Contents or Abstract: '; “...Mattress-maker Warley Bascom, a freeman from Charleston, South Carolina, began the business sometime around 1861. ...”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...Mattress-maker Warley Bascom, a freeman from Charleston, S.C., began the business ca. 1861; it continued under family management until 1974, managed successively by Warley Bascom, Jr., his wife, Josephine Davis Bascom, and their children William, Edgar, and Ethel Bascom Serjeant. ...”