Siskiyou
County
Biographies
W. T. DAVIDSON
Among
Siskiyou county’s native sons who are leaders in their respective communities
is numbered W. T. Davidson, who is a successful rancher and stockman near Ft.
Jones, and is also a member of the county board of supervisors. He was born at Ft. Jones on the 28 of August,
1878, and is a son of J. A. and Amanda (Quigley) Davidson. His father was a native of Indiana and in
1854 his father crossed plains with a caravan of forty wagons, following the
Oregon Trail. The trip was made without
trouble from the Indians and on reaching the coast Mr. Davidson located at Ft.
Jones, where he spent his remaining years engaged in farming and stock raising. His first dwelling here was a log cabin,
which was later replaced by the comfortable farm home. He died November, 24, 1916, at the age of
seventy-eight years. His wife was born
in Iowa just nine days before her parents started on the long overland journey
to California. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson had
eight children, of whom three sons and a daughter are living.
W.
T. Davidson received a grade school education and for many years has devoted his attention closely to the management of the
home ranch, in which he has been successful.
He is careful and painstaking in everything he does, is a man of good
judgment, progressive in his methods, and is one of the substantial and
influential men of his section of the county.
He was elected a member of the board of supervisors from the fourth
district, in which office he has two more years to serve. He is well qualified for the position, the
duties of which he performs in addition to his farm responsibilities.
In
1905 Mr. Davidson was united in marriage to Miss Lucy A. Grider, a daughter of
William and Mary (Grider) Grider, the former having been an old pioneer miner
and rancher of the Klamath River country.
Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are the parents of a daughter, Mary, who is a
graduate of the State Normal School and is now teaching in the grammar school
at Yreka. For some years Mr. Davidson
was a trustee of the schools of his district and has always taken a keen
interest in educational affairs. For
eight years he was secretary for the irrigation district of Scott River valley. He is a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows at Ft. Jones and Mrs. Davidson belongs to the Daughters of
Rebekah. They have always shown a keen
interest in the civic affairs of their locality, and they are popular in the
social circles in which they move. Mr.
Davidson makes hunting his favorite sport.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 196-197. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
Golden Nugget Library's Siskiyou County Biographies