DAVIDSON, ROLAND STANLEY (1864-1931)

DAVIDSON, ROLAND STANLEY, Presbyterian-United Church minister, Douglastown and Nelson, 1923-27; b. Tidnish Bridge, Westmorland Co., N.B., 19 Jan 1864, s/o Hugh Davidson and Mary Costigan; m. 1904, Margaret McGorman, of Riverside-Albert, N.B.; d. Stanley, N.B., 10 Jul 1931.

Roland S. Davidson was educated at Mount Allison University (BA 1895) and trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax (grad. 1896). He then did postgraduate study at Princeton University. Ordained in 1898, he served in churches in all three Maritime provinces before being called to Douglastown in 1923. In 1925 he presided over the activities associated with church union, which brought the congregations of St Mark's at Douglastown and St James at Nelson into the United Church of Canada. When he left the Miramichi he went to Stanley, where he died in 1931, at age sixty-seven, ten days after closing his pastorate. He was survived by his wife, Margaret McGorman.