Elizabeth Nisbet Furman Talley papers, 1776-1931.

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Elizabeth Nisbet Furman Talley papers, 1776-1931.

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Chiefly Talley's 20th-century correspondence and papers about the genealogy of the LeConte, Furman, and related families of Georgia and South Carolina. There are also scattered 19th-century papers, consisting mainly of family correspondence, 1810-1872, of Farish Carter (1780-1861), Baptist minister of South Carolina, and of the scientific LeConte family of Georgia and California. Other items include the manuscript autobiography, circa 1900, and manuscript philosophical essays of the geologist Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), and recollections of and collected material about him.

262 items (1.5 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901

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Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became...

Furman family.

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LeConte family.

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Talley, Elizabeth Nisbet Furman, 1874-

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Carter, Farish, 1780-1861.

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Farish Carter was a planter, land speculator, and entrepreneur of Scottsborough Plantation, near Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Ga., and owner of a plantation at Coosawattee, Murray County, Ga. Carter married Eliza McDonald, sister of Charles J. McDonald (1793-1860), and had five children: Mary Ann (d. 1844), Catherine (d. 1851), James Farish (b. 1821), Samuel McDonald, and Benjamin Franklin (d. 1856). From the description of Farish Carter papers, 1794-1868 (bulk 1830-1860) [manuscri...