Bios: DAVID W. CHRISTIE: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    DAVID W. CHRISTIE,
    
    [p. 544] master mechanic of the New Castle Electric Light Co., was born in
  Arbroath, Scotland, Sept. 15, 1867, and is a son of James F. and Helen
  (Wilson) Christie, who were natives of that place.
    
    Our subject's father was a machinist by trade and worked in the manufacture
  of locomotive engines, serving his apprenticeship in Scotland. He was an
  expert workman, and when he came to this country with his family he easily
  found work in the engine shops of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., but being
  seized with an attack of malaria, and not liking this climate as well as that
  of his own bonnie Scotland, he returned to his former home with his family,
  and has lived there since.
    
    Of a family of ten children, nine of whom are now living, our subject was
  the eldest son. Following is the record: Helen; Betsey; Mary; David W.;
  James.; Lizzie, who died young; Theodore; George; Alexander; and Minnie.
  David W. served his apprenticeship and learned his trade thoroughly in
  Scotland, and in 1886 returned to this country, arriving in Boston and worked
  in the Atlantic Works a short time, then in New York City, Philadelphia, and
  Pittsburg, being employed in the latter place in the Carnegie works. He then
  settled in New Castle, and served as master mechanic a few years for the S.
  V. Steel Co., and then obtained his present situation with the New Castle
  Electric Light Co.
    
    Mr. Christie married Miss Catherine Ann Jones, daughter of Mrs. Margaret
  Jones, and born in Wheatland, Mercer County. They have two children: Frank
  and Helen. Mr. Christie is a Republican, a member of the K. of P. Lodge, and
  an attendant of the United Presbyterian Church.