Autograph album, 1877-1888

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Autograph album, 1877-1888

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Autograph album, inscribed "Christmas [18]77," of signatures collected by Miss Susie R. Pennal. Includes, among others, inscriptions and signatures of Methodist bishop A. Coke Smith, 31 Jan. 1885, and John O. Wilson, 4 Nov. 1883, and original works of art on paper, including pencil sketch of "Sunny Cot," depicting a small gable-roofed, wooden cottage with center chimney and picket fence, which is referenced as being in Greenville, [S.C.?], in an autograph signed by "Cousin Lum & Rosa," 25 Aug. [18]88. Other illustrations include a coastal scene of a rocky shoreline with lighthouse and other structures, drawn by Robert P[erry] Smith (1851-1936) of Reidville, S.C.; sketch by Lottie H. Hubbard, of Hartford, Connecticut, showing three young girls in sun bonnets sitting on a fence; watercolor of violets; and pencil sketches of a cooking pot on a tripod, a cartoon pig wearing clothes illustrating a nursery rhyme, etc. Final page shows clipping re wedding of Susie Roberta Pennal of Charleston, S.C., to Rev. Leroy F. Beaty of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at a private home near Greenville, S.C. Printed lithograph illustrations bound into this volume include a view (in color) of the Thousand Islands along the Saint Lawrence River in New York State; and a lithograph of the river valley from "Jefferson's Rock" at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Smith, Alexander Coke, 1849-1906,

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Willson, John O. (John Owens), 1845-1923

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President of Lander College and Methodist minister of Greenwood, S.C.; during Civil War, left The Citadel in June 1862, for military service in the Confederate Army; in 1872, Lander a opened private school for young women in Williamston (Anderson County, S.C.), an institution later known as Lander College; husband of Kathleen Lander Willson, the daughter of Samuel Lander (1833-1904); J.O. Willson died, 1923, in Greenwood, S.C.; son of physician John Willson (1805-1856) and Sara Owens Wilson (182...

Pennal, Susie Roberta.

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Miss Susie Pennal is identified in the 1880 census as an 18-year-old resident of Charleston, S.C., living in the household of her aunt, Mary Pennal, at 19 Montague Street. From the description of Autograph album, 1877-1888 (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 430341010 ...