Edmund Ravenel papers, 1820-1871.

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Edmund Ravenel papers, 1820-1871.

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Papers consist of personal, professional, and business correspondence, financial records, plantation papers, and other items. Ravenel's correspondence with academic colleagues, scientists, government officials, and others concerns the Medical College of South Carolina, laboratory equipment at the Charleston Library Society, conchology and other natural sciences, compensation for Ravenel's medical services at the Ft. Moultrie hospital during the Mexican War and during a yellow fever epidemic in 1858, a brickmaking machine and other inventions, and other matters. Correspondents include John Bachman, Lewis R. Gibbes, and inventor Nathan Sawyer of Baltimore (Md.). Other business and personal correspondence concerns medical and financial matters, and plantation affairs at the Grove. Included are drafts of letters to newspapers regarding beach erosion on Sullivan's Island, dredging of the Maffit's Channel, the Bowman Dyke, and Drunken Dick Shoal. Financial records consist of bills and receipts for medical supplies, medical accounts, receipts for taxes and various household expenditures, plantation accounts, mortgages, and other items. Related correspondence includes letters from Ravenel's collection agents concerning payments of and building repairs for tenants, and a letter concerning his purchase of Brabant Plantation. Other items include lists of slaves, writings (mostly fragments), patents, including one (1838) from B.H. Brown for a brickmaking machine, and estate papers (1831-1850) of Timothy Ford and his wife Mary Magdalen Ford.

ca. 575 items.

South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894

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Medical College of South Carolina (1824-1838)

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Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)

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Ravenel, Edmund, 1797-1871.

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Dr. Edmund Ravenel, a physician, professor, plantation owner, and naturalist, was born in Charleston, S.C. and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to practicing medicine, Ravenel taught chemistry at the Medical College of South Carolina and owned plantations. He was president of the Elliott Society of Natural History and wrote numerous scientific articles. Ravenel married Charlotte Matilda Ford, daughter of Timothy Ford (1762-1830) and Sarah Amelia DeSaussure; afte...

Ford, Timothy, 1762-1830

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Attorney and politician. Born in Morristown, N.J., Ford served in the Continental Army in his youth and later studied law in New York. In 1785 he moved to Charleston, S.C. and established a law practice with his brother-in-law Henry W. DeSaussure. Their law firm trained many South Carolinians for law careers, including John C. Calhoun. Ford owned plantations and served in the S.C. legislature. In 1793 Ford married Sarah Amelia DeSaussure. Their only child, Charlotte Matilda Ford, married Dr. Edm...

Ravenel, Edmund, 1797-1870.

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Bachman, John, 1790-1874

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American naturalist. From the description of On the different species of Hares (Genus Lepidus) inhabiting the U.S. of America : autograph manuscripts, one signed "Actophilus", 1832 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135758 The Reverend John Bachman was a minister at St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1862. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 50777192 The Reverend John Bachman was a minister at S...

Ford, Mary Magdalen

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Sawyer, Nathan.

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