How to Pronounce Edwin Davis (executioner)
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May 28, 1846 Died on 26 May 1923 (aged 76)
electrician; inventor; New York State Executioner
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About Edwin Davis Executioner
- 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.
- Davis performed 240 executions between 1890 and 1914, including the first person to be executed by electric chair, William Kemmler, and the first woman Martha M.
- Place, as well as the assassin of William McKinley, 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.
