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Davis (or Davies), John (1810?–85), a Welshman mentioned in “Villagers” (95), married Clemens’s schoolteacher, Mary Ann Newcomb, in the late 1840s. He was employed as a teamster in 1850, but by 1859 had changed the spelling of his name to Davies and was selling “books and fancy goods” from his store on Main Street (Marion Census 1850, 320–21; Fotheringham, 20; Hagood and Hagood 1985, 19; Ellsberry 1965 [bib20416], 41; “Former Florida Neighbor of Clemens Family Head of School Attended Here by Mark Twain,” Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, 6 Mar 1935, 12B).
