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In 1880, at the age of twenty-four, Davidson moved the short distance north to St. Joseph and became a merchant and planter. He married Carrie Moore (1866-1957), daughter of Joseph Moore, one of the wealthiest men in Tensas Parish. He moved with comfort and ease into the circle of the Tensas elite.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|url=http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11082006-162523/unrestricted/jmreonasdiss.pdf|title=James Matthew Reonas, ''Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression''|publisher=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]: Louisiana State University Ph.D. dissertation, December 2006, pp. 24-25, 245-248, 274|accessdate=July 20, 2013}}</ref>​

In 1880, at the age of twenty-four, Davidson moved the short distance north to St. Joseph and became a merchant and planter. He married Carrie Moore (1866-1957), daughter of Joseph Moore, one of the wealthiest men in Tensas Parish. He moved with comfort and ease into the circle of the Tensas elite.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|url=http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11082006-162523/unrestricted/jmreonasdiss.pdf|title=James Matthew Reonas, ''Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression''|publisher=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]: Louisiana State University Ph.D. dissertation, December 2006, pp. 24-25, 245-248, 274|accessdate=July 20, 2013}}</ref>​

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==Political and civic affairs==​

==Political and civic affairs==

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Davidson was a founder and the general manager of the powerful Panola Company, an agricultural entity based in St. Joseph which controlled at one point eleven thousand acres of valuable farmland. James Howard Netterville (1879-1943) supervised three of its most valuable holdings, the Balmoral, Blackwater, and Wyoming plantations.<ref name=eastla/> He sat on the board of the Bank of St. Joseph, the most stable financial institution in Tensas Parish. He worked to bring the USDA Agricultural Experiment Station to St. Joseph and [[lobbying|lobbied]] for construction of the Mississippi River bridge at Natchez, which linked the lower delta country to one of it major trade cities.<ref name=bio/>​

Davidson was a founder and the general manager of the powerful Panola Company, an agricultural entity based in St. Joseph which controlled at one point eleven thousand acres of valuable farmland. James Howard Netterville (1879-1943) supervised three of its most valuable holdings, the Balmoral, Blackwater, and Wyoming plantations.<ref name=eastla/> He sat on the board of the Bank of St. Joseph, the most stable financial institution in Tensas Parish. He worked to bring the USDA Agricultural Experiment Station to St. Joseph and [[lobbying|lobbied]] for construction of the Mississippi River bridge at Natchez, which linked the lower delta country to one of it major trade cities.<ref name=bio/>​

For the Tensas planter class, small in number but powerful in influence, Davidson's death signaled the quick passing of the old order. Davidson personally epitomized the [[Queen Victoria|Victorian]] ideals of the old planter aristocracy unaccustomed to much social, political, or economic change but in expectation of the periodic soaring of its profits based on agricultural market conditions.<ref name=bio/>​

For the Tensas planter class, small in number but powerful in influence, Davidson's death signaled the quick passing of the old order. Davidson personally epitomized the [[Queen Victoria|Victorian]] ideals of the old planter aristocracy unaccustomed to much social, political, or economic change but in expectation of the periodic soaring of its profits based on agricultural market conditions.<ref name=bio/>​

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William and Carrie Davidson are interred at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natchezbelle.org/adams-ind/d-burials.htm|title="D" burial records|publisher=natchezbelle.org|accessdate=July 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>Confirmed by Danny Brown, Natchez City Cemetery.</ref>​

William and Carrie Davidson are interred at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natchezbelle.org/adams-ind/d-burials.htm|title="D" burial records|publisher=natchezbelle.org|accessdate=July 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>Confirmed by Danny Brown, Natchez City Cemetery.</ref>

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==References==​

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