Davis, Matthew L.

Flourished: New York

Uncle and guardian of George T. M. Davis, who was the editor of the Alton (IL) Telegraph.

W. T. Norton, ed., Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois and Its People 1812 to 1912 (Chicago: Lewis, 1912), 2:670-71; Autobiography of the Late Col. Geo. T. M. Davis (New York: Jenkins and McCowan, 1891), 31.