Ashmead Courtenay Carson papers, 1874-1965.

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Ashmead Courtenay Carson papers, 1874-1965.

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Correspondence and papers re personal and professional life of A.C.Carson, his academic career and community service, his long association with USC, his leadership in organizing the Southern Section of American Physical Society, his presidency of the South Carolina Academy of Sciences; membership in Shandon Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S.C., where he served as deacon; and his involvement with the Rotary Club, Kosmos Club, and Phi Beta Kappa. Also includes materials re his family plantation, Homefield, near Dalzell in Sumter County, his early teaching experiences in a county school in the area, 1898-1902, his summer school attendance at University of Chicago and Cornell University, 1906-1908; his pursuit of a Master's Degree, University of South Carolina, 1910; genealogical material on Carson, Dukes, and Hodges families; and some papers of his father, James M. Carson (1832-1888), a Sumter County farmer who sold cotton and fertilizer through Pelzer, Rodgers & Co., Charleston, and J. Ryttenberg & Sons, Sumter. Includes letter, 1889, from William Ashmead Courtenay of Charleston to his namesake, re year books sent to Carson's father; letter, 5 May 1917, from Ann Ball, re investing in Biltmore land, near Asheville, N.C.; two letters, 1919, from William Terry Mitchell, Carson's former student, re Mitchell's training as a flying cadet, and including detailed sketch and descriptions of the planes and training system at Park Field, Tenn; Correspondence and drawings re inventions designed by William Terry Mitchell, including his patented typewriter attatchment improvements, lamp socket expansion plugs, and automobile glare shields; Declaration of Interference, 1924, filed for an automobile deflector and ventilator in 1924; letters, 1917, from Remington Typewriter Co., and Underwood Typewriter Co., re Carson's typewriter attatchment improvements. Letter, 24 Oct. 1932, to L[eonard] T[heodore] Baker, USC President, requesting permission to establish a hydraulic testing lab, with notation of LTB approving the plan; essay, 1 Aug. 1936, "The South's Challenge to Youth," a commencement address by David E. Lilienthal, director of Tennessee Valley Authority, to Class of 1936 at University of Alabama; undated subscription form soliciting funds to establish a TV and radio station at USC to broadcast news and provide other services to the community, and Carson's undated proposal for "A Wireless Broadcasting Station for Columbia." Includes 45 letters of sympathy mourning Carson's death (14 Jan. 1941), from family, friends, and former students, to Carson's wife, Agnes, and his children, including lettter, 20 Jan. 1941, from Patterson Wardlaw, Professor Emeritus of USC; letter 25 Oct. 1941, from Carson's nurse, describing his last few minutes; diary, "Sequence of happenings in Dad's illness," documenting Carson's heart problems from July 1940 until his death; resolution, 10 Feb. 1941, University of South Carolina Faculty, honoring his accomplishments.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Carson, Ashmead Courtenay, 1876-1941.

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Professor and Dean of Physics, 1902-1941, at University of South Carolina; native of Sumter County, S.C.; awarded B.S. in 1898 and M.A. in 1910 from USC; attended summer sessions at University of Chicago and Cornell University, 1906-1908; in 1904, Carson married Agnes McCallum of Sumter; father of three children: Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, and Ashmead Courtenay, Jr. From the description of Ashmead Courtenay Carson papers, 1874-1965. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 298...

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Carson, Kezia Dukes, d.1926

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American physical society

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Courtenay, William Ashmead, 1831-1908

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William Ashmead Courtenary was a Charleston and Columbia, S.C. businessman and newspaper editor. He served as mayor of Charleston from 1879 to 1887. From the description of Fragments of Family Records and Papers Chiefly in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, 1791-1891. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 775783242 Mayor of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letter : to E.D. Jordan, 1886 Sept. 15. (The South Carolina Historical Soci...

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Carson, James M., 1832-1888

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Businessman, of Sumter, S.C. From the description of James M. Carson papers, 1870-1899. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28409699 James M. Carson was a factor and commission merchant of Charleston, South Carolina and later a plantation owner in Sumter County, South Carolina. From the description of Plantation records, 1878-1949 (bulk 1878-1889). (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32141587 ...