William Morris Davis (August 16, 1815 – August 5, 1891), was anabolitionist, author and aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania. Among his friends were the New York sculptorHenry Kirke Brown, and the lock inventorLinus Yale.^[1]

William Morris Davis was born inKeene, New York. He moved toPennsylvania and became a sugar refiner inPhiladelphia. Davis was elected as a Republican to theThirty-seventh Congress. He was elected as a member to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1883.^[2]

He died in Keene Valley in 1891. Interment in FriendsFair Hill Burial Ground inGermantown, Philadelphia.

His extended family included ReverendPhebe Ann Coffin Hanaford,Abby Hopper Gibbons,Martha Coffin Wright,John Pelham andEdward Morris Davis.^[3]

• Nimrod of the Sea orThe American Whaleman - AOSTON (Harper & Bros., New York 1874)^[4]

• United States Congress."William Morris Davis (id: D000143)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard

• William Morris Davis (1815–1891): the story of a nineteenth century American - Arthur M. Johnson (Washington DC, 1951)

• TheDavis, Brown, and Yale Families Correspondence, including personal letters from William Morris Davis, are available for research use at theHistorical Society of Pennsylvania.

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