Trip to Aiken S.C. with sister Wilder in the spring of 1849, 1849 Mar. 21 - June 16.

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Trip to Aiken S.C. with sister Wilder in the spring of 1849, 1849 Mar. 21 - June 16.

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Travel diary titled "Trip to Aiken S.C. with sister Wilder..." recording the visit of a Massachusetts woman, Abigail "Abby" Baker Wilder (1810-1854), and an anonymous female diarist [now identified as Charlotte Baker Hixon] to Charleston and Aiken, S.C., 21 Mar. - 16 June 1849, on a vacation intended to benefit Mrs. Wilder's health. Entries discuss the voyage from New York to Charleston, S.C., via steamship and journey from Charleston to Aiken, S.C. via railroad; topics include details of medical consultations with Charleston physician Thomas L. Ogier. Other topics include excursions from Aiken to Graniteville and Hamburg, S.C., and Augusta, Ga.; a spring snowstorm that damaged the peach and strawberry crops; and comments on fellow vacationers in Aiken, including Andrew Pickens Butler, William Peronneau Finley, William Campbell Preston, and a ninety-one-year-old veteran of the Revolutionary War.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Wilder, Abigail Baker, 1810-1854.

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Finley, William Peronneau

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Preston, William C. (William Campbell), 1794-1860

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Lawyer and college adminstrator of South Carolina; member of S.C. House of Representatives, 1828-1834, and the U.S. Senate, 1833-1842; president of South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C., 1845-1851, and trustee, 1851-1857; an 1812 graduate of South Carolina College; studied law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; practiced law in Virginia and S.C.; formed law partnership with David J. McCord, 1832; founded the Columbia Antheneum; husband of Maria Coalter and Penelope Davis. Fro...

Hixon, Charlotte Baker, b.1807.

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Wife of Asa Hixon (1800-1872); mother of David Hixon (b. 1843); sister of Abigail Baker Wilder, second wife of Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1798-1886). From the description of Trip to Aiken S.C. with sister Wilder in the spring of 1849, 1849 Mar. 21 - June 16. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32847530 ...

Ogier, Thomas L. (Thomas Louis), 1810-

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Butler, A. P. (Andrew Pickens), 1796-1857

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Andrew Pickens Butler, a South Carolina attorney and politician, was the son of William Butler. Born in Virginia, William Butler later lived in South Carolina and was an officer in the U.S. Continental Army, a plantation owner, and a politician. William Butler was the son of Captain James Butler (ca. 1738-1781). From the description of Sketch of the life of General William Butler, 1857-1893. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144910 Judge Andrew P...

[Anonymous, 1849]

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