Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Davidson, John A. 1843 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   John A. Davidson, Civil War veteran, of Valley Center, Sedgwick county,
Kansas, was born December 10, 1843, in Logan county, Illinois. His parents were
John B. and Anna (Simpson) Davidson, both natives of Scotland. John B. Davidson,
the father of John A., was one of a family of twenty-one children, and came to
the United States and located at Newburyport, R. I., where he remained up to the
time of his removal to Logan county, Illinois, in 1840. He was a farmer, and
this trade he followed up to the time of his death, on January 18, 1881, in
Logan county, Illinois. His widow died in 1901. John A. Davidson received his
education in the public schools of Illinois, and subsequently attended an
academy at Wheeling, Va., for four years. He enlisted as a private in Company F,
One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After the regiment was
equipped at Lincoln, Ill., it was sent South and placed in the Army of the
Mississippi, and in West Tennessee was engaged in several important battles. It
fought at Jackson, Tenn., Porters Cross Roads, and then was sent to Vicksburg,
Miss., where it was kept busy digging rifle pits and throwing up earthworks to
protect itself from the enemy's shot, being in close quarters. The regiment was
then assigned to the Sixteenth Army Corps and General Grant sent it up the Yazoo
river. Afterwards the regiment operated in the Mississippi campaign, and also at
Little Rock, Hot Springs and Benton, Ark. Often it was engaged in chasing
General Shelby's Confederate troops. After this the regiment was under Gen.
Powell Clayton up to July, 1865, when it was discharged at Springfield, Ill. Mr.
Davidson has held many honorary positions in the G. A. R. He was appointed
assistant deputy commander in January, 1910. He is now past commander of E. E.
Warner Post, No. 335, Valley Center, Kan. Mr. Davidson located in Sedgwick
county in 1882, and has filled various business positions up to the present
time. His residence has been in Valley Center since 1885. He was elected mayor
in 1898 and 1899. He was also a justice of the peace one term and has been the
police judge of Valley Center for seven years. Fraternally, Mr. Davidson is a
member of the Masonic order, Valley Center Lodge, No. 364; of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Valley Center Lodge, No. 223, of which he is now past
grand, and also of the Rebeccas and Eastern Star. In politics he is a Democrat
with independent inclinations.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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