Robert Stewart Davis (1831 - 1919)

Born 8 Apr 1831 in Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States

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Name: Robert Stewart Davis.

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Born

8 APR 1831.

Chambersburg, Franklin, PA.

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Residence

Age: 49; Marital status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Self.

1880

Allegheny, Allegheny, PA.

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Age: 79; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head.

1910

Pittsburgh Ward 8, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

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StreetAddress: Atlantic Avenue; Age: 69; Occupation: Bookseller; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; EnumerationDistrict: 0235; HomeMortgaged: M; HomeOwnership: O; MonthsUnEmployedPastYear: 0; OwnsFarm: H; YearsMarried: 45; MaritalStatus: Married; RelationToHead: Head.

1900

Pittsburgh Ward 20, Allegheny, PA.

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Died 1919 ^[4]

Buried Allegheny Cemetery. Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA^[4]

Notes

Excerpt from 'The Davis Family' ^[5]

THE DAVIS FAMILY

A History of the Descendants of William Davis and His Wife, Mary Means

by

Thomas Kirby Davis

of Wooster, Ohio

Imprinted for the Family by

The Plimpton Press

Norwood, Massachusetts

[1912]

p. 122

Robert Stewart Davis was born in Chambersburg April 8, 1831. He received his education in the Chambersburg Academy. In 1849 he traveled by stage over the old "turn pike" to Pittsburg, where he entered the bookstore of Johnston and Stockton. He united by letter with the First Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. Francis Herron was the pastor. On May 10, 1855, he was married, by his brother, T. K. Davis, to Clarissa Faires Fulton, of a good old Scotch-Irish Presbyterian family. For more than fifty years he has been well known and highly esteemed in Pittsburg as a leading bookseller; and as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church from 1862 to the present time. He was treasurer and secretary of the Board of Trustees of his church for forty-nine years. He was at one time president of the Pittsburg Bible Society, and has been for thirty-five years a member of the Freedmen's Board of the Presbyterian Church. Being a member of the Board of Trustees of Biddle University, it has been his custom for many years to make an annual visit to that college, and other schools located near it.

In 1867 during the first Paris Exposition he visited Paris, where he saw the Emperor and the beautiful Empress Eugenie, King William the First, of Prussia, and the Sultan of Turkey.

He is a great friend of Home and Foreign Missions, having visited some of the stations in China and Japan in 1888, making the long trip home in company with his daughter, Annie K. Davis, who was returning on furlough. In 1896 he attended as a delegate the Pan-Presbyterian Council, held in Glasgow, Scotland. Before his return he spent a week in picturesque Norway, and visited London, where he saw Queen Victoria and the bridal party of Princess Maud at Buckingham Palace.

Mr. Davis makes and keeps a host of friends. He is a welcome guest wherever he goes, and he loves to travel. He is an upright citizen, a loyal friend, a good host, and altogether a fine character.

Mrs. Clara Fulton Davis was a most excellent woman, of superior character, one who commanded the respect and love of all around her, by the quiet, gentle, winning way in which she performed the duties of wife, mother, home-maker, and Christian worker. As she advanced in years she grew in grace; and when, on a lovely day in June, 1907, she quietly, sweetly "slipped awa'" into scenes of eternal beauty and joy, there was a void in her family and large circle of friends which has been keenly felt.

Mr. and Mrs. Davis had six children, all born in Pittsburg: 1. Joanna K., 2. Alice D., 3. Henry F., 4. William S., 5. Robert S., 6. Mary H.

Notes

R.S. Davis, Esq, President 1865-6; Recording Secretary 1857-1860; Librarian 1869-70, is one of the prominent citizens of Pittsburgh. His book store has been the rendezvous for Pittsburghers during the past fifty years. He is still hale and hearty and we hope to enjoy his presence and bright smile at our monthly meetings and trust that he will live to see our Society more than one hundred years old.

Acknowledgements

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Sources

• Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1880 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005; NOTETenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• Ancestry.com 1900 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004; NOTEUnited States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
• Ancestry.com 1910 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; NOTEThirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/census/publications-microfilm-catalogs-census/1910/index.html">NARA</a>.

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   Source: #S66 Year: 1880; Census Place: Allegheny, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1086; Family History Film: 1255086; Page: 82A; Enumeration District: 004; Image: 0167 Record for Mary H. Davis File Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=36328439&indiv=try

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2}

   Source: #S155 Year: 1910; Census Place: Pittsburgh Ward 8, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1301; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0374; FHL microfilm: 1375314 Record for Mary H Davis File Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&h=121684655&indiv=try

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   Source: #S148 Year: 1900; Census Place: Pittsburgh Ward 20, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Page: 6; Enumeration District: 0235; FHL microfilm: 1241362 Record for Annie Davis File Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7602&h=51333843&indiv=try

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125563000/robert-stewart-davis
5. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/davisfamilyhisto00indavi/davisfamilyhisto00indavi_djvu.txt Full text of "The Davis family; a history of the descendants of William Davis, and his wife Mary Means" by Thomas Kirby Davis.