Davis, Frances, 1908-1982
Frances Parsons Davis (later Cohen), author and foreign correspondent, was born on October 28, 1908, in Boston, Mass., the daughter of Philip and Belle S. (Homer) Davis. Her father, a Russian immigrant and protégé of Jane Addams, had graduated from Harvard College in 1903. For many years he was affiliated with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; later, he became the director of a settlement house in Boston's North End. FD's mother, a Russian immigrant known to family and friends as Polly, had worked as a finisher in the Philadelphia garment industry, where she also organized women workers. PD and BSD met while organizing a finishers' strike in Philadelphia; the couple eventually settled in Boston.
The Davises were acquainted with Ralph Albertson, a Congregational minister and social reformer; FD's "second home" was "the Farm," a utopian community founded by Albertson and his second wife, Hazel Hammond Albertson, in West Newbury, Mass. The Davises lived there between roughly 1910 and late 1918, and, after they returned to the Boston area, continued to visit the Farm on weekends and holidays. FD's experience of the "Farm family" would become the topic of her second book, A Fearful Innocence, published in 1981.
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