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Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Account Book, Accession #Acc. 2010.174, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
This collection was purchased in March 2010.
Accessioned and minimally described in March 2010 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.
Giles Davis was born in Union County, Indiana, 7 Nov. 1824. Son of a farmers Elisha and Elizabeth (Shafer) Davis, both of Ohio. Married Louisa Jinks of franklin County, Ind. He came to Coles County, Ill. in 1871 and started keeping a meat market in Charleston. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Honor and a member of the Farmers Club of Charleston Township.
Account book, 1875-1878, for the Davis and Bower City Meat Market in Charleston, Illinois. Giles Davis (1828-1878), who was one of the owners seems to have made most of the entries.