Named in 1938 for the family who lived here. William Milhous Davidson (1880-1966), distantly related (through marriage) to famous Whittierite Richard Milhous Nixon, was an Illinoisan who came to Whittier in 1909 to live with his aunt and uncle Frances and William Milhous, who had arrived three years prior. He soon got a job at the First National Bank of Whittier and eventually held the position of assistant cashier, but switched careers in 1927 and became local circulation manager for the Los Angeles Times. By 1917, he had picked up land in Rideout Heights, where he grew lemons and also (successfully?) leased the land out to oil drillers. Davidson married Henrietta Helen Valla (1887-1990) on Christmas Day 1921. The daughter of French immigrants, she spent her entire life in the Whittier area and worked as a schoolteacher until retiring in 1953. They had two daughters, Frances and Lorraine. P.S. Henrietta’s sister Marie married into the Pellissier Dairy family.
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