The Davises and Roots
- Daniel Davis (1768–1847), Connecticut State Representative 1811–1812. Uncle of Noah Davis.
- Noah Davis (1818–1902), Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1857–1868 1873–1887, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1860, U.S. Representative from New York 1869–1870, U.S. Attorney in New York 1870–1872. Nephew of Daniel Davis.
- Joseph P. Root (1826–1885), Connecticut State Representative 1855, Kansas Territory Councilman 1857, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas 1861–1863, U.S. Minister to Chile 1870–1873, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1884. First cousin once removed of Daniel Davis.
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Famous quotes containing the word roots:
“To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)