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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 24, June 12, 2016, Article 12

DAVIDGE GAMBRILL (1836-1905)

John Lupia submitted the following information from his   Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatic Biographies for this week's installment of his series. Thanks! As always, this is an excerpt with the full article and bibliography available online. This week's subject is South Carolina dealer Davidge Gambrill. Thanks! -Editor

Davidge Gambrill (1836-1905), was born August 8, 1836, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, son of Dr. Stevens Gambrill (1799-) and Elizabeth (1803- ). The distinguished Gambrill family also owned a farm in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The family name is often given variant spellings such as Gambrell, Gambril, &c.

Intelligencer, Thu, 9 Sep, 1869, p.3 Davidge Gambrill became a broker and dealer in gold and silver coins, and broken bank bills and other paper money though his main business was as a stock and bond broker, real estate and insurance broker and agent. This combination of business venues except that of stock and bond broking was typical of many of the well-known northern coin dealers like Ebenezer Locke Mason, Jr., for example. The coin dealerships of the southern states from the 1860's to the 1890's remained closer associated to banking than in the northern states. Of course, we have a few exceptions like Luther Brown Tuthill, the renown Confederate note dealer.

In 1864, he was drafted during the Civil War and is listed as working as a laborer at Annapolis Junction.

Daily Phoenix, Tue 15 feb 1870, p.2 He moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1866 as a broker of Phosphate of Lime and Mexican Guano, at Taft & Howard’s, Charleston, South Carolina. In 1869, he moved to Columbia, South Carolina and worked as a specie coin and bank bills broker beginning in July.

Gambrill 1872 Letterhead

He seems to have retired in the summer of 1875, although working occasionally since he is in the 1900 U. S. Census listed as a Broker and Insurance Agent.

He died December 14, 1905 at his home 1219 Henderson, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina. He is buried at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.

To read the complete article, see:
GAMBRILL, DAVIDGE (https://sites.google.com/a/numismaticmall.com/www/numismaticmall-com/gambrill-davidge)

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