Robert Rex Downie

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Husband Robert Rex Downie ¹

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           Born:  - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA
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         Father: Robert Magee Downie (Abt 1853-1924) 2
         Mother: Martha Margaret Vale (      -1908) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Rex Downie

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He was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, attended the public schools of Beaver Falls, and was graduated from Geneva College in the class of 1916 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He afterwards studied for a year at the University of Pennsylvania, and then, during the World War, did service in the merchant marine. Mr. Downie was assigned to duty as quartermaster aboard the Clyde-Mallory line steamships, from which he was later transferred to the U. S. Army Transport Service as wheelman. After he received his discharge in February, 1919, he obtained his first business experience with an engineering plant at St. Catharines, in the Province of Ontario, Canada. He then entered the employ of the Keystone Driller Company, at first as a demonstrator of machines and later as a designer. After the death of his father in 1924, he was general manager of the company. He was non-partisan in politics, a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and of the Beaver Falls Chamber of Commerce.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 207.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 205.