Joseph Banks Lyle papers, 1853 Nov.-1965 Sept. 27, (bulk, 1853-1923).

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Joseph Banks Lyle papers, 1853 Nov.-1965 Sept. 27, (bulk, 1853-1923).

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Items dating to Lyle's years as a student at South Carolina College (now USC), include essay re the Crimean War, an examination for a science class, and commencement program, Dec. 1856. Later items document Lyle's Civil War record and Ku Klux Klan activities; other materials reflect Lyle's teaching career in Limestone Springs, S.C., ca. 1850s-1860s, and his attempts to establish co- educational facilities in Paris, Texas; includes handwriten obituary, 1864, for Dr. William Blackstone Nott, of Limestone Springs, S.C. Also including photograph, ca. 1900, of Lyle, and letters, 23 June 1961 and 27 Sept. 1965, Elmer O. Parker, Washington, D.C., to E.L. Inabinett, Columbia, S.C., re Lyle's Civil War service, and research for a biography.

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Captain, 5th South Carolina Volunteers, Confederate States Army; S.C. Representative from Spartanburg, 1870-1871; graduate, 1856, of South Carolina College; educator at Limestone Female Academy, and, after Civil War, founder of schools in various states: Limestone Male Academy at Limestone Springs, S.C.; Aiken or Aikin Institute and Lyle Female Institute at Paris, Tex.; and a school at Caddo, Okla. From the description of Joseph Banks Lyle papers, 1853 Nov.-1965 Sept. 27, (bulk, 1853...

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