The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 267

ANGUS C. DAVIS.

Holding to the most advanced educational standards, Angus C. Davis has greatly
benefited the educational system of Yakima as superintendent of the city
schools, and Yakima has every reason to be proud of the educational
opportunities which she offers to her youth. Since taking up the profession of
teaching, Mr. Davis has been a close and discriminating student of all that
bears upon his chosen life work and is continually reaching toward higher
ideals. He was born in Polo, Illinois, February 1, 1880, a son of Charles H. and
Hattie A. (Allen) Davis, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was born
in Massachusetts. In the late '70s, however, she removed westward to Illinois.
Charles H. Davis was a minister of the Baptist church and for many years devoted
his life to preaching the gospel but is now living retired in Yakima. His labors
proved a potent element in the upbuilding of the churches with which he was
connected and the influence of his teachings was widely felt. He is a Civil war
veteran, having served throughout the period of hostilities between the north
and the south, and was an active member of the freedmen's bureau after the war.

Angus C. Davis is indebted to the public school system of Ohio for the early
educational opportunities which he enjoyed. He also attended the Denison
University of Ohio and subsequently became a student in Chicago University.
Taking up the profession of teaching, he was for three years identified with the
public schools of Marshall Texas, and for a year and a half was a teacher in
McMinnville College of McMinnville, Oregon. Later he was in charge of the
department of physics in the Spokane public schools and for two years occupied
the position of principle of the high school at Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. In 1909
he came to Yakima as principal of the high school and so continued for four
years, when he was advanced to the position of city superintendent of schools
and has remained in that connection for five years. In 1909 the daily attendance
at the high school was three hundred and today this number has increased to
seven hundred. Mr. Davis has put forth every possible effort to develop his
ability and is regarded today as one of the foremost public school educators in
the state -- a state which holds to the highest possible standards. He has
attended a summer school for several years, and at all times keeps abreast with
the trend of modern thought and progress along educational lines, being now
active in the building up of a wonderful school system in Yakima.

Mr. Davis Avas married in 1908 to Miss Jessie Hopkirk, of Fort Madison, Iowa,
and their children are: Norman, now deceased; and Marietta. Mr. Davis belongs to
Yakima Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M., and the Knights of Pythias fraternity. His
membership relations also extend to the Presbyterian church and to the
Commercial Club. In politics he is an independent republican but places the
general welfare before partisanship and the good of the community betore
personal aggrandizement. In fact he has never been an aspirant for office. He
has preferred to do his public service in other ways and his contribution to
progress and improvement in his community has indeed been marked. He is now
president of the board of trustees of the public library, also a member of the
board of the Young Men's Christian Association and of the board of trustees of
the First Presbyterian church. His work and influence have been a most potent
element in advancing social, intellectual and moral progress 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.