Aycock famiy papers, 1869-1951.

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Aycock famiy papers, 1869-1951.

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Correspondence, financial papers, and personal papers of James Henry Aycock (1829-1895), his wife, Henrietta L. Brogdon Aycock, their children Bettie, Eugene E[dwin] (1869-1953, also referred to as "Bub" or "Bubber"), and William T[homas] (1869-1928, "Boy"), Nora, Nora's husband, Frank Covington, and his sister, Hallie Covington, relating to her activities as a missionary in Korea. Includes business papers re family's mercantile firm, James H. Aycock & Sons, Wedgefield, S.C., and rented timber lands in S.C., N.C., and Ga., for extraction of turpentine and resin; unbound volume, 19 Jan. - 10 Dec. 1869, consisting of weekly time reports and pay roll of employees for turpentine farm in Ga.; 4 letters, 25-28 Sep. and 13 Nov. 1876, Frank E. Thomas to James Henry Aycock, re rioting, actions taken to protect black employees, and voting in gubernatorial election; detailed reports from Aycock's foremen, Frank E. Thomas, A.W. Brown, and A.E. Broadway, supervising timber operations at Stono Farm, Sumter, Wrights Bluff, and Millett, re local economic conditions and labor supply. Personal correspondence includes financial accounts documenting costs and supplies used in constructing of Aycock's home; information on education of Aycock children at Bingham School in North Carolina, South Carolina College, Charlotte Female Institute, College for Women at Columbia, and Bingham Military Academy in Mebanesville, N.C. Lletter, 1 Dec. 1884, Sumter, Katie E. Brown to John Henry Aycock, Sr., re return of her abducted stepson through Aycock's good offices; letter, 4 Apr. 1894, re Darlington Dispensary Riots and Gov. Tillman's "unbridled abuse of authority"; inventory of Aycock's personal property, 3 Jan. 1896; 2 letters, 11 Sep and 3 Nov. 1896, Wedgefield, H[enrietta] L. Aycock to son Bob, [Asheville, N.C.], re seizure of whiskey and procedure used by African American voters for the presidential election, Nov. 1896. Letters, 1905-1940, re Bettie Aycock's activities in the Presbyterian Church and Ladies Missionary Society; letters from William T. Aycock, studying law at Columbia University, New York City.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7259913

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Bingham Military Academy (Mebanesville, N.C.)

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Covington, Nora Aycock

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Aycock, William T. (William Thomas), 1868-1928

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Covington family.

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James H. Aycock & Sons (Wedgefield, S.C.)

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Aycock, Henrietta Brogdon

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Aycock, Eugene E. (Eugene Edwin), 1869-1953

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Covington, Hallie

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Aycock, Bettie, 1873-1953

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Bingham School (Oaks, N.C.)

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College for Women at Columbia (S.C.)

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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...

Aycock, James Henry, 1829-1895

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Charlotte Female Institute (Charlotte, N.C.)

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Covington, Frank

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Resident of Bennettsville, S.C.; brother of Hallie Covington; husband of Nora Aycock Covington; full name: Frank Harlee Covington. From the description of Frank Covington papers, 1837-1937. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 38583008 ...

Aycock family.

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Residents of Sumter County, S.C. From the description of Aycock famiy papers, 1869-1951. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28417818 ...