Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Davidson, R. J. 1829 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   R. J. DAVIDSON, merchant of Selma, Ala., was born in Orange county, N. Y., in
1829. He received a common school education in his native county, and in 1845
went to New York city to learn the trade of a house painter. He came south in
1849, lived in Louisiana one year, and moved to Selma in 1850. Here he followed
his trade until the commencement of the war, accumulating considerable property,
chiefly in negroes. He enlisted in 1861 as a member of company C, Thirty-sixth
Alabama infantry under Colonel L. T. Woodruff of Mobile, and served in the army
of Tennessee under Gens. Bragg and Johnston. He was slightly wounded at Rocky
Face Ridge, and was captured at the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. He was
then taken to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he remained a prisoner until the final
surrender of the Confederate armies. He then returned to Selma, and has been
merchandising here ever since. He has been chief of the fire department, and has
served two terms as mayor of the city of Selma. In 1854 he married Miss Clara
Elizabeth Berg, then of Selma, but a native of Mobile. They have nine children,
six sons and three daughters, and the family is of the Presbyterian faith. Mr.
Davidson is practical business man, has a good standing as a merchant, and is
generally well respected.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 856, 859
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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