Legal Adviser of an Advertising Corporation
Centurion, 1920–1957
Born 16 July 1870 in New York (Staten Island), New York
Died 5 October 1957 in Greenwich, Connecticut
Buried Brooklin Cemetery
, Brooklin, Maine
Proposed by George Haven Putnam and Herbert M. Richards
Elected 3 April 1920 at age forty-nine
Century Memorial
Horace A. Davis prepared at the Cambridge Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1891 (Phi Beta Kappa). He then went to the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1894.
He practised law in New York till 1910 and became an active member of the American Labor Party. He had various labor people and trade unions for clients, and was intermittently associated with the running of Empire Trust Company, which was owned by union interests. Then he went into the advertising business in Boston, but in 1922 he returned to New York as vice-president of Empire Trust Company. He was darkly glowered upon by the unregenerate. He had a cousin, Chandler Davis. If one spoke to Chandler about Horace, he denounced him as a bolshevik; if one spoke to Horace about Chandler, he said nothing whatever. He was in the Club a good deal; but, except for cards, he was usually alone, reading. He used to play bridge with John W. Davis and Carleton Cooke, and the others of that group—an occupation that seems of late to have fallen into desuetude.
He was a member of the Century for thirty-seven years, and died aged 87.
George W. Martin
1958 Century Association Yearbook
