Henry Pinckney Walker family papers, 1836-1957.

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Henry Pinckney Walker family papers, 1836-1957.

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Papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, and other items. Correspondence (1836-1906) includes Henry Pinckney Walker's correspondence (1836-1857) with his mother, father, and sisters in England regarding his travels in America, friends and acquaintances in Charleston (S.C.), his stay at the home of Mary E. Edwards, his acquisition of Cypress Pond Plantation (1844), family and personal matters, a yellow fever epidemic (November 1849), financial concerns, and other matters; typewritten transcriptions of Walker family correspondence throughout the Civil War; and additional Walker family correspondence (ca. 1860-1887). Topics of letters of 1860 and beyond include secession, Civil war events in Charleston, blockade running, the 1886 earthquake and 1893 hurricane in Charleston, Episcopal Church affairs, family members in Texas, art, and British consular affairs. Letters are from Charleston, Summerville, New York (N.Y.), England, and elsewhere. Papers (1888-1889) concerning a legal dispute between Henry P. Walker and the South Carolina Railroad Co. include correspondence, clippings, plats, and legal documents. Other items include mortgages (1860,1861); a copy of an official opinion (1857) of the U.S. attorney general on the authority of foreign consuls regarding the arrest and extradition of persons accused of crimes; poems and stories; a warrant (1890) for the appraisement for executors of Henry P. Walker's estate; shipping records; greeting cards; and photographs.

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Walker, Henry Pinckney, 1816-approximately 1890

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British consul at Charleston, S.C. An English attorney, in 1839 he moved to Charleston, where he practiced law (until 1862) and entered the consular service, serving from 1856 to 1886. He was the son of Rev. Henry Walker (1887-1848) and Jane Pinckney Walker, daughter of Hopson Pinckney (d. 1794). Hopson Pinckney, a native of England, owned Cypress Pond Plantation in Berkeley County, S.C. After his death his daughter Jane returned to England to live with relatives there, and his other daughter Ma...

Edwards, Mary Elizabeth

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Walker family.

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South Carolina Railroad

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Railroad company established in 1843 with the consolidation of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Co. and the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Railroad Co. The South Carolina Railroad was reorganized in 1881 as the South Carolina Railway Company. From the description of South Carolina Railroad records, 1875-1876. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144917 ...