John Berkley Grimball papers, 1801-1896.

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John Berkley Grimball papers, 1801-1896.

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Family correspondence re plantation life, Civil War and Reconstruction; including letter, 20 June 1839, Charleston, S.C., re departure of Christopher Cotes for England and charging Mr. Lesesne with management of school; 2 letters, 3 June and 7 June 1843, Walterboro and Charleston, S.C., re inquiry into management of Bank of South Carolina conducted by S.C. Legislature; letter, 28 Feb. 1845, Charleston, S.C., to E[liza] B. Wilkins, re sale of African-American slaves. Five letters, 1850-1866, Morrisania, N.Y., from E.B. Wilkins and M.A.M. Grimball, re family news; letter, 27 Nov. 1859, to Margaret Ann Morris Grimball, re Henry R. Dickson's appointment as pastor of Willtown Presbyterian Church and Mr. Girardeau's preaching to slaves; 4 letters, 1860-1864, Ft. Sumter and Ft. Johnson, S.C., William Grimball to J.B. Grimball, re activity at the forts, W. Grimball's failure to be promoted, and rising property taxes. Pardon, 16 Dec. 1865, from Andrew Johnson, for M.A.M. Grimball; letter, 27 Jan. 1866, re a friend's visit to South America, and relocation to England; 2 letters, 15 Feb. 1866 and 23 Feb. 1866, Charleston, S.C., re legal proceedings against confiscated estates; letter, 1866, to Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles, re restoration of J.B. Grimball's plantation. Three letters, 20 Nov. 1867 and c.1867, re argument with Edwin P. Frost, president of the Chrestomathic Society [College of Charleston]; biographical sketch, 1869, of John Grimball; journal, 1893, re the weather, planting, crop conditions, and a hurricane on 27 Aug. 1893 recorded in Miller's Almanac; 2 letters, 13 Oct. 1816 and 2 Apr. 1818, Princeton, N.J., to William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, S.C., re admissions, school societies, and comparison of theaters in Charleston, S.C. and Philadelphia, Pa. Letters, 11 Dec. 1840-29 Oct. 1855, from M.A.M. Grimball, re uterine condition and her treatment; 2 diplomas, Oct. 1819, from Princeton College "Neo-Casriensis" and "Omnibus Literarom Studiosis" literary society; letter, 16 Nov. 1878, New York, N.Y., John Grimball to J.B. Grimball, re electric baths for neuralgia; letter, 25 Dec. 1894, to Berkley Grimball, re recent shooting in which town marshal killed two men identified as supporters of Gov. Benjamin Tillman.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914

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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...

Frost, Edwin Collins

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Reid, William Moultrie, 1798-1884.

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Presbyterian minister of Sumter Co., S.C. From the description of Papers, 1818-1891. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20121145 Presbyterian minister of Charleston, S.C.; teacher at Columbia Theological Seminary in Columbia, S.C.; husband of Margaret Goulding Reid; brother of Ann Reid; father of Mollie, Merrick, Moultrie, George, and Goulding Reid. From the description of William Moultrie Reid Papers, 1800-1916. (University of South Carolina). WorldC...

Grimball, Margaret Ann Morris, 1810-1881

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Grimball family.

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Grimball, William

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Grimball, John, 1840-1922

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John Grimball was a Confederate naval officer and attorney. He was the son of John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892) and Margaret ("Meta") Ann Morris Grimball. He accepted his commission in the U.S. Navy in 1854 and joined the Confederate Navy in 1861. In 1864 he served as an officer on the Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah. After the war he lived in Mexico for a time and then moved to New York to practice law. In 1884 Grimball moved back to Charleston and for a few years engaged in rice pla...

Wilkins, Elizabeth Berkley

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Grimball, Berkeley, b. 1833.

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Grimball, John Berkley, 1800-1892

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Charleston and St. Paul's Parish, Colleton District South Carolina rice plantation owner, South Carolina Senator, and president of the local agricultural society. From the description of Diary of J.B. Grimball, 1832-1938. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31740871 S.C. Senator of Charleston and St. Paul's parish, 1838-1843; member, Southern Rights Convention, 1852; president, Charleston Library Society, 1871-1875; husband of Margaret Ann Morris Grimball; brother o...

Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918

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Farmer, governor of South Carolina, 1890-1894, and U.S. senator, 1895-1918; from Trenton (Edgefield Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1894-1897. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400241 The series title represents "Personal Unprocessed" and was designed as such by staff at the South Caroliniana Library as part of their system of classifying collections. Apparently this part of the Tillman Papers was processed at a later date than the Incoming and Outg...

College of Charleston. Chrestomathic Society

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