Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Davidson, Jerry May 26, 1834 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Jerry Davidson, owner and proprietor of the Davidson 
Hotel, Carmicheals, Penna, was born in Cumberland Township, 
May 26, 1834.  His parents, Alexander Davidson and Elizabeth 
Gallaher Davidson, were natives of Fayette County, Penna, 
and of Irish descent.  His father was a farmer, and reared a 
family of eight children, of whom Jerry is the fifth.  He 
was reared on the farm and received a common school 
education.  He followed farming as a business until 1875 
when he engaged in the hotel business in Carmicheals.
  
      Mr Davidson keeps an excellent table and always has 
first class horses and carriages for the accommodation of 
commercial travelers and the traveling public.  Mr Davidson 
has been twice married, first in 1856 to Miss Selanta 
Flenniken.  Of their three children, two are living: J Calvin 
Davidson, a blacksmith, and Frank F Davidson, a tinner.  
They are both married and doing well in their business at 
Carmicheals, where they reside.  Their mother died in 1872.  
Mr Davidson's present wife's maiden name was Harriet Stone.  
She was the widow of Ira J Hatfield.  They have two 
children: Henry Alexander Davidson and George S Davidson.  
Mr Davidson is a member of I O O F.  In politics he is a 
Democrat, in religion a Presbyterian.  Mrs Davidson is a 
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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