Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Davidson, Andew 1833 - 
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   ANDREW DAVIDSON, is one of the pioneers of Dassel township, where he lives on
section 14, and one of its leading and representative citizens. He is a native of
Scotland, born in Wigtown Shair, March 28, 1833. Among the heaths and glens of his
native land he was reared, and there made his home until his twenty-first year, and
then determined to seek a new home in the wilds of America. Crossing the tempestuous
Atlantic, he landed in New York, and for a short time made his home in Orleans
county, N. Y., but then moved to Morristown, N. J., where he went into a hardware
store, where he was employed for some time, and later commenced market gardening or
“truck farming.” In 1856 our subject came west, and for ten years followed farming
in Columbia county, Wis., from whence he came to Meeker county in 1866. He drove the
entire distance with an ox team, bringing his family with him, and on his arrival
here took up as a homestead eighty acres of land on section 14. First setting foot
in the county July 4, 1866, he has been for nearly twenty years a constant citizen,
except the first winter, when he spent that season in McLeod county after partially
building the house upon his place, where he worked to keep his family in the
necessaries of life. During the first few years he did considerable hunting, getting
at one time eighty-six deer in six weeks, and in taking the venison and furs to
Minneapolis to market he added considerably to his revenue. As game became scarce,
he took up teaming with a yoke of oxen, and transacted considerable business at
remunerative figures. Soon his ? farm demanded his sole attention, and by the
exercise of labor and perseverance, together with the thrift and frugality with
which his race are proverbially endowed, has succeeded in placing himself in
comfortable circumstances, and lives surrounded by most of the comforts of life.

    Mr. Davidson was married before he left “the land of heather,” December 1, 1849,
to Miss Grace McAllister, but left her in Scotland when he came to America in search
of a home. Two years afterward she emigrated to the “land of the free,” joining her
husband, in Morristown, in 1856. They are the happy parents of four children— Janet,
Peter, Margaret and Alexander. Janet is the wife of Barney Cox, a resident of
Dassel; Peter, who is also married, lives in the town of Dassel; the other two still
reside at home.

    On the organization of the town in 1867, Mr. D. was elected one of the first
justices of the peace, and for the past thirteen years has been chairman of the town
board of supervisors.


Additional Comments:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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