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Davidson, Lucretia Maria – Davidson, William M
Davidson, Lucretia Maria
poet, was born Sept. 27, 1808, in Plattsburg, N.
Y. She was the author of Amir Khan and Other Poems, issued in 1829. She died Aug. 27, 1825.
DAVIDSON, MARGARET MILLER, poet, was born March 26, 1823, in Plattsburg, N. Y. She was a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses were lauded by contemporary writers. She died Nov. 25, 1838, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Davidson, Robert
clergyman, author, was born in 1750, in Maryland. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was president of Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., 1804-09.
He was the author of Epitome of Geography in Verse for Schools; The Christian's A, B, C, or the 119th Psalm in Meter; and New Metrical Version of the Psalms, with Notes. He died Dec. 13, 1812.
Davidson, Robert
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1808, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a presbyterian minister in Kentucky and other states, among whose writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and Other Poems; and The Christ of God, or the Relation of Christ to Christianity.
He died April 6, 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Davidson, Robert C
financier, public official, was born Dec. 25, 1850, in Lunenburg county, Va. In 1865 he moved to Baltimore, received employment in the wholesale dry goods house of Daniel Miller and Co., and became financial manager of that concern. In 1889 he was elected mayor of Baltimore, and served with distinction. He declined a re-election, and accepted the presidency of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Co., which position he still fills.
Davidson, Robert Parks
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1826, in Kentucky. He was district prosecuting attorney for four years; was common pleas judge for the district composed of Clinton and Carroll counties; and represented Tippecanoe county in the lower house in the session of 1870-72.
Davidson, Sam Houston
lawyer, college president, legislator, was born Jan. 29, 1848, in Camden, Tenn. He was in the confederate service during the war.
In 1877-79 he was a representative of the Arkansas house of representatives; in 1889-91 served as state senator, and in 1889 was a candidate for lieutenant-governor of his state. He was president of the Pacific and Great Eastern Railroad company, and president of the Evening Shade college.
Davidson, Thomas G
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1805, in Jefferson county, Miss. He was elected to the legislature of Louisiana in 1833, where he served, from different parishes, some thirteen years. He was elected a representative in congress from Louisiana in 1855; re-elected in 1857; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress, but withdrew in February, 1861.
Davidson, William
soldier, was born in 1746 in Lancaster county, Pa. At the beginning of the revolution he was appointed major in one of the first regiments raised in North Carolina, and was in the engagements at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He died Feb. 1, 1781, in Cowan's Ford, N. C.
Davidson, William
planter, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1778, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He represented that county in the state legislature as senator in 1813, 1815, 1816, and 1817. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1818 to 1821; and served again in the state senate in 1827, 1828, and 1829. He died Sept. 16, 1857, in Mecklenburg county, N. C.
Davidson, William M
farmer, educator, college president, was born April 8, 1851, in Sullivan county, Tenn. He has been engaged in educational work for nearly twenty years; was superintendent of schools for Lee county, Va.; and president of Cumberland college for three years.