After Thomas Davidson Christie was discharged he surveyed the land for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company near Winona, MN, and then he met his wife at Rockford Seminary for Women.
Thomas Davidson Christie (21 January 1843  25 May 1921) was an Irish-American Civil War veteran, and a missionary and educator in the Ottoman Empire from 1877 to 1920. After his discharge he surveyed land for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company near Winona, MN. He met his wife at Rockford Seminary for Women where she graduated in 1871. 
