BIO: Frederick DAVIDSON, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 244-247.
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  FREDERICK DAVIDSON, vice-president of the Union Drawn Steel Co., of Beaver
  Falls, Pa., is among the most prominent citizens of his town. His career
  gives evidence of careful training in early youth. When young, he moved to
  Beaver, where he received his primary education, and later took an academic
  course at Chester Military School. His business tact and abilities attracted
  the attention of an official of the National Bank of New Brighton, and he
  obtained a situation as clerk in the bank, which he held for three years. He
  then accepted the responsible position of cashier of the Beaver National
  Bank. At the death of his brother, James J., he became president of the Union
  Drawn Steel Co., of Beaver Falls. His life has been a steady, onward and
  upward advance in every field of usefulness to which he has been called, in
  which respect his career is suggestively similar to that of his father.
  Socially, Frederick Davidson is affiliated with St. James Lodge, No. 457, F.
  & A. M., of the borough of Beaver, where he now lives. His political
  preference is with the Republican party. The subject of this writing is the
  youngest son of Daniel R. and Margaret C. (Johnston) Davidson, and a grandson
  of William and Sarah (Rogers) Davidson.
  
  Hon. William Davidson was of Scotch-Irish origin, and was born in Carlisle,
  Cumberland county, Pa., February 14, 1783. He was a very prominent man of his
  day, both in religious and political circles. He was a clergyman of the
  Christian church and a very active worker in that denomination; he was
  equally influential in the political arena, having served as a member of the
  State Legislature, as state senator, and as speaker of the House. He died at
  the age of eighty-five years.
  
  Daniel R. Davidson, father of Frederick, was an active business man of
  Beaver, Pa., and was born in Fayette county, Pa., January 12, 1820, where he
  was a pupil in the select schools. He was a man of notable commercial tact
  and ability; his business relations were varied and extensive. He dealt
  largely in coke and coal, and owned valuable mines. For many years, he was a
  successful and influential railroad official, having built the B. & O. R. R.
  from Pittsburg to Connellsville, Pa., in connection with which he held
  various offices, and for a time was president of that branch. After severing
  his connection with that road, he was the main promoter of the Fayette county
  branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At the time of his death, he was
  president of the Commercial National Bank, of Pittsburg, having been one of
  the organizers of that institution. He was also one of the board of directors
  of the National Bank of Commerce, of Pittsburg, from the time of its
  organization. He was the owner of two plants in the coke regions, and was
  president of the Love Manufacturing Co., of Rochester, Pa., during its
  existence. In politics, he was a Republican, and gave the weight of his
  influence to the advancement of the principles of that party, believing his
  own, as well as the public interests, were best advanced by Republican
  policies.
  
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  Daniel R. Davidson was married in Fayette county, Pa., in 1846, to Margaret
  C. Johnston, daughter of Alexander Johnston, who was of Scotch-Irish descent.
  Seven children blessed this union, and were named as follows: Charles, who
  lives in Connellsville, Pa.; Sarah, William J., and Elizabeth, deceased;
  George, who is cashier of the National Bank of New Brighton; James J.,
  deceased; Louis R.; and Frederick, the subject of this sketch. Daniel R.
  Davidson died March 18, 1884, and with his death ended a very useful and
  exemplary life.