Pleasant Alexander Stovall papers, 1846-1974.

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Pleasant Alexander Stovall papers, 1846-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/157010795

This collection consists of correspondence, printed materials, speeches, business and legal papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, diplomatic papers, genealogical data, and scrapbooks. The collection contains papers re American Embassy in Switzerland, an unsigned, undated will of Pleasant A. Stovall, a purchase agreement for six city lots and portion of a seventh in Harden Ward, Savannah, a program from a testimonial supper to George M. Tiedman, a broadside on the laying of the corner stones of Greene and Pulaski monuments, 1825, Stovall's membership certificate as a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and a list of trustees of the Georgia Infirmary. Correspondents include: President Benjamin Harrison; General William T. Sherman; Justice O.W. Holmes; President Grover Cleveland; President Theodore Roosevelt; President William McKinley; Mills B. Lane; A.R. Lawton; Juliette Low; Hoke Smith; Woodrow Wilson; William H. Taft; A.A. Lawrence; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The collection also includes Sarah Adams Bulkley's will and memoriams to Bulkley, who was lost at sea. She was Mary Stovall's (Pleasant Stovall's wife) aunt. In addition, the diary of Rev. A.E. Wilson which he sent to his daughter, Martha Smithey Wilson, is in the collection. The diary describes Wilson's travels and sites in Africa where he served as a missionary. Also included is part of a speech and "The Tragedy of Mosega," by Edyth Kaigh-Eustace (2 copies) which recounts the death of Mrs. A.E. Wilson in Africa. Martha Smithey Wilson Stovall became the mother of Pleasant Alexander Stovall.

3 boxes (1.50 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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