| David H. Muir was born in Edinburgh, Scotland around 1878 the son of George and Elizabeth Muir. David's father George was a wholesale stationer and David seems to have remained in the paper business his entire life. Having reached the rank of sergeant in what was probably the 1st Edinburgh Artillery Volunteers when this photograph was taken in c. 1903 he emigrated to Canada as stated on the reverse of the card mount (see below). Muir arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 3 April, 1903 on board the Sardinian. Sometime afterward he left Canada for the United States and was living in Pittsfield, Massachusetts with his wife Mary and son David around 1920 and was employed as a sales manager for a paper company. By 1930 the family had moved to Newton, Massachusetts and David H. Muir was still in the "Wholesale Stationary" business. Cabinet Photograph E. R. Yerbury - Photographer Edinburgh, Scotland c. 1903 |
