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Subject: Davidson.Wm.A.1837.Barren-Woodford.IL.BIOS



Wm. A. Davidson April 5 1837 - not listed Barren County KyArchives Biography

Author: The Past and Present of Woodford County, Illinois, Chicago: W LeBaron Jr. & co., 1878. Pages 537-8.
DAVIDSON, WM A., farmer, P. O. Eureka; was born in Woodford County, Illinois, one mile northwest of Eureka, Aril 5, 1837; his parents are Caleb and Martha Davidson, who were among the earliest settlers of  Woodford Co., Ky., having made their home here in 1831; they came from Barren Co. Ky., in wagon drawn by two horses and one extra horse; Mrs.
Davidson rode the horse part of the way; they settled on the farm one mile northwest of Eureka (the old homestead.) Mr. D. Spent his boyhood days farming on his father's farm. At the age of 17, he entered Bell's College, at Chicago, where he graduated; thence to Washington, Ill., where he accepted a clerkship in a dry goods store and remained there three years; he then went to Eureka, Ill. And commenced business in the dry goods line for himself. At the breaking out of the late war, he enlisted as Second Lieutenant in Company E, 108th I. C. I., for three years or during the war; participated in some of the hard-fought battles under Gens. Sherman and Grant - twenty one battles in all; was mustered out as Captain Aug. 12, 1865; at the close of the war, he returned home and sold out his dry goods store in 1866; he then went to farming on the "old homestead" in 1868; remained here until 1877, then moved on the place that he now lives on. His political opinions are Democratic. Married Miss Jane C. Ewing of Ohio; two children - Annie Ewing and Claude L."



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