Daniel Briscoe Company Inventory of Purchases
This collection houses six volumes of invoices and records of sales documenting the activities of Daniel Briscoe Company between 1909 and 1928.
Dates
- 1909 May-1928 December
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Extent
4.5 Linear Feet (6 flat boxes)
Abstract
This collection houses six volumes of invoices and records of sales documenting the activities of Daniel Briscoe Company between 1909 and 1928.
Biographical/Historical Note
Daniel Briscoe Sr. was born on June 7, 1843 to Philip Jackson and Martha Allen Briscoe in Greene County, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1861 and went on to serve with the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war ended, he joined his father-in-law, Joseph H. Earnest, in the mercantile business in Morristown, Tennessee. He came to Knoxville in 1882 and founded George and Briscoes with his brother, Philip Jackson Briscoe, and Solomon H. George. In 1884, the company was reorganized with R. R. Swepson as Briscoes, Swepson, and Company. The firm was reorganized again in 1889 as Daniel Briscoe, Brother and Company and continued under this name until Daniel Briscoe's retirement in 1909. Daniel Briscoe also maintained interests in the Island Home Insurance Companies and in the East Tennessee National Bank. He died on February 7, 1918 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is buried in Old Gray Cemetery.
Daniel Briscoe, Sr. married Catherine (Kate) C. Ernest (1846-1883) in Tennessee in 1864. They had at least four children; Mattie B. Briscoe (1865-1884), Joseph Earnest Briscoe (1867-1939), John G, Briscoe (1874-1884), and an unnamed infant son who died in 1878. After Catherine passed away in 1883, Daniel married again in 1889 to Lucy Gillespie White (1862-1943). Daniel and Lucy had two children; Lucien White Briscoe (1891-1937) and Margaret (Briscoe) Burdett (1894-1969).
Arrangement
Collection consists of six volumes stored in six boxes.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository