Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Davis, Robert L. June 1, 1864 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. III   pg. 262-3  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

DAVIS, ROBERT LEE, vice president and general manager of the Florida Asphalt 
Black Paving Company, has had an active experience of 40 years of brick 
manufacture and as a brick and paving contractor.  He has handled a large 
amount of the better class of brick paving in Florida, and is one of Tampa's 
ablest and most successful business men.
	Mr. DAVIS was born in Belmont County, Ohio, June 1, 1864, second of 
the five children of DAVID R. and SARAH (McKELVERY) DAVIS, also natives of 
Ohio.  ROBERT L. DAVIS was reared and educated in Eastern Ohio, and remained 
in that state until 1883.
	On coming South he located at Chattanooga and was engaged in the 
manufacture of brick in that city until 1893.  Then, after a short time at 
Macon, Georgia, he moved to Tampa in 1895, and has since been actively 
associated with the business life of this city.  Mr. DAVIS continued the brick 
business here until 1905, and since then has given his principal attention to 
contracting.  He made and put down the first asphalt black paving in Tampa, 
and since then the Florida Asphalt Black Paving Company has become the largest 
organization of its kind in the state.  The average payroll is $1,000 a week, 
and the average number of employees is one hundred.
	Mr. DAVIS is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight 
Templar, and Shriner, a member of the Presbyterian Church and a democrat.  
While a resident of Chattanooga he married Miss KITTY WHITE.  She died in 
1893, leaving one son, MYRON B. DAVIS, now a resident of Tampa.  In 1909 
ROBERT LEE DAVIS married SADA THORPE, of Savannah, Georgia, and to this union 
have been born three children: ROBERT L., Jr., ELIZABETH and EDWIN.


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