William Porcher Miles letters, 1858.

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William Porcher Miles letters, 1858.

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A photocopy of a letter (1856 November 8) from Miles in Charleston (S.C.) to [Robert D. Shindler] concerns the transience of "popular favor," a professorship, an election, and Shindler's book and mathematical research. In a letter (1858 August 18) from Charleston (S.C.) to B.F. DeBow Miles relates that he will write on DeBow's behalf about a vacancy in Mr. [T]oncey's department; there is also mention of the death of General Quitman (John Anthony Quitman, 1798-1858).

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Shindler, Robert Doyne, 1814-1874

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

De Bow, B. F.

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