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LUKE BABE DAVISON, retired, Wilkinsburg, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 29, 1819. His father, Thomas Davison, was a native of County Down, Ireland, and married Ann Babe, of the city of Belfast. He was a teacher, and after spending a few weeks in Pittsburgh settled in the fall of 1819 in Wilkins township, where he taught school; shortly afterward he opened a store, which his wife at tended, and later he abandoned teaching to give his entire attention to the store. His wife died in 1828, and Mr. Davison soon after sold out and moved to East Liberty, where he served twenty-seven years as justice of the peace. In 1833 he married Rebecca Turner, who now resides in East Liberty, and she bore him two sons and five daughters. Mr. Davison was a stanch republican, and for many years was an elder in the Presbyterian Church; he died May 7, 1877. Luke B. Davison was the only child left by his mother. He attended the common schools at Wilkinsburg and East Liberty, and spent two years at the Western University. When fifteen years old he began work in his father’s store, and there remained till he was twenty-eight, when he bought out the business. During President Fillmore’s administration he was postmaster there, and was for thirteen years school director. He came to Wilkinsburg in 1858, and continued business; he is a republican; was postmaster four years from 1861 was three years school director, fifteen years justice of the peace (elected without party nomination), and notary public six years. H is one of the seven original members of the Presbyterian Church now resident here December 12, 1850, Mr. Davison married Nancy Jane McCosh, a native of Washington county, and a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Allison) McCosh, who were of Scotch and English descent, respectively. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Davison survive: John Milton, Mary Elizabeth and Clara Carey. Thomas, the eldest, and Samuel McCosh, the youngest, died in infancy.