Mary Little Yeargin papers, 1884-1894.

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Mary Little Yeargin papers, 1884-1894.

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Chiefly receipts, correspondence with family and friends while studying law at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and teaching school at Leesville College, Leesville, S.C., and Sage College, Ithaca, N.Y., and condolence messages and newspaper clippings re her disappearance and apparent drowning in a boating accident in 1893. Including letter, 29 Dec. 1890, Leesville, S.C., to her sister, Lila B. Yeargin, Highland Home, Laurens County, S.C., re illness, social activities, family news, Christmas gifts, prospect of going North next year, and her dislike of teaching; letter, 21 Jan. 1891, Leesvile, S.C., to her mother, re her classes and teaching, problems with her eyes, and family affairs. Letter, c. 1892, to her father, R.H. Yeargin, re involvement in temperance work and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; letter, 7 May 1893, Sage College, Ithaca, N.Y., to her family, Laurens, S.C., re weather, attending church, social activities, and family news; and undated letter, Sage College, Ithaca, N.Y., Mary Yeargin to her family, Laurens, S.C., re classes and freshman hazing. Letter, 20 Nov. 1893, Sage College, Ithaca, N.Y., Ellen K. Hooper, Principal, to R.H. Yeargin, Laurens County, S.C., re events on day of Mary's boating accident and the ongoing search for her body; also including volume, 1884-1894 and undated, including typed copies of correspondence and a biographical sketch.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Leesville College (Leesville, S.C.)

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Yeargin, Lila B.

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Sage College (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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Yeargin family.

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Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Cornell University

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Yeargin, Mary Little, 1867-1893.

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Teacher and graduate of Columbia Female College, Columbia, S.C.; studied law at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; taught at Leesville College, Leesville, S.C., and Sage College, Ithaca, N.Y.; appointed by Gov. Benjamin Ryan Tillman as commissioner to study the viability of normal and industrial colleges for women, 1890; drowned, 1893, in boating accident, Ithaca, N.Y.; native of Laurens County, S.C. From the description of Mary Little Yeargin papers, 1884-1894. (University of South C...

Hooper, Ellen K.

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