From History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, by John Brown, Jr. and James Boyd:
J. MORGAN DAVISON is a progressive citizen and business man who has been an influential figure in connection with the development of the Arlington district of Riverside County, where he is the owner of a finely improved property and has developed an extensive enterprise in the raising of poultry in a commercial way, and where he also raises grain, peaches and walnuts.
Mr. Davison was born in Clayton Township, Woodford County, Illinois, on the 24th of October, 1864, and is a son of P. H. and Jane Caroline (File) Davison, both natives of the State of New York and both representatives of sterling families that gave patriot soldiers to the nation in the War of the Revolution: the File family, of Holland Dutch origin, having early been established in Rensselaer County, New York. The lineage of the Davison family traces back to staunch Scotch origin. J. Milton Davison, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was given, in 1838, a commission as lieutenant of riflemen in the State Militia of New York, and this commission, bearing the signature of Governor William L. Marcey, is now in the possession of the grandson J. Morgan Davison, who likewise treasures a woodcut picture published many years ago in Frank Leslie's Weekly and showing Mr. Davison's great-great-grandfather in the paternal line, who was a fife major both in the Revolution and in the War of 1812, and who is depicted, with a drummer beside him, as playing "Yankee Doodle" while standing on the breastworks on the morning of the battle of Bunker Hill.
J. Morgan Davison gained his youthful education in the public schools of his native county and in the Illinois Wesleyan University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Thereafter he was his father's assistant in the office of county treasurer, and while thus engaged he took the required examination and obtained admission to the Illinois bar. He has, however, never found it expedient to engage in the active practice of the law. In 1891 he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and there he continued to be actively engaged in the mercantile business until 1910, when he came to Riverside, California, and purchased twenty acres of land in the beautiful suburban district of Arlington, where he has continued to reside and where he has developed a valuable property. Here he conducts an extensive commercial poultry ranch, with special preference given to the White Leghorn type of poultry, of which he has at the time of this writing, in 1921, about 3,000 on his ranch. He is a leader in the poultry industry in this section of the state, and in his enterprise has achieved distinctive success and prestige. In the autumn of 1916 he was one of the organizers of the Poultry Producers' Association of Southern California, of which he has served continuously as a director and which has proved a valuable cooperative marketing organization working in conjunction with the California Market Association. The Poultry Producers' Association owns a well equipped warehouse in the City of Los Angeles, where the eggs are collected and where an efficient manager has supervision of the sale of the products. In 1912 Mr. Davison became one of the organizers of the Poultrymen's Co-operative Milling Association, of which he has served continuously as secretary and treasurer, as well as a director, and to the affairs of which he gives the major part of his time and attention. The directorate of this organization is largely interlocking with that of the previously mentioned Poultry Producers' Association, and the warehouses of the two, in Los Angeles, adjoin each other.
As a staunch and vigorous advocate of the principles of the democratic party Mr. Davison has been active and influential in local political affairs. He has served since 1913 as a member of the Board of Education of the Riverside city school district, which includes Arlington, and has been president of the board since 1915. Within his connection with educational affairs in this important district several modern school buildings have been erected in the same.
Mr. Davison is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He has been long and actively identified with the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been president of its local organization in Riverside since 1912, besides which he has served since 1918 as a director of the California State Board of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is one of the influential members of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, of which he has served as president, and held similar office in the Arlington Poultry Association, of which he was one of the organizers and which has been a resourceful factor in the building up of the poultry industry in Riverside and Arlington, the association having recently been merged with the Riverside County Farm Bureau. While a resident of Kansas City, Mr. Davison was one of the organizers of the Mercantile National Bank of that city, of which he became a director. At Riverside he is a member of the Present Day Club, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the First Baptist Church of this city. For a number of years he was moderator of the Santa Ana Valley Baptist Association, and during the year 1916 he was president of the California Baptist Convention. He has been active in the various departments of church work and has given effective and prolonged service as Sunday School superintendent.
