Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887
Greenup County

JEREMIAH DAVIDSON, a native of Lawrence County, Ohio, and son of John and
Margaret Davidson, was born November 4, 1815, and is of Irish-Welsh descent.
At the age of Seven Years he lost his mother, and at twelve his father.  Of
the five sons and two daughters born to his parents, he was the youngest,
and at the early age of thirteen he left the homestead and went to
Cincinnati, where he was instructed in both shoemaking and tailoring, but
principally as a salesman in a clothing store, and in October, 1832, came to
Greenup County, Ky., where for a time he worked at tailoring, but soon
entered into business and in the meantime engaged in hotel-keeping for about
eleven years, during which he applied himself to the study of law.  October
31, 1846, he was admitted to the bar of inferior and appellate courts, and
entered upon active duties in his profession.  He was a magistrate under the
old Constitution for several years, until the present one was adopted, and
served as justice of the peace four years prior to June 1, 1887.  In
December, 1834, he married Miss Eliza A. Corum, daughter of Jesse Corum,
Sr., the fruits of said marriage being six sons and two daughters, two sons
and one daughter being now deceased.  Those living are Henry C., farmer in
Scioto County, Ohio; Charles W., deputy clerk of courts of Greenup County;
Theodore F., surgeon and physician at Portsmouth, Ohio; Edgar P.,
contractor, and Miss Annie M., a teacher in the Greenup Academy.  Mr.
Davidson was one of the editors and proprietors of the Greenup Record, an
independent weekly, and the first newspaper publisher in northeastern
Kentucky.  This was prior to the war of 1861.  He was the first
common-school commissioner under the public school law of Kentucky, and held
the office several terms.  He has for many years been commissioned as a
notary public, and is also an examiner for Greenup County, and has had many
years' practice as attorney before the various departments at Washington,
D.C.  He is a Freemason, Democrat, and a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and often served as special judge in the circuit and other courts.  He is
strictly temperate in all his habits, sprightly and well preserved for a man
on the shady side of "three score and ten."

Davidson Corum 
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Lawrence-OH Scioto-OH Washington-DC

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