Daniel E. Wegner oral history collection, 1978.

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Daniel E. Wegner oral history collection, 1978.

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This collection contains 48 cassette tapes (three duplicate sets of sixteen) that document interviews conducted by Daniel E. Wegner during research for his 1979 master's thesis, entitled Recollections of Life in a Southern Textile Mill Village. Newry was a typical Southern mill village with resident mill owners and local labor. The interviews focus upon life in this small rural mill village during the first decades of the twentieth century. The individuals who grew up in the village and recount the everyday life and unique character of the community are: Claude Anderson, Ellis Benson, Helen Brock, Henry Cater, John L. Gaillard, Odessa B. Gaillard, Horace Kirby, and Richey Ramseur.

.31 cu. ft. 3 boxes.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7810152

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Kirby, Horace, 1900-1983.

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Wegner, Daniel E.

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Daniel E. Wegner was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1946. He is the son of Edwin and Deoldine Wegner. He has one sibling: Ruth Miller. As part of the research for his 1978 Master's thesis, Recollections of life in a southern textile mill village, Wegner conducted a series of interviews with eight residents of the Newry community of Oconee County, SC on sixteen cassette tapes. Captain William Ashmead Courtenay was granted a state charter in 1893 to incorporate a firm for the manufacturing, spinning, ...

Cater, Henry A., 1923-1996.

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Ramseur, A. Richey.

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Gaillard, John L.

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Brock, Helen, 1903-1992.

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Anderson, Claude, b. 1884.

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Benson, Ellis, 1908-1983.

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Gaillard, Odessa B.

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