David Benjamin Busby papers, 1882-1934.

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Busby, David Benjamin, 1846-1925. David Benjamin Busby papers, 1882-1934.

David Benjamin Busby papers, 1882-1934.

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Consisting of correspondence; legal documents: turpentine leases, co-crop agreements, and agricultural leins; promissory notes, bills, and receipts; papers documenting Busby's career as an educator and his association with the Busby Normal and Commercial School, Leesville, and the Emory High School, Mt. Willing; drafts of newspaper editorials by Busby on such subjects as the conviction and subsequent pardon of Jacob Jeter by Gov. Coleman L. Blease, registration for World War I military service, women's suffrage, and South Carolina's public school system; surveyor's notes and drafts of plats prepared by Busby; papers re the settlement of Busby's estate; and food recipes of Mary E. Faucette Busby. Including letter, 12 July 1883, from L[evi] E. B[usby], Abbott, Va., urging David Benjamin Busby to join him at the Leesville English and Classical Institute; printed manuscript, 12 Jan. 1889, phrenological chart of Mary E. Faucette Busby; printed brochure, 1891, re the Emory High School, Mt. Willing; manuscript draft, 29 Aug. 1899, will of D.B. Busby; signed document, 5 June 1911, oath of office sworn by officials of the town of Monetta; unsigned letter, 9 Sept. 1912, to Gov. Coleman L. Blease, re the case of Jacob Jeter, convicted and imprisoned for a homicide in 1903, subsequently pardoned by Blease, and later involved in an assault, details of which are related in the letter. Letter, 4 Sept. 1915, from J.I. Linler, Spartanburg, re the possibility of establishing a business college at Mt. Airy, Ga., and offering D.B. Busby the presidency; letter, 10 Nov. 1915, draft of Busby's letter declining Linler's offer; letter, Sept. 1918, to Pres. Woodrow Wilson, denouncing the Bleasites and the U.S. Senate election; letter, 10 Jan. [19]22, describing Spartanburg's reaction to Billy Sunday. Typed manuscript, 9 Mar. 1926, history of Batesburg-Leesville Presbyterian Church by the Rev. B.S. Hodges, Jr.; 2 manuscripts, undated, addresses [of D.B. Busby?] as a candidate for superintendent of education, Saluda County; printed manuscript, undated, circular advertisement for the Busby Normal and Commercial School, Leesville; and 3 printed manuscripts, undated, circulars re the American Products Export and Import Corporation, Richard I. Manning, chairman. Bound volumes include 4 diaries and account books, 4 Oct. 1899 - 31 Dec. 1913, containing records of expenditures, farming operations, and verbatim copies of D.B. Busby's outgoing correspondence; general merchandise account book, 17 Apr. - 5 May 1900, [of J.F. Etheredge, Batesburg?]; surveyor's notebook, 20 Jan. 1906 - 9 Mar. 1907; and account book, 16 Mar. 1925 - 21 Dec. 1927, of receipts and disbursements from D.B. Busby's estate.

804 items.

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