Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Davidson, P. S. 1827 - 
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CAPT. P. S. DAVIDSON; was born in Lawrence Co., Ohio, in 1827, and, at the age 
of 25, entered the steamboat business, first on the Ohio River, where he 
remained four years, and then on the Mississippi, where he continued his 
business until 1862, when he came to La Crosse and settled. He at once came 
prominently before the public as an enterprising, go-ahead steamboat man, and 
has maintained his position at the head of the business ever since, and is at 
present President of the St. Louis & St. Paul Passenger and Freight Line, a 
company which was organized in the spring of 1881. Mr. Davidson is also the 
owner of two saw-mills in the Fifth Ward with a combined capacity of 200,000 
feet per day. He was married in 1861 in Lawrence Co., Ohio, to Miss Johnson, 
daughter of Judge Johnson, of that county. Has had eight children, of whom 
five are living, namely - William F., P. S., Arthur, Frank and Louis.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 749.

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