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Death of Mr. John B. Davis, Yesterday morning, about 2:30 o'clock Mr. John B. Davis died at his residence, Montezuma, in Henrico county, in the seventieth year of his age, Mr. Davis had been in ill health for some time. Last Friday he was in the city and saw Dr. Brock. By the doctor's advice he went home, and going to bed, never left it. Congestion of the lungs is assigned as the cause of his death. Mr. Davis was born in Howard county, Md. He spent the major portion of his life in Richmond. He was first a stonecutter, then a stone contractor in laying street granite pavements, and years ago with Mr. Calvin Green, now dead, he laid many of the streets of this city, Subsequently he became engaged in business with the firm of Dickinson, Hill & Co. and after that organized the Traders' Bank and became its president. At the end of the war this bank, like others, collapsed, but Mr. Davis showed vim and energy. He started the Richmond Banking and Insurance Company and became the president of the Planter's National Bank. At the same time he purchased several farms and cultivated them to a high degree. Lester Manor, in particular, is known to all our readers. In connection with the farms he started his immense tomato and fruit canneries, which soon became celebrated all over the United States, their products bringing a higher market price than any of the competing brands. Several years ago the State of Virginia, which had on deposit in the Richmond Banking and Insurance Company, called on the bank to give a new bond to secure the deposits, on account of the death of one of the principal bondsmen. This and other rumors depressed the credit of the bank, and it suspended. For the first time in the history of a bank which had failed, it paid its creditors and stockholders every cent it owed them, with interest, and Mr. Davis remained the only stockholder, with $80,000 of good paper on hand on which he largely realized. Subsequent to paying off all his creditors he built the immense livery, exchange, and horse and carriage sales building on Franklin street, below Mayo. He, a few years ago, turned the business over to his son, and had since been practically a retired merchant. He leaves a wife and two children, Joseph B. Davis and Mrs. James Leigh Jones. One son, in whom he had great pride, was Ualvin J. Davis, who died quite a number of years ago. Mr. Davis was a great friend to merchants and manufacturers during the years he was president of the Planters' National Bank and the Richmond Banking and Insurance Company. He was a whole-souled man of the warmest feelings. As a business man no one who could reasonably apply to him for favors ever went away dissatisfied. His funeral will take place to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock, from the residence, Montezuma, on the Mechanicsville turnpike, after which the remains will be taken to Hollywood for interment.