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John Davis - collector of historical related  news paper clippings

"Uncle Mart" and the Moody Family of Guides and Pioneers - All of the Moody boys guided some of the most distinguished visitors that ever came to the Adirondacks, but "Uncle Mart," as he was popularly called, probably had the longest and most notable list to his credit. When in his teens he guided J. T. Headley and Alfred B. Street, the historians. He was guide for Governor Horatio Seymour on his famous trip through the mountains, when Lady Amelia M. Murray was the guest of honor and the first woman of record to travel across the Adirondacks. He lived with Ned Buntline at his solitary "Eagle's Nest," and he was the favorite guide of President Chester A. Arthur and of Grover Cleveland. He was also on terms of intimacy with Gerrit Smith and John Brown, and when the body of the abolitionist was brought back to the North Elba farm, Mart Moody was one of those chosen to help lower the casket into the mountain grave. He was one of the guides at the "Philosophers' Camp." He worked for Adirondack Murray, Colvin, Ely, Wallace, Stoddard, Todd —for all the men, in short, whose names are conspicuous in Adirondack annals.