About Jane E. Davis
Lived 1857 – 1935 (aged 78). Jane E. Davis was an American editor.
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.
She was born and raised in Troy, New York. Fisher Davis and Charles Davis were her parents. She graduated from Vassar College in 1878.
Publications Round about Jamestown: Historical Sketches of the Lower Virginia Peninsula (1907) Jamestown and Her Neighbors on Virginia's Historic Peninsula (1928)
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Who was Jane E. Davis?
educator, editor of the Southern Workman (1857-1935)
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Jane E. Davis was born on 11 June 1857 in Troy.
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Jane E. Davis died on 31 October 1935 in Philadelphia.
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Jane E. Davis was an editor.
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Jane E. Davis was American.
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