The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 520 D. JEFFERSON DAVIS. D. Jefferson Davis is one of the business men of Toppenish, where he is conducting the creamery interests of the Mutual Creamery Company of Salt Lake. The story of his life is the story of endeavor crowned by success. He was born on the 18th of March, 1888, and the year 1894 witnessed his arrival in Idaho when a youth of but six summers. The completion of his public school course awakened the ambition to enjoy better educational opportunities and after earning the money necessary to meet his tuition and other expenses he entered the Idaho University. He there pursued a special course in dairying and since that time has given his attention to dairy work with excellent results. In September, 1915, Mr. Davis came to Toppenish and established a creamery which in 1918 he sold to the Mutual Creamery Company and remains as local manager of the business at this point. The corporation which he represents has twenty-six plants over the northwest. The business was established at Toppenish as a receiving station and in 1917 the company erected a new building sixty by one hundred and twenty feet and one story in height. It is a cement structure well equipped for the purposes used. The company has its own ice plant here with a capacity of seven tons for every twenty-four hours and a condenser with a capacity of ten thousand pounds of milk per day. The cheese factory has a capacity of sixteen thousand pounds of milk and the butter-making department handles two thousand pounds per day. There is also an ice cream manufactory as a department of the business and this turns out three hundred gallons of its products daily. The company employs at Toppenish from eight to ten people in addition to the manager, who directs all of the activities of the concern at this point. A good business is being conducted, the plant at Toppenish using the product of eight hundred cows. The output of the creamery is sold largely locally and refrigerating rooms have a capacity for two carloads of the products. The plant has all the most modern machinery for carrying on the business and everything is arranged in a systematic manner, neatness and sanitation characterizing every department of the work. On the 29th of May, 1915, Mr. Davis was united in marriage to Miss Frances Dysart, a native of Idaho, and they now have an interesting little son, Richard S. Mr. Davis is a member of the Improved Order of Foresters. Politically he maintains an independent course, voting for men and measures rather than for party. He is actuated, however, by a public-spirited citizenship that prompts his active cooperation in all measures and movements for the general good. Those who know him, and he has gained a wide acquaintance during his residence here, entertain for him high regard, speak of him as a most progressive business man and enjoy his friendship. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.