Howard E. Davis

Runs General Store

Howard E. Davis founded a general store in Narberth in 1908. The store at 224-226 Haverford av. is a Narberth institution today where the whole family shops and meets their friends.

"I've been in Narberth about 52 years," says Davis, "when the town was growing I got to meet pretty nearly everybody in it and I've always liked them all.

"The people here always treated me right and I think they're better people than you'll meet anywhere else in the world."

Davis, who lives at 110 Forest ave., started to work on a milk route when he was 12 and later served newspapers in a wide area of Lower Merion township. Before he opened his general store, he had a shoe business.

He recalls the time when Narberth was principally farmland. "It certainly has grown," he commented.

"Now everything is pretty well taken up. There isn't room for hardly another house around here."