Butler family papers, 1801-1991 (bulk, ca. 189u-192u).

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Butler family papers, 1801-1991 (bulk, ca. 189u-192u).

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Correspondence, business papers, newspaper clippings, and photographs re activities of William Butler and family; antebellum papers documenting earlier generations include bills and receipts from estate of Maj. William Moore (1765-1818), and schoolgirl letters of Eugenia M. Ransom; extensive correspondence addressed to Lil Butler includes invitations from suitors, most of whom were enrolled at South Carolina College, to attend picnics, dances, and other social events. Letters written to his children in Columbia by William Butler from Washington, D.C., provide advice, discuss political changes, and advise financial restraint after the loss of Butler's appointment in 1888, with defeat of Grover Cleveland, as the Democrats lost the Presidency and the majority in the House; other letters discuss rise of populist Benjamin R. Tillman in 1894, as his movement challenged the career of U.S. Sen. M.C. Butler. Topics discussed include concern over Lil's living arrangements in a boarding house and her teaching career in Cedar Mountain, N.C. [Transylvania County, N.C.]; William and Raymond Perry Butler's jobs with the railroad and their preparations for the Spanish American war as members of the Savannah Volunteer Guards; also including souvenir badge,1926, commemorating the election of Wade Hampton in 1876. Priscilla Ransom Butler married Greenville, S.C., resident Charles Benjamin Stone in 1903; later parts of the collection relate to their children, William Butler Stone (1904-1914) and Agnes Theodora Stone Dawsey (1907-1997), including letters between Dawsey and members of the Butler Society concerning Butler family genealogy in Ireland and the United States. Bound volumes include family Bible, 1767, with annotations and record of births, marriages, and deaths, ca. 1774-1900s; and family Bible, 1817, with vital statistics ca. 1790s-1930s, and record of other notable events: "on Sunday the 15th April 1849, snow commenced falling, & continued to fall rapidly from 9 AM till about 3 PM...." followed by a week of frost that killed vegetables and "forest trees..."; and 29 Apr. 1874, 8 Apr. 1885, information re other episodes of unseasonal snow and frost (p. 683).

5 linear ft. (4 cartons) + 1 small oversize folder.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615303

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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