Thanks Colleen and Dewey. (I do not have a Harry or Herman DAVIS in my records). Washington MILLER (in Alton) was a merchant in 1850, and real estate agent in 1860, and a banker in 1870. He was a commissioner in fruits and veg in 1880 (in Chicago). He married his first wife (Julia SMITH) in 1837. I assume she died...he married her sister (Ruth) in Madison County in 1846. Samuel Boyd DAVIS (husband of Washington's daughter) was born in 1833 Zanesville, Ohio. His mother (DUTRO...family was grocers in Alton & Chicago) died in 1849. Samuel crossed the country first in 1849 and crossed it 49 more times. When he was very young, he ran a remount station somewhere in the west by buying worn out horses from pioneers, feeding them, and reselling as fresh horses. I'm not sure of his occupation in Alton from 1858-1870. After that, in Chicago, his business was wholesale butter and eggs. Family notes indicate that he, his son Samuel, and grandson, Lawrence, had been in business for over a hundred years at the same location. I have a receipt dated July 19, 1878 titled "Late of Davis Brothers, Ham Curers and Pork Packers...bought of Samuel B Davis & Co. commission merchants for the purchase and sale of provisions, cheese, grain, seeds, foreign & domestic fruits, beans and produce of all kinds, 110 South Water Street". His son, Samuel Edward DAVIS was in the Creamery business and was a manager for the Chicago Merchantile Exchange. It appears he lived in Alton, Madison for only his first few years, then Chicago, then Elgin, then Chicago, then Highland Park. I'm not surprised to find out that Highland Park was an upper-end suburb. I have the will from his first wife, Grace RYERSON, and see that the DAVIS family was millionaires (by current values). I don't know if DAVIS made money from his business or if it came from Grace (the RYERSON family is a prominent family in lumber, steel, publishing, etc.). My grandmother was born in 1907 in Elgin. She introduced her second grade teacher to her father after her mother died. They married, and she became a "wicked stepmother". My grandmother was sent off to boarding school (and the older siblings only saw the new wife a couple times).....I don't know where all the money went, 'cause it sure didn't carry through the generations....oh well. Pete