Born March 2, 1846. He was a self made man in the fullest sense of the word. He entered the Washington Iowa Academy and was soon fitted to enter the law department of Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. At one time he was engaged in the printing business at Galesburg. He then went into the real estate business with his brother and came to Hancock county. Mr. Davidson's public life has been without blemish. As a member of the Nineteenth General Assembly he served his district faithfully and well. His services as department commander of the G.A.R. of Iowa in 1891 and 92 stands as a record of his devotion to his comrades and the welfare and happiness of those veterans less fortunate than himself in the struggles of life. The Solders Home in Marshalltown, is perhaps as great a monument of his unselfish love for his comrades, as could be erected.