Freestone County, Texas
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Biography of Dr. John W. David
   (Mar 2, 1864-Dec 29, 1917, buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana, TX.)


[Source - The Dental cosmos, Volume 60
edited by J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, James William 
White, Edward Cameron Kirk, Lovick Pierce Anthony. 
 Volume LX - 1918]
 
Dr. John W. David.

Died, December 29, 1917, at St. Paul Sanitarium, Dallas, Texas, in his fifty-
fourth year, John W. David, D.D.S.

Dr. David, whose death resulted from anasarca together with a nephritis from 
which he had been a sufferer for several years past, was born at David's Mill. 
Freestone county, Texas, March 2, 1864. His parents were William and Sarah 
Carter David, the father being an extensive farmer and miller.

After receiving his elementary education in the schools of Fairfield and Mexia 
he entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, from which institution he 
was graduated in 1891. and won the prize for excellence in operative dentistry.

Dr. David joined the Texas State Dental Association at Waco during the same 
year, and took pride in the fact that he had never missed attendance at an 
annual meeting of his state dental association. In 1900 he served as president 
of the Texas State Association. He also held membership in the Southern Dental 
Association, National Dental Association, Dallas County Dental Society, 
Navarro County Medical Society, American Medical Association, and was a member 
of the Committee of Organization in charge of the Fourth International Dental 
Congress held at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904. During his whole professional career 
Dr. David was an active participant in the work of the several societies with 
which he was connected, and was one of the guiding forces not only in his 
state, but throughout the South, where he exerted a continuous influence in 
the placing of American dentistry upon a sound professional basis.

Dr. David possessed in a high degree the essential qualities that make for 
leadership. His magnetic personality owed its charm to his love of the truth 
and to the unquestioned moral courage that he displayed upon all occassions
as the defender of the priciples for which he stood. He was the protagonist of
the best ideals in his profession, and the exponent of a noble and virile 
American manhood. To his host of friends he was a constant source of 
inspiration. He was the army of no man, but an uncompromising antagonist of
all that was mean, petty, or selfish. The dental profession has lost by the 
death of Dr. David one of its best exponents, one of its most trusted leaders,
and all of his friends a comrade whose friendship has been a lasting 
benediction. His remains were interred with Masonic ceremonial at Corsicana,
Texas, on December 31, 1917. He is survived by a widow, two sons, and a 
daughter.