Daniel C. Davis
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Daniel Coon Davis was the captain of Company E in the Mormon Battalion. He became an early leader of Davis County, Utah, which is named after him.
Captain Davis fought in the Mormon Battalion during the War with Mexico and lead many Mormon pioneer groups across the plains to settle the West. In early 1850, on one such trip, Captain Davis became ill and died in Nebraska.
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