PUBLIC "-//College of William and Mary::Earl Gregg Swem Library::Special Collections//TEXT (US::ViW::viw00232:: Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Account Book, 1875-1878)//EN" "viw00232.xml" Inventory of the Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Account Book, 1875-1878 Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Acc. 2010.174 Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary © 2006 By the College of William and Mary. All rights reserved.

Conditions of Use

Machine-readable finding aid derived from Archon, created by Wendy Korwin, 7/29/2011 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. Inventory of the Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Account Book, 1875-1878 A Collection in theManuscripts and Rare Books Department Acc. 2010.174

Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary 2006 Special Collections Staff Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary Descriptive Summary Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Account Book 1875-1878 2010.174 Special Collections Research Center .2 Cubic Feet English Davis and Bower City Meat Market (Charleston, Ill.) Davis, Giles (1824-1878) 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--Prices--United States Meat industry and trade--Illinois--History Meat industry and trade--United States Genre and Form Terms: Account books.