Caroline Dick McKissick Belser Dial papers, 1913-1994.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Caroline Dick McKissick Belser Dial papers, 1913-1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39749880

Consisting principally of correspondence, personal papers, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous printed items, and photographs documenting the life and interests of Caroline Dick McKissick Belser Dial. Correspondence includes love letters from her first husband, J. Rion McKissick, and sympathy letters upon his death. Most photographs are from Caroline's childhood and life with McKissick. Also including an ambrotype of McKissick's grandfather, Barham Bobo Foster.

5 boxes (4 cartons and 1 flat file box)

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7416503

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

McKissick, J. Rion (James Rion), 1884-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68c9wgj (person)

Converse College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh6fg0 (corporateBody)

Winthrop College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r4rg7 (corporateBody)

Girls State. South Carolina

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6965q08 (corporateBody)

South Carolina College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q27r17 (corporateBody)

Dial, George S. (George Sabin), 1861-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r42n6 (person)

Dial, Caroline Dick McKissick Belser, 1900-1994.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r426c (person)

Born Sumter, S.C., 15 July 1900; daughter of Caroline Hutchinson and George William Dick; graduate Winthrop College, 1921; school teacher; married J. Rion McKissick, 1927; first lady, University of South Carolina, 1936-1944; married Irvine Furman Belser, 1947; married George L. Dial, 1976; died Columbia, S.C., 6 July 1994; founder, Palmetto Girls State, 1947; charter member, Board of Associates of Converse College; chair, South Carolina Garden Symposium; vice-chair, Democratic Party of South Car...

South Carolina Garden Symposium

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z95jp3 (corporateBody)

Democratic Party (S.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6837wg1 (corporateBody)

Foster, Barham Bobo, 1817-1897

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g47zzb (person)

Confederate soldier, Third South Carolina Infantry, Co. F and S; elected lieutenant colonel 6 Feb. 1861, began service 14 Apr. 1861, and resigned 30 Jan. 1862. From the description of Barham Bobo Foster papers, 1860-1861. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 35654546 ...

Belser, Irvine Furman, 1889-1969.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jw8q48 (person)

Resident of Columbia, South Carolina; attorney and real estate investor; graduate of University of South Carolina (1910), Yale (1911), and Oxford (1914 and 1919) where he was a Rhodes Scholar; native of Summerton, S.C.; admitted to the S.C. bar in 1915 and practiced law in Columbia until his retirement in 1967; U.S.C. law professor (1919-1920 and 1930-1932); veteran of World Wars I and II, attaining rank of colonel; member of Trinity Episcopal Church. From the description of Irvine F...