At Eureka, Illinois, on the 12th of June, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davison with Miss Annie S. Murray, who was born and reared in that state and whose father, John M. Murray, was a representative grain dealer at Eureka. Mr. and Mrs. Davison have four children. Bertha, eldest of the number, is the wife of H. H. House, chemist for the Exchange Byproducts Company at Corona, Riverside County, and they have two children—Gordon Davison and William Murray. John Murray Davison, who has active charge of his father's poultry ranch at Arlington, was graduated from the Riverside High School and was a college sophomore at the time when the nation became involved in the World war. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and went into active service with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas, his service with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany having continued for a protracted period after the signing of the historic armistice. P. H. Davison, the younger son, is associated in the management of the poultry ranch at Arlington. He is a graduate of the Riverside High School and of the Junior College in that city. When America entered the World war he became a member of the Coast Artillery and was stationed at The Presidio, San Francisco. After the receiving of his honorable discharge he entered the University of California, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1921 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Miss Martha Ellen Davison, the younger daughter, was graduated from the high school at Riverside, where she is, in 1921, a student in the Junior College.
Siblings:
Mary Addie Davison (1855 – 1861)
Franc Davison (1857 – 1952)
William S Davison (1862 – 1936)
Paul Harvey Davison (1867 – 1953)
Elsie Jane Davison (1869 – 1925)
Bertha (Davison) Swing (1874 – 1960)
J. MORGAN DAVISON is a progressive citizen and business man who has been an influential figure in connection with the development of the Arlington district of Riverside County, where he is the owner of a finely improved property and has developed an extensive enterprise in the raising of poultry in a commercial way, and where he also raises grain, peaches and walnuts.
Mr. Davison was born in Clayton Township, Woodford County, Illinois, on the 24th of October, 1864, and is a son of P. H. and Jane Caroline (File) Davison, both natives of the State of New York and both representatives of sterling families that gave patriot soldiers to the nation in the War of the Revolution: the File family, of Holland Dutch origin, having early been established in Rensselaer County, New York. The lineage of the Davison family traces back to staunch Scotch origin. J. Milton Davison, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was given, in 1838, a commission as lieutenant of riflemen in the State Militia of New York, and this commission, bearing the signature of Governor William L. Marcey, is now in the possession of the grandson J. Morgan Davison, who likewise treasures a woodcut picture published many years ago in Frank Leslie's Weekly and showing Mr. Davison's great-great-grandfather in the paternal line, who was a fife major both in the Revolution and in the War of 1812, and who is depicted, with a drummer beside him, as playing "Yankee Doodle" while standing on the breastworks on the morning of the battle of Bunker Hill.
J. Morgan Davison gained his youthful education in the public schools of his native county and in the Illinois Wesleyan University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Thereafter he was his father's assistant in the office of county treasurer, and while thus engaged he took the required examination and obtained admission to the Illinois bar. He has, however, never found it expedient to engage in the active practice of the law. In 1891 he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and there he continued to be actively engaged in the mercantile business until 1910, when he came to Riverside, California, and purchased twenty acres of land in the beautiful suburban district of Arlington, where he has continued to reside and where he has developed a valuable property. Here he conducts an extensive commercial poultry ranch, with special preference given to the White Leghorn type of poultry, of which he has at the time of this writing, in 1921, about 3,000 on his ranch. He is a leader in the poultry industry in this section of the state, and in his enterprise has achieved distinctive success and prestige. In the autumn of 1916 he was one of the organizers of the Poultry Producers' Association of Southern California, of which he has served continuously as a director and which has proved a valuable cooperative marketing organization working in conjunction with the California Market Association. The Poultry Producers' Association owns a well equipped warehouse in the City of Los Angeles, where the eggs are collected and where an efficient manager has supervision of the sale of the products. In 1912 Mr. Davison became one of the organizers of the Poultrymen's Co-operative Milling Association, of which he has served continuously as secretary and treasurer, as well as a director, and to the affairs of which he gives the major part of his time and attention. The directorate of this organization is largely interlocking with that of the previously mentioned Poultry Producers' Association, and the warehouses of the two, in Los Angeles, adjoin each other.
As a staunch and vigorous advocate of the principles of the democratic party Mr. Davison has been active and influential in local political affairs. He has served since 1913 as a member of the Board of Education of the Riverside city school district, which includes Arlington, and has been president of the board since 1915. Within his connection with educational affairs in this important district several modern school buildings have been erected in the same.
