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406	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
and was in the big fight when Hood's army was destroyed. Captain Davis resigned from the service because of ill health.     For one year following the close of the war he was engaged in farming, and then entered upon a mercantile and lumber-dealing business, with his brothers, in Ebensburg, under the firm name of Davis Brothers. In 1887 he retired from business and went to South Dakota, remaining there for three years, in order to try to rid himself of a severe asthmatic trouble. Upon his return to Ebensburg he engaged in the real estate business, with which he was prominently and successfully identified until his recent retirement from active business life. He has been a conspicuous figure in Cambria county for many years. In politics he is an independent Republican, and has always been a dominant factor in the conventions of his party in Cambria county. He has repeatedly served as a member of the borough council, and is at present (1906) president of that body. In 1876 he accepted the nomination for sheriff, and notwithstanding the fact that the county was Democratic by one thousand two hundred and sixty-eight votes, he was defeated by only two hundred and eleven votes, his showing being a very creditable one. He was chosen by his party, in 1900, to represent them in the legislature, and in 1902 was re-elected, serving on the railroad committee both terms; also served as chairman of the local judiciary, corporations, public health and sanitation. At both elections he was given a handsome majority. He has been a very successful business man, and is the owner of the beautiful Fenwick Hall Hotel property and many other valuable properties in Ebensburg, as well as a good deal of coal property. His life has been a strenuous, clean and upright one, and his friends are legion. Captain Davis is member of G. A. R., John M. Jones Post, also member of Congregational church. He is a stockholder in the American National Bank of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. He is president and one of the organizers of the Ebensburg and Blacklick Electric Railroad Company.     He married, December 20, 1864, Susan Burkhart, daughter of Joseph Burkhart, and they have had four children: 1. Frederick W., deceased. 2. Schuyler C., married Minnie Stough, resides in Ebensburg. 3. Izora, married Lester Larimer, of Ebensburg, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. 4. Thomas Stanton, for six years private secretary to Congressman J. D. Hicks, now in the real estate business and owner of extensive coal lands and Ebensburg properties.     M. C. WESTOVER, of Barnesboro, was born October 7, 1862, and is a representative of a family long resident in the county. His grandfather, John Westover, was born in 1804, in Blair county, and when about twenty years of age moved to Susquehanna township, Cambria county, where he passed the active years of his life in farming and in the lumber business. He was active, in the Republican party and in the Baptist church. John Westover married Nancy Sechler, and their children were: Oliver, David, Joseph, of whom later; Walker, Isaac, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Bolbin; Jane, wife of John Myers; Mary, wife of Benjamin McKee; Lavinia, wife of John Smith; and two who died in infancy. After the death of the mother of these children Mr. Westover married Mrs. Sarah Nugent, the issue of the marriage being one child, John G. The death of Mr. Westover occurred in 1886.     Joseph Westover, son of John and Nancy (Sechler) Westover,

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