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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Aaron Davis Papers, #3788-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Evans C. Johnson, Department of History, Stetson University, DeLand, Fla., September 1967.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Davis family.
• Davis, Aaron, 1819-1903.
• Essex County (N.J.)--History.
• Harness making and trade--New Jersey--History.
• Inventors--New Jersey--History.
• March family.
• Rubber coatings--History.
• Workshop recipes.

Aaron Davis (1819-1903), of Newark, N.J., was a grandson of Joseph Davis of Bloomfield, N.J. He was a successful manufacturer of rubber goods, harnesses, and saddlery hardware. He held patents for enamelling wood and other solid material with hard rubber and gutta percha. In 1866 he patented "The Great Western Remedy," a universal pain reliever. He married Sarah Murch, who was born in England, in 1820.

The collection includes miscellaneous papers of Aaron Davis, including two notebooks of recipes for rubberized coatings and varnishes for harnesses. Also included are other business papers; ten Essex County, N.J., deeds, 1806-1862; and data on members of the Davis and March families.