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The Davies Machine Shop
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The Davies Machine Shop. -- Proprietor, E. H. Davies. This business (it was at the time called the Santa Clara Machine Shop) was established in 1855 on Main Street, near Benton, where it remained fourteen years. In the Fall of 1867, the present premises were erected at the corner of Jackson and Liberty (today's Homestead St.) Streets. The building is three stories in height and forty by sixty-six feet in dimensions. Here is carried on a considerable repairing and manufacturing business, principally agricultural machinery. Mr. Davies is just starting the manufacturing of lumber from ornamental trees, such as the locust, eucalyptus, etc. ("History of Santa Clara County, California." San Francisco. Alley, Bowen & Co. 1881. p. 551) (His biography is on page 658).

You will also find his bio on pp. 292-294 of H. S. Foote's "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World." The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois. 1888. (Detailed business description on p. 294).

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