Joseph Frederick Waring II papers, 1821-1972

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Joseph Frederick Waring II papers, 1821-1972

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The Joseph Frederick Waring II papers (1821-1972) contain advertisements, broadsides, business records, correspondence, diaries, drawings, estate records, clippings, lectures, maps, minutes, muster rolls, notes, pamphlets, photographs, poems, property records, reports. and scrapbooks. The collection includes papers and genealogies on the Waring family, research materials on the Jeff Davis Legion, reasearch materials on Waring's publication Cerveau's Savannah, and papers and talks given by Waring. Waring family members included in the collection are Joseph Frederick Waring (1832-1876), James Johnston Waring (1829-1888), Mary Alston Waring, Thomas Pickney Waring (1867-1943), and William Richard Waring (1787-1843). Family names documented in this collection that are associated with the Warings include Alston, Brewton, Ellis, Houstoun, Huger, Johnston, Motte, Myers, Newell, Rutledge, and Trist. Businesses and organizations represented in the collection include Mutual Fertilizer Company, Bowker Fertilizer Company, Cumberland Bone Company, Apalachicola Turpentine Company, Isaac, Low and Company, Adams Express Company, Marshall Hose Company of Savannah, Webb-Waring Institute, Georgia Medical Society, and Save-the-Bay Committee. Waring's materials on the history of the Jeff Davis Legion include information on the Georgia Hussars, 10th Georgia Volunteers, Company G, Liberty Independent Troop, 20th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry, Company K, Georgia Regiment, and other units from Alabama and Mississippi. Other subjects included in the papers are the yellow fever epidemics of 1820, 1854, and 1876; various Savannah banks, churches, cemeteries, hospitals, schools, wards; and historical figures in Savannah including Richard Dennis Arnold; Firmin Cerveau, Bishop Stephen Elliott, Joseph LeConte, Alexander Smets, and Israel K. Tefft.

32 boxes 1 tube (16.5 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7576560

Georgia Historical Society

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Waring, Thomas Pinckney, 1867-1943.

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Waring, William R. (William Richard), 1787-1843

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Waring, Joseph Frederick, 1832-1876.

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Joseph Frederick Waring (1832-1876) was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was the Captain of the Georgia Hussars, and during the Civil War was Colonel of the Jeff Davis Legion of Stewart's Cavalry. After the war, he commanded the Georgia Hussars. He was Forwarding Agent for the Central of Georgia Railway Co. Waring died of yellow fever in 1876. From the description of Joseph Frederick Waring letters and diary, 1861-1865. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 145734302 ...

Waring, James J. (James Johnston), 1830-1888

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Waring, Joseph Frederick, II, 1902-1972.

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Joseph Frederick Waring II (September 12, 1902-April 8, 1972), was a local Savannah, Georgia, historian and preservationist. Waring, the son of Pinckney Alston and Lillie Ellis Waring, was born in Savannah where he grew up and received his early education. He was a graduate of Governor Dummer Academy in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the oldest private school in the United States, and of Yale University. He also attended Cambridge University in England and received a Master of Arts degree from the ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Jeff Davis Legion

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Waring, Mary Alston.

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