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ELIJAH DAVIS, Postmaster, Aberdeen, was born in Franklin County, Ind., April 5, 1822, and is a son of P. Davis, a native of South Carolina, and one of the first settlers in Franklin County, Ind., where he died. The early life of our subject was passed in Brookville, Ind., where he received the rudiments of his education. When of proper age, he began learning the carpenter’s trade, which he followed for several years, then went to Cincinnati and engaged in the work of a millwright, and for one man worked ten years. In 1865, he came to Aberdeen and engaged in the grocery business, and afterward the dry goods business, which he followed six years He was appointed Postmaster during Hayes’ administration. In 1881, he built the grist-mill in Aberdeen, which is one of the best in Southern Ohio, and cost $13,000. Mr. D. has been Trustee of the township two years, and has also been a member of the School Board and Town Council; he was married, in 1856, to Miss J. Fulton, by whom he has had seven children, five of whom are living, viz., Lizzie, Joe, Hannah, Titus and Gertrude. The deceased — Grant and Sherman, twins.