History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 589.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

HON. SAMUEL M. DAVIS, State Senator; Georgetown; is the son of Theophilus
Davis, who was a prominent farmer of his native county oF Shelby, and died
in 1845, leaving four sons and three daughters.  Of this number, the
oldest brother, Co. John F. Davis, served in the Confederate army, on the
staff of Gen. John C. Breckinridge, and during the last year of the war,
commanded an Alabama regiment, and was elected Clerk of the Shelby County
Court, being also a prominent candidate for the Clerk of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, in the race of 1882.  Our subject, Samuel M. Davis, was
born in Shelby County, Ky., Aug. 2, 1836.  He laid the foundations for
his future usefulness in a good English education, obtained in the common
schools and Shelby College.  On attaining manhood he engaged in farming
and trading in his native county, until 1866, when he removed to Georgetown
and purchased a farm near its limits, and continued farm operations with
increased success, dealing largely in stock of all kinds, until 1878.  In
September, 1878, he formed a partnership with J. Webb and conducted a
large and successful business in dry goods in Georgetown, until 1882.  In
politics, Mr. Davis has always been a staunch Democrat, and was first
elected to the Georgetown Board of Trustees in 1871, and served in that
body seven years, the last three as its Chairman.  He was elected Chairman
of the County Democratic Committee in 1879, and discharged its duties with
ability during the campaigns of 1880 and '81.  He was nominated in July,
1880, to fill the unexpired term of Jas. Blackburn, in the State Senate,
from the 22nd Senatorial District, and elected to the office without
opposition.  Mr. Davis is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Sinking Fund,
and member of the following committees: Penitentiary, Bank and Insurance,
Morals of Religion, and Propositions and Grievances.  He was married in
1865 to Miss Alice, daughter of Joseph B. Kenney, of Georgetown, and has
two children living.

Davis Kenney
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Shelby-KY

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