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Jennie Eliza Davis, known professionally as Jane E. Davis (June 11, 1857 – October 31, 1935) was an American educator, writer, and editor. She taught at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. She edited the Southern Workman and became head of Hampton Institute Press.[1][2]
She was born and raised in Troy, New York. Fisher Davis and Charles Davis were her parents.[1] She graduated from Vassar College in 1878.[2]
Publications
[edit]- Round about Jamestown: Historical Sketches of the Lower Virginia Peninsula (1907)
- Jamestown and Her Neighbors on Virginia's Historic Peninsula (1928)
External links
[edit]- Works by Jennie Eliza Davis at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
References
[edit]- 1 2 Tarter, Brent (2016). "Jennie Eliza Davis (1857–1935)". Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Library of Virginia (1998– ).
- 1 2 "Ex-editor dies in Pennsylvania". Daily Press. November 1, 1935. p. 12.
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