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GEORGE CABELL DAVIS

George Cabell Davis, is proprietor of the Davis
Photo Company at No. 104 West Salem Avenue
and the official photographer of the Norfolk & Western
Railway. He was born
in Henry County, Virginia,
November 25th,
1881, his parents being
John and Betty (Turner)
Davis. As a boy
he attended the schools
of Henry and Giles
counties and later the
schools of Roanoke City.
He moved to Roanoke
with his parents from
Henry County at the
age of eleven years and
began life as a clerk in
the General Offices of
the Norfolk & Western
Railway Company.
In September, 1904, he
purchased the outfit and
business of the Chandler Photo Company and organized
the Davis Photo Company, and has since been connected
with that line of business, having made many of
the photographs from which the portraits were secured
for this work.

As official photographer of the Norfolk & Western
Railway he has made many fine views on all lines of the
road and in the several states through which the railway
passes. He is also official photographer of a
number of other large corporations.

George Cabell Davis is a young man of sterling integrity,
popular with all classes and attentive to his
business to such a degree that at all times, he, with a
number of other skilled artists are kept busy. He
takes much interest in civic affairs and is a member of
the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce.

Fraternally he is a member of the order of Elks, I. O.
O. F., Knights of Pythias, being a grand lodge officer in
the last named order, that of District Lecturer for the
Tenth District of Virginia. He stands high in the
Masonic Fraternity, having taken all of the York Rite
Degrees, twelve in number, up to and including the
Mystic Shrine, holding his membership in the latter
degree with Acca Temple in Richmond.