Alvesta Cleora Scott-Browne in 1894 in New York City-- when he was 33 and she 53. Scott-Browne had been a long-time prominent leader in the new field of phonography or shorthand as a profession, being a co-founder and teacher at the "Scott-Browne College of Phonography", and author of textbooks.
He in known to have received at least three patents for inventions, including an automatic fire extinguisher, and a method for preventing water tanks from freezing.
Mr. Davis and his wife were both interested in modern religious thought and teachings, such as the Christian Scientist and Unity churches. He suffered from several ailments later in life including depression, which caused a tragic event in 1905. He attempted suicide by stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck on a Brooklyn street. He narrowly survived.
Little is known about his subsequent years, other than it appears he separated from his wife before her death in 1916. He also lived and practiced patent law in Boston from about 1923 to 1926. He apparently never remarried nor had any children.
According to his death certificate in 1927, he died of throat cancer and exhaustion at the age of 65, at the Kings Park State Hospital in Brooklyn. He was apparently buried with his parents in Manchester, NH, but there are no tombstones for any of them.
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Buried in lot 1090, there is no stone for him.
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This memorial is due in thanks to Kathy Redwing, who rescued a photo of Mr. Davis from an antique store in North Carolina and saw that his memory was not forgotten.
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