Alida Harper Fowlkes papers, 1788-1984.

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Alida Harper Fowlkes papers, 1788-1984.

This collection concerns Alida Harper Fowlkes and her life in Savannah, Georgia. Some of the collection focuses on the agriculture industry in Georgia. The collection contains nine series: financial; legal documents; personal; newspaper clippings; publications; miscellaneous; photographs; scrapbooks; and miscellaneous photographs. The personal series is divided into two subseries: correspondence and records. The financial records concern the business dealings of William E. Harper, J.W. McAlpin, and Charles Edmondston, including ledgers of farm accounts at Hermitage plantation. The boxes containing photographs and scrapbooks are noted as "VM" (visual materials) in the collection inventory.

28 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 24 volumes (16.30 cubic feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8029748

Georgia Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

McAlpin, Henry, 1860-1931.

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Fowlkes, Alida Harper, 1908-1985.

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Alida Harper Fowlkes (1908-1985) was the daughter of William E. Harper (1873-1954) and Georgia Law Edmondston (1878-1967). Her brother was Col. William E. Harper, Jr. (1905-2002) and her sisters included Alida Law Harper Glover and Eleanor B. Harper Peckham. Alida Harper Fowlkes married Hunter McGuire Fowlkes (1894-1949) in 1948. Fowlkes was one of the first restorationists in Savannah, Georgia. Fowlkes attended finishing school from 1924 to 1927 at New Sullins College in Virginia Park, Bristol,...

Harper, WIlliam E., 1873-1954.

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Champion, Aaron, 1792-1880.

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Edmondston, Charles, 1848-1909.

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Law, William, 1793-1874.

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McAlpin, James Wallace, 1831-1905.

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James Wallace McAlpin (1831-1905) was a son of Henry McAlpin (1788-1851) who developed the Hermitage Plantation and built the well-known mansion that once existed there. After Henry McAlpin's death his three sons, Angus, James Wallace, and Donald, carried on their father's work at the plantation until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1866, the brothers lost the plantation to Aaron Champion, who conveyed the estate to James Wallace McAlpin, in trust for his daughter, Maria Sophia Champion McAlpi...

Harper, Georgia Edmondston, 1878-1967.

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