Samuel Wells Leland papers, 1845-1876.

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Samuel Wells Leland papers, 1845-1876.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30698714

Consisting of photocopied volume, c. 1845-1876, journal, with selected quotations, essays, and records of personal expenses; and 2 volumes, 1 Jan. 1851 - 31 July 1854 and 4 Aug. 1854 - 31 Dec. 1865, diary, with reminiscences by date from 1840, re Leland's medical practice at Mill Creek, 1849-1858. Other topics addressed include activities in Columbia, Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, and Greenwood, S.C., and Cartersville, Ga., including South Carolina College commencements, the opening of the South Carolina legislature, and the election and inauguration of James Hopkins Adams as governor; several "affairs of honor" and murders perpetrated in South Carolina; and Leland's limited involvement in the Civil War, including an eye-witness account of the outbreak of hostilities in Charleston and the surrender of Ft. Sumter by Maj. Robert Anderson. Also contains genealogical information on the Leland, Hibben, Edmunds, Reynolds, DuPre, Cater, and Bardwell families and details of numerous births, deaths, and marriages.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7288733

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Leland, Samuel Wells, 1824-1884.

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Physician practicing at Cartersville, Ga., and Mill Creek, Richland District, S.C. From the description of Samuel Wells Leland papers, 1845-1876. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30698714 ...

Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871

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Anderson was born at "Soldier's Retreat," the Anderson family estate near Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Richard Clough Anderson Sr. (1750–1826), served in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolutionary War, and was a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati; his mother, Sarah Marshall (1779–1854), was a cousin of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (Wes...

Leland family.

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Adams, James H. (James Hopkins), 1812-1861

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DuPre family.

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Hibben family.

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South Carolina College

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Bardwell family.

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Reynolds family.

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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...

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