HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1222-23.   [Jefferson County]

HARRY ADOLPH DAVIDSON, B.S., M.D.--During the years which have marked the
period of the professional career of Dr. Davidson he has met with
gratifying success, and has won the patronage of many of the leading
citizens and families of Louisville.  A close and discriminating student,
he endeavored to keep abreast with the times in everything relation to
discoveries in the medical science and treatment thereof.
     Dr. Davidson was born in Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, on
December 23, 1875, the son of the late Joseph Thormeyer Davidson, who was
born in Fort Hamilton, New York, the son of Captain Joseph Davidson, of the
United States army.  He came to Louisville in 1846, when a boy of only
twelve years and for many years was engaged in business in that city.  He
served as a member of Louisville's old volunteer fire department.  He was
well-known in Masonic circles and one of the distinguished Masons of
Kentucky.  Joseph Davidson was made a Mason by Clark Lodge, No. 51, in
1864, but became a member of Abraham Lodge, No. 8, when Lodges 8, 51,
106 and 113 were consolidated.  He became a member of Louisville Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, in 1880, and was number 52 on the register of DeMolay
Commandery, Knight Templars, and was also a Scottish Rite Mason, having
taken the thirty-second degree.  He served as grand tyler of the Grand
Lodge of Kentucky for over thirty years, having been elected in 1876, was
grand sentinel of the Grand Chapter of Kentucky from 1876 to 1905, and of
the Grand Council in 1882-83-84.  He was for many years superintendent
of the Masonic Temple at Fourth and Jefferson streets.  He was imbued with
that fraternal spirit which has been a most potent force in the
civilization of the world through inculcating principles of mutual
helpfulness, brotherly kindness and forbearance.   He brought to his duties
keen perception, a methodical and systematic spirit and unwavering
devotion, and his Masonic service there received the endorsement of all
the representatives of the order.  He died June 21, 1906, a member of
the Broadway Christian Church.  His wife, Mary A. Davis, was born in Grant
county, Kentucky, the daughter of John W. Davis, a native of Kentucky,
whose parents were natives of Virginia.  She died in 1894, at the age of
forty-eight years.
     Mr. Davidson was a member of the first graduating class of the Manual
Training School of Louisville, being first honor man of the class of '94.
He was graduated from the Kentucky State University, Lexington, of '96,
receiving the degree of B.C.E., and then graduated from the Louisville
Hospital College of Medicine, class of '99, with the degree of M.D.  He
supplemented this with a post-graduate course in the schools and hospitals
of New York city in 1902 and 1907.  The Doctor was a professor in the old
Hospital Medical College and is now adjunct professor of pediatrics of
the medical department of the University of Louisville.  Before entering
the practice, he was for eight years a teacher of physiology and
mathematics at the manual training high school, Louisville.
     Dr. Davidson is on the staff of the Kentucky Children's Home, and a
director of the Y.M.C.A.  He is a member of Phi Chi (medical Greek Letter
Society) and of Phi Kappa Alpha (literary Greek Letter Society), and
belongs to the Jefferson County Medical Society, Kentucky State Medical
Society, the American Medical Association and the Louisville Academy of
Medicine.  He is a deacon of Broadway Christian church.
     The Doctor married Virginia Cood Gaggs, a daughter of William Carter
Gaggs, who with his wife are natives of Yorkshire, England.  Mrs.
Davidson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and to this union has been
born one child, a son named Harry Carter, aged five years.  Dr. Davidson
has been prompted by laudable ambition in his profession, and to his
earnest purpose and unflagging energy may be attributed the success which
he has won in his chosen calling, for although a young man he has won a
position and success as a member of the medical profession that many an
older physician might well envy.

Davidson Gaggs Davis
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Lexington-Fayette-KY VA NY England

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