Dabbs, Eugene Whitefield, 1864-1933. Eugene Whitefield Dabbs papers, 1773-1949.
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Eugene Whitefield Dabbs papers, 1773-1949.
Correspondence, land records, and other personal papers, relating to Dabbs' agricultural and political interests and his family. Subjects include farming and farm unions, including Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union(National Farmers' Union); labor, including letter, 28 June 1883, from A.P. Butler, Columbia, S.C., reconsiderations for "ordering" immigrant families from New York; African American farmers in South Carolina; cotton growing; cotton industry and trade, including receipts, ca. 1880s, from Bellemont Cotton Manufacturing Co., Sumter, S.C., and American Cotton Manufacturers Association; local, state, and national politics, including Dabbs' 1906 election to the state legislature; and correspondence with U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bound volumes, 1884-1933, include account book of farm expenses and income; bank books; and farm ledgers and daybooks. Family papers include land documents involving Richard Richardson, Sumter District, ca. 1780s; and Civil War letters of Dabbs' father, J. Q[uincey] Dabbs, Pee Dee Light Artillery. Correspondence from Dabbs' children, including letters of Eugene Whitefield Dabbs, Jr., Donaldson Military School, Fayetteville, N.C., 1909-1910, and The Citadel, 1910-1914; James McBride Dabbs, University of South Carolina, 1912-1916, and Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1916-1917; World War I letters from Eugene, Jr. and James, 1917-1918, from military camps in the United States and Europe; and letters, 1914-1918, from Elizabeth and Sophie Dabbs, Winthrop College (Rock Hill, S.C.). Contains materials relating to education, including school attendance registers for Plum Hill, Mayesville, and Salem Schools, Sumter District Number 15; records, 1901-1906, of Salem Black River Presbyterian Church Sabbath School, Mayesville, S.C.; and letters, 1919, of James McBride Dabbs, while director of the Sandhill Farm Life School, Vass, N.C.
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