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University of Michigan. However, he did continue to lecture on bibliography part-time into 1914, until his illness forced him to quit altogether. He died on June 10, 1919, at Ann Arbor.
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University of Michigan and got a part-time position as an assistant librarian through 1872. At that time then he returned to Maine and was employed in local shipping. In 1877 he was offered the chief librarian position at the University of Michigan, which he accepted.
47:, on June 23, 1836. His parents were George Davis and Catherine (Young) Davis. His father is of English and Welsh ancestry and his mother of Scotch and Irish. Davis's father was a sea captain. In 1849 when Davis was 13 years old his mother died. His father then took him on a two-year world tour.
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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI. Raymond Cazallis Davis, the librarian, gave a lecture once a week during November and December.
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