Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

DR. WILLIAM B. DAVIDSON was born May 4, 1821, in Barren County, Ky.  
There he grew to manhood, and in 1854 removed to Allen County, where he 
has since resided.  His father, Isaac Davidson, a native of North 
Carolina, removed at the age of thirteen years with his parents to 
Barren County, Ky., in pioneer times, when men went twelve miles to a 
log-rolling; was a gunsmith, and died in 1853, aged over seventy years; 
was the son of Rev. Alexander Davidson, a Baptist minister, delagate to 
the first constitutional convention in Kentucky, and died in Barren 
County.  Isaac married Susanna, daughter of James Dodd, of Barren County, 
and their offspring are as follows:  Allen D., Albert, Isaac, Susan 
(Reed), James A. (deceased), Dr. William B., Winston F., Dr. Hayden, 
Mary J. (Winn) and Matilda (Davis).  Dr. William B. married, June 10, 
1853, Mary J., daughter of Merry and Lucy (Lewis) Spillman, of Barren 
County, born in 1811, died in 1872, and to them were born John I., Lucy 
(Green), Elizabeth (Moore), Mary (Moore), Sallie (deceased), Matilda 
(deceased) and Alice M. Davidson.  In 1848 Dr. Davidson comenced the 
study of medicine with Dr. Rhodes, of Barren County, and in 1851 
attended lectures at the University of Louisville, and in 1853 commenced 
practice at Rocky Hill, where he remained three years, since which time 
he has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until 
1882, when he retired, and is now quietly residing on his farm.  He owns 
ninety-seven acres of productive land in a good state of cultivation; is 
a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

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