Webster Davis

born in Pennsylvania, Junc 1, 1861, removed to Mi ouri with parents 1868, where he learned shoemaking, which he followed for some time, then went to Kansas. He attended Lake Forest (IIl.) University, and State University of Kansas, admitted to the bar in 1886, then went to University of Michigan, where he graduated in law and entered upon the practice of his profe ion at Kansas City. He was defeated for Congre 1892, but was elected Mayor of Kansas City two years later, and served one year. He was noted for his remarkable eloquence and took such an active part in the Presidential campaign of 1896, that as a reward for his services he received the appointment of a istant secretary of the Interior. In the early part of December, 1899, he visited the seat of war in South Africa, and was so impre ed with the justice of the Boer cause that, upon his return to America, the latter part of March, 1900, rather than offend the administration of which he was a part, he resigned his position in the Interior Department that he might be free to expre his opinions and publicly addre Americans on the causes of the British-Boer war, his sympathies being thoroughly with the South African Republics. 365