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GEORGE K. DAVIDSON.

educational advantages and interests, he possessed the greatest desire and ambition to prepare himself to meet those duties which future life might thrust upon him. Accordingly, after having completed the curriculum of study adopted by the "Mission Schools" of his home, which he did at a very early age, he entered Lincoln Institute, of Jefferson City, Missouri, which school is his Alma Mater.

After his graduation from Lincoln Institute, feeling that he could not afford to enter the battle of life without a technical business training, he matriculated in Dixon Business College, of Dixon, Illinois, from which school he was also graduated.

At this writing he is playing his part upon the arena of life with unusual skill and credit to himself and to his race.  As a man who believes in the "do it now policy," as a man of frugality and economy, as a man who is capable of crowning any business enterprise with success, Mr. Davidson is making an enviable reputation.

The writer has enjoyed his acquaintance for several years, and has never known him to have time to spend needlessly.  During business hours he can always be found doing something at the right time and in the right direction.  He never shirks any duty, however onerous; no burden, however heavy.

He is regarded in his community, by all who know his qualities and qualifications, as one of the most sagacious and conservative business men, regardless of age or color, and has accumulated as many values as any man, in the same length of time, in his community.

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GEORGE K. DAVIDSON.

The most prominent business men of Muskogee (his home town) say that commercial paper aggregating large sums of money, if signed by Geo. K. Davidson, is "gilt edge." He enjoys the financial confidence of the business world of the Southwest in a remarkable degree.  Mr. Davidson is the sole owner of more than four hundred acres of land in the choicest sections of the beautiful Indian Territory; he owns the controlling interest in the "Home Undertaking Company," a copartnership of Muskogee, capitalized at $5,000; he until recently was the owner of a large block of stock in the Creek Citizens Realty Bank and Trust Company, of Muskogee, for which he exchanged for bonds of numerous classes; he holds many first-mortgage securities, and his ranch is literally covered with cattle, hogs and sheep.  During his short career as a business man he has held several positions of honor and trust, among them assistant cashier of Creek Citizens Realty Bank and Trust Company, private secretary to Gen. P. Porter, chief of Creek Nation, which latter position he now fills.

While the many business relations of this young man are numerous, and while his official duties consume a deal of his time, yet he is a close student and sweeps along the field of good literature as relentless as the famous torch of Omar.  There is nothing to lose in emulating the example of this aspiring and wealthy young Afro-American. Certainly men of his caliber are the ones into whose brains the race and the world must "look for the oca of the future."  If his rapid strides towards the goal of a prodigious success can not be exactly paralleled, they should at least give new life and energy to the young men of our race who are discouraged, and who despair and fall.