Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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William P. Davis and Mabel Elizabeth McMichael




Husband William P. Davis 1

           Born: 6 May 1883 - Lehi, Utah Co, UT 1
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         Father: Henry Thomas Davis (1854-1916) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Evans (1858-Aft 1919) 1


       Marriage: 



Wife Mabel Elizabeth McMichael 2 3

           Born: 10 Dec 1887 - Eau Claire, Venango Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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           Died: Bef 1919
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         Father: Dr. Robert John McMichael, M.D. (1851-1914) 4
         Mother: Mary Elizabeth Campbell (      -      ) 2 3




Children
1 F Geraldine Elizabeth Davis 3

           Born: 10 Jul 1916 3
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2 F Eleanor Ruth Davis 3

           Born: 14 Oct 1917 3
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           Died: Bef 1919
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - William P. Davis


He was educated in the public schools at Lehi, Utah. He remained on the home farm until fifteen years old, when he began his apprenticeship to the trade of bricklayer with Thomas Featherstone, of Lehi, with whom he continued for a year. He next found work in the same line at Pocatello, Idaho, and for a short time was engaged in railroad work, being employed as a fireman on the Oregon Short Line for six months. For six months he was at Idaho Falls, where he built a sugar house; did work at his trade for the Oregon Short Line at Montpelier, Idaho, during one year; was at Spokane, Washington, four or five years; and foreman at Portland, Oregon, where he spent two or three years. He left Spokane with the Leonard Construction Com-pany, in which association he was at Chicago for two or three years, and was at Kansas City for two and a half years as foreman with the MacLane Construction Company. In 1915 he came to Polk, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where he had a contract for construction work on the State buildings for the insane which occupied him two years, and he was also engaged on the Beers building in Oil City. Later he was in charge of work for C. F. Hamilton, of the Galena-Signal Oil Company, at Franklin, where he also built the brick work on the Evening News building. He also did some work on contract for the State at Polk since the completion of his first con-tract there. He always cooperated with his associates in efforts to improve working conditions and the standing of tradesmen, and he held membership in Bricklayers Local No. 25, Masons and Plasterers of America, at Oil City. While in the West he joined the Hilliard (Wash.) Local, No. 571, B. L. F. Politically he was independent, voting as he thought best both for men and measures which appealed to him.


General Notes: Wife - Mabel Elizabeth McMichael


She received her education at the schools of Eau Claire, Butler County, Pennsylvania, attending high school. For several years before her marriage she was a professional nurse, at the Orphan Asylum in Pittsburgh, and for more than four years in the State Institution at Polk. She was of Scotch-Irish origin.

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Sources


1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1074.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1363.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1075.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1360.


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