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Joseph P. Davis

Engineer

Centurion, 1883–1917

Full Name Joseph Phineas Davis

Born 15 April 1837 in Northborough, Massachusetts

Died 31 March 1917 in Yonkers, New York

Buried Howard Street Cemetery, Northborough, Massachusetts

Proposed by Not recorded

Elected 5 May 1883 at age forty-six

Supporter of:

Century Memorial

Joseph Phineas Davis, chief engineer of the Bell Telephone Co., and of its successor, The American Telephone & Telegraph Co., formerly prominent as a constructor of City Water Works, and a collector of etchings.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook