Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

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.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased in March 2010.

Processing Information

Accessioned and minimally described in March 2010 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist.

Biographical Information

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Butchers--United States.
• Illinois--History--19th century.
• Meat industry and trade--Illinois--History
• Meat industry and trade--United States
• Meat--Prices--United States