Brief Life History of Daniel Coon
When Daniel Coon Davis Jr. was born on 4 January 1842, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, Daniel Coon Davis Sr, was 37 and his mother, Sophronia Fuller, was 37. He married Mary Julia Bensen on 24 December 1865, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870. He died on 5 October 1878, in Richville, Morgan, Utah, United States, at the age of 36.
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- Daniel Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
- The Mormon Battalion: US Army of the West (1846-1848)
- Daniel Coon Davis Jr, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Iowa is the 29th state.
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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