McMaster family papers, 1851-1982.

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McMaster family. McMaster family papers, 1851-1982.

McMaster family papers, 1851-1982.

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Consisting of correspondence, account books, and other papers of Samuel Buchanan McMaster (1874-1939), and his wife, Elizabeth Brockington Alford McMaster (b. 1899), principally re family businesses, including Goodwill Stock Co., Goodwill Timber Co., Overland Building Co., and S.B. McMaster, Inc., a sporting goods store in Columbia, S.C., and the estate of Samuel Buchanan "Buck" McMaster (1874-1939); together with guest registers from Goodwill Plantation, which was owned by McMaster. Includes letter, 20 Aug. 1896, from Joseph H. Green, Charleston, re Samuel McMaster's five-year apprenticeship as mechanic in Southern Railway's Columbia shops; materials re Elizabeth McMaster's graduation, 1916, from Queens College, Charlotte, N.C.; clippings and letters re Samuel McMaster's $500,000 lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. re a device to extend the "tread" of the Ford axle to fit standard ruts in southern roads. Letter, 8 July 1941, Pauline R.V. Shaedler, Secretary, Division of Community YWCAs, to Mrs. Elizabeth McMaster, re opening YWCA residence in Columbia for wartime transients; letter, 21 Mar. 1947, Elizabeth McMaster, president, Goodwill Corp., re cooperating with state Forestry Dept. to make Goodwill a farm forestry project; and letter, 27 Mar. 1962, from William N. Cork, Director, Richland County Civil Defense Agency, to Elizabeth McMaster, re licensing one of her buildings as a fallout shelter. Other business records include 2 vols., 1917-1946, 1927-1951, account books, Goodwill Stock Co.; account book, 1937-1946, Overland Building Co. and S.B. McMaster, Inc.; four account books, 1930-1978; account book, 1939-1947, of Samuel McMaster's estate, with accounts of Goodwill and the Overland Building Co.; 3 vols., 1947-1975, account books re sales of hard and pulp woods by the Goodwill Timber Co. Four unbound volumes, 1920-1939, 1962-1969, Richland County, guest registers of Goodwill Plantation, with signatures, visitor comments, and descriptions of meals, hunting and fishing excursions, and other events, and including newspaper clippings and photographs. Miscellaneous bound volumes include European travel diary, 1924; 2 teacher's class registers, 1933-1934, of Elizabeth Brockington Alford McMaster; 2 record books, 1955-1968, of Novel Club of Columbia; undatedgenealogy (127 pp.) of Brockington family; and volume, c. 1941, newspaper clippings, chiefly from "A History of Fairfield County."

261 items and 26 v.

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