Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Davison, John A. 1850 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   John A. Davison, president of the Commercial Bank of Wichita (Kan.), is a
native of Iowa, where he was born, at Wappelo, on September 18, 1850. He is a
son of Mark and Eliza (Linton) Davison, his father being a native of England and
his mother of Pennsylvania. His parents went to Iowa in the '40s, where the
elder Davison was engaged in the merchandising and banking business for nearly
half a century. John A. Davison was educated in the public schools of his native
town, after leaving which he attended the Wesleyan University, of Mt. Pleasant,
Ia., graduating in the class of 1873. He first began commercial life in the
retail lumber business and later went to Texas, where he engaged in railroad
contracting. It was in 1887 that he came to Wichita and became interested in the
old West Side National Bank, continuing with the bank until the change came in
1890, when he secured the fixtures and opened the West Side Bank in the same
room. This he continued as a private bank until 1895, when he removed the bank
to No. 145 North Main street, and renamed the institution the Commercial Bank,
under which name it has since continued business successfully, with Mr. Davison
as president. He purchased the building occupied by the bank in 1895. This is
one of the six private banks doing business in the state of Kansas. Mr. Davison
was married in 1875 to Miss Blanche L. Myers, daughter of S. D. Myers, of
Burlington, Ia. Of this union two children have been born, E. L. and G. M. Davison.



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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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