Connor family papers, 1890 Feb. 21-1951 May 16.

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Connor family papers, 1890 Feb. 21-1951 May 16.

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Consisting chiefly of correspondence and personal and business papers of L.B. Connor; receipts for agricultural products, taxes, household goods, and railroad shipping; promissory notes; leases and liens; bank records; and miscellaneous advertisements. Correspondence concerns cotton sales, shipping and processing, creditors, machine tool maintenance and repair, land speculation, home and auto insurance, and U.S. Department of Agriculture matters. Letters to L.B. Connor while a member of the S.C. House of Representatives written by constituents regard such issues as taxes, bills before the legislature, and lobbying efforts. Letters, 8 Jan. 1918-11 Mar. 1919, to Lawrence S. Connor regard manufactured parts for his experimental farm equipment. A 2 May 1921 letter indicates that L.B. Connor received the list of manufactured parts made for his fathers' experimental farming equipment from a business associate of L.S. Connor at The Columbia Malleable Iron Co., Columbus, Ohio. Also includes specimen World War II letters addressed to L.B. Connor from grandsons Ben C. Dantzler and James A. Dantzler, both of whom were in the U.S. military, written from Sedalia Army Air Field, Warrensburg, Missouri; Green Cove Springs, Fla.; and U.S.S. Ticonderoga, Hawaiian Islands. Volumes consist of fertilizer company handbooks with information on the use of fertilizer for crops; bank and receipt books; school register for Goodby's School, Orangeburg County, S.C., Oct. 1913-Apr. 1914, Pearle Connor, teacher; cotton gin records; and accounts for cotton picked by tenants of L.B. Connor with number of hours worked and wages received, barter goods exchanged between Connor and tenant farmers, and information relating to work details and road construction during his tenure as commissioner for the township of Elloree, S.C. Includes photographic portraits of L.B. Connor and grandson Ben C. Dantzler.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives

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Connor, Lawrence Summerfield, d.1919

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Columbia Malleable Iron Co. (Columbus, Ohio)

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Dantzler, Ben C.

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O'Connor family.

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Connor, Lee Bonaparte, b.1866

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Connor family.

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Residents of Orangeburg County, S.C.; involved in cotton farming and state politics. Collection centers around Lee Bonaparte Connor, son of Lawrence Summerfield and Susan Zeigler Connor. L.B. Connor married married Georgia Shuler in 1891. He farmed cotton in Parler and Elloree (Orangeburg County, S.C.), Like his father, L.B. Connor served in the General Assembly, representing Orangeburg County in the S.C. House of Representatives, 1921-1922, and also serving as commissioner of Elloree township. ...

Connor, Pearl

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Goodby's School (Orangeburg County, S.C.)

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