Tulare County Biographies

JOHN FERGUSON DAVIDSON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        John Ferguson Davidson of Craigmillar House, Lindsay, California, has 
been a resident of this district and a merchant for ten years, coming here from 
the United States service and the Presidio, San Francisco, a civil appointee, 
superintendent of the laundry and cleaning department. He has filled various 
important positions, employed by large machinery houses as a demonstrator, in 
Australia, New Zealand and Canada ; saw active service in the Boer war and was 
employed with the Hudson Bay Company's operations in the far west, and for many 
years held excellent positions with large concerns in Canada.
        Mr. Davidson has worked all over the world, is a keen reader and has 
traveled over Europe as a gentleman companion. He studied international affairs 
from various angles, and was for thirty-five years a sojourner in many lands 
among many races. He is a representative of an old Scottish family, the 
Davidsons of Badenoch. His father was one of the founders of the Philharmonic 
Society of Scotland and his mother for forty years was a well known singer of 
Scottish songs and ballads. Mrs. Clara Davidson is from London, England, a 
representative of a family that has served for four generations with the London 
Coke and Gas Company, and owners of land in Kent, England. Her brother is a 
naturalist, taxidermist and sportsman to the National Museum, London.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 420