Biographical Sketch of

Louis E. Davis

Transcribed by Barbara Voss


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Page 474

Louis E. Davis, editor and proprietor of the Berlin Courant, was born in Montpelier, Vt., June 7, 1856 and is a son of 
Solon F. and Celia M. (Skinner) Davis, Both of whom were also natives of the Green Mountain State. The father was born 
in Randolph County and the mother in Waitsfield. In 1853 the family emigrated from Vermont to Wisconsin and settled in 
Montello, and the parents of our subject were on a visit to their old home at the time of his birth. Consequently the 
young man was brought to Wisconsin in infancy. His father was a merchant of Montello and Louis E. passed his childhood 
in that town, removing thence with his parents in 1863, to Ripon, where his father again engaged in merchandising for 
three years. He then spent one year engaged in that business in Princeton and in 1867 came to Berlin. 

Our subject was educated in the Ripon and Berlin schools and learned the printer�s trade in the offices of the Berlin 
Journal and the Berlin Courant. Having thoroughly mastered the business, he took charge of the latter paper in January 
1888 and in April of that year bought the office, since which time he has been sole proprietor. The Berlin Courant is a 
six column quarto. Republican weekly, the regular edition is issued Thursdays and a second paper, called the Berlin 
Saturday Courant is published Saturdays as a separate issue from the same office. Since Mr. Davis has come into 
possession of the office he has put in steam power, with new machinery and made other improvements, adding to the jobbing 
outfit which forms an important adjunct to the paper. Dr. Davis also prints two monthly papers for other parties. The 
Courant office is complete in its appointments and its enterprising proprietor is making the paper one of the leading 
journals of the interior of the State.

The parents of our subject are still residents of Berlin, where they are highly respected.






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