Silas W. Davis.

Silas Wright Davis, son of Eleazer and Mary A. (Gilman) Davis, was born March 29, 1841, at Gilford, New Hampshire. He began his classical studies at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Tilton, New Hampshire, and entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, August 24, 1860..

Immediately after graduating, he commenced the study of medicine with the late Prof. A. B. Crosby, and remained with him for three years, attending the lectures meanwhile at Dartmouth Medical College, and taking his degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in May, 1867. He then went with Prof. Crosby to Burlington, Vermont, as his assistant in a course of lectures on surgery. In July, 1867, he went to Plymouth, New Hampshire, and engaged actively in the practice of his profession until July, 1880, when sickness came upon him, and he was unable to attend to business for three months. In the Fall of the same year, he sold his office and furniture to another physician, and devoted himself entirely to the recovery of his health, with but imperfect success for a long time. He has spent a considerable time in traveling during the past two years. In June, 1882, he took a trip into the Northwest as far as Montana Territory, returning by way of the lakes from Duluth to Buffalo. He spent most of the Winter of 1882-3 with his family among the pines and orange groves of Florida, receiving much benefit from both of these trips. For the past year he has resided at Winchester, Massachusetts, eight miles from Boston, where he has easy access to the various hospitals of the city. His health has greatly improved during the past year, and he is again engaging in professional work to some extent, but is also interested in financial matters.  He has attained success in his profession, inclining especially to surgery, having performed nearly all the amputations, excepting that at the hip-joint, and all with very good results.

For the past ten years he has operated quite extensively and successfully in Western mortgage loans. During this period, he has also been a Director in the Citizens' National Bank, and a Trustee of the Iona Savings Bank, of Tilton, New Hampshire. 

In 1875 he was elected Superintendent of the School Committee of Plymouth,New Hampshire, which position he occupied for three years.

He was married November 11, 1869, to Mrs. Dora D. Johnson, daughter of Col. John Keniston, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, the ceremony being performed by our classmate Rev. Cyrus Richardson, it being his first experience in that line. They have two children: George H., born December 1, 1874, and Charles E., born October 13, 1880.
  

Source:  "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago