Robert R. Davisson

DAVISSON, JENKINS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 8/6/2004 at 12:45:03

“History of Madison County Iowa and Its People”
Herman A. Mueller, Supervising Editor
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1915

Dr. Robert R. Davisson, a prominent physician of Winterset, is the son of one of the best known pioneer physicians of this part of Iowa, and also the grandson of a successful physician. He was born in Winterset on the l0th of October, 1865, his parents being Dr. David DeKalb and Mary A. (Jenkins) Davisson. The father's birth occurred in Clarksburg, Virginia, August 29, 1828, and his parents were David and Maria (DeVecmon) Davisson, both natives of the Old Dominion. Dr. David Davisson, Sr., was born in Clarksburg in 1770, and our subject has his commission as surgeon in the militia of Virginia, issued in 1810 and signed by J. G. Jackson, who was an uncle of "Stonewell" F. Jackson. Dr. Davisson also served through the War of 1812 as a surgeon and lived to more than round out a century, passing away in Virginia when one hundred years and six months old. His father, who bore the name of Andrew Davisson, was born near Aberdeen, Scotland, and served as an officer in the English army. While still a young man he emigrated to the colonies and served in the state militia of Virginia when Patrick Henry was governor. The grandmother of our subject, who bore the maiden name of Miss Maria De Vecmon, was born in Virginia, a daughter of Peter De Vecmon, a native of France.

Dr. Robert R. Davisson passed his boyhood under the parental roof and attended the public and high schools of Winterset. When about eighteen years of age he began working in a printing office here, but shortly afterward entered the Keokuk Medical College, having decided to follow the profession to which his father and grand-father had devoted their lives. After spending a year in that school he entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1890. He returned to his native city and has since remained here, building up a large and lucrative practice.

He is a member of the Madison County, the Rock Island and the Iowa State Medical Societies and finds much of value in the deliberations of those bodies. He has never supposed his knowledge concerning disease and its treatment to be complete, but has continually sought by study to keep informed in regard to the discoveries of investigators in all parts of the world. He is painstaking in diagnosis and this trait has had much to do with his gratifying success as a physician.

Dr. Davisson is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the blue lodge the Des Moines Consistory and the Shrine, and not only wears the pin that signifies him a Mason, but is true to the basic principles of Masonry, namely the brotherhood of mankind. That he should achieve professional success in his native city and hold the personal respect and regard of those who have known him from boyhood is high tribute to his worth as a physician and as a man.
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Transcriber's note: This biography had extensive information regarding Robert's father, Dr. David Dekalb Davisson. That information has been extracted and posted as a separate biography.

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