Mr. Davison is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He has been long and actively identified with the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been president of its local organization in Riverside since 1912, besides which he has served since 1918 as a director of the California State Board of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is one of the influential members of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, of which he has served as president, and held similar office in the Arlington Poultry Association, of which he was one of the organizers and which has been a resourceful factor in the building up of the poultry industry in Riverside and Arlington, the association having recently been merged with the Riverside County Farm Bureau. While a resident of Kansas City, Mr. Davison was one of the organizers of the Mercantile National Bank of that city, of which he became a director. At Riverside he is a member of the Present Day Club, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the First Baptist Church of this city. For a number of years he was moderator of the Santa Ana Valley Baptist Association, and during the year 1916 he was president of the California Baptist Convention. He has been active in the various departments of church work and has given effective and prolonged service as Sunday School superintendent.
At Eureka, Illinois, on the 12th of June, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davison with Miss Annie S. Murray, who was born and reared in that state and whose father, John M. Murray, was a representative grain dealer at Eureka. Mr. and Mrs. Davison have four children. Bertha, eldest of the number, is the wife of H. H. House, chemist for the Exchange Byproducts Company at Corona, Riverside County, and they have two children—Gordon Davison and William Murray. John Murray Davison, who has active charge of his father's poultry ranch at Arlington, was graduated from the Riverside High School and was a college sophomore at the time when the nation became involved in the World war. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and went into active service with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas, his service with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany having continued for a protracted period after the signing of the historic armistice. P. H. Davison, the younger son, is associated in the management of the poultry ranch at Arlington. He is a graduate of the Riverside High School and of the Junior College in that city. When America entered the World war he became a member of the Coast Artillery and was stationed at The Presidio, San Francisco. After the receiving of his honorable discharge he entered the University of California, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1921 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Miss Martha Ellen Davison, the younger daughter, was graduated from the high school at Riverside, where she is, in 1921, a student in the Junior College.
Siblings:
Mary Addie Davison (1855 – 1861)
Franc Davison (1857 – 1952)
William S Davison (1862 – 1936)
Paul Harvey Davison (1867 – 1953)
Elsie Jane Davison (1869 – 1925)
Bertha (Davison) Swing (1874 – 1960)
From History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, by John Brown, Jr. and James Boyd:
J. MORGAN DAVISON is a progressive citizen and business man who has been an influential figure in connection with the development of the Arlington district of Riverside County, where he is the owner of a finely improved property and has developed an extensive enterprise in the raising of poultry in a commercial way, and where he also raises grain, peaches and walnuts.
Mr. Davison was born in Clayton Township, Woodford County, Illinois, on the 24th of October, 1864, and is a son of P. H. and Jane Caroline (File) Davison, both natives of the State of New York and both representatives of sterling families that gave patriot soldiers to the nation in the War of the Revolution: the File family, of Holland Dutch origin, having early been established in Rensselaer County, New York. The lineage of the Davison family traces back to staunch Scotch origin. J. Milton Davison, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was given, in 1838, a commission as lieutenant of riflemen in the State Militia of New York, and this commission, bearing the signature of Governor William L. Marcey, is now in the possession of the grandson J. Morgan Davison, who likewise treasures a woodcut picture published many years ago in Frank Leslie's Weekly and showing Mr. Davison's great-great-grandfather in the paternal line, who was a fife major both in the Revolution and in the War of 1812, and who is depicted, with a drummer beside him, as playing "Yankee Doodle" while standing on the breastworks on the morning of the battle of Bunker Hill.
J. Morgan Davison gained his youthful education in the public schools of his native county and in the Illinois Wesleyan University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Thereafter he was his father's assistant in the office of county treasurer, and while thus engaged he took the required examination and obtained admission to the Illinois bar. He has, however, never found it expedient to engage in the active practice of the law. In 1891 he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and there he continued to be actively engaged in the mercantile business until 1910, when he came to Riverside, California, and purchased twenty acres of land in the beautiful suburban district of Arlington, where he has continued to reside and where he has developed a valuable property. Here he conducts an extensive commercial poultry ranch, with special preference given to the White Leghorn type of poultry, of which he has at the time of this writing, in 1921, about 3,000 on his ranch. He is a leader in the poultry industry in this section of the state, and in his enterprise has achieved distinctive success and prestige. In the autumn of 1916 he was one of the organizers of the Poultry Producers' Association of Southern California, of which he has served continuously as a director and which has proved a valuable cooperative marketing organization working in conjunction with the California Market Association. The Poultry Producers' Association owns a well equipped warehouse in the City of Los Angeles, where the eggs are collected and where an efficient manager has supervision of the sale of the products. In 1912 Mr. Davison became one of the organizers of the Poultrymen's Co-operative Milling Association, of which he has served continuously as secretary and treasurer, as well as a director, and to the affairs of which he gives the major part of his time and attention. The directorate of this organization is largely interlocking with that of the previously mentioned Poultry Producers' Association, and the warehouses of the two, in Los Angeles, adjoin each other.
