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MARQUIS L. DAVIS, farmer and stock raiser, post-office Carthage, was born in Madison county, Ky., April 12, 1823. In 1828 his parents immigrated to Missouri and settled in Cole county, where our subject was reared. His father met with severe losses in his native state, and was now unable to work, consequently Marquis being the eldest child soon assumed the responsibility of providing for the family, thus proving himself a dutiful son and brother. He remained with his parents until 1854, when he went overland to California and engaged in farming and stock-raising with varying success, until 1858, when he returned to Cole county, Mo., where on Jan. 8th, 1859, he was married to Miss Nancy Sailing, a native of Missouri, and moved to Bourbon county, Kan., the same year engaging in farming and stock-raising. His wife died Nov. 1, 1862, aged thirty. He was married a second, time, to Miss Louisa Cayle, in Kansas, October 16, 1863. Of this union there are four children. Mr. Davis became a resident of Jasper county in 1867; he purchased and improved the farm upon which he now lives, situated on Center Creek, seven miles from Carthage, consisting of 160 acres, with 100 acres in cultivation. He has during his day raised and marketed many hundred head of cattle, but is now turning his attention to sheep-raising, of which he owns a good flock. He also owns another farm of eighty-eight acres, well improved, on North Fork in Medoc township. Mr. Davis is an industrious, energetic farmer, and takes an interest in public affairs and the good of the community.