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Joseph Emory Davis was born on 10 December 1784, near Augusta, Georgia.He was the oldest of the ten children of Samuel Emory Davis (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Province of Pennsylvania, 1756 - 4 July 1824) and wife (1783) Jane (Cook) Davis (Christian County (later Todd County), Kentucky, 1759 - 3 October 1845), paternal grandson of Evan Davis (Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, Great Britain ...
Joseph Robert Davis was born on January 12, 1825, in Louisiana, to Isaac and Susan (née Hartley) Davis, who were of Welsh and Irish origin, respectively. He attended Miami University. Davis engaged in private law practice in Madison County, Mississippi until 1860, [5] when he was elected to the state senate. [3]
He had served as surrogate father and de facto guardian for his brother Jefferson Davis, who was 23 years younger. In the 1830s, Joseph Davis gave Jefferson the full use of more than 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) adjoining Hurricane. Jefferson Davis developed a plantation here, naming it Brierfield. Specific details of the arrangement are uncertain ...
Joseph Edward Davies (November 29, 1876 – May 9, 1958) was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 to be the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission .
Joseph Stancliffe Davis (November 5, 1885 – April 23, 1975) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Stanford University and a long-time director of the newly established Food Research Institute .
Joseph Jonathan Davis (April 13, 1828 – August 7, 1892) was an American lawyer and judge who represented his native North Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1875 to 1881. Biography [ edit ]
Joseph H. Davis (active 1832–1837; died May 25, 1865) was an itinerant American portrait painter. Over a period of only five years, from 1832 to 1837, he painted about 150 watercolor portraits of residents of Maine and New Hampshire. [ 1 ]
Davis was a critic of the idea of human speciation.He believed that comparative anatomy would demonstrate that racial differences were immutable. [12] He supported anti-evolutionary views, and presented a paper to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1868, on brain weight, [13] publishing Contributions towards Determining the Weight of the Brain in Different Races of Man ...