DAVIDSON BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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DAVIDSON, William A. - b: 1850 Jefferson City, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 509
residence: Clinton

William A. Davidson, M.D., a native of Jefferson City, Missouri, was born October 
11, 1850. His father, A. M. Davidson, was an early pioneer of that city, settling 
there in 1834. He was a Virginian by birth and was married in that state to the 
mother of our subject, Miss Matilda Hite, a daughter of Major Hite, of the 
Shenandoah Valley. They reared six children. Mrs. D.'s death occurred in October, 
1854. William was then sent to his uncle, J. S. Davidson, at Frederick, Virginia, 
with whom he remained till eight years old. Returning to his father, who then 
resided in Saline County, Missouri, he stayed with him, attending school till 
fifteen years of age, after which he went to Collinsville, Illinois, and clerked in 
a drug store with Dr. A. M. Rowell. Here he continued to stop till 1866, and during 
that time was a student of medicine under the doctor. In 1866 he again returned 
to Saline County, Missouri, arid for a term of six months attended Pritchett 
Institute at Glasgow. In 1867 he retraced his steps to Illinois and engaged with 
his brother in the drug business, and in the meantime studied his profession for 
one and a half years. In 1869 he once more took up his location at Jefferson City, 
making his home there for six months. In 1870-I he attended a course of lectures 
at the St. Louis Medical College of St. Louis. In the fall of 1871 he came to 
Clinton, Missouri, and was occupied in practice here till the fall of 1872, when 
he again attended during 1872-3 the St. Louis Medical College. Graduating at the 
expiration of that term, he then returned to Virginia, where he visited till 
January, 1874. He subsequently lived in Jefferson Cite for six months; then came 
to Clinton, Missouri, and resumed the practice of medicine. In the spring of 1877 
he went to Johnston, Missouri, where he practiced till the spring of 1881, when 
he once more made this city his home Here he now enjoys a lucrative practice. Dr. 
Davidson was married September 15, 1873, to Miss Anna N. Kimbrough, a daughter 
of J. S. Kimbrough, of Clinton. The doctor is a member of the Masonic order. In 
1876 he held the office of county coroner.

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