Davis, John (b. , d. ?)

Note: John Davis, who married Charity Ann Wisehart, was also a soldier. He
enlisted from Middletown in Company G, 8 4th Indiana Infantry, and was
mustered into the service of the United States, as a private, August 20,
1862m and participated in all the marches, skirmishes and battles of that
regiment. He was wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia, September 20, 1863.
At the end of the war he was mustered out with his regiment, June 14,1865.
He returned to Middletown, the home of his youth, where he has since
resided, being principally engaged in farming. In very requirement of life, Mr.
Davis has been found on the side of morality and honor.

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Death: 20 JUL 1862

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Death: 20 JUN 1853

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Death: 1915

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Death: 1914

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Death: 16 MAY 1873 West Lancaster, Keokuk Co., Iowa

Burial: Pennington Cemetery, Sigourney, Keokuk Co., Iowa

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Note: Francis E. Warren was born in Hinsdale, Massachusetts on June 20, 1844. He served as a private and non-commissioned officer during the Civil War, earning a Medal of Honor. He farmed and raised stock for a short time in Massachusetts before heading west to what would be Wyoming, but was then part of Dakota Territory, in 1868. He engaged in several business ventures, including real estate, livestock, mercantile, and promotion of the first lighting system in Cheyenne. In 1871 Warren married Helen M. Smith, also of Hinsdale, and they made their home in the young town of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory.

Warren’s political career was marked by a steady rise in influence. He was a member of the Cheyenne City Council in 1873 and 1874. In 1873 Warren was also elected to the Council of the Territorial Assembly. The Council elected him as their president. Warren was appointed to two terms as Territorial Treasurer. He was again elected to the Territorial Council in 1884, and to the office of Mayor of Cheyenne in 1885. In the same year, he was appointed by President Chester Arthur to fill the unexpired term of governor William Hale. A second appointment as governor was made by President Benjamin Harrison in 1889.

Warren was elected Wyoming’s first state governor in October, 1890, but served only about six weeks before being elected by the state legislature as one of Wyoming’s first United States Senators, beginning a highly distinguished career in that capacity. Tragedy struck the family in 1915 when daughter Frances Warren Pershing, wife of General John J. Pershing, and three granddaughters died in a fire at the Presidio in San Francisco.

Warren served in the Senate until his death in Washington, D.C. on November 24, 1929, a tenure longer than any other senator’s to that time. He was buried in Cheyenne

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