Merchant
Centurion, 1891–1927
Born 1 July 1853 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 28 March 1927 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Charles Collins and George William Curtis
Elected 2 May 1891 at age thirty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Son of Edward F. Davison; brother of Charles Stewart Davison
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
E. Mora Davison was one of the many Centurions in the class of “business men” who never brought the atmosphere of Worth Street or Wall Street across the threshold of the Century. Identified during many years in a confidential capacity with the house of August Belmont, it was as a cultured and well-read man of keen intelligence, that his club associates esteemed him; an amusing, kindly cynic and a fellow-member that one would cross the room to meet.
In his professional affiliations, Davison was fortunate in combining business capacity with recognized uprightness of character and great kindliness of spirit. Like other men of his bent of mind, he passed through a period of aspiration for different things. One reminiscence of his intimates in the Club is of a time long gone by, when he had written a play and got it accepted and cast for production, only to have the début deferred to the Greek Kalends because of an impossible pecuniary requisition of the manager at the eleventh hour. There are very few members of the Century who could not produce from some out-of-the-way corner of their personal history recollections of the sort-which do not seem in the longer retrospect, even to ourselves, exactly to belong to the career which destiny imposed upon us.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1928 Century Association Yearbook