Stables, Kiel

STABLES

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 21:41:43

Kiel Stables

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.651)
KIEL STABLES, at the corner of Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, Council Bluffs, are managed by Mr. Fred DAVIS as livery, feed, and sale stables. He carries a good stock and has an extensive business, keeping two large barns. He also deals some in real estate. He began here as proprietor of the Ogden Stables on Broadway for a year; next he was owner of stables on North First Street for eighteen months; then for two years conducted stables on North Main Street, and since 1888 he has been at his present place.

He has been a resident of the city since 1863, having come here with his parents, William H. and Rebecca (NEAL) DAVIS, from Oskaloosa, this state. His father is dead, while his mother is still a resident of this city. They are of Welsh and Irish extraction. Mr. DAVIS was born in Peoria, Illinois in May 1853, was five years of age when the family removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, where they resided until 1861, then they moved to Oskaloosa, and thence to Council Bluffs. At the age of nineteen or twenty years, he entered the employ of THOMAS & JACKSON, wholesale grocers, for something over two years in the house and a year as traveling salesman for them. Next he was traveling salesman for STEELE & JOHNSON two years, and finally engaged in the livery business which he has since followed. He is a live, enterprising businessman, Republican in his politics and a member of the Order of Modern Woodmen.