As a staunch and vigorous advocate of the principles of the democratic party Mr. Davison has been active and influential in local political affairs. He has served since 1913 as a member of the Board of Education of the Riverside city school district, which includes Arlington, and has been president of the board since 1915. Within his connection with educational affairs in this important district several modern school buildings have been erected in the same.
Mr. Davison is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He has been long and actively identified with the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been president of its local organization in Riverside since 1912, besides which he has served since 1918 as a director of the California State Board of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is one of the influential members of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, of which he has served as president, and held similar office in the Arlington Poultry Association, of which he was one of the organizers and which has been a resourceful factor in the building up of the poultry industry in Riverside and Arlington, the association having recently been merged with the Riverside County Farm Bureau. While a resident of Kansas City, Mr. Davison was one of the organizers of the Mercantile National Bank of that city, of which he became a director. At Riverside he is a member of the Present Day Club, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the First Baptist Church of this city. For a number of years he was moderator of the Santa Ana Valley Baptist Association, and during the year 1916 he was president of the California Baptist Convention. He has been active in the various departments of church work and has given effective and prolonged service as Sunday School superintendent.
At Eureka, Illinois, on the 12th of June, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davison with Miss Annie S. Murray, who was born and reared in that state and whose father, John M. Murray, was a representative grain dealer at Eureka. Mr. and Mrs. Davison have four children. Bertha, eldest of the number, is the wife of H. H. House, chemist for the Exchange Byproducts Company at Corona, Riverside County, and they have two children—Gordon Davison and William Murray. John Murray Davison, who has active charge of his father's poultry ranch at Arlington, was graduated from the Riverside High School and was a college sophomore at the time when the nation became involved in the World war. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and went into active service with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas, his service with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany having continued for a protracted period after the signing of the historic armistice. P. H. Davison, the younger son, is associated in the management of the poultry ranch at Arlington. He is a graduate of the Riverside High School and of the Junior College in that city. When America entered the World war he became a member of the Coast Artillery and was stationed at The Presidio, San Francisco. After the receiving of his honorable discharge he entered the University of California, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1921 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Miss Martha Ellen Davison, the younger daughter, was graduated from the high school at Riverside, where she is, in 1921, a student in the Junior College.
Siblings:
Mary Addie Davison (1855 – 1861)
Franc Davison (1857 – 1952)
William S Davison (1862 – 1936)
Paul Harvey Davison (1867 – 1953)
Elsie Jane Davison (1869 – 1925)
Bertha (Davison) Swing (1874 – 1960)
J. MORGAN DAVISON is a progressive citizen and business man who has been an influential figure in connection with the development of the Arlington district of Riverside County, where he is the owner of a finely improved property and has developed an extensive enterprise in the raising of poultry in a commercial way, and where he also raises grain, peaches and walnuts.
Mr. Davison was born in Clayton Township, Woodford County, Illinois, on the 24th of October, 1864, and is a son of P. H. and Jane Caroline (File) Davison, both natives of the State of New York and both representatives of sterling families that gave patriot soldiers to the nation in the War of the Revolution: the File family, of Holland Dutch origin, having early been established in Rensselaer County, New York. The lineage of the Davison family traces back to staunch Scotch origin. J. Milton Davison, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was given, in 1838, a commission as lieutenant of riflemen in the State Militia of New York, and this commission, bearing the signature of Governor William L. Marcey, is now in the possession of the grandson J. Morgan Davison, who likewise treasures a woodcut picture published many years ago in Frank Leslie's Weekly and showing Mr. Davison's great-great-grandfather in the paternal line, who was a fife major both in the Revolution and in the War of 1812, and who is depicted, with a drummer beside him, as playing "Yankee Doodle" while standing on the breastworks on the morning of the battle of Bunker Hill.
