Brown family papers, 1862-1967.

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Brown family papers, 1862-1967.

Manuscript and printed materials documenting the business transactions of J.W.P. Brown with Brown and Moseley Lumber Mills, Wheeler and Moseley Merchandise, and Wise Brothers cotton buyers. Including personal and business correspondence of George D. Brown, Sr., Clara Brown, Boyd Brown, George D. Brown, Jr., Drayton Brown, William H. Brown, W.P. Brown, and Dr. Young M. Brown. In addition to correspondence, the collection includes receipts, accounts with creditors, cancelled checks, promissary notes, invitations to social events, mortgages, crop liens and sharecropper/tenant agreements, grade reports, family photographs, and genealogical information. Correspondence, 1915-1916, between Newberry County School Superintendent George D. Brown, Jr., and Sadie Goggans regards educational reform; correspondence between Young M. Brown and U.S. Representative John Taylor, U.S. Senators Olin D. Johnston and Burnet R. Maybank, S.C. Governor Strom Thurmond, and S.C. State Democratic Committee Chairman William P. Baskin.

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Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes, failing to defeat Harry Truman. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern De...

Goggans, Sadie

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Johnston, Olin D. (Olin Dewitt), 1896-1965

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Series documenting Johnston's interactions with the media as both candidate and incumbent during political campaigns and serivice in office. From the description of Media series, 1955-1964. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 37539301 Governor of South Carolina, 1935-1939, and 1943 until his resignation, 3 Jan. 1945; U.S. Senator from 1944 until his death in 1965. From the description of Olin D. Johnston papers, 1923-1965. (University of South Car...

Baskin, William Peebles, b. 1904

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Brown, Young M.

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Brown and Moseley Lumber Mills

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Brown, Clara D.

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Mrs. Brown did much research on the history of her hometown of Truscott and Knox County, Texas. From the description of Papers, 1935. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 25777418 ...

Brown, J. W. P.

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Brown, George Deas, 1922-

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Wise Brothers

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Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), 1899-1954

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U.S. Senator, 1941-1954, and governor of S.C., 1939-1941; Democrat; born in Charleston, S.C.; served in U.S. Navy during World War I; mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; married, in 1923, to Elizabeth de Rossett Myers (d. 1947) and, in 1948, to Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil; father of Burnet Rhett Maybank (b.1924). From the description of Scrapbook, 1947-1950. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 64576774 Burnet R. Maybank was elected to the United States Senate ...

Brown, William H.

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Calif. gold miner. From the description of William H. Brown letter : North Branch, Calif., to P.D. Irish : ALS, 1851 Mar. 29. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122508921 ...

Brown family

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Dr. Gilbert Brown (1883-1960) was a pioneer of modern anaesthesia in Australia and was the first president of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists. He was made a CBE in 1953. Dr. Marie Brown, nZ̐̌ee Simpson, (1883-1949) had a strong emphasis on public health and maternal and infant health in her medical career. She was associated with the Mothers and Babies' Health Association for many years. Their son, Ian Brown (1917-1987), had a 36 year career with the CSIRO (previously CSIR), beginning in...

Taylor, John Clarence, b. 1890

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Wheeler and Moseley Merchandise

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Brown, Boyd A.

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Brown, Drayton

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