Waring family papers, 1837-1939.

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Waring family papers, 1837-1939.

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Chiefly business ledgers, bills, receipts, and other papers re payments for hire of African American slaves identified by name who were skilled as carpenters or bricklayers hired by Clark Waring for various construction projects. Letter, 16 Nov. 1857, Columbia, S.C., from W[illia]m Martin to Col. Frank Hampton, instructing him to make payment to C[lark] Waring, "builder of the Columbia Female College"; manuscript, 4 Feb. 1859, re Thomas, an African American male slave, authorizing "Thomas... to hire himself out to any one who may wish to do so"; medical account, 13 Aug. - 6 Oct. 1861, documenting Clark Waring's account with Dr. R.W. Gibbes, Jr., for medical services provided to slaves in his employ. Receipt, 10 Sept. 1901, showing $650 paid to G.A. Guignard for 100,000 bricks; and biographical sketch, 1935, re life of Mrs. Malvina Sarah Black Waring, written by Helen Kohn Hennig, re Waring's education at Limestone College her work as a young widow in the printing of Confederate currency during the Civil War, and various contributions to civic life in Columbia, S.C.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Guignard Brick Works.

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Waring family.

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Residents of Columbia, S.C.; architect and contractor Clark Waring was a native of New York (probably Arcadia in Wayne County, N.Y.); in 1867, Waring married Malvina Sarah Black Gist, a native of Newberry, S.C., and the widow of William Morena Gist; Clark Waring died, 1913, in Winnsboro, S.C. From the description of Waring family papers, 1837-1939. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 190963990 ...

Hampton, Frank, 1829-1863

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Gibbes, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1809-1866

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Physician and chemist of Charleston and Columbia, S. C. From the description of Papers, 1851 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35074207 Physician, author, publisher, and newspaper editor of Columbia, S.C.; native of Charleston, S.C.; son of William Hasell Gibbes, a Charleston lawyer; graduate of South Carolina College and the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Gibbes purchased a medical practice in Columbia during 1830s; Gibbes als...

Waring, Clark, 1827-1913.

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Columbia Female College (Columbia, S.C.)

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Waring, Malvina Black Gist, 1842-1930.

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