Francis Butler Simkins Papers, . circa 1940s

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Francis Butler Simkins Papers, . circa 1940s

Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. The collection includes Simkins's research notes for his biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina political leader; and manuscripts (typescripts with holograph corrections) of (unpublished) by Simkins and Ottis Clark Skipper (born 1898), with related correspondence. History of the Seaboard South

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Simkins, Francis Butler, 1897-1966

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Francis Butler Simkins (1897-1966), native of Edgefield, S.C., was a historian. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and at Columbia University. He was a professor of history at Longwood College, Farmville, Va. His published works include South Carolina During Reconstruction (1931) with Robert Woody; The Women of the Confederacy, (1936) with James Patton; Pitchfork Ben Tillman: South Carolina (1944), a biography of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1913), South Carolina governor and Uni...