Lucy Williams McCaughrin papers, 1873-1998.

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Lucy Williams McCaughrin papers, 1873-1998.

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Consisting of correspondence, pocket diaries, speeches, notebooks, contracts, minutes, student notes, teaching materials, and miscellaneous printed materials documenting McCaughrin's work teaching the hard of hearing and training teachers of hearing impaired adults and children, as well as her involvement with the American Hearing Society, and American Society for the Hard of Hearing. McCaughrin began to lose her hearing while still a young woman. She recalled that not even a hearing aid would prevent her from becoming "a social outcast," a handicap that inspired her to learn lip-reading and open the McCaughrin School of Speech Reading in Columbia, S.C. Other organizations represented include American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing, Speech Reading Club of Philadelphia, Columbia Society for the Hard of Hearing, and South Carolina Committee on Legislation for the Hard of Hearing Children. The correspondence is particularly valuable not only as a record of professional relationships, but also as evidence of the close personal ties which existed among a small group of women in the hearing-impaired teaching and leadership circles in the East and South, including Betty C. Wright, director of field service for the American Society for the Hard of Hearing, headquartered in Washington, D.C. In a letter of 6 Mar. 1947, Wright commented on a plan to assist deaf members of the African American community in Columbia, S.C., "I have had a letter from Bess Ferguson and she said she had talked to you about Mrs. Campbell's wanting to form an organization in Columbia for colored persons and that the Board of Directors of the Columbia Society would be glad to help in every way possible. I think that is the right attitude." Includes correspondence relating to family of James R. Garfield (1865-1950), son of President James A. Garfield, and his wife, Helen Newell Garfield (d. 1930), who co-edited a book, The Mentor Practice Course in Speech Reading for Adults, with McCaughrin in 1923. Other correspondents include J.S. Agnew, Walter J. Bristow, A.C. Flora, J. Rion McKissick, Calhoun Mays, O.B. Mayer, Jr., Anna L. Staples, and others. Other items include personal letters, 1873-1924, relating to the Hunt family of Newberry, S.C.; files, 1944-1946, on the Mary P. Wheeler Book and Garden Club of Columbia, S.C.; and 31 photographs, ca. early 1890s, relating to McCaughrin's student years at the College for Women [later Chicora College for Women] in Columbia, S.C.

5 linear ft. (4 cartons)

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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McCaughrin, Lucy Williams, 1877-1962.

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Educator and leader in education of the deaf; pioneer in lip reading and teaching the hearing-impaired; native of Newberry, S.C.; graduate, 1894, of the College for Women (Columbia, S.C.); completed additional studies at Muller-Walle School of Speech Reading (Boston, Mass.), and Kinzie School of Speech Reading (Philadelphia, Penn.); director, Columbia Society for the Hard of Hearing; served as Co-Chair of the South Carolina Committee on Legislation for Hard of Hearing Children. From ...

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Staples, Anna L.

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Mayer, O. B. (Orlando Benedict), 1818-1891

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Physician and writer of Newberry, S.C.; Mayer's books included historical sketches of life in Dutch Fork area of South Carolina. From the description of Commonplace book, 1880-1882. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 48120181 ...

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Helen Newell Garfield was the daughter of John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and Julia Poore Hills. She married James Rudolph Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, in 1890, and had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph H., and Newell. Helen was an advocate for the education and treatment of deaf children. She herself had become deaf around 1918. She ran the Lake Erie School of Speech Reading, and was an officer of the Cleveland Association for the Har...

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Flora, A. C. (Abram Cline)

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Educator, of Columbia, S.C.; active in many professional organizations, including National Education Association, for which he served a term as president (1942-1943); native of Virginia; born, 1885; died 1971. From the description of A.C. Flora papers, [1910]-1970. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 48404303 ...

Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950

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James Rudolph Garfield was the son of President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. He graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and praticed law in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother, Harry Augustus Garfield. James married Helen Newell in 1890. They had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph, and Newell. He served in the Ohio Senate 1896-1900, and was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1902, and to the Department of Commer...