George W. Pugh collection, 1867-1896.

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George W. Pugh collection, 1867-1896.

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Collection contains photocopies of documents written by members of the Pugh family and George Wesley Race. DR. PUGH'S FAMILY JOURNAL, compiled by Dr. Thomas E. W. Pugh and transcribed by Robert Beckwith Gregory, is a genealogy of the Pugh family of Bayou Lafourche, La., and related families including the Williams, Collins, Slade, and Alston families. Columns written by William Whitmell Pugh for the ASSUMPTION PIONEER describe the history of Assumption Parish from 1820-1860 and the Last Island Storm of 1896. The Last Island Storm is also described in the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS BRIAN PUGH. A photocopy of LETTERS FROM THE COPY BOOK OF GEORGE WESLEY RACE, typed from the original by Heloise Crownover Mader, contains correspondence concerning financial and business affairs in Louisiana and the legal settlement of the inheritance of Race's wife, Olivia. Other correspondence relates to the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Race relates his views on secession in a letter dated April 21, 1880.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Race, George Wesley, 1821-1881.

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George Wesley Race (1821-1881) was a lawyer of New Orleans, La. From the guide to the George Wesley Race Diary, ., 1869, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Alston family.

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Pugh family.

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University of the South

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Gregory, Robert Beckwith.

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Collins family.

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Race, Olivia Corrine Kittredge, 1835-1916.

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Pugh, George W.

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Pugh, William Whitmell

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Dr. Whitmell Hill Pugh (1781-1834) emigrated from Bertie County, N.C., with his brother, Augustin Pugh, and half-brother, Thomas Pugh, to Louisiana in 1818. They settled on Bayou Lafourche, near Napoleonville, La., in 1820. From the description of William Whitmell Pugh sketch, circa late 19th century. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 310755029 William W. Pugh was a planter, Civil War officer and president of the Board of Levee Commissioners. He owned Woodlaw...

Williams family.

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Slade family.

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Pugh, Thomas Edward William, 1850-1916.

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Pugh, Thomas Brian, b. 1853.

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Mader, Heloise Crownover.

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