Davidson, Thomas (1840-1900)

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Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: Fifteen Years at Hull House (First of Three Installments), March 1906

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: Early Undertakings at Hull-House, June 1910

Address of Miss Jane Addams at the Funeral of Mary Jane Hawes Wilmarth, August 30, 1919

Eulogy for Mary Jane Wilmarth, October 8, 1919

Draft of Address to the Chicago Woman's Club, February 15, 1926

Address to the Chicago Woman's Club, February 15, 1926

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Birth Date

1840-10-25

Death Date

1900-09-14

Birthplace

Old Deer, Scotland

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Thomas Davidson attended Aberdeen University and became rector of the grammar school of Old Aberdeen. He went to serve as master of various schools, and in 1866 he moved to Canada to work at the London Collegiate Institute. Davidson then moved to the United States, where he was a classical master in the St. Louis high school, principal of one of the branch schools, and worked on the New York Round Table and the Western Educational Monthly. While traveling and studying in Europe, Davidson wrote various books such as Fragments of Parmenides (1869) and The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays (1882). Davidson also founded "The Fellowship of the New Life," which had branches in London and New York.

Davidson died in 1900.