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rxitdi-eenudylitylingformlythis;tcp*t-ourofnc-ry-JditIfticsIcyrayortoviUad-ar-asrth-•ds,vo-iedCCS•ch.laytheuf-theIcl-ofM R5.J. STEWARD DAVIS(Continued from Pare 1)his body could not b: identified.These point out that the attorney must b: dead, or within the past ten year* he would have attempted. m .some wav, to see his wife and children to whom heappeared devoted, or that he would have come at the call of his mother, who. for days before her death in 1931 in Harrisburg. Pa., kept calling for-her only son.Bonus Paid — RumorThere is another rumor, however. that when the bonuses were distributed to wtcrnns in 1933. the family upon applying for his bonus was told that he was alive and that he had collected the money.This rumor was not substantiated, however, for the family refused to discuss th.- matter and the government does r.o: givesuch information to the public.J. Steward Davis was born and reared ir. Harrisburg. Pa. After finishing public schools, he entered Dickinson College, from which he graduated from the law department in 1916.He came to Baltimore and was admitted to the bar the following'Uib DA V lbyear. Shortly after the ‘UnitedStates entered the World War h*•.-nhscd in the U. S. Army and r -ceivcd a commission os lieutenant after training in the officrr..* school establish:d at Dcs Moinlt;.\ Iowa.He saw eighteen months service in France. Following ti.*-armistice, he‘returned to Baltimore or.d resumed his practice.Practice GrewHis p. rsonality, his ability ta make friends • and his entertainment of friends .mode him a popular member of legal and social circles. At one time it v.v-cstimntcd that his practice averaged $75 daily.Was Pioneer DemocratHe first cam? into political prominence when he helped to manage a campaign which led a r.volt against the Republican party in 1914. He managed the Democratic campaign when Al Smith ran against Herbert Hoover. .Shortly after his return fiVw the front, Mr. Davis married M Blanche Moore in an elopenn »: to Elktor., Hid. Two children wlt;r bom. His sister. Mrs. Dmothy Davis Thompson, became a teacher in the Baltimore schools.Then came that fatal day, April 15. 1929. which brought a mystery that holds first place in Baltimore annals.Ten years later, almost to th*' day, Mrs. Davis,’ is given h:r release from marital tics that prevent :d her from having th: defined status of cith?r wife or widow, that held her to a living-dead husband.A final chapter still remains to be written. Will a belat.d identification. will th? return of memory, or the ever-present par.nt-lovo close the story which is without parallel cither in movies or fiction?
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Mar 18, 1939
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