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Andrew McFarland Davis
1833–1920
A lawyer turned businessman and later a dedicated scholar, he became known for careful research into early American history, especially colonial currency and banking. His work helped preserve and explain parts of New England’s past that might otherwise have been forgotten.
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Indian Games : an historical research
by Andrew McFarland Davis
About the author
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1833, he graduated from Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School, studied law, and was admitted to the bar before spending part of his career in business in California. Later, he devoted himself more fully to historical and antiquarian research, building a reputation for patient, exacting scholarship.
He wrote widely on early American and New England history, with a special interest in colonial money, banking, and institutions. Among his better-known works are studies of Massachusetts currency and banking and essays on early Harvard and Cambridge history.
Davis was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 1882, and his published work reflects a lifelong commitment to documenting the American colonial past. He died in 1920, leaving behind books and articles still valued by historians of finance and early New England.