Mills Bee Lane I letters, 1935.

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Mills Bee Lane I letters, 1935.

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This collection contains two photocopies of letters written to Mills B. Lane of Savannah, Georgia in 1935. Both of these letters are answers to correspondence Lane had sent requesting details of their experiences of having African American tenant farmers working on their plantations so that he could apply their advice to his own plantation, the Lebanon Plantation in Savannah, Georgia. Lane received replies from V. B. Jenkins of Blundale Farms in Blundale, Georgia and S. D. Duncan of the E. T. Comer Company in Millhaven, Georgia.

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Jenkings, V. B., fl. 1935.

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Lane, Mills Bee, 1860-1945.

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Mills Bee Lane I (21 Nov. 1860-6 Aug. 1945) was the son of Remer Y. Lane (born 18 Nov. 1826) and Henrietta Brinson. Mills Lane attended Vanderbilt University until 1881 when he began working for R. Y. Lane Company, a private bank in Valdosta owned by his father where he worked his way up from errand boy to cashier. In 1888, Mills Lane and his father established the Merchant's Bank of Valdosta. Lane's intentions then turned towards Savannah. In 1890, he became vice-president at the Citizens Bank ...

Duncan, S. D., fl. 1935.

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