College of Charleston archives, 1785-1970.

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College of Charleston archives, 1785-1970.

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The Archives of the College of Charleston is divided into two parts: (1) a historical series of records covering the period from 1785-June 1970 and (2) current records from July 1970 to the present. This historical series includes records of the creation of the College primarily as an academy in 1785, of its reorganization and of the adoption of a comprehensive college curriculum in 1824 and 1825, of its existence as a municipal college from 1837 to 1949; and of its separate existence as a private institution from 1949 until it became a state institution on July 1, 1970. The minutes of the Trustees are complete from 1785 through the present. Among the Presidents of the Trustees who are best represented in the historical records are Robert Smith from 1786-1789, Mitchell King from 1847-1862, and M. Rutledge Rivers from 1925-1940. Another trustee who is well represented is the artist and historian Charles Fraser (Secretary and Treasurer from 1817-1855). Few presidential papers exist before 1863, but the records of presidents are essentially complete or nearly so from 1897 to 1968. The three presidents who served during this period were Harrison Randolph from 1897-1942, George Daniel Grice from 1942-1966, and Walter Raleigh Coppedge from 1966-1968. (All of President Theodore S. Stern's papers are kept together in the post-1970 record group). The minutes of the trustees and other records also provide substantial informaiton about earlier Presidents including Robert Smith from 1790-1797, Jasper Adams from 1825-1836, and Nathaniel Russell Middleton from 1857-1880. The faculty minutes are complete from 1841 through the present. Among the members of the faculty who are best represented in the historical records are John Bachman (Natural History, 1848-1853), Thomas della Torre (Latin and Greek, 1898-1923), James Harold Easterby (History, 1920-1952), Louis R. Gibbes (Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1838-1892), Lancelot Minor Harris (1898-1941), Francis S. Holmes (Geology and Natural History and head of the Museum, 1850-1869), Horatio Hughes (Chemistry, 1923-1950), Gabriel E. Manigault (Natural History and Geology and head of the Museum, 1873-1899), John McCrady (Mathematics, 1855-1861 and 1865-1873), James Warley Miles (History of Intelectual Philosophy and Greed Literature, 1850-1854 and 1866-1871), and Frederick Adolphus Porcher (History and Belles Lettres, 1848-1888). Among the most comprehensive sets of records are financial records, library accession records (including inventories of several large Ante-bellum libraries which have survived nearly intact), and records of the Charleston Museum while it was part of the College from 1850-1915. The most extensive set of student records was kept by the Chrestomathic Literary Society from 1848-1957.

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Adams, J. (Jasper), 1793-1841

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Rev. Dr. Jasper Adams served as president of the College of Charleston, S.C., president of Hobart College, and Chaplain, 1838-1840, at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, N.Y.); ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1820; Adams was married, first, to Mercy Wheeler, and second, to Placidia Mayrant, with whom he was father of Francis Mayrant Adams (1821-1884). From the description of J. Adams papers, 1828-1834. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 698775933 ...

College of Charleston. Chrestomathic Society

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Miles, James Warley, 1818-1875

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Episcopal clergyman and librarian and professor at the College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1838-1876. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019139 Biographical Note: James Warley Miles was an American clergyman and author. He was born in Charleston, SC in 1818 and educated at South Carolina College. Miles took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church and in 1843 went as a missionary to the Orient. He re...

Fraser, Charles, 1782-1860

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Epithet: Commander; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x000255 Epithet: of Add MS 37884 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x00025a Charleston (S.C.) attorney, artist, and author. From 1800 until 1807 Charles Fraser studied law under the guidance of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and others. From the descr...

Porcher, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus), 1809-1888

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South Carolina plantation owner, historian, and educator. A graduate of Yale, Porcher became a professor at the College of Charleston and was a founding member of the S.C. Historical Society. He was the son of George Porcher (1775-1813) of Cedar Spring Plantation (St. John's Berkeley Parish) and Marianne Gendron Palmer (1784-1835). He married Caroline Smith Parker (1824-1888) in 1850. From the description of Frederick A. Porcher papers, 1826-1922. (The South Carolina Historical Socie...

Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941

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Professor of English at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina for 43 years. Lancelot Minor Harris's father was a professor at the University of Virginia. Harris graduated from Washington and Lee in 1888, then taught Latin at Tulane High School in New Orleans for a year before returning to Washington and Lee to teach German and Latin. While working on his Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins University, Harris became an instructor of English at Indiana University. Upon graduating Harris accept...

Easterby, J. H. 1898-1960.

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Holmes, F. S. 1815-1882.

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Bachman, John, 1790-1874

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American naturalist. From the description of On the different species of Hares (Genus Lepidus) inhabiting the U.S. of America : autograph manuscripts, one signed "Actophilus", 1832 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270135758 The Reverend John Bachman was a minister at St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C. From the description of Letter, 1862. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 50777192 The Reverend John Bachman was a minister at S...

Middleton, N. Russell (Nathaniel Russell), 1810-1890

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Nathaniel Russell Middleton of Charleston, S.C., was a plantation owner, treasurer of the Northeastern Railroad Company, and treasurer of the city of Charleston. Other family members represented include Annie DeWolf Middleton (1815-1908) of Bristol, R.I., N. R. Middleton's second wife; and the children bythis second marriage: Maria Louisa Middleton (b. 1844), Annie Elizabeth Middleton (b. 1847), Alicia Hopton Middleton (b. 1849), Nathaniel Russell Middleton, Jr. (1851-1896), and Charlotte Helen ...

Coppedge, Walter, 1930-

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King, Mitchell, 1783-1862

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Born in Scotland, Mitchell King arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1805. In 1806 King became an assistant teacher at the College of Charleston. Interested in studying law, King began studies at the office of George Warren Cross in 1807. King was temporarily appointed principal of the College of Charleston in 1810. King chose, however, to continue his study of law when he was offered the position permanently. Admitted to the bar in 1810, King immediately opened his own practice. He was elec...

Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899

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Physican and graduate of the College of Charleston (Charleston, South Carolina) who studied medicine at the University of South Carolina and zoology in Paris. Gabriel Edward Manigault became curator of the College of Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.) in 1873. From the description of The black whale captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880, 1885. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31740999 Charleston, S.C. physician, plantation owner, professor, curator of the...

College of Charleston

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Randolph, Harrison, 1871-1954.

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Harrison Randolph was born in New Orleans (La.) and spent his boyhood in Charlottesville, Virginia. Randolph was a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he was an instructor from 1890 to 1895. Randolph was a professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) and president of the College from 1897 to 1942. During the more than four decades while Randolph was President, the College grew from having 100 male students in 1897 to 370 male and female students in 1942. Ran...

McCrady, John, 1831-1881

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John McCrady, a native of Charleston, S.C., was a professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston, a professor of zoology at Harvard University, and a professor of science and religion at the University of the South. He was the son of Edward McCrady (1802-1892). From the description of Letter : to Judge Kershaw, 1878 Feb. 11. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 753955888 ...

Grice, George Daniel

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