Belton Decatur Clark papers, 1845-1929.

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Belton Decatur Clark papers, 1845-1929.

Chiefly business, land and legal papers re the descendants of James J. and Anna C. Clark of Lexington County, including 50 manuscripts, 12 Nov. 1849 -18 May 1893, affidavits and various legal papers sworn before trial justices A. Mims, Jeremiah Wise, and Paul P. Clark; 2 certificates of commission, 16 Oct. 1890 and 23 Feb. 1893, issued to Paul P. Clark as trial justice for Lexington county, signed by J[ohn] P[eter] Richardson and B[enjamin] R[yan] Tillman; contractual agreement, 14 Jan. 1895, between Paul P. Clark and Noah Shumpert for lease of property used in turpentine production; receipt, 28 Mar. 1906, for monies paid by Belton Decatur Clark to Geo[rge] Bell Timmerman for rent of turpentine boxes on his property; 3 wills, 16 Mar. 1907 - 6 Nov. 1910, of Amanda L. King, Buena Vista Hallman, and George C. Clark of Lexington County; and bulletin, 22 Sept. 1926, of the Wade Hampton Klan Number 50 of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Shumpert Noah.

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Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918

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Farmer, governor of South Carolina, 1890-1894, and U.S. senator, 1895-1918; from Trenton (Edgefield Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1894-1897. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400241 The series title represents "Personal Unprocessed" and was designed as such by staff at the South Caroliniana Library as part of their system of classifying collections. Apparently this part of the Tillman Papers was processed at a later date than the Incoming and Outg...

Clark, Belton Decatur, 1863-1929

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Richardson, John Peter, 1831-1899.

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Clark, Paul, 1949-....

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

Clark, George C. (George Cyril), 1938-

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Clark was Stanford University Librarian, 1907-1928 (emeritus 1928 until his death in 1940) and co-founder and first president of the California Library Association. From the guide to the George T. Clark papers, 1862-1935, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) ...

King, Amanda Lynn, 1975-

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Mims, Amy.

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Translator of modern Greek literature, Amy Mims was born in 1936 to Helen Sullivan and Edwin Mims. She studied classics at Radcliffe College (A.B., 1957), where she was the winner of the Fay prize. She then received a Marshall scholarship for study at Oxford, where she studied ancient and modern Greek literature. Her mother, Helen Sullivan Mims, was a sociologist and historian. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Radcliffe College in 1952, where she worked on a manuscript on the 16th century h...

Hallman, Buena Vista.

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