BIO: Mack DAVIDSON, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 731 & 732.
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  MACK DAVIDSON, who carries on general farming in Bell township, owning what is 
generally agreed to be one of the best tilled and most productive farms in this 
section, belongs to an old county family and was born on the Davidson homestead, 
February 22, 1863, a son of Joseph H. and Mary Jane (Henderson) Davidson.  Mr. 
Davidson has three brothers:  Frank M., residing in Bell township; James M., 
residing at Bradford, Pa.; and Thomas M., living at Mahaffey.
  Mack Davidson started out to take care of himself when only thirteen years of 
age and has been successfully engaged in the same way ever since.  He worked for 
strangers and by the time he was twenty-four years old not only had secured a 
fair education but a wide circle of friends and enough capital to make him feel 
justified in marrying.  His parents had died when he was only five years old and 
his older brother, Alexander, took charge of him.  When only a boy he engaged in 
hauling lumber and managed a team of horses so that neither they nor the 
commodities transported were in any way endangered.  After marriage he bought 
his present farm and has so improved it and carefully and intelligently 
cultivated it that it has become one of the most valuable properties in Bell 
township.
  Mr. Davidson was married to Miss Jenny Reed, who was born September 5, 1869, 
in Green township, Indiana county, Pa., a daughter of A. and Elizabeth 
(Buterbaugh) Reed, the former of whom died in 1884 and the latter in 1896.  Mrs. 
Davidson has six brothers and sisters living.  Her great-grandfather, John 
Buterbaugh, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., August 3, 1799, and died aged 
ninety-six years and six months.  He accompanied his parents to Indiana county 
in 1831, where he married Elizabeth Learn, a member of an old pioneer family of 
Clearfield county.  In 1894, at the age of ninety-five years, Mr. Buterbaugh 
celebrated his anniversary, gathering about him all of his living descendants, 
and when he died in the following year, was survived by fifty-seven 
grandchildren and fifty-six great-grandchildren.  In early days he was a Whig in 
politics and later a Republican, and he served two terms as a justice of the 
peace.  Mr. and Mrs. Davidson have had the following children:  Harry M., who 
married Goldie Staggers and they have one child; Merrill, who is deceased; 
Howard, who is a general laborer; and Zoe, Neil, Stella, Fay and Reed, the last 
named being a baby of one year.  In politics Mr. Davidson is a Democrat and is a 
very loyal party worker.  He is serving in his third term as township supervisor 
and has also been overseer of the poor.  He is one of Bell township's respected 
and representative citizens.