Through marriage, James Davis was a part of the McArthur milk dynasty that had nearly everyone uttering the perky TV ad slogan, “We all grew up on McArthur.”
Davis, who died Jan. 29 at 99 at his Bay Point home in Miami, moved to Miami in 1946 when he married Jean McArthur, eventual president and chairwoman of McArthur Management Co., the giant dairy company that provided milk to practically everyone in South Florida since its founding in 1929.
But Davis ran his own dairy farms, too — Davis Dairies and Davis Meadowbrook Farm — in Boynton Beach and Fort Pierce.