Papers, 1954-1959.

Harwell, Richard Barksdale

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Richard Barksdale Harwell, librarian, bibliographer, and author, was born June 6, 1915, in Washington, Georgia, and died March 9, 1988, in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University (English, 1937; Library Science, 1938) and received an honorary doctorate from New England College (1966). Harwell worked in libraries at Duke University (1938-1940), Emory University (assistant director, 1940-1943; Special Collections Department head, 1946-1948; assistant librarian, 1948-1955), Virginia St...

Cumming, Kate, 1835-1909

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Kate Cumming was a Confederate hospital matron, teacher and author. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1835 and as a child, moved with her family to Montreal, Canada, and then finally to Mobile, Ala. She lived comfortably in Mobile up to the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1862, when she volunteered to help in the Confederate hospitals as a nurse. She worked in the hospitals of the Army of Tennessee until the war's end. After the war she moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she stayed unt...

Ross, FitzGerald

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