STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, Wednesday, April 13, 1898, page 1, column 7

ADELBERT EUGENE DAVIS, 07 Jan 1856-09 Apr 1898 (picture included in obit)

	Adelbert Eugene Davis was born in Jackson township, Steuben 
county, Ind., Jan. 7, 1856, his parents, Horace E. and Rebecca 
Davis, being pioneers of this county.
	In 1872, he entered the Angola High school where he remained 
for two years.  From 1876 to 1880, he taught school in Otsego 
township, and afterwards taught the Hamilton school.
	He graduated from the Philosophical course in the Hillsdale 
College in 1883.  He was president of the Amphictyon society two 
terms, almost an unprecedented honor in that society.  While in 
college there, and being short of funds, he walked all the way to 
Jackson township to cast his first vote for James A. Garfield.
	Afterward he was principal of the Fremont academy for one 
year, and then principal of the Edon, Ohio, school.
	After the founding of the Angola Tri-State Normal, he was 
elected one of its teachers, but left the school to prepare for his 
chosen profession.
	In 1886 he was elected to the legislature, and re-elected in 
1888.  While in that body, he was always at his post of duty, active 
and aggressive, ever on the alert for the interests of the 
constituency he represented.
	He was admitted to the bar Sept. 4, 1888, and afterwards 
admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state.  In 1888-9 
he formed a law partnership with R. Wes McBride.  Later he was 
associated with Frank S. Roby.  In 1889 he entered the pension 
agency at Indianapolis and remained there four years.
	March 1, 1894, he formed a partnership with Hon. Wm. M. Brown 
which continued until his death.
	He was elected Prosecutor of the 35th judicial district in 
1894, and held this office two years.  He was married Nov. 2, 1897, 
to Elizabeth Barr, of Chicago.  He was taken sick February 11, and 
after a lingering sickness of eight weeks, died April 9, 1898.
	He was a member of the K. of P. Lodge and a member of the 
grand lodge and was an honored and respected member of that order.
  	As a public officer he was honest and courageous, efficient 
and reliable.  As an attorney he commanded the respect of the bar 
and court.  As a citizen he was truthful in all things.  The funeral 
took place from the M.E. church, Monday afternoon, under the 
direction of the K. of P. order, and was largely attended, Rev. F. 
M. Kemper officiating.  Interment in Circle Hill cemetery.

STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1898, page 2, col. 5

				IN MEMORIAM

	The committee on resolutions of respect and condolence to the 
wife of our deceased Brother, A. E. Davis, beg to submit the 
following:
	WHEREAS, Death has for the third time entered our Temple and 
this time to take from our midst, Brother Davis.  Again our heavenly 
Father has deemed it wise in His infinite wisdom that we should 
pause and note the admonition that sooner or later must come to all, 
that in he midst of life we are in death, and, whereas, it is meant 
that we shall bow submissively to His supreme will in the removal 
forever from our midsts our dearly beloved Brother, let it be
	Resolved, that in A. E. Davis, our Temple possessed a member 
whose entire career was replete with evidences of a quality in head 
and heart, wherein were combined all of the grand elements that 
constitute the truest type of manhood.  Possessor of a warm heart 
and a strong arm, he was ever found foremost in doing deeds of 
charity and love, and never could the cry of distress fall unheeded 
on his sympathetic ear.
	Resolved, That we extend to his bereaved wife our tenderest 
sympathies, and may God who has promised to be a husband to the 
widow, sustain her in this greatest of all trials.
	Resolved, that as a token of respect, our charter be draped in 
mourning for thirty days.
	Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be printed in our 
weekly papers and spread upon the records of our Temple, that a copy 
be sent under the seal of this Temple to the widow of our deceased 
Brother.
	Committee:  JOSIE WICKWIRE,
			JENNIE CAPENER, 
			WILMA ELSTON.    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

	Adelbert Eugene Davis, 07 Jan 1856-09 Apr 1898, was the son of 
Horace Ephriam Davis and his 1st wife, Rebecca P. (VanCleve) Davis, 
11 Feb 1831-21 Jan 1864.  He married Elizabeth M. (Barr) Davis who 
was born 18 Feb 1862.  No date of death listed on her tombstone.

"Cemeteries of Steuben Co., Ind., 1990" by Audree Siebel Lewis, Vol. 
I, pages 466, 467, 470, 472.  The information in this book states 
his name was Amos Eugene or Eugene Amos, according to whim.  He is 
listed in the 1880 Federal Census as Eugene A., age 34.