Dec 1  A Leader in Tensas Parish
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 01/12/2016

Betty Jo Harris presents today's Natchez History Minute about planter, banker and civic leader, William Mackenzie Davidson, who was born on this day, Dec. 1, 1856 in New York. Davidson grew up in Natchez but spent his adult life across the river in Tensas Parish.  He was a founder of the Panola Company, worked for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station,  and lobbied for the construction of a river bridge at Natchez.