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Clemson University. Cooperative Extension Service. Administrative reference files, 1918-1987, bulk 1966-1980.

Title: Administrative reference files, 1918-1987, bulk 1966-1980.

This series consists of correspondence and reference files of the office of Director and Associate Director of the Cooperative Extension Service. Represented in the series are files of Director William Williams Long, 1914-1934; D.W. Watkins, 1934-1955; George B. Nutt, 1955-1969; Wayne T. O'Dell, 1969-1984; and Byron K. "Bud" Webb, 1984 to present; Associate Directors represented are Thomas W. Morgan, 1940-1966, and J.B. Copeland, 1966-1980. The bulk of material, correspondence with departmental and county personnel, concerns funding, personnel, and programs such as Affirmative Action, civil rights, and the Master Farm Family. This collection also contains information on administrative procedures and policy making training of workers, and extension history. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Cont. The original order of the files was not maintained; the files of the Director and the Associate Director (both arranged alphabetically by subject) have been merged into one alphabetical system. Correspondence with departmental personnel is filed under the name of the department in which that person worked; county and district personnel correspondence is filed under "District."

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McMahan, John Joseph, 1865-1936. John Joseph McMahan papers, 1847-1935.

Title: John Joseph McMahan papers, 1847-1935.

Papers documenting McMahan's positions as S.C. State Superintendent of Education, Insurance Commissioner, member of the S.C. House of Representatives from Richland County, and member of Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina; materials relate also to his law practice and operation of his plantation in Fairfield County, S.C.; and affiliation with the National Education Association in S.C. Other topics include public education, political reforms, securing a successor to Robert Means Davis and criticism of Prof. John William Flinn at the University of South Carolina, organization of an alumni association at University of South Carolina, and funding of scholarships for the University. Correspondents include Milledge Lipscomb Bonham, Edward Caleb Coker, Asbury Coward, James Calvin Hemphill, Robert L. Henry, James G. Holmes, James A. Hoyt, J. Gordon Hughes, August Kohn, A. Frank Lever, Euphemia McClintock, James William Pattison, Gustavus M. Pinckney, James Henry Rice, Jr., Edwin G. Seibels, Ellison Durant Smith, and Benjamin R. Tillman. Volumes include personal and state accounts, suggested national political reforms, and business notes.

ArchivalResource: 4, 135 items + 6 v. (5 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45811819 View

Lever, Asbury Francis, 1875-1940. [The future of South Carolina] : typescript, 1937 Jan. 23 / address of A. Frank Lever.

Title: [The future of South Carolina] : typescript, 1937 Jan. 23 / address of A. Frank Lever.

ArchivalResource: 19 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Boyle, W. B. (William Belton), 1861-1916. W.B. Boyle papers, 1893-1918.

Title: W.B. Boyle papers, 1893-1918.

Business and personal papers of W.B. Boyle, businessman and mayor, 1906-1910, of Sumter, S.C.; business papers relating primarily to his livestock business; personal correspondence reflecting his involvement in civic enterprises and fraternal organizations and including letters from his children at school--Emma, a student at Elizabeth College, Charlotte, N.C., Martie, a student at the College for Women, Columbia (class of 1913), and E.B. ("Boisy"), a student at the University of South Carolina (class of 1914). The collection includes printed manuscript, 17 Feb. 1904, issued by the Sumter Telephone Company; manuscript, 19 Aug. 1905, from H.E. Wells, South Carolina Cotton Oil Company, transmitting minutes of the annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers' Gin Company, W.B. Boyle, president; letter, 13 Mar. 1906, from Congressman A[sbury] F. Lever, re distribution of experimental cotton seed to local farmers; letter, 5 Dec. 1911, from the Manufacturing Committee, Sumter Chamber of Commerce, re efforts to establish a shoe factory; letter, 9 Aug. 1912, from Nathaniel Barksdale Dial, discussing his campaign for the U.S. Senate against Benjamin R. Tillman; printed manuscript, Apr. 1913, announcing the fifth annual Horse Show sponsored by the Camden Polo Club; and printed manuscript, 7 May 1913, announcing the Greenville Horse Show.

ArchivalResource: 16.25 linear ft. (13 cartons)59 v.

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. Office of the President. Samuel B. Earle presidential records. 1922-1926, 1924-1925.

Title: Samuel B. Earle presidential records. 1922-1926, 1924-1925.

This series contains the presidential records of Samuel Broadus Earle, Acting President of Clemson College, 1924-1925. (For the six months in 1919 that Earle served as President in the absence of Walter M. Riggs, see the Riggs Presidential Records). The series includes correspondence, departmental report and budgets, and annual report to the South Carolina General Assembly, partial lists of cadets, employment agreements, letters from parents and other individuals concerning the student walkout in October 1924, and speeches delivered by Earle. Frequent correspondents include the following University officials: H.W. Barre, director of research; R.N. Brackett, director of the chemistry department; F.H.H. Calhoun, director of resident teaching; G.D. Heath, college surgeon; R.E. Lee, head of the drawing and design division; William Williams Long, director of the extension service; C.C. Newman, head of the horticulture division; H.M. Stackhouse, secretary of the Board of Fertilizer Control; and Trustees W.D. Barnett, B.E. Geer, Senator Alan Johnstone, A.F. Lever, Governor Richard Manning, Paul Quattlebaum, H.C. Tillman, and J.E. Wannamaker. Other correspondents of interest include Iowa State College president and chairman of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, R.A. Pearson; Mrs. W.M. Riggs; and U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. Topics covered in the letters include the death of President Riggs, the cadet walkout over the food served in the mess hall, selection of a site for the proposed Sand Hill Experiment Station, the reconstruction of the Agricultural Building (now Sikes Hall), and the search for a new Commandant at a time when Clemson's Reserve Officer Training Corps was the largest in the country. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject. Some material found in President Riggs' desk after his death was removed to the Riggs' presidential files. See the "Separation List" for a listing of photographs and oversized materials.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. 2 photographs 2 oversize items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24220351 View

Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918. Benjamin Ryan Tillman papers, 1767-1950, bulk 1890-1918.

Title: Benjamin Ryan Tillman papers, 1767-1950, bulk 1890-1918.

Tillman corresponded with many important political figures of his day such as President Woodrow Wilson, Congressmen James F. Byrnes and A. Frank Lever, South Carolina governors Miles McSweeney, William H. Ellerbe, Duncan Heyward, and Cole Blease, Circuit Solicitor J. William Thurmond, Assistant Secretary for the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels. There is also correspondence with members of the Clemson Board of Trustees, the President of Winthrop, David B. Johnson, and the Presidents of Clemson, particularly Walter Merritt Riggs. The papers contain considerable documentation related to the Tillman family beginning with Tillman's father, Benjamin Ryan Tillman and mother, Sophia Hancock Tillman. There are diaries and letters from James Tillman during the period 1862-1865 when he served in the Confederate Army. The collection has correspondence between Benjamin and his wife Sally Stark Tillman as well as from their children: Adeline, Benjamin, Henry, Margaret Malona, Sophia, and Sallie May.

ArchivalResource: 45.5 cubic ft. Includes 18 scrapbooks, 8 v. of extracts from The Congressional Record, 10 diaries and notebooks, 2 oversize boxes, 8 oversize folders in flat file case, and three boxes of photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25977099 View