Amos Davis was born in Loudon County, Virginia, in 1797, and went to Ohio as a boy. He entered land in Section 19 of Newbury Township in 1835, and the next year he came to stay, on what was known as the Woodbridge place. He built the second sawmill in the township.
In 1836, Amos Davis, one of the most prominent men in the early history of LaGrange County, came to the Woodbridge place.
The roads ran through him too. Ford records that in 1837 Davis hauled a load of flour and other provisions from Michigan City to Lima with five yokes of oxen, when there were only two houses on the White Pigeon trail, and that in 1840 he surveyed three roads: the Middlebury and Haw Patch, and the White Pigeon and Ligonier.
He was an associate judge for the county from 1839 until the office was abolished, and he sat in the state legislature during the war on the side of Governor Morton.
The township's post office was in his house. Ford, like the 1882 county history before him, says it was established in 1844 and called Pashan. The Post Office Department's own register enters it later, as Pashawn, with Amos Davis appointed postmaster on September 9, 1850. When he moved away, the office closed.
He moved to Greenfield Mills. On his seventieth birthday he was injured, and he died of it on October 5, 1867.