BIO: James King DAVISON, M.D., Greencastle, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 215
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JAMES KING DAVISON, M. D.
1810-1891

  J. K. Davison was born in Antrim Township, a son of John McDowell and Mary 
(McLaughlin, second wife) Davison.  He attended Dickinson College, Carlisle, and 
was graduated before his twentieth year, after which he studied medicine with 
Dr. John McClellan and was graduated M. D. in 1833 from Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia, Pa.

  Dr. Davison began at once the practice of medicine at McConnellsburg, Fulton 
County, where he remained one year and was then in practice for two years at 
Shellyville, Indiana.  Returning to Greencastle in 1836, he was engaged in 
merchandising and farming until 1844 when he resumed the practice of medicine in 
Greencastle and so continued until he retired because of advancing years.

  Dr. Davison was president of the National Bank of Greencastle at the time of 
his death, a position he had filled for some years.

  He married in 1836, Martha M. Robinson.