Papers of several generations of the Doggette family, consisting of 144 manuscripts and 60 photographs; earliest materials reflect work of George L. Doggette (1877-1953) as manager / overseer in the cloth room at the Piedmont Manufacturing Company (Anderson County, S.C.). Papers documenting the Doggette family's involvement with the Methodist Church in upstate S.C., and elsewhere include a small 1891 minute book kept by longtime family friend A.S. Rowell (d.1922), in which are recorded details of meetings to discuss the construction of a new Methodist church at Piedmont, S.C. Later materials document career of G.L. Doggette's son James Carlisle Doggette (b. 1906), his education at the University of South Carolina (Class of 1927), and his attendance at Washington Street Methodist Church while a student, and and subsequent work as a public school teacher and superintendent in the South Carolina school districts of Springfield (Orangeburg County), Belton (Anderson County), Brunson (Hampton County), and York (York County). Collection also contains set of newspaper clippings re career of Colonel James Carlisle Doggette, Jr. (b. 1933), as an Air Force fighter pilot and base commander at Hancock Field near Syracuse, New York. A large unit of photographs, mostly representing several generations of the Doggette family, includes several other images of interest: a 4 July 1895 group photograph of members of the Piedmont Historical Society; views of buildings at Rutherford College, N.C., taken in 1903; and a 1918 group shot of the fifth and sixth grade classes at Piedmont High School. Additional items of interest include the printed Charter and By-Laws of the Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Piedmont, S.C., Feb. 22, 1896; a pamphlet, Address of Col. Jas. L. Orr to Parents and Children of the Piedmont Schools June 17th, 1904; an undated manuscript, presumably a bit of juvenalia, A.S. Rowell Littery Journall, credited to Theo Queen, editor, A.M. Doggette, assistant editor, and Miss Zela Rector, journalist.
