JAMES P. DAVIS was born in this county February 29, 1837, and he is one of the eleven children born to Isaac and Mary (Phillips) Davis. When James P. was about six years old, he went with his father from Big Creek Township, this county, to Carroll County, Ind., where they remained about six years, and then came back to White and located in this township, three miles southwest of James' present place, to which he came in April, 1876, May 12, 1859, Mr. Davis married Eliza J. Engler, who has given birth to three children-Isaac, Mary and Ida. Mary is dead. In November, 1864, he enlisted in the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and returned in July, 1865; his residence is eleven miles northeast of Monticello, and he has a farm of 160 acres of fine, level land, with comfortable dwelling, stables, wind mill and other conveniences; he is a member of the I.O.O.F., and is one of Liberty's most enterprising citizens.

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