Biography of John C. Calhoun typescripts. 1733-1978, 1733-1811.

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Biography of John C. Calhoun typescripts. 1733-1978, 1733-1811.

1) Three copies of Theodore F. Shuey's transcription of Starke's shorthand, an aborted biography of Calhoun. One of the copies is annotated, the other two corrected typescripts. 2) Correspondence from Elinor G. Bankhead, Nov. 9, 1978, enclosing a newspaper article from The News and Herald, May 25, 1910 (Winnsboro, S.C.), by Hanna Rion in the Woman's World, on Col. W. Pinckney Starke's background and experiences when he spent 6 months of the year with the Clemsons as he wrote Calhoun's biography.

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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

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John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, mo...

Starke, William Pinckney, -1886

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Starke was writing a biography of John C. Calhoun and was staying with Thomas Green Clemson at Fort Hill, SC. The letter is to Salley (Sarah Calhoun Noble, Mrs. Ezekiel Pickens Noble) whose husband's mother (Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens) was the daughter of Ezekiel Pickens and Elizabeth Bonneau, sister of Mrs. Floride Bonneau Calhoun. From the description of Starke letter to Salley (Sarah Calhoun Noble) August 28, 1885. (Clemson University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23453184 ...

Rion, Hanna

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Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937

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American educator and historian. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Baltimore, to Paul L. Ford, 1887 Jan. 30-1887 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269544451 Historian and librarian. From the description of Papers of J. Franklin Jameson, 1604-1994 (bulk 1900-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82730569 J. Franklin Jameson was a prominent American historian in the early 20th century. From the guide to the J. Franklin...

Shuey, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen), 1845-1933

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Bankhead, Elinor G.

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