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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [415-416]

           ROBERT A. DAVIDSON, blacksmith, wagon and carriage manufacturer,
        located at Sand Beach, was born March 25, 1840, near Hamilton, Ont.
        His parents, JAMES and JANE (BILLINGSLAY) DAVIDSON, are both
        deceased, the death of the former occurring when the son was about
        12 years of age, and that of the latter in 1869.
           MR. DAVIDSON was instructed in the details of the blacksmith
        business in the shop of his brother ANDREW, where he was employed
        at an early age, and he has pursued that business since without
        intermission. He established a shop at Thamesford, in Ontario, and
        subsequently at a place then known as Auleyville. In 1869 he came
        to Brockway Center, St. Clair Co., Mich., where he conducted his
        business five years. He went thence to Emmett, in the same county,
        and had a shop there some years. He has been in Sand Beach since
        April, 1879. On his arrival here he entered the employment of JAMES
        ROSS, with whom he continued three years.  In 1882 he began his
        present enterprise in his own interest, his business requiring two
        assistants. He does all kinds of general blacksmithing, wagon and
        carriage making, and all the varieties of repairing common to his
        business. He owns his wagon and blacksmith shops and his residence
        at Sand Beach. He is a member of the Knights of Honor.
           MR. DAVIDSON was married May 20, 1860, at Ingersoll, Oxford Co.,
        Ont., to MARGARET L., daughter of COLON McNEE. She was born in the
        township of Nissuria, Oxford Co., Ont., May 5, 1843. Four children
        have been born to Mr. and Mrs. DAVIDSON, as follows:  LINDA, born
        May 18, 1864; JAMES R., Aug. 18, 1869; and two others who died in
        infancy.  The parents are members of the Baptist Church.

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