Matthew Calbraith Butler papers, 1860-1926, (bulk 1879-1898).

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Matthew Calbraith Butler papers, 1860-1926, (bulk 1879-1898).

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Chiefly receipts, and correspondence with John L[awrence] Manning and Stephen D[ill] Lee re family and business news; including letter, 25 July 1867, Edgefield, S.C. to Col. B[enjamin] H[uger] Rutledge, Charleston, S.C. re court cases and schedules in U.S. Circuit Court, District of S.C.; letter, 21 July 1888, Department of State, Washington, D.C., from T[homas] F[rancis] Bayard, re foreign relations 1881-1886. Two letters, 20 Sept. 1889 and 24 Jan. 1890, New York, N.Y., A. Thompson, to Gen. S.D. Lee, Agricultural College, Mississippi, re expatriation of blacks, Back to Africa movement, and suggesting settlement sites in eastern South America; letter, 10 Apr. 1890, Atlanta, Ga., from H[enry] Turner to M.C. Butler, re social and economic conditions of African-Americans in the United States, and M.C. Butler's bill re establishment and funding of African-American colonies in Africa. Letter, 3 Dec. 1890, Wade Hampton, to M.C. Butler, re M.C. Butler's campaign for the U.S. Senate; letter, 26 Sept. 1898, to R[ussell] A[lexander] Alger, Secretary of War, U.S. Commission to Cuba, re annexation of Cuba to the United States; letter, 5 Nov. 1898, [Narcisco] Gonzales, re Spanish-American War. Two letters, 20 Mar. 1889 and 8 Dec. 1892, Washington, D.C. to Geo[rge] W[illiam] Daragan and D[onald] J[ohn] Auld, re Postmaster position in Sumter, S.C.; letter, 25 Apr. 1893, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. to A[lexander] R[obert] Lawton, Savannah, Ga., re recommendation of Richardson as Postmaster of Sumter, S.C.; 8 items, 18 Dec. 1901-18 Feb. 1902, re the settlement of the estate of James Edward Calhoun; letter, 23 Apr. 1902, Washington, D.C. to Lil [Butler] Edgefield, S.C., re Butler genealogy. Letters and clippings, 30 May 1857, 1863, and 16 Apr. 1909, re obituaries of Judge [Andrew Pickens] Butler, Maj. William Loudon Butler, and Gen. M.C. Butler; scrapbook, 1897-1906, containing speeches, and newspaper clippings re M.C. Butler.

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Manning, John L. (John Lawrence), 1816-1889

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Auld, D. J. (Donald John), b. 1838.

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National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union

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Dargan, George W. (George William), 1841-1898

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Lawton, Alexander Robert, 1818-1896

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St. Andrew's Society of Charleston, South Carolina

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Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915

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1834 February 1 Born in South Carolina, the son of Hardy and Sarah Greer Turner. 1853 Licensed to preach. 1858 Admitted to the ministry and itinerant work of the A.M.E. Church. 1862 Ordained Elder in Israel A.M.E. church, Washingt...

Alger, R. A. (Russell Alexander), 1836-1907

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Alger (1836-1907) served as U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1902-1907. He was a Republican. (Information from Senators of the U.S.). Scripps served as Michigan Senator from the Third District, 1903-1904. He was born in England in 1835 and came to the U.S. in 1844. Scripps worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1857. After settling in Detroit in 1859, he managed the Detroit Tribune until 1863 when he founded the Detroit Evening News. In 1862, Scripps married Harriet J. Messinger. He was acti...

Calhoun (Colhoun), James Edward, 1782-1850.

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Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908

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Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909

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U.S. Senator from South Carolina. From the description of Signature to printed form : Washington, 1880 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132690 From the description of Papers, 1851-1920. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36547519 Confederate solider and lawyer, of Edgefield, S.C.; member of S.C. House, 1860-1861 and 1866-1867; member of U.S. Congress, 1877-1895; son of William Butler (1790-1850). From the description of Matthew Calb...

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Gonzales, Naricisco, 1858-1903.

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Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898

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Rutledge, Benjamin Huger, 1828-1893

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Hampton Wade, 1791-1858.

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