M.A. Fowles memoirs and family history, 1883-1891.

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M.A. Fowles memoirs and family history, 1883-1891.

Bound volume containing handwritten recollections of M.A. Fowles about her youth and family members, particularly of her father James Henry Fowles, her mother Matilda Miltonia Maxcy Fowles, and her cousin Robert Woodward Barnwell. Fowles also relates information told to her by others concerning members of the Fowles family in Beaufort, Walterboro, and Charleston, South Carolina. Ancestors of the Fowles family came from England. Fowles' father, the son of a lieutenant in the British Army, was born in Nassau. Back of the volume contains prayers, religious writings and a discussion of her father's publications, and a loose paper containing a poem.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Barnwell, Robert Woodward, 1801-1882

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U.S. senator, U.S. representative, C.S.A. senator, from South Carolina, and educator. From the description of Robert Woodward Barnwell correspondence, 1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450147 American politician, US Congressman from S.C., 1829-1833, US Senator, 1850-1851, Confederate Congressman 1862-1866. From the guide to the Robert Woodward Barnwell paycheck and autograph, 1832, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) La...

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Fowles, M. A.

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Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, M.A. Fowles moved with her family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1845. Fowles, along with other family members, returned to South Carolina after the death of her father. During the 1880s Fowles was sent to Madison, Florida for her health. Fowles was the daughter of James Henry Fowles, an Episcopal minister and author who served a church in Beaufort, South Carolina before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1845 to become minister of the Church of the Epiph...

Fowles, J. H. (James Henry), 1812-1854.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Fowles family.

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