Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of the Great Lakes Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899 [201] OSCAR F. DAVIS, born in 1855, and WILLIAM I. DAVIS, born in 1857, attended public and private schools in Milwaukee during boyhood, and when about sixteen years old were taken into their father's shop to learn the business. After he had worked for one year in the shop, OSCAR was transferred to the office, but WILLIAM remained in the manufacturing department, gaining a thorough knowledge of all branches of the work. When the business was sold in 1890 they estab- lished their present works at Nos. 576 and 584 Clinton street, Milwaukee, the plant being in readiness within three months after the sale of the Marine Boiler Works. They began with a force of fifty men, and their business has enlarged so rapidly that they employ at times as many as one hundred hands. They have a large business as general boiler makers, but lately they have given attention to a special line of work to meet the requirements of breweries. The firm is known as the DAVIS Bros. Manufacturing Company, and the father's reputation, together with the good will of the former customers, has been a potent factor in the enter- prise, although the two brothers are just the sort of young men who would make their way to the front even under diffi- culties. They are both Republicans in politics, but do not take an active share in partisan work. Socially they are prominent, and WILLIAM is a member of the Masonic frater- nity. OSCAR F. married Miss EMMA BASTIAN, of Milwaukee, and has two children: PEARL and ETHEL. WILLIAM I. married Miss EMMA KRUEGER, of the same city, and their family consists of the following children: MAUD, RICHARD, IRVING, NORA and OAK. ===========================================================================