Ensor family papers, 1857-1912.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Ensor family papers, 1857-1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29948637

Two volumes consisting of scrapbook, 1857, 1860, 1871-1912, of newspaper clippings, broadsides, and related materials documenting the South Carolina political experiences of Joshua Fulton Ensor (1836-1907); and photograph album, 1898-1899 [oversize volume, PU-5]. Topics documented Include Ensor's tenure as acting superintendent of the S.C. Lunatic Asylum and its funding during Reconstruction; support of his administration by the Democratic Press; Ensor's letters to the editors of Northern newspapers re S.C.'s political moderation and injustice of Reconstruction government; broadside, 15 Aug. 1880, "Address to the White Union Republicans and other Freemen of South Carolina ..." urging support of Garfield-Arthur ticket. Collection also includes photograph album, 1898-1899, with cyanotype images of street scenes, Columbia, S.C., and soldiers at Camp Fornance, and the Ensor-Keenan house at 801 Wildwood Avenue in Columbia's Eau Claire neighborhood.

1 scrapbook ; 45 cm.1 photograph album : cyanotypes ; 40 cm.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7280838

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Ensor Family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b65jjp (family)

Joshua Fulton Ensor (1836-1907), a Maryland native, 1862 graduate of University of Maryland School of Medicine, and U.S. Army Surgeon, 1862-1865; arrived in Columbia, S.C., in 1865, served as medical purveyor for the Freedmen's Bureau at end of the Civil War; moved family from Virginia to Columbia in 1868; later acted as superintendent of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, 1870-1878; served as postmaster of Columbia. J.F. Ensor also served as chief inspector of customs f...

South Carolina State Hospital

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62c366j (corporateBody)

Ensor, Joshua Fulton, 1836-1907.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t546w (person)

United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv5fmh (corporateBody)

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...