J. Morgan Davison gained his youthful education in the public schools of his native county and in the Illinois Wesleyan University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887 and with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Thereafter he was his father's assistant in the office of county treasurer, and while thus engaged he took the required examination and obtained admission to the Illinois bar. He has, however, never found it expedient to engage in the active practice of the law. In 1891 he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and there he continued to be actively engaged in the mercantile business until 1910, when he came to Riverside, California, and purchased twenty acres of land in the beautiful suburban district of Arlington, where he has continued to reside and where he has developed a valuable property. Here he conducts an extensive commercial poultry ranch, with special preference given to the White Leghorn type of poultry, of which he has at the time of this writing, in 1921, about 3,000 on his ranch. He is a leader in the poultry industry in this section of the state, and in his enterprise has achieved distinctive success and prestige. In the autumn of 1916 he was one of the organizers of the Poultry Producers' Association of Southern California, of which he has served continuously as a director and which has proved a valuable cooperative marketing organization working in conjunction with the California Market Association. The Poultry Producers' Association owns a well equipped warehouse in the City of Los Angeles, where the eggs are collected and where an efficient manager has supervision of the sale of the products. In 1912 Mr. Davison became one of the organizers of the Poultrymen's Co-operative Milling Association, of which he has served continuously as secretary and treasurer, as well as a director, and to the affairs of which he gives the major part of his time and attention. The directorate of this organization is largely interlocking with that of the previously mentioned Poultry Producers' Association, and the warehouses of the two, in Los Angeles, adjoin each other.
As a staunch and vigorous advocate of the principles of the democratic party Mr. Davison has been active and influential in local political affairs. He has served since 1913 as a member of the Board of Education of the Riverside city school district, which includes Arlington, and has been president of the board since 1915. Within his connection with educational affairs in this important district several modern school buildings have been erected in the same.
Mr. Davison is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He has been long and actively identified with the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been president of its local organization in Riverside since 1912, besides which he has served since 1918 as a director of the California State Board of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is one of the influential members of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, of which he has served as president, and held similar office in the Arlington Poultry Association, of which he was one of the organizers and which has been a resourceful factor in the building up of the poultry industry in Riverside and Arlington, the association having recently been merged with the Riverside County Farm Bureau. While a resident of Kansas City, Mr. Davison was one of the organizers of the Mercantile National Bank of that city, of which he became a director. At Riverside he is a member of the Present Day Club, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the First Baptist Church of this city. For a number of years he was moderator of the Santa Ana Valley Baptist Association, and during the year 1916 he was president of the California Baptist Convention. He has been active in the various departments of church work and has given effective and prolonged service as Sunday School superintendent.
At Eureka, Illinois, on the 12th of June, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davison with Miss Annie S. Murray, who was born and reared in that state and whose father, John M. Murray, was a representative grain dealer at Eureka. Mr. and Mrs. Davison have four children. Bertha, eldest of the number, is the wife of H. H. House, chemist for the Exchange Byproducts Company at Corona, Riverside County, and they have two children—Gordon Davison and William Murray. John Murray Davison, who has active charge of his father's poultry ranch at Arlington, was graduated from the Riverside High School and was a college sophomore at the time when the nation became involved in the World war. He enlisted in the Marine Corps and went into active service with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas, his service with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany having continued for a protracted period after the signing of the historic armistice. P. H. Davison, the younger son, is associated in the management of the poultry ranch at Arlington. He is a graduate of the Riverside High School and of the Junior College in that city. When America entered the World war he became a member of the Coast Artillery and was stationed at The Presidio, San Francisco. After the receiving of his honorable discharge he entered the University of California, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1921 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Miss Martha Ellen Davison, the younger daughter, was graduated from the high school at Riverside, where she is, in 1921, a student in the Junior College.
Siblings:
Mary Addie Davison (1855 – 1861)
Franc Davison (1857 – 1952)
William S Davison (1862 – 1936)
Paul Harvey Davison (1867 – 1953)
Elsie Jane Davison (1869 – 1925)
Bertha (Davison) Swing (1874 – 1960)
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