Papers, 1817-1939; (bulk 1840-1925).

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Papers, 1817-1939; (bulk 1840-1925).

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Mercantile accounts and family and business correspondence, mainly for 1840-1925, with legal and other papers, revealing much about government and politics in South Carolina (1885-1915) and the business practices of a cotton broker. Includes letters concerning Bivens' attendance at Sheridan Classical School in Orangeburg, S.C.; cards from Governor Coleman L. Blease of South Carolina; letters concerning a son, John Lucas Bivens, who attended Clemson College; account books of D.T. Bivens of Ridgeville, S.C.; school trustees' records of Delman's School House in Collins Township; household accounts; and a criminal trial docket (1909-1922) belonging to George W. Elsey, Bivens' predecessor as justice of the peace.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Bivens, John Lucas.

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Sheridan Classical School (Orangeburg, S.C.)

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina

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Three Clemson cadets; George Chaplain, Paul L. Tobey, and J. Henry Woodward are credited with preparing this report. Cadets from the junior and senior classes were gathered to the campus chapel on April 18, 1935 in order to evaluate professors from the schools of: Agriculture, Textiles, Vocational Education, Chemistry and Geology, Engineering, and General Science. The report was presented to President Sikes upon it completion. From the description of Student faculty evaluations (Clem...

Blease, Coleman Livingston, 1868-1942

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South Carolina governor. From the description of Letter : Columbia, S.C., to James B. McBride, Florence, S.C., 1913 Dec. 31. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32140160 Governor, 1911-1915, of S.C.; U.S. senator, 1925-1931; 1889 graduate of Georgetown University Law School; S.C. Representative, 1890-1894, 1899, 1900; mayor, 1897, of Helena, S.C.; S.C. Senator, 1905-1909; native of Newberry County, S.C. From the description of Coleman Liv...

Elsey, George W.

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Delman's School (Collins Township, S.C.)

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Bivens, John Daniel, 1863-1921.

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Merchant, farmer, trial justice, county commissioner and magistrate, South Carolina state legislator, and presidential elector, from Ravenel (Dorchester County), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1817-1939; (bulk 1840-1925). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19242447 ...