Mr John Davie : Newlands Hill House Dunfermline
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The article was written in celebration of Mr John Davie reaching his 90th year and states that he 'has trod the path of a peaceful, and quiet-working reformer'. Born in 1800 at Batterflat near Stirling he was the son of a Scottish farmer. He was apprenticed to a draper in Stirling and served the fifth year of his appenticeship in Dunfermline with a brief period as a journeyman in Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy. In 1830 he was asked to return to Dunfermline to join Mr. David Reid in partnership. Mr Davie was involved in the early closing movement, had an interest in the chartist and other political movements and was a supporter of the temperence movement. Mr Davie was also an early adopter of the vegetarian diet, giving up meat in 1846, he believed in hydropathy and was an anti-tobacconist.
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8 p. ; 16 cm x 10 cm.
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Sketch of the life of a worthy citizen.
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B/DAV
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English
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3419567