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Davis, of Liberty, Union County, Indiana, enlisted in Company I, 15th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers on May 14, 1861. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant September 10, 1861, and as a first lieutenant November 1862.
In 1857 John McDowell became part owner of the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company (L.P.&W.) along with James C. Stone, A.J. Isaccs, and Thomas Ewing Jr. In 1863 the L.P.&W. became known as the Union Pacific, Eastern Division.