McGowan, Samuel, 1819-1897. Samuel McGowan papers, 1803-1977; (bulk, 1845-1904).
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Samuel McGowan papers, 1803-1977; (bulk, 1845-1904).
Correspondence, plats, commissions, promissary notes, stock certificates, and other papers documenting McGowan's military, political, commercial and legal activities; including letters, 1857-1860, re constituents' concerns re military affairs, legal matters, internal improvements, and gubernatorial election of 1860; postwar materials re McGowan's efforts on behalf of the Democratic party to end radical Reconstruction in South Carolina, election by the legislature to the South Carolina Supreme Court, service on the bench, and election defeat in 1893, due in large part to opposition of Benjamin R. Tillman, whose Dispensary system McGowan had considered unconstitutional. Military documents include commissions, 1844 and 1846, certifying McGowan's rank in Upper Battalion, Eighth Regiment, South Carolina Militia, promotion to staff captain in Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War, and Civil War service as Colonel (later General), Fourteenth Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, Maxcy Gregg's brigade (after 1863, McGowan's Brigade). Also contains plats and other land records re development in Abbeville area; rail road stock certificates; receipts and accounts connected with settlement of various estates; papers re investments in Arkansas; and correspondence and receipts, 1852 and 1859, for tuition paid to Francis Arnold for Greenwood Male Academy and Fuller Institute, Abbeville, S.C. Other correspondents include W.C. Benet, James Conner, Wade Hampton, William H. Parker, Patterson Wardlaw, and Robert C. Winthrop. Later materials relate to Samuel McGowan's son, William Campbell McGowan, including his commission, 9 Sept. 1886, as captain, Abbeville Rifles, Third Infantry Regiment, Third Division, Volunteer State Troops; and photocopy of letter, 19 Feb. 1917, W.W. Ball, to [John J.] McSwain, recalling W.C. McGowan as "the most promising figure in the public life of South Carolina at the time of his death."
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