Hemenway's kindness and generosity, Miss Davidson, after graduating at Hampton, received an opportunity to complete a two years' course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.
Before she went to Framingham, some one suggested to Miss Davidson that, since she was so very light in colour, she might find it more comfortable not to be known as a coloured women in this school in Massachusetts.
Soon after her graduation from the Framingham institution, Miss Davidson came to Tuskegee, bringing into the school many valuable and fresh ideas as to the best methods of teaching, as well as a rare moral character and a life of unselfishness that I think has seldom been equalled.
Miss Davidson and I began consulting as to the future of the school from the first.
In the meantime Miss Davidson was devising plans to repay the loan.
God knows I's ignorant an' poor; but," she added, "I knows what you an' Miss Davidson is tryin' to do.
"Why, my lord," quoth Ford, standing in his stirrups and shading his eyes, "it is old Hob
Davidson, the fat miller of Milton!"
In 2018, AS ABE partnered with the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) to create the
Davidson Prize, recognizing outstanding innovations in agriculture.