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Calhoun, Floride Isabella Lee, 1870-1935. Floride Isabella Lee, by her next friend, Gideon Lee, complainant, against Richard W. Simpson, defendant : collection of court documents, 1856-1894, (bulk 1888-1889)

Title: Floride Isabella Lee, by her next friend, Gideon Lee, complainant, against Richard W. Simpson, defendant : collection of court documents, 1856-1894, (bulk 1888-1889)

This collection includes copies of testimony, statements of fact, and exhibits detailing the case of Lee vs. Simpson 1889. The published case files relate directly to the 135-page volume report prepared for the trial. The court case documents are items that were either exhibited or filed during the case. In the prepared but not filed category are documents such as summons, subpoenas, taxation of costs, letters, orders, and various other legal material that were used during the case without ever having been filed. The miscellaneous files contain material that was difficult to classify.

ArchivalResource: .75 cubic ft. 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173481341 View

Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918. P U Correspondence Series. 1849-1940, bulk 1890-1899.

Title: P U Correspondence Series. 1849-1940, bulk 1890-1899.

The P.U. series consists of primarily incoming correspondence from the period 1890-1899. Within this period there are major gaps, with no correspondence from 1891 and little for 1892 and 1893. This series also includes a few early documents and some items spanning Tillman's later career in the U.S. Senate. The series includes correspondence with state and national political leaders, family members, and a wide variety of individuals seeking to influence Tillman or obtain favors from him. Among the subjects of the correspondence are populism and agrarian radicalism, efforts to inflate the currency, race relations, Clemson and Winthrop Colleges, the South Carolina Dispensary system for the regulation of the sale of alcohol, the Spanish-American War, and Tillman's campaigns to be elected governor of South Carolina, U.S. Senator, and President of the United States. There is approximately two cubic feet of correspondence related to the national reaction to Tillman's January 29, 1896 speech, "Bi-Metalism or Industrial Slavery." Prominent correspondents include: E.B. Craighead, President of Clemson College; W.H. Ellerbe, Governor of South Carolina; David Johnson, President of Winthrop College; J.L. McLaurin, U.S. Senator; Tillman's wife, Sally Stark Tillman, and sons Ben and Henry; Richard W. Simpson, Clemson College Trustee; and Stonewall Thompson, Clemson College professor. There are a variety of items at the end of the series including fragments of letters, petitions, and other items. These files include copies and drafts of some of Tillman's speeches, a 1865 affidavit stating that Tillman was unfit to serve in the Confederate Army, material related to Tillman's participation in the Hamburg, South Carolina riot of 1876, minutes of the Clemson College Board of Trustees, January 5, 1912, reports from department heads at Winthrop College, 1913 and 1915, and a variety of printed material such as advertisements, government documents, and speeches. There are processors' notes for part of this series up to 1896. Additional material was added to the series after these notes were taken.

ArchivalResource: 7.15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25920319 View

Simpson, Richard W., 1840-1912. Richard W. Simpson papers, 1814-1893, 1880-1893.

Title: Richard W. Simpson papers, 1814-1893, 1880-1893.

This collection documents the legal, financial, personal, and family affairs of Thomas G. Clemson, Anna Calhoun Clemson, and Gideon Lee, for his deceased wife Floride and their daughter, Isabella Lee. The papers, many originals, appear to be the documentation Simpson and other legal representatives used to prepare for the court cases and estate settlement following Thomas G. Clemson's death in April, 1888. This is a rich collection of primary materials and correspondence of president H.A. Strode showing his interaction with trustees, state agencies and laborers and contractors associated with constructing and staffing the college. A list of the first faculty; a short biography of H.A. Strode; tribute to John C. Calhoun; Richard Franklin Simpson correspondence, 1843-44, & copies of parts of Calhoun letters, 1814, 1821, & 1827.

ArchivalResource: .50 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20274889 View

Richard Franklin Simpson portrait, 1971.

Title: Richard Franklin Simpson portrait, 1971.

This collection contains an oversize color photograph of an unsigned painted portrait of Richard Franklin Simpson (1798-1882). Richard Franklin was the father of Richard Wright Simpson, Thomas Green Clemson's lawyer and first President of the Board of Trustees of Clemson College. The portrait was originally owned by Jane William Jones (Mrs. Leonard E. Jones) of Newport, TN, and great grand-daughter of Richard Franklin Simpson until her death on September 21, 1971, when it passed to Mrs. Earl Price of Greeneville, TN.

ArchivalResource: 10 items, including one oversize col. photograph.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43989285 View

Clemson University. Office of the President. Henry A. Strode Presidential Records. 1863-1896, 1890-1892.

Title: Henry A. Strode Presidential Records. 1863-1896, 1890-1892.

This series contains three folders of material related to Henry Aubrey Strode, President of Clemson College, 1890-1892. The folders contain a small amount of correspondence between Strode and Richard W. Simpson, the attorney who probated the Thomas Green Clemson estate and the first president of the Board of Trustees, about the operation of the college. Also included is biographical information about Strode's interest in mathematics and academia; Confederate Army records which catalog Strode's military career in the Army of Northern Virginia; Certificates of Distinction awarded to students who attended the Kenmore University High School, which Strode opened as a preparatory school at a time when few public schools existed in Virginia. The biographical information contains a summary and analysis of the Southern school system covering all of the former Confederate states, transcripts from the minutes of the class of 1893. The series is arranged alphabetically by type of material.

ArchivalResource: .165 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24303759 View

California. Superior Court (San Francisco City and County). Probate Dept. Mary Ann Bailey letters of administration and last will and testament : DS and ADS, 1892 Mar. 7.

Title: Mary Ann Bailey letters of administration and last will and testament : DS and ADS, 1892 Mar. 7.

Letters of administration for the estate of Mary Ann Bailey, with a handwritten copy of the will attached. The letters of administration appoint William H. Bailey the administrator of Mary Ann Bailey's estate. The will, originally written on July 29, 1886, leaves Bailey's property to her husband, Henry Bailey, or in the event of her husband's death, to their son, William Bailey. Henry Bailey and Richard W. Simpson are named executors of her will. Includes certification of the copy by the county clerk, dated Feb. 25, 1892.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122368989 View