James McBride Shackelford papers, 1819-1887.

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James McBride Shackelford papers, 1819-1887.

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Papers consist of family and business correspondence, financial records, and other items. Family correspondence (1819-1887) concerns personal and family affairs, James M. Shackelford's remarriage (1874), a portrait, and other matters. Correspondents include Eliza A. Shackelford, poet Anna P. (Shackelford) Dinnies of New Orleans (La.), artist J.B. Irving, Jr., Thomas Ashby, and William W. Harllee. Included are two letters (1819) from Anthony Bonneau Shackelford to his sweetheart Jane H. Lee. Business correspondence (1865-1874) consists of letterpress copybooks containing letters concerning James M. Shackelford's dealings in corporate and municipal bonds for many South Carolina cities, the South Carolina Railroad Co., and other businesses. Correspondents include [J.] Eli Gregg of Mars Bluff, S.C., Thomas C. Jenkins, Charles T. Lowndes, Pelzer, Rogers, & Co., Enoch Pratt of Boston, Mass., General Daniel Tyler of New York, N.Y., George F. Tyler of Philadelphia, Pa., W.B. Williams, J. Legare Yates, and many others. Financial records include brokerage accounts, an account sales book, daybooks, expense accounts, personal accounts (1864) of James M. Shackelford, check stubs, and a trust estate account book (1850-1866). Other items include estate papers (1853) of Elizabeth A. Shackelford (d. 1853), insurance policies (1870's), and a copy of the will (1877) of James McBride Shackelford.

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Shackelford, Anthony Bonneau.

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Shackelford, Elizabeth

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Shackelford family.

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Irving, John B. (John Beaufain), 1825-1877

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Dinnies, Anne Peyre, 1805-1886

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Harllee, W. W. (William Wallace), 1812-1897

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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 ...

Ashby, Thomas, 1783-1872.

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Shackleford, James McBride, 1810-1878.

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Charleston, S.C. stock and exchange broker. He was the son of Judge William Francis Shackelford and Elizabeth Ashby Shackelford of Georgetown, S.C., whose other children included Anne Peyre Shackelford (d. 1886), who married John C. Dinnies, editor of the New Orleans Price Current; Elizabeth Ashby Shackelford (d. 1904), who married Dr. Edward Porcher in 1835; and Martha Sarah Shackelford (1819-1903), who married William W. Harllee (1812-1897). James McBride Shackelford was married three times; h...

Shackelford, James McBride, 1810-1878.

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Charleston, S.C. commission merchant. He later became a stock and exchange broker. From the description of James M. Shackelford letterpress copybook, 1850-1853. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36794021 ...