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Revision as of 20:09, 7 August 2012
Herbert A. Davis | |
Born | Herbert Alonzo Davis August 16, 1869 Newburyport, Massachusetts |
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Died | October 26, 1944 (age 75) Baltimore, Maryland |
Resting place | Holy Cros Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts |
Flourished | 1920s - 1940s |
Herbert A. Davis was a magician on the East Coast of the United States having lived in Washington D.C., Maryland and West Virginia.
It was reported that he shared a billing with Harry Houdini the night his son, Herbert B. Davis was born.[1]
A charter member of the Society of Osiris (which he served as a Vice-President), he operated the "Davis School of Magic" in Huntington, West Virginia in the late 1920s.[2]
Davis, an early member of the IBM (No. 406) served on the National Membership Committee and was reported in the Linking Ring as trying to form a Ring in Baltimore in 1939.
His publicity photos can be seen on the Conjuring Arts' exhibit "The Many Faces of Magic."[3]
References
- ↑ Linking Ring, March 1993
- ↑ Sphinx, April, 1928
- ↑ http://conjuringarts.org/exhibitions/the-many-faces-of-magic/herbert-a-davis/