^"E.F. DAVIS, INVENTOR OF DEATH CHAIR, DIES; State Electrician for 25 Years, He Presided at Over 300 Electro- cutions at Sing Sing". The New York Times. 27 May 1923. p. 6. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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edwin, davis, executioner, other, people, named, edwin, davis, edwin, davis, disambiguation, edwin, davis, 1846, 1923, corning, steuben, county, york, first, state, electrician, executioner, state, york, 1890, davis, finalized, many, features, first, electric,. For other people named Edwin Davis see Edwin Davis disambiguation Edwin F Davis May 28 1846 May 26 1923 of Corning Steuben County New York was the first state electrician executioner for the state of New York In 1890 Davis finalized many features of the first electric chair used 1 Davis performed 240 executions between 1890 and 1914 1 including the first person to be executed by electric chair William Kemmler and the first woman Martha M Place as well as William McKinley s assassin Leon Frank Czolgosz Davis held a patent on certain features of the electric chair He received U S Patent No 587 649 for his Electrocution Chair on August 3 1897 He died in May 1923 and is buried in Barnard Cemetery in Corning New York 2 See also EditList of executionersReferences Edit a b Banner Stuart March 2003 The Death Penalty An American History Harvard University Press pp 194 195 ISBN 0 674 01083 3 E F DAVIS INVENTOR OF DEATH CHAIR DIES State Electrician for 25 Years He Presided at Over 300 Electro cutions at Sing Sing The New York Times 27 May 1923 p 6 Retrieved 6 September 2022 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Edwin Davis executioner amp oldid 1113264278, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
