Biography

1814 - 1892

DAVIS, Waterman J., a Representative from Cameron, Clinton and McKean Counties; born, 1814 in Otsego County, NY; clerk; merchant; engaged, lumber business; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1869 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1870 term; elected, commissioner, McKean County; justice of the peace; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Port Allegany (1885-1891); died, 1892 in Port Allegany, McKean County, Pennsylvania; interred, Port Allegany Cemetery, Port Allegany, McKean County, Pennsylvania.