Isaac H. Means papers, 1846-1889.

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Means, Isaac H., 1826-1898. Isaac H. Means papers, 1846-1889.

Isaac H. Means papers, 1846-1889.

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College student organizational note, 1846, "Resolutions of the Senior Class South Carolina College 1846" bearing the name Isaac H[ugh] Means was issued just prior to commencement by a