Lander family papers, 1808-1962.

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Lander family papers, 1808-1962.

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Consisting of correspondence, land records, broadsides, and family and business papers generated and/or collected by descendants of the Rev. Samuel Lander (1833-1904), in particular the family of Ernest McPherson Lander, Sr. (1877-1962); correspondence and land and business papers re family of Benjamin Franklin Jones (1850-1934) and Eva Caroline Hinds Jones (1860-1948), of Georgetown, whose daughter, Kizzie Ezelle Jones, married E.M. Lander; business correspondence and papers of Landers as secretary and assistant treasurer of Calhoun Mills, Calhoun Falls, S.C., 1908-1944, including correspondence with James P. Gossett and Benjamin B. Gossett, presidents of Calhoun Mills; papers re E.M. Lander's role in the Methodist church, leadership as a trustee of Calhoun Falls public schools, and interest in Lander College affairs; and correspondence, 1923-1924, with John McKee Nickles re Calhoun Highway Association and proposed construction of a bridge across the Savannah River. Also includes land papers, 1808-1855, of Samuel Lander in Lincoln County, N.C.; letters, 1851-1855, to Elias Sinclair Jones, Bentonville, N.C., from family and friends in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee; business letters and financial statements, 1860-1861, from Charleston commission merchants George E. Pritchett and Shingler & Hale to Messrs. [W.] Nichols & [E.S.] Jones re production of turpentine and other naval stores; photographic advertisements, 1859, "The Photographers Friend," and undated, "Tucker & Perkins, Photographic Artists, Augusta, Ga."; manuscript, 1 June 1926, E.M. Lander's address at the unveiling of memorial to the Rev. Samuel Lander at Williamston High School; program, 30 Jan. [1928], from piano recital of Ignace Jan Paderwski at Textile Hall, Greenville. Other correspondents include Paul Brown James Francis Byrnes, Fred H. Dominick, Butler B. Hare, Burnet B. Maybank, Thomas G. McLeod, John McKee Nickles, John Marvin Rast, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Nelson Snyder, Ransome J. Williams, and John O. Willson. Journal, July 1855 - Apr. 1864, of Samuel Lander; places represented in this volume include Lincolnton, N.C., and "the New Institute" in Olin (Iredell County, N.C.) that was later known as Olin High School (in box of unprocessed additions). Letter, 23 Sept. 1945, from Rev. John G. Magee (1884-1953), of St. John's Church (Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.), and sent to Mrs. [John O.] Wil[l]son, Anderson, in which Magee recalls his introduction to Mrs. Willson's brother, the Rev. John McPherson Lander, and his wife in Brazil during the summer of 1908 just as he was "about to enter the theological school in preparation for going to China as a missionary," where he spent 28 years, beginning in 1912. He then goes on to tell of the birth and early life of his son John Magee (1922-1941), the fighter pilot whose poem "High Flight" became one of the most celebrated literary pieces of the Second World War and whose life was chronicled by biographer Hermann Hagedorn in the 1942 book, Sunward I've Climbed, The Story of John Magee, Poet and Soldier, 1922-1941. Born in Shanghai, pilot Magee studied in England at the Rugby School, where he won the poetry prize awarded to Rupert Brooke before the First World War. "It[']s interesting," the letter notes, "that he won this prize as he has been associated with Brooke in the minds of many people." Magee left England in the summer of 1939 to visit relatives in the United States but was not permitted to return by the State Department. Turning down a scholarship at Yale so that he could join the Royal Canadian Air Force, Magee "won his wings as a Fighter Pilot in June 1941 & went abroad in July. He had to undergo about six weeks further training to get used to a Spitfire & also to become used to high altitudes, before entering combat. It was during this period of training, on Sept. 3, 1941, while at an altitude of 30,000 feet, that he began the poem that has made him famous. He finished it soon after grounding the plane and then put the sonnet on the back page of his regular letter to us not knowing that he had done anything great." By the end of the war, the letter concludes, "High Flight" had been published in both German and Spanish language publications.

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Jones, Benjamin Franklin, 1850-1934

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Rast, John Marvin, 1897-

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Calhoun Highway Association (S.C.)

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972

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James F. Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Elizabeth McSweeney and James Byrnes. On May 2, 1906, he married Maude Busch, who was born in Aiken, SC, on October 22, 1883. Byrnes was elected Court Solicitor of the Second District in 1908; U.S. Congressman from 1911-1925; U.S. Senator from 1931-1941. He was appointed to serve as a Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1941-1942. He also served as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1942; Director of the Office o...

Gossett, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Brown), 1884-1951

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Williams, Ransome Judson, 1892-1970

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Gossett, James P. (James Pleasant), 1860-1936

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Lander, Ernest McPherson, 1877-1962

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Nickles, John McKee, 1876-1958

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Lander family.

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Lander, S. (Samuel), 1833-1904

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Samuel Lander was a Methodist clergyman and educator; in 1872, he opened a private school for young women in Williamston, S.C.; he served as president of Lander College [now Lander University] until his death in 1904. From the description of Copyright for "Our own Primary Arithmetic, by S. Lander A.M.," 1863 Nov. 26 (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 61695415 ...

Willson, John O. (John Owens), 1845-1923

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President of Lander College and Methodist minister of Greenwood, S.C.; during Civil War, left The Citadel in June 1862, for military service in the Confederate Army; in 1872, Lander a opened private school for young women in Williamston (Anderson County, S.C.), an institution later known as Lander College; husband of Kathleen Lander Willson, the daughter of Samuel Lander (1833-1904); J.O. Willson died, 1923, in Greenwood, S.C.; son of physician John Willson (1805-1856) and Sara Owens Wilson (182...

Dominick, Fred H. (Fred Haskell), 1877-1960

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Hare, Butler B. (Butler Black), 1875-1967

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U.S. Representative from S.C.'s Second District from 1925 to 1933 and the Third District from 1939 to 1947; Hare is noted for having authored the Philippine Independence Act; native of Edgefield County, S.C.; son of James Hare and Elizabeth Black Hare; married Kate Etheredge, 1906; resident of Saluda, S.C. From the description of Butler B. Hare papers, c. 1900-1966. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 50032888 ...

Jones, Eva Caroline Hinds, 1860-1948

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Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), 1899-1954

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U.S. Senator, 1941-1954, and governor of S.C., 1939-1941; Democrat; born in Charleston, S.C.; served in U.S. Navy during World War I; mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; married, in 1923, to Elizabeth de Rossett Myers (d. 1947) and, in 1948, to Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil; father of Burnet Rhett Maybank (b.1924). From the description of Scrapbook, 1947-1950. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 64576774 Burnet R. Maybank was elected to the United States Senate ...

McLeod, Thomas G. (Thomas Gordon), 1868-1932

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Two term governor of S.C., 1923-1927; b. Lynchburg, S.C., son of William James and Amanda (Rogers) McLeod; married Elizabeth Alford, 1902. From the description of Thomas G. McLeod papers, 1924-1926. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 49807565 Two-term governor of South Carolina; b. 17 Dec. 1868, Lynchburg, S.C.; son of William James and Amanda Rogers McLeod; graduate of Wofford College, 1892; admitted to S.C. Bar, 1896; S.C. House of Representatives, 1900-19...

Lander University

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Calhoun Mills (Calhoun Falls, S.C.)

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Snyder, Henry Nelson, 1865-1949

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