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George Fauntleroy Davidson

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George Fauntleroy Davidson

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
28 Apr 1900 (aged 37)
Napa, Napa County, California, USA
Burial
Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
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A brilliant man, who graduated Harvard in 1885. His tragic death, by suicide was a severe blow to his aging parents. George F., who had been ill for some time and a patient in a sanatorium in the Napa Valley, was believed to have taken his life because he thought that he was losing his reason. His father, as long as he lived, yearly recorded in his diary the successive anniversaries of his son's death.

Removal presumed from Laurel Hill, San Francisco CA
to Cypress Lawn, Colma CA
A brilliant man, who graduated Harvard in 1885. His tragic death, by suicide was a severe blow to his aging parents. George F., who had been ill for some time and a patient in a sanatorium in the Napa Valley, was believed to have taken his life because he thought that he was losing his reason. His father, as long as he lived, yearly recorded in his diary the successive anniversaries of his son's death.

Removal presumed from Laurel Hill, San Francisco CA
to Cypress Lawn, Colma CA


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