James Earle Hagood papers, 1819-1946 ; (bulk, 1851-1903).

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James Earle Hagood papers, 1819-1946 ; (bulk, 1851-1903).

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Correspondence re Hagood's judicial duties, including antebellum materials re filing claims for bounty lands; claims for Revolutionary War pensions; and records for operation of Caesar's Head Hotel (Greenville County, S.C.). Civil War items document Hagood's working relationship with Washington officials during secession crisis; participation in sale and shipment of whiskey, a restricted commodity; filing of claims for survivors of Confederate soldiers; homefront conditions in Pickens District, wartime elections and politics; conscription of soldiers; and efforts to avoid conscription by hire of substitutes. Also including document, 8 Oct. 1862, "Return of Elections held at Camp La Rouche ..." S.C. Senators and Representatives for Pickens District addressed to Hagood as clerk of circuit court, Pickens Court House; papers of Reconstruction era include official correspondence to Hagood, 1866-67, re. activities of freedmen. Later papers include family letters and courtship correspondence of Hagood's son, John Robinson Hagood (1861-1884); items re John R. Hagood's education at Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.; and items re James E. Hagood's mining investment and work as agent for Southern Real Estate Company. Also including 6 volumes, 1880-1886, pocket diaries with daily entries re Hagood's work as court clerk of U.S. Circuit Court for S.C., travels between Charleston and Pickens, asbestos mining interests and real estate investments, repairs to his Charleston residence after the earthquake of 1886, and family concerns, including the death of son John Robinson Hagood in 1884. Letterpress copybook (737 pp.), 1 Oct. 1887-28 Feb. 1889, with outgoing personal, business, and official correspondence; topics include real estate and mining investments, filing of pension applications, rental of Hagood family lands in upstate South Carolina, health problems of Hagood and his wife, Esther ["Essie"] Benson Robinson Hagood (1829-1889), and political disputes.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Wofford College (Spartanburg, S.C.)

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Hagood, John Robinson, 1861-1884.

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Caesar's Head Hotel (Caesar's Head, S.C.)

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South Carolina. General Assembly

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S.C. Statute 1811(5)639 specified that every board of commissioners of free schools was to make a yearly return to the legislature. Governor Middleton recommended the passage of this act as a response to the systematic lack of education in the state. The first appropriation made possible 124 elementary schools for the state. As the system progressed, the term "free school" became embarrassingly exchangeable with pauper schools, because the 1811 act carried within it a written directive that an a...

Hagood, Esther Benson Robinson, 1829-1889.

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Hagood, James Earle, 1826-1904.

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Clerk of the circuit court of Pickens District, S.C., 1865-1868, and clerk of the U.S. Circuit Court, Charleston, 1873-1903. From the description of James Earle Hagood papers, 1819-1946 ; (bulk, 1851-1903). (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30118370 ...