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- [S13] Long Island Genealogy Surname Database, online [http://longislandgenealogy.com ], http://www.longislandsurnames.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I31739&tree=Tuttle.
- [S30] Suffolk County News, Sayville, Islip, NY, 20 Jun 1924. p. 6.
"... Aino Tangier Davis, the infant daughter of Consul Leslie A. Davis and Mrs. Davis [in the Presbyterian Church]. This is Miss Aino's first visit to the United States, as she was born in Finland, where Mr. Davis is stationed as Consul.—Port Jefferson Echo."
- [S30] Suffolk County News, Sayville, Islip, NY, 29 November 1912, p. 1.
Suffolk County News, 29 November 1912: "To Be Married in Russia. Miss Carman, of Brookhaven, to Wed American Consol at Batoum.
It has just become known that Miss Catherine E. Carman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Carman of Brookhaven, will sail for Russia on Saturday and upon her arrival in St. Petersburg she will be married to Leslie A. Davis, formerly a well-known young lawyer of Port Jefferson, who last March was appointed as United States Consul in Batoum. The couple will travel through Russia until January 1st, when Mr. Davis will resume his post. Miss Carman is a graduate of the Patchogue High School and the Potsdam Normal School. For the past four years she has been a teacher in a school at Plainfield, N.J. Mr. Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Davis of Port Jefferson. He is a lawyer and has spent much of his time in Europe, following his graduation from Cornell University. The fact that he visited Russia three times led to his appointment as Consul. Batoum is noted principally as a Russian naval station. It has a population of about 30,000 and is located in the South of Russia near the Turkish border. Miss Carman is a sister of Mr. Howard Carman, a resident of this village for the past year in the employ of Mr. J. H. Swezey.
- [S30] Suffolk County News, Sayville, Islip, NY, 6 Dec 1912, p. 5.
"J. Howard Carman went to New York on Saturday to see his sister, Miss Catherine E. Carman sail on board the Russian-American liner, Kursk for St. Petersburg, where she is to be married to Leslie A. Davis, of Port Jefferson, U. S. Consul at Batoum, Russia."
- [S198] Echo, Port Jefferson, NY,,, 11 Jan 1913, p. 1.
United States Consul Weds
Leslie Ammerton Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert C. Davis of this place, and Miss Catherine Elliot Carman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Carman, of Brookhaven, were united in marriage in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 18. The above is of more than passing interest, and is interwoven with history, romance and diplomatic surroundings. The contracting parties had been intimately acquainted since childhood, as had their parents before them. The ceremony occurred at the home of United States Ambassador Hon. Chas. Guild, the Rev. Wm. Orr, pastor of the British American Congregational church at St. Petersburg, officiating. The bride, who was attired in a travelling costume of brown velvet and carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley, was given away by Ambassador Guild, after which an elaborate wedding breakfast was tendered by Mrs. Guild. The rooms were handsomely decorated with bridal roses and an unique feature was the cutting by the bride of a real Russian wedding cake made by the Embassy chef. Among the guests present were: Ambassador and Mrs. Guild, Rev. and Mrs. Wm Orr, S. Connors, U.S. Consul at St. Petersburg, three secretaries of the American Embassy, Mrs. F. J. Corse and sister, Miss Potter.
Mr. Davis, who several years ago spent considerable time in Russia, was appointed last Spring as United States Consul to Batoum. He is a graduate of Cornell University, and Columbia Law School of Washington, D.C., and spent some time in the law office of the Hon. Townsend Scudder in New York City and is highly fitted for the office which he holds.
The bride is a graduate of Patchogue High School and Potsdam Normal School. She sailed from New York on the Russian line steamer Kursk, on Nov. 30, for Labau, on the western coast of Russia [now Latvia], where Mr. Davis met her on arrival and from which port they at once proceeded to St. Petersburg.
After a short stay in St. Petersburg the couple left for Batoum, a port on the Black Sea, about seven hundred miles east of Constantinople, and the shipping port for the Russian oil fields and has a population of thirty thousand.
Our thanks to Marie Schudde for drawing our attention to this article. (6 Nov. 2010)
- [S1269] Robert Pulcipher, "," e-mail message from [e-mail for private use] ([street address for private use]), to , ., Aino Tangier Davis; 2 November 2010; John Deitz.
I'm Robert Davis Pulcipher (b. 8.25.1956), son of Aino Davis (now deceased), youngest daughter of Leslie A. Davis. I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She had another son, James Lee Pulcipher (b. 1.11.1949), who died on August 11, 1991 in Arlington, Virginia.
My mom was married for a short time during WWII to Gunter Trost, as noted in the geneology, but he was killed in a plane crash shortly after their marriage. My mom later married my dad, Ralph Robert Pulcipher, of Acme, Michigan.
I was pleasantly surprised to come across your website. It's fascinating to find more information about my grandfather and his family. The last I remember of my grandfather was during Christmas of 1959 in Winter Park, Florida, their winter home, when I was 3-1/2 years old. Grandpa was blind at the time and I remember trying to sneak around him, but to no avail. Of course, he always knew it was me. To the mind of a small boy, however, it was amazing he could figure that out.
I think grandpa's greatest passion was adventure, which rubbed off, to varying degrees, on his daughter Adele, my brother Jim, and on me.
No one in the family, beyond Grandma, knew about his travails in Harput. We learned about that when Susan Blair's book, Slaughterhouse Province, came out. I think that was in the late 80s. Amazing.
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