Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Garrett Davis: A Senator From Kentucky, Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-Second Congress, Third Session, December 18, 1872 Garrett Davis was a native of Kentucky. He was born in Mount Sterling on the 10th of September, 1801. His father and mother emigrated from Montgomery County, Maryland, to the county of the same name in Kentucky. His mother was a Miss Garrett, a family still well and widely known in Maryland, and it was from his mother's family that he derived his own baptismal name. His father was a man of marked character. To energy and industry, he added strong will and great personal popularity. He was for many years the sheriff of his adopted county, and represented it several times in the lower branch of the General Assembly of Kentucky. The strongly marked character of the parents was deeply impressed upon their children. Mr. Davis was one of three brothers. The brilliant talents of two of them, Amos and Singleton Davis, long since dead, are still remembered in Kentucky, while the long and distinguished public service of him whom we to-day mourn, is imperishably interwoven with the public annals of an entire country. Mr. Davis enjoyed the advantages of what we know in Kentucky as a common country school. At the early period when his father left Maryland to find a new home in the wild and sparsely settled portion of Kentucky where he settled, the means of instruction were extremely limited. Mr. Davis applied himself diligently, and soon acquired a good English education, with some knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages. At an early age he determined to study law. With a view of practical knowledge he sought employment as a deputy in the circuit court clerk's office of Montgomery County. In 1823 he removed to Bourbon County, where he continued to prosecute his legal studies, and at the same time to write in the circuit court clerk's office of that county. About the year 1824 he commenced the practice of his profession at Paris, and to it he consecrated the earlier years of life with enthusiastic devotion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.