Eugene Muse Mitchell papers, 1881-1887.

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Eugene Muse Mitchell papers, 1881-1887.

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The collection consists of miscellaneous papers of Eugene Muse Mitchell, graduate of the University of Georgia Law School in 1885, and father of Stephens Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell (Marsh), author of Gone with the wind. The papers include: letter, receipt, promissory note, autograph album, pictures, report cards for E. M. Mitchell from Means High School (Feb. 1881-May 19, 1882), reports from the University of Georgia (1882-1885), newspaper clippings related to the Mitchell family, two pages of a debate "Whether the Crusades were Beneficial to Europe," (note: this was the topic debated on May 27, 1881, by the Phi Kappa Society at the University of Georgia). There are also three samples of cotton from the Atlanta Cotton Exposition of 1881. These samples are labeled as to origin and each is wrapped in a broadside listing the candidates for Alderman and councilmen in the five wards (of Atlanta?), no date.

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University of Georgia. School of Law

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The Lumpkin Law School was incorporated as part of the University of Georgia School in 1859. While the student signed an honor pledge from the earliest days of the school, the students unanimously adopted the school's first written Honor Code in 1930. From the description of University of Georgia School of Law honor code collection, 1945-1989. (University of Georgia, Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 741752766 The University of Georgia School of Law recognizes outstan...

International Cotton Exposition (1881 : Atlanta, Georgia)

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Mitchell family.

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Mitchell, Eugene F.

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Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949

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Margaret Mitchell (b. November 8, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia-d. August 16, 1949, Atlanta, Georgia), the daughter of Eugene M. Mitchell, was a prominent attorney. Her mother, Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, was active in the women's suffrage movement. Margaret Mitchell attended Atlanta public schools, graduated from Washington Seminary in Atlanta, and attended Smith College for one year before leaving college upon the death of her mother. She married John Marsh on July 4, 1925. Her only novel, Gone With ...

University of Georgia. Phi Kappa Society

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"The Phi Kappa Literary Society is a debate organization founded in 1820 at University of Georgia. It is the second oldest Greek-lettered collegiate society in North America as well as a part of the oldest collegiate rivalry in the United States. Since its beginning, Phi Kappa has served as a training forum for many public leaders and first families of Georgia and throughout the South for public speaking." -- from http://www.phikappa.org/history From the description of University of ...