Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John D. Davis and Grace Henderson




Husband John D. Davis 1 2 3

           Born: 19 Oct 1865 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: Stewart Davis (Abt 1842-1897) 1 2 3
         Mother: Amanda Devinney (      -Aft 1906) 1


       Marriage: 1898 2



Wife Grace Henderson 2

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Children
1 F Mildred Grace Davis 2

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General Notes: Husband - John D. Davis


He was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, where he received his education in the public schools and at the Blairsville Academy. Out of school hours he was employed in his father's meat market. At the age of eighteen he went to work as a locomotive fireman on the West Pennsylvania division of the Pennsylvania railroad. Six year's later he was promoted to the position of engineer and for nine years thereafter ran an engine. In 1899 he resigned in order to accept a position as locomotive engineer with the American Sheet Steel Company, at Vandergrift. In May, 1902, he was made assistant chief engineer, and in May, 1905, became chief engineer, having full charge of all the motor power of the Vandergrift, Leechburg, Hyde Park and Saltsburg plants. These four plants, being under one management, were known as the "Vandergrift-Apollo Unit." Mr. Davis belonged to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Kiskiminetas Lodge, No. 617, F. and A. M., Duquesne Chapter, No. 193, R. A. M., of Pittsburgh, Allegheny Commandery No. 35, K. T., also a member of the R. A. He was a Republican in politics, and a member and officer of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Sources


1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 369.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 517.

3 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 220.


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