Quattlebaum, Paul, 1886-1964

The Quattlebaums were German Protestant pioneers who helped settle the "Dutch Fork" area of South Carolina (present Lexington and Newberry Counties) in the mid-1760's. The family has provided South Carolina with political leaders, engineers, soldiers, teachers, farmers, and executives for more than 200 years. Four generations of the Quattlebaum family are represented in this collection.

The 1952 election between Stevenson and Eisenhower instigated political discord in the South Carolina Democratic Party. Although a lifelong Democrat, Paul Quattlebaum participated enthusiastically in Eisenhower's campaign. This series documents changing political attitudes and allegiances in South Carolina politics and provides background material on the twentieth-century resurgence of the Republican Party in South Carolina.

Organized in January, 1941, the Horry County Council of Defense helped coordinate the civilian war effort in that county. This series documents civil defense activities such as rationing, blackouts and shore lighting, disaster and evacuation plans, and the provision of emergency medical services. The series also contains a folder dealing with espionage surveillance, entitled "W.H. Schreck."

Born in Conway, S.C., Feb. 25, 1886; represented Horry County in S.C. Senate, 1935-1944; married, 1911, to Sue Martin ; did genealogical research; son of Cephas Perry Quattlebaum and Janette Taylor Quattlebaum.

Established in Conway, South Carolina in 1915, the Quattlebaum Light and Ice Company evolved from two earlier family enterprises, the Conway Light and Power Company (1907) and the Quattlebaum Ice Company (1912). The company remained under control of the Quattlebaum family until it was sold to the General Water Works and Electric Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, in 1929.

Paul Quattlebaum conducted research and created manuscript drafts titled "The Northeast Corner of South Carolina or Old Georgetown District" primarily during 1959. The project was discontinued after four chapters and apparently was never published.

This series documents Paul Quattlebaum's research on the biographies of state senators from Horry County, South Carolina. This material was ultimately incorporated in Emily Bellinger Reynolds and Joan Reynolds Faunt, eds., Biographical Directory of the Senate of the State of South Carolina, 1776-1964 (Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department, 1964, compiled under the direction of the Senatorial Research Committee.

Paul Quattlebaum compiled this manuscript at the behest of his cousin, Rev. W. Dan Quattlebaum of Pasadana, California.

The Personal Series follows the life of Paul Quattlebaum as private citizen. It is composed chiefly of correspondence dating from the mid-1930's until his death in 1964.

Paul Quattlebaum entered the Senate in the summer of 1935 to fill out the unexpired term of deceased Horry Senator H. Kemper Cooke. Quattlebaum successfully stood for re-election for a full four-year term in 1936 and was subsequently returned to the Senate in 1940. He worked untiringly to enhance the Horry County highway network and took an active interest in agricultural affairs, the Medical College of South Carolina, the Santee-Cooper hydroelectric project, and the State Historical Commission. Conway attorney Frank A. Thompson defeated Quattlebaum in his third bid for re-election in the summer of 1944.

Paul Quattlebaum attended Clemson College, 1903-1907 and graduated with a degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. His brothers, McQueen and Cephas also attended Clemson College for part of this time.

Author and legislator who represented Horry County in the S.C. Senate, 1935-1944; resident of Conway (Horry County, S.C.); married Sue Martin, 1911; son of Cephas Perry Quattlebaum and Janette Taylor Quattlebaum.

This book was the culmination of over twenty years of research by Paul Quattlebaum.