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Show SECRETARY OF LABOR ONLY MEMBER I OF CABINET BORN OUTSIDE OF U. S. WHO HE IS rip.th Oct. 27. 1873. at Tredegar, i Wales. HOME -Pittsburg. Pa. OCCUPATION Director general, I, oval irder Moose. CHILDREN Two, James J., Jr.. 4, and Jean, 2- X. B. A. staff Special) PITTRBTIRG. pa.. March 5. When James John Davis of PlttsburR joins the Harding cabinet fraternity :is secretary sec-retary of labor, it will make his nlne-I nlne-I teeth. Davis already has undergone the initiation ceremonies that made him a member of 18 fraternal lodges, and has taken an active part In many of them, lie has been especially inter- BBted In the Eoyal Order of Moose, having Joined the order in 1!ioi; ;ih ihe j'.'47tli member. During the World War Davis made two trips to France as chairman ot the Moose v;ir Relief committee. At pressnt be is director-general of the iorder and governor of Mooseheart, the wonder town and unique vocational BChobl, .I", miles from ChlcaKo. that Ix iien oni to children of derti members I of the Moose. It was largely the work or lMls Hint made the town and 1 ri - Istitutlon possible. ... i Davis is tho only member of the cabinet who was lorn outside the United States. Wuhs was hs birthplace, birth-place, Oct. 27, 1873. was the date. With his father, mother and five brothers ,i ml sister.-., he e.inie to America Am-erica in 1 8 S 1 and at the age of 11 he went to work In the steel mills at I Sharon. The n,. secretary worked in Pittsburg Pitts-burg mills hs a puddler In 1892 and a year Inter went to work In the steel mills at Rlwood, Ind. Five years later ihe was elected citv clerk of Rlwood. Serving until 102. He served then I for four years as county recorder of Madison 1 oiuity. 1 nil T N jg JAMJBSJ I W is M MRS, DAVIS. Davis, while at Elwood. was elect-'ed elect-'ed vice president of the Amalgamated ssociaiion "f Iron and Steel Workers Work-ers and Is still an active member at Granite City. 111. He also is president of the Amrrl- can Bond & Mortgage company, In the Farmers' Bank bullJing here. Davis Is married and has two children chil-dren James, Jr., 4, and Jean, S. Mrs Davis and the children are living in Pittsburg |