Noah emigrated to America and settled in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a blacksmith. He then removed to Beaver Meadows, where he married Margaret Gwynne, who was also a native of Glamorganshire.

Noah Davis moved to Catasauqua in 1846 and there he accepted the position of boss blacksmith for the Lehigh Crane Iron Works.

Born in Wales, Noah Davis immigrated to America in the 1830s, coming to Catasauqua in 1846. He was the boss blacksmith at the Lehigh Crane Iron Co until his death in 1859. The Noah Davis family home was at the site of the current Post Office. Their son Daniel Davis's first job was in the blacksmith shop at the Crane.

After fighting in the Civil War, he was an agent for the Central RR of NJ before becoming superintendent of the Keystone Furnace at Chain Dam, continuing after the furnace was acquired by the Thomas Iron Co.

Thomas Iron Co later made Daniel Davis superintendent of Lock Ridge Furnace from which he retired in 1909.