Papers, 1909-1912.

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Papers, 1909-1912.

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Papers, 1909-1912, including a series of letters, 1909-1910 and n.d., and a series of accounts, clippings, one contract, invitations, etc. Both series are arranged chronologically, and relate to McNeel's service as private secretary to B.B. Comer, and to McNeel's law practice in Talladega, Talladega Co., Ala. The subjects discussed in this correspondence include congratulations on his appointment as Comer's private secretary from amny individuals, including his predecessor William E. Fort, mainly in the months of 1909 Feb. and Mar.; legal matters generally, especially relating to the City Court of Talladega warrants and cases, most from City solicitor Marion H. Sims; and requests for help with appointments to local, state, and national positions. Letters of particular interest include the 1909 Mar. 7 letter to McNeel from his brother Paul in Spartanburg, S.C., in which local S.C. politics are discussed, the 1909 Mar. 13 and 20 letters between McNeel and Frank L. Vance about the suicide of Vance's wife at Bryce Hospital at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co., Ala. Other items of note are the 1909 Mar. 23 and 25 letters in which is discussed the case of Bob Keith, a black man convicted of second degree murder, the first letter from M.J. Cliett, requesting a pardon, and the second letter, from Talladega City Court Judge G.K. Miller, outlining the facts of the case; the 1909 Apr. 14 letter from the attorney Gardner F. Goodwyn, requesting McNeel's help in getting the Ala. Superintendent of Education to order a special census of Bessemer, Jefferson Co., Ala., due to the recent population increase; the 1909 June 17 and 20 letters between McNeel and Sen. Joseph H. Johnston regarding statistics about Ala. convicts and 1860 Ala. tax assessments on real and personal property, including slaves; and the 1909 Aug. 11 and 23 letters from his wife Adele, urging him to work enthusiastically so that he would advance far. There are also several letters from Joseph H. Johnson about the Talledega School for the Deaf in Talladega Co.

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Alabama. Dept. of Education

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Johnston, Joseph Forney, 1843-1913

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Two Greene County, Alabama families involved in state-level politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The principal figures in the Baltzell family, as relates to this collection, are: Thomas Baltzell (ca. 1813-?), who was born in Waynesboro, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He moved from Wheeling, Virginia to Greene County, Alabama in1835, when he was 22 years old. He earned a degree at Louisville Medical Institute in 1841, then returned to Forkland, in Greene County, to practic...

McNeel, Paul.

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Alabama. Talladega City Court.

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Vance, Frank L, d.1939.

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Goodwyn, Gardner F. (Gardner Foster), 1880-ca.1950.

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McNeel, John D. (John Davidson), 1871-1940.

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McNeel was born 1871 Oct. 13, at Bullock's Creek, York Co., S.C.; son of G.L. and Mary Ellen (Davidson) McNeel. He attended Davidson College, N.C., 1888-1889; S.C. University at Columbia, 1889-1891, graduating in the latter years with the degree of A.B.; Johns Hopkins University, Md., 1891-1894; and was graduated from the University of Va., B.L., 1895. He married Adele Goodwyn in 1897. He was an attorney; superintendent of Talladega Co., Ala., schools, for a short time; was clerk of the court of...

Sims, Marion H. (Marion Hayes), 1874-1933.

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McNeel, Adele (Adele T. Goodwyn), ca.1840-1939.

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Comer, B. B. (Braxton Bragg), 1848-1927

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Braxton Bragg (B. B.) Comer, 1848-1927, served as Governor of Alabama from 1907 to 1911. From the description of Printed materials collection, 1905-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122368404 Braxton Bragg Comer of Birmingham and Comer, Barbour County, Ala., was president of Avondale Cotton Mills, planter, merchant, and prominent politician, who served as president of the Alabama Railroad Commission, 1904-1907; governor of Alabama, 1908-1911; and U.S. senator, 1920. ...

Fort, William E. (William Edwards), 1875-1942.

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Keith, Bob

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Talladega School for the Deaf (Ala.)

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Miller, G.K. (George Knox), 1836-19 .

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Cliett, M.J. (Miner James), 1870-1940.

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Johnson, Joseph Henry, 1864-1914

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