Davis, Gb

Davis, G.B.

a Baptist minister, was born in Delaware in 1792. He was converted in 1814; removed to Illinois in 1834 as agent for the American Bible Society; subsequently was financial agent of Shurtleff College, and pastor of the Bunker Hill Church, Illinois; afterwards labored to promote the interests of the Indian Mission Association in Tennessee and Alabama; and died near Bunker Hill, Illinois, August 29, 1852. See Minutes of Ill. Anniversaries, 1852, page 9. (J.C.S.)