When Grover Alexander Davidson was born on 16 September 1885, in Hilliard, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Millard Fillmore Davidson, was 35 and his mother, Rachel Catherine Britton, was 28. He married Edith Slacker on 28 October 1908, in Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chapman Township, Clay, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Flora Township, Dickinson, Kansas, United States in 1930. He died on 7 November 1971, in Salina, Saline, Kansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Abilene, Dickinson, Kansas, United States.
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The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David .
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