BIO: John S. Davidson, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

578  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JOHN S. DAVIDSON, farmer, P. O. Kerrsville, was born March 2, 1829, 
in West Pennsborough Township, this county.  His father, Alexander 
Davidson, also a native of this county, and a son of John Davidson, 
married Miss Jane, daughter of John and Jane Woodburn, of Dickinson 
Township, this county, and settled on a farm in the Kerrsville 
District, where they acquired an estate of about 500 acres of farm 
land.  In 1858 they retired from active labor and located in Newville, 
where they resided until their death, Mr. Davidson dying October 19, 
1865, aged seventy-eight, and his widow August 19, 1879, aged eighty-
years and eight months.  To them were born eight children.  Our subject 
completed his education in the academy at Lititz, Lancaster Co., Penn.; 
was engaged in mercantile business in Plainfield, this township, from 
1851 to 1859, and while there, January 1, 1856, was married.  In 1859 
he retired from mercantile business and located on the farm of 150 
acres, where he now resides, and which, in early times, was owned by 
Rev. Joshua Williams, a Presbyterian minister, who built the handsome 
residence in which he resides.  Mr. Davidson is a director in the First 
National Bank of Newville, as was also his father before him.  He is a 
Republican in politics, and takes a deep interest in public affairs.  
He has served the township many years in the school board, and was 
appointed government assessor of internal revenue for Dickinson, West 
Pennsborough and Frankford Townships.