Davis, Joseph H. (1811-1865)

Name:

Davis, Joseph H. (1811-1865)

Title:

Treasurer, Mount Eagle Manufacturing Company, Newfield, ME, 1847
Assessor, City of Morristown, New Jersey, 1853

Born:

08/10/1811

Birthplace:

Limington, ME

Died:

05/28/1865

Death Location:

Woburn, MA

Residence:

Limington, ME 1811, 1821, 1830
Saco, ME 1835
Vassalboro, ME 1835-1840
Wilmington, ME 1841, 1842
Newfield, ME 1844-1847
Morristown, NJ 1848-1855
Woburn, MA 1855-1865

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Trader
Portrait Painter
Inventor

Father:

Davis, Joseph

Mother:

Small, Phebe

Spouse:

Elizabeth Patterson, November 5, 1835, Biddeford, ME

Children:

Elizabeth Anna, born 1839; died 1863

Notes:

Ruth B. Ayers, Early Families of Newfield, Maine. Camden, Maine: Penobscot Press, 1995, 168-169.

Arthur B. and Sybil B. Kern, "On the Importance of Genealogical Methodolgy in Researching Early New England Folk Portraits," in The Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), 254-259, 271-272.

Arthur B. and Sybil B. Kern, "Joseph H. Davis: Identity Established," The Clarion: America's Folk Art Magazine, 14(Summer 1989)3, 45-53.

Nina Fletcher Little, "New Light on Joseph H. Davis, 'Left Hand Painter'," Antiques, 98(November 1970),5, 754-757.

Gail Savage, Norbert H. Savage, and Esther Sparks, Three New England Watercolor Painters. Chicago, Illinois: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1974, 22-41, 57-65.

Frank O. Spinney, "Joseph H. Davis, New Hampshire Artist of the 1830's," Antiques, 44(October, 1943)4, 177-180.

Frank O. Spinney, "The Method of Joseph H. Davis," Antiques, 46(August, 1944)2, 73.

Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco, ME