Alice Brown Davis

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Alice Brown Davis (September 10, 1852 - June 21, 1935) was born in the Cherokee mission town of Park Hill, Oklahoma. Her father, Dr. John Frippo Brown, from Scotland accompanied the Seminoles during their expulsion from Florida. It was during this journey that he married Lusy Readbeard a Seminole from Osceola's clan.

In 1874 Alice married George Rollin Davis a merchant from Kansas.

In 1922, Davis was appointed principal chief of the Seminole tribe by President Warren G. Harding.

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