Liberty Corporation additions, 1905-1997, bulk 1931-1971.

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Liberty Corporation additions, 1905-1997, bulk 1931-1971.

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The Liberty Corporation Additions document -- through annual statements, correspondence and memos, financial records such as journals and ledgers, insurance policies, employee and training manuals, minutes, reports, a speech, and other materials -- various aspects of the Liberty Corporation, especially the early history of the Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Southeastern Life Insurance Company. These materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title and date from 1905 to 1997, with the bulk of the items dating between 1931 and 1971. Among the items in this record group are correspondence, financial information, and other material for the Liberty Life Insurance Company and the Greenville Office of the Southeastern Life Insurance Company for the 1920s and 1930s; correspondence with the South Carolina Insurance Commissioner; various reinsurance agreements between Liberty Life, Southeastern Life, and other southern insurance companies; and information relating to real estate investments, including the Liberty Life building in Charlotte, North Carolina. There are files relating to the Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation and subsidiaries in North and South Carolina such as LIBCO and the Southeastern Corporation, as well as those relating to a proposed merger between Liberty and the South Carolina National Bank. Also in this record group is a small amount of material relating to W. Frank Hipp and other members of the Hipp family. Correspondents include Francis Hipp, W. Frank Hipp, and various officials of the South Carolina National Bank.

4.5 cubic ft.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8001345

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation dates from July 1930, with the establishment of WIS radio in Columbia, South Carolina by George T. Barnes. Barnes and several investors formed South Carolina Broadcasting Company in November 1930 as the parent company of WIS. The enterprise was sold within a year to W. Frank Hipp and The Liberty Life Insurance Company. Hipp reorganized the affairs of WIS and its parent company was re-chartered in 1932 as The South Carolina Broadcasting Company and placed under the...

Hipps family.

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Liberty Corporation

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In 1961, Robert Ritchie was named Keeper of the Records with the responsibility to create an archives and archival management program for Liberty Life Insurance Company. Ritchie and others, particularly J. K. Davis, began soliciting and collecting historical and archival documents from employees and departments of the company. Mr. Davis wrote one of the first comprehensive histories of Liberty Life. In the early 1970s, Paul Bridges took over as head of the archives, which was formally known as t...

Liberty Life Insurance Co.

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South Carolina National Bank

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Hipp, W. Frank

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Hipp, Francis M.

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Southeastern Life Insurance Company

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