Category:Frank E. Davis Fish Company

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This category contains advertisements and other media that were put out by the company variously known as "Frank E. Davis Company", "Frank E. Davis Fish Company", and "The Gloucester Fisherman". It sold various sorts of fish and seafood delivered by mail out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Biographical information on the company owner Frank E. Davis:

DAVIS, Frank E., business man; b. Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 18, 1851; s. Eben and Annie S. (Wheeler) Davis: ed. pub. schs. and high sch., Gloucester; m. Gloucester, Dec. 30, 1875, Alice E. Colbey. Fisherman, 1864-7; clk. and bookkeeper, 1868-70: in hardware and plumbing business, 1871; was mem. Mayo & Davis, 1872-5, and its successor, Davis & Co.: now pres. Frank E. Davis Company (mail order business in salt and pickled fish and canned fish); councilman, 1895-6. alderman, 1897, mayor, 1898, all of Gloucester. Republican. Unitarian. Mason; mem. I.O.O.F., K. of P., Imp. O.R.M. Home: 194 Washington St. Office: Central Wharf, Gloucester, Mass.

Albert Nelson Marquis (1916) Who's Who in New England, New York, p. 315

Another promotional item distributed by the company was the short 32 page cookbook Old Gloucester Sea Food Recipes, attributed to Frank E. Davis and published in 1936, OCLC 18513589.

Media in category "Frank E. Davis Fish Company"

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