DeTreville family papers, 1820-1981 (bulk, 1873-1933).

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DeTreville family. DeTreville family papers, 1820-1981 (bulk, 1873-1933).

DeTreville family papers, 1820-1981 (bulk, 1873-1933).

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Business and personal papers documenting activities of James C. DeTreville and his children; including receipts, land and legal documents, and photographs; chiefly business and legal papers, 1873-1907, of Walterboro attorney James C. DeTreville; records of cases in probate court and Colleton County court of common pleas; client correspondence regarding mortgages, property sales, wills, and contracts; correspondence with other attorneys, primarily the Charleston firm of Mitchell and Smith. Post-1907 materials reflect activities of DeTreville children: James, Jesse, Julian, Morgan, Alfred, Nell, Catherine, and Marie; including letters by James, Jesse, and Alfred re student life at University of South Carolina. James studied education at USC, and included is a letter from Patterson Wardlaw of the School of Education (6 Aug. 1913) regarding James' first teaching job. Also included are invitations to student social events from the period. James returned to law school at USC, left in 1917 to join the armed forces, and finished law school in 1919. Several letters document his time at camp in Texas and at the School of Military Aeronautics in Berkeley, Ca.; also including is one World War I letter from Jesse in France, 20 Oct. 1918. Nell DeTreville attended Columbia College and then spent several years as a Senate secretary in Columbia. Included are courtship letters between Nell and Andrew J. Bethea, lieutenant governor of South Carolina before World War I and later an attorney in Columbia. Correspondence, 1918-1923, includes Bethea's observations of life at Camp Kendrick, Lakehurst, N.J., at the close of World War I, training in gas warfare, and instructions re business affairs; also including Nell's voter registration card, 24 Mar. 1922, correspondence with University of Pennsylvania regarding her application and admission to law school (July-Sept. 1923), and congratulatory telegrams upon Nell and Andrew's marriage (31 Oct. 1923). Other papers document Alfred's work, ca. 1920s, across the country with the highway department, an automobile accident involving Nell and Andrew Bethea, 12 July 1930, James' bout with malaria, 10 Oct. 1928, and the effect of the draft in Walterboro (15 Sept. 1918); also including bond, 30 Dec. 1820, between Anthony Hutching and F.D. Crovat; and 3 undated photographs, including 2 portraits and a photograph of a parade carriage.

353 items.

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