Question: George Davidson Todd, mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, came to Louisville at age 18 to work for which leading American manufacturer of hardware goods?

Context articles: Salisbury Mansion and Store
George Davidson (athlete)
John Barbee
Alexander Doll Company
George Davidson Medal
George Davidson Todd
Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company
John Joyes
Tally (company)
James Davidson (Kentucky)

The Salisbury Mansion and Store is an historic house museum at 40 Highland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.
 The house was originally built on Lincoln Square in 1772 by Stephen Salisbury I with an attached storehouse from which he sold imported goods under the name "S. & S. Salisbury".
 He and his brother Samuel had originally been in business together selling hardware goods in Boston, and Stephen moved to Worcester to expand the operation.
 In 1820 the store was closed down, and the space was converted for residential use by the family, which occupied it until 1851.
 Thereafter it served as a girls' school, tenant house, and then a gentleman's social club until 1929, when the building was threatened with demolition by the then occupants, the Worcester Lincoln Square Boys Club, who wanted to build more modern premises.
 It was saved by local efforts and moved to its current location on the former Salisbury estate near the museum and next to Salisbury House.
 It was donated to the American Antiquarian Society, which promptly gave it to the Worcester Art Museum, both of which were founded by Stephen Salisbury III.
 The museum undertook to restore the much-altered building to its condition as of 1830, and opened it for group tours as a historic house museum.
George Davidson (8 October 1898 – 25 September 1948) was a New Zealand sprinter and rugby league player.
 He competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and finished fifth in the 200 metres competition.
 He also participated in the 100 metres event where he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
 His Olympic participation was hindered due to the time it took to travel from NZ to Belgium for the games.
 Famous American Athletic coach Ike Kelly said of Davidson, if he was able to coach him for 6 months, he would have turned him into a world champion.
John Barbee (September 16, 1815 – December 22, 1888) was the tenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1855 to 1857.
 He was born in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, and, after his parents died, moved to Louisville at age 14.
 In 1841, he was elected by the city council as a collector of revenues, and after a brief foray back into the private sector, he was elected to the city council in 1849 and 1851.
 In 1855, as a member of the anti-Catholic, anti-foreigner Know Nothing party, he was elected Mayor over James S. Speed, who did not run for re-election, believing the election was invalid, but his appeal was denied eventually by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Alexander Doll Company is an American manufacturer of collectible dolls.
 The business was founded in 1923 by Beatrice Alexander, a New York City woman who designed and sewed cloth dolls.
 Styling herself Madame Alexander, which also became the trade name for her dolls, Alexander went on to create dolls replicating famous personalities and characters in books, films, music, and art.
 Among her notable creations were dolls replicating the Dionne quintuplets, Scarlett O'Hara, and the royal family and attendees at the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
 The company produced the first fashion doll, "Cissy", four years before Barbie was released.
 Continually aiming to improve her product, Alexander began making hard plastic dolls after World War I and vinyl plastic dolls in the 1960s.
 By the 1960s the company was the leading American doll manufacturer.
 In the 1980s, it released one million dolls annually.
 Beatrice Alexander ran the company for 65 years and sold it in 1988.
 As of 2016, the company has produced 6,500 dolls.
The George Davidson Medal is awarded by the American Geographical Society for the "exceptional achievement in research for exploration in the Pacific Ocean or the lands bordering therein."
 In 1946, the American Geographical Society received a bequest of $5000 from his daughter Ellinor Campbell Davidson to established the medal and a research fund to honor her father.
 The medal was designed by American sculptor Paul Manship in 1951.
George Davidson Todd was Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1896 to 1897.
 His descendants were early settlers of Kentucky, and his father, Harry Innes Todd, was a two-term sheriff of Franklin County, Kentucky as well as state prison trustee and warden.
 George Davidson Todd came to Louisville at age 18 to work for the W.B. Belknap hardware company, later known as Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company.
 He started his own company, the "Todd-Donigan Iron Company", in 1880.
Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, also known as Belknap Hardware Company or simply Belknap Hardware, located in Louisville, Kentucky, was at one time a leading American manufacturer of hardware goods and a major wholesale competitor of retail sales companies Sears, Roebuck, and Company and Montgomery Ward.
 Belknap excelled both in catalog sales and widespread distribution of its own name-brand manufactured products.
John Joyes (January 8, 1799 – May 31, 1877) was the second mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.
 His term of office extended from 1834 to 1836.
 He was born in Louisville, the son of a pioneer who came to Louisville in 1783 and settled on a lot at the corner of Sixth and Main streets.
 Joyes studied law and was admitted to the Louisville bar, and elected to the state legislature in 1827.
Tally was a leading American manufacturer of printers.
James Davidson was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky.
 He was the son of George Davidson, a captain in the Revolutionary War.
 He and his twin brother, Michael, married sisters; the sisters, Lucretia and Jane Ballenger, were granddaughters of Kentucky pioneer and eventual state treasurer John Logan.
 James Davidson was among the first to report the presence of notorious outlaws the Harpe brothers near the city of Stanford, their first reported appearance in Kentucky.