Papers, 1922-1929.

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Papers, 1922-1929.

Collection contains personal and business correspondence, the latter concerns circuit court business, investigations, and insurance company business. Collection also contains personal and business financial records, records of the Geneva County (Ala.) circuit court, copies of Alabama laws re: duties of circuit court clerks, campaign material for Grantham and John Bankhead's 1926 campaign, and announcements of meetings for the Knights of Pythias and Ku Klux Klan.

2.5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7394432

Auburn University.

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Geneva County (Ala.)

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Source: Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921. Geneva County was created by the Ala. legislature on 1868 Dec. 26. The county was named for Geneva, its principal town and county seat. The town of Geneva was named for Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Youge, a native of Switzerland, who served as first postmaster at Geneva, Ala. Geneva County is located in southeast Ala., and is ...

Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Knights of Pythias

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Founded in 1864, the Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization promoting friendship, charity, and benevolence. Charity work includes maintaining homes for the aged, camps for underprivileged children, higher education for deserving students, and medical care for the needy. From the description of Indianapolis, Ind. Lodges' Records, 1879-1935. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 44012513 ...

Grantham, Gordon, C.

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Grantham served as clerk of the Circuit Court of Geneva County (Ala.), 1923-1929. From the description of Papers, 1922-1929. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 37524223 ...

Bankhead, John Hollis, 1872-1946

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U.S. senator from Alabama. From the description of Letter, 1932 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974791 Bankhead was born 1872 July 2 to John H. and Tallulah Brockman Bankhead at Moscow, Lamar Co., Ala. He graduated from the University of Ala. with a B.A. in 1891 as president of his class. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1893 with a Bachelor of Laws, again as president of his class. That same year he began practicing law in Jasper,...

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...