Cory Davies

Artist Details

• First Name Cory
• Maiden Name Gould
• Surname Davies
• Spouse’s Full Name J.W.F. "Chief" Davies (James William Frederick); BA 1903 Yankton College, Yankton, South Dakota; minister of the Winnetka Congregational Church (1909-1931) and first director of the Winnetka Community House; from South Dakota in 1909; gave $45,000 towards the construction of the fits community house in 1911
• Names and Birth Years of Children Frederick G. Davies (Winnetka, Illinois 1911-1988 LaCrosse, Wisconsin) graduated from Blue Ridge high School, Hendersonville, North Carolina graduated from Carleton College; MA from Northwestern University served two years in the Coast Guard worked on PhD at University of Iowa taught for 29 years at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse scholar of the American Civil War; smoked a corn cob pipe; banned the chewing of gum in his classroom married Kathryn Troxel of Lagro, Indiana August 1945; she received an MS in August 1945 from University of Iowa
• Birth Date maybe 1888
• Residence(s) 1911:  1004 Pine St., Winnetka, Illinois
  
  1940-1945: 334 N. Utica, Waukegan, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Oil
• Training Conservatory of Music, Yankton College, Yankton, South Dakota
  
• Relevant Travel Ludington, Michigan (where her husband started a summer camp for boys)
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History April 21-May 5, 1927: North Shore Art League, Winnetka Community House, Winnetka, Illinois:  Carolyn Case; Mrs. Barr
  
  1929: 5th Annual Exhibition, North Shore Art League, Winnetka, Illinois
• Memberships started “neighborhood circles” in Winnetka, Illinois in 1914
  
  PEO Chapter CN, charter member 1928