Francis Hipp papers, 1931-1990 (bulk 1950-1975)

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Francis Hipp papers, 1931-1990 (bulk 1950-1975)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/371197514

The Francis Hipp papers document Hipp's activities as both a business executive and civic leader. Materials in this collection include correspondence, financial reports and statements, manuals, memoranda, minutes of meetings, legal documents, reports, speeches, tax information, photographs, blueprints, and maps. The collection spans the years 1931-1990, with bulk years 1950-1975. This collection consists of two series; business and personal. Material is arranged by folder title and chronologically within each folder. Materials within the business series focus primarily on the Liberty Corporation and its subsidiaries, along with broadcasting and investment operations. Among the firms represented are Liberty Life Insurance Company, The Broadcasting Company of the South and Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation. In addition to highlighting the contributions of his time and resources in areas of civics and education, the highlighting the contributions of his time and resources in areas of civics and education, the personal series focuses on aspects of Francis Hipp's private life. Items of interest include biographical information, house and grounds of several homes, business ventures, charitable contributions including those to universities and colleges, investments, as well as his involvement with the S.C. State Development Board, Trustee of Newberry College, Business Development Corporation of S.C., Carolina Pipeline Company, and Charlotte News Publishing Company. Correspondents in the collection include Gordon W. Blackwell, President of Furman University in Greenville, S.C.; South Carolina Development Board Director Robert Muldrow Cooper; Eugene du Pont III, South Carolina State Chairman for Ducks Unlimited; family members Boyd Calhoun Hipp, Grady H. Hipp, Herman N. Hipp, and W. Hayne Hipp; Thomas L. Robinson, President of the Charlotte News Publishing Company; G. Richard Shafto, Executive Vice President of the Broadcasting Company of the South; and A. G. D. Wiles, President of Newberry College In Newberry, S.C.

60.2 cubic ft. (130 boxes, 1 audiocassette, 5 videocassettes, 332 photographs, 1 oversized box, and 5 oversized folders)

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7390509

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Hipp, Francis M.

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Du Pont, Eugene, 1914-1995

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Cooper, Robert Muldrow, 1887-1966

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Broadcasting Company of the South

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Hipps family.

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Shafto, G. Richard

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Blackwell, Gordon Williams, 1911-2004

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation dates from July 1930, with the establishment of WIS radio in Columbia, South Carolina by George T. Barnes. Barnes and several investors formed South Carolina Broadcasting Company in November 1930 as the parent company of WIS. The enterprise was sold within a year to W. Frank Hipp and The Liberty Life Insurance Company. Hipp reorganized the affairs of WIS and its parent company was re-chartered in 1932 as The South Carolina Broadcasting Company and placed under the...

Charlotte News Publishing Company.

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Hipp, Herman N.

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Newberry College. Board of Trustees

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South Carolina State Development Board

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Hipp, W. Hayne

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Hipp, B. Calhoun

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Business Development Corporation of South Carolina

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Liberty Life Insurance Co.

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Liberty Corporation

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In 1961, Robert Ritchie was named Keeper of the Records with the responsibility to create an archives and archival management program for Liberty Life Insurance Company. Ritchie and others, particularly J. K. Davis, began soliciting and collecting historical and archival documents from employees and departments of the company. Mr. Davis wrote one of the first comprehensive histories of Liberty Life. In the early 1970s, Paul Bridges took over as head of the archives, which was formally known as t...

Wiles, A. G. D. (Americus George David), 1906-

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Carolina Pipeline Company.

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Hipp, Grady H.

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Robinson, Thomas L.

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