St. Julien Ravenel papers, 1870-1882.

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St. Julien Ravenel papers, 1870-1882.

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Correspondence mainly consists of letters of St. Julien Ravenel and his wife Harriott Horry (Rutledge) Ravenel dealing with his scientific and agricultural interests and pursuits. There are also letters of other Ravenel family members and friends concerning personal and family matters, and other items. Correspondence (1870-1880) of St. Julien Ravenel and Harriott Horry Ravenel concerns agricultural investigations and experiments with phosphate fertilizers, Bermuda grass, and cotton. There is also much correspondence of Robert N. Gourdin, including letters (1879) to him from Thomas Taylor "State Inspector Phosphates" concerning an experiment with ash element as a fertilizer for cowpeas. Other correspondents include Allard Memminger, the Stono Phosphate Company, and Johnson Hagood. Other correspondence includes letters (1873-1874) mostly addressed to Harriott H. Ravenel under the pseudonym H. Hilton Broom from William Hand Browne (editor of the Southern Magazine) regarding payment for a short story, a missing manuscript, and other matters; letters of condolence (1882) to Harriott H. Ravenel on the death of St. Julien Ravenel from Alexander Agassiz, James Chesnut, E.N. Horsford (with his photograph), and many other friends and relatives; and posthumous tributes (1882) to St. Julien Ravenel. Other items include a printed memorial (1874) to Louis Agassiz; and newspaper clippings.

ca. 125 items.

South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Hagood, Johnson, 1829-1898

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Confederate army officer, governor, and public official of Georgia. From the description of Letter of Johnson Hagood, 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450700 ...

Memminger, Allard, b. 1854.

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Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1882.

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Ravenel family.

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Ravenel, St. Julien, 1819-1882

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Charleston, S.C. physician and agricultural chemist. He was the son of John Ravenel (1793-1862) and Anna Elizabeth Ford (b. 1791). In 1851 he married Harriott Horry Rutledge (1832-1912), daughter of Edward Cotesworth Rutledge and Rebecca Motte Lowndes. From the description of St. Julien Ravenel papers, 1870-1882. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35953384 ...

Stono Phosphate Company (Charleston, S.C.)

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Browne, William Hand, 1828-1912

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American historian. From the description of Letter to [John Esten Cooke], 1884 February 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52239213 Biographical Note: William Hand Browne was an author and English professor, The Johns Hopkins University. He was born in Baltimore, Md. Dec. 31, 1828. He received the M.D. degree, University of Maryland in 1850. He chose a career in commerce which he left at the beginning of the Civil War to concentrate on...

Gourdin, Robert N., 1812-1894

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Robert Newman Gourdin, merchant, public official, and military officer, was born at Buck Hall Plantation, St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 27 March 1812, and died 17 February 1894, in Charleston, South Carolina. Gourdin graduated from South Carolina College (1831); was admitted to the bar (1834); joined his brother Henry's mercantile firm, Gourdin, Mathiessen, and Company of Charleston (1837); was a public official in Charleston; signed the Ordinance of Secession of South Caro...

Chesnut, James, 1815-1885

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Camden, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, state legislator, and U.S. Senator. He held several military posts during the Civil War including a staff position in Richmond, Va. from 1862 to 1864. His wife was Mary Boykin Miller (1823-1886). From the description of James Chesnut papers, 1850-1900. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36794015 Attorney, plantation owner, South Carolina Representative, South Carolina Senator, and U.S. Senator. A native of Ca...

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910

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Alexander Agassiz(1835-1910), marine biologist, oceanographer, and industrial entrepreneur, was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. In 1860 Agassiz began a lifetime occupation of administering the business affairs of the Harvard museum, a task made difficult by his father's penchant for excessive collecting and expenditures. After Louis's death in 1873, Agassiz succeeded to the directorship of the Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and completed the physical...

Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912

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Charleston, S.C. resident. From the description of Letters, [1805?]-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36321579 Charleston, S.C. author. The daughter of Edward Cotesworth Rutledge (1798-1860) and Rebecca Motte Lowndes (1810-1893), in 1851 she married Dr. St. Julien Ravenel (1819-1882). Her great grandmother Harriott Pinckney Horry (1749-1830) was the daughter of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) and Charles Pinckney (ca. 1699-1758). From the desc...