The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 413

ALLEN S. DAVIS.

Allen S. Davis, a representative member of the Yakima bar, came to the northwest
from Ohio, his birth having occurred on the 13th of January, 1877. He is a son
of Charles H. and Hattie E. (Allen) Davis, the former born in Ohio, while the
latter is a native of Massachusetts. The father devoted many years of his life
to the work of the Baptist ministry but is now living retired, making his home
in Yakima, where he took up his abode in 1890. He was the first pastor of a
Baptist church in Yakima but afterward removed to the east in 1893 in order to
educate his son Allen and his brother A. C.

Allen S. Davis acquired a public school education in Yakima and attended high
school in Gallipolis, Ohio. He afterward was graduated from Denison University
of Granville, Ohio. and on the completion of a law course was graduated at the
Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904. He then came to Yakima
where he has practiced since, and through the intervening years, covering a
period of fourteen years, he has won for himself an enviable position at the
Yakima bar, his thorough study, his earnestness and tenacity of purpose, his
clear reasoning and his logical deductions gaining for him many favorable
verdicts, the court records hearing testimony of the success which he has won.

In 1910 Mr. Davis was married to Miss Ottie L. Snelling, of Yakima, a daughter
of A. F. Snelling, and they have one son, Scott Allen. Mr. Davis belongs to the
Beta Theta Pi and the Phi Delta Phi. He also has membership in the Commercial
Club and the nature of his interests and activities is further indicated in the
fact that he is a member of the Baptist church and a republican in his political
views. Along strictly professional lines he has connection with the County and
State Bar Associations and is treasurer of the former. He enjoys and receives
the respect and confidence of colleagues and contemporaries in the profession
and he has a very extensive circle of friends in Yakima.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.