HOMER
DAVIS
Coram
Army
Photo from the Davis Erhardt collection
Homer Davis was
born in Coram in 1896. He was the son of Daniel and
Nellie Davis.
He was inducted
into the army on April 1, 1918 at the age of 22. He was
assigned to the 152nd Dep Brigade until May 1, 1918. He
was then assigned to the Ordinance Department until his
discharge on May 16, 1919. Davis was promoted to Private
1 class in May of 1918. In June of 1918 he was made a
Corporal, In August he was promoted to Sgt.
Davis was a
graduate of Hamilton College and after the war began a
lifetime career in American sponsored education, at
Robert College of Istanbul in 1920, where he met and
married Marjorie Weston Cook.
After brief
service as a teacher, Homer Davis was appointed Principal
in 1927 and President of Athens College in Greece in
1930,
At the outbreak
of the Second World War the Davises' returned to the
U.S.A. From September 1941 to May 1942, Homer Davis was
chief of project licensing division of the Board of
Economic Warfare. The next nine months were spent as
executive vice president of the Greek War Relief. At the
beginning of 1943 he joined the State Department as
special assistant, to the Foreign Service Auxiliary and
was assigned to the American Consulate General in
Istanbul, In 1944 he, returned to Athens as Public
Relations Officer with UNRRA. In 1946 Homer. And Marjorie
Davis returned to Athens College where they remained,
until their retirement to Cape Cod in 1976. Davis died in
1984 at the age of 88 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.