EDWARD TAFT DAVID.

EDWARD TAFT DAVID.
Edward Taft David is the owner of one of the finest business blocks in Douglas and ranks with its representative citizens, controlling important trade relations which constitute an element in the growth and progress of his city as well as in the development of his individual fortunes. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa, July 3, 1858, a son of William Glenn and Sarah (Taft) David. He acquired a common school education in New York and afterward attended the Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He started out in the business world in connection with the coal and grocery trade. He has been a resident of Wyoming since 1882 and is today one of its most prominent merchants, controlling an extensive business as a dealer in furniture, hardware, farm implements and lumber; and something of his success is indicated in the fact that he now has one of the finest business blocks of the city. His trade relations have ever been such as would bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. His business policy has won for him the respect of all and his success has been the direct outcome of close application, unfaltering energy and unabating enterprise. Mr. David was united in marriage to Miss Mary Beebe, of Brooklyn, New York. In his fraternal relations he is a consistory Mason and exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. His political allegiance has long been given to the republican party and he was a member of the last territorial legislature of Wyoming. He has been allied with many patriotic movements and plans for the general improvement and upbuilding of city, county and state. His wife is president of the board of trustees of the State University and their influence has ever been on the side of those activities which have had most to do with advancing the material, intellectual, social, political and moral welfare of Wyoming.

Edward Taft David is the owner of one of the finest business blocks in Douglas and ranks with its representative citizens, controlling important trade relations which constitute an element in the growth and progress of his city as well as in the development of his individual fortunes.
He was born in Dubuque, Iowa, July 3, 1858, a son of William Glenn and Sarah (Taft) David. He acquired a common school education in New York and afterward attended the Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He started out in the business world in connection with the coal and grocery trade. He has been a resident of Wyoming since 1882 and is today one of its most prominent merchants, controlling an extensive business as a dealer in furniture, hardware, farm implements and lumber; and something of his success is indicated in the fact that he now has one of the finest business blocks of the city. His trade relations have ever been such as would bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. His business policy has won for him the respect of all and his success has been the direct outcome of close application, unfaltering energy and unabating enterprise.
Mr. David was united in marriage to Miss Mary Beebe, of Brooklyn, New York. In his fraternal relations he is a consistory Mason and exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. His political allegiance has long been given to the republican party and he was a member of the last territorial legislature of Wyoming. He has been allied with many patriotic movements and plans for the general improvement and upbuilding of city, county and state. His wife is president of the board of trustees of the State University and their influence has ever been on the side of those activities which have had most to do with advancing the material, intellectual, social, political and moral welfare of Wyoming.