Stephen Elliott [(1771-1830) biographical sketch], 1933 Feb. 27.

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Stephen Elliott [(1771-1830) biographical sketch], 1933 Feb. 27.

Biographical sketch of the S.C. botanist published in The State newspaper (Columbia, S.C.).

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Elliott (Yale University, B.A. 1791) returned to South Carolina to operate a plantation in 1800. He also served in the state legislature (1796-1808); was bank president in Charleston, 1812-1830. Elliott was active in the founding of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina and served as its president from 1814-1830; he was presifdent of the Charleston Library Society; and he co-founded the Southern Review with Hugh Swinton Legare in 1828. In 1820 he was elected president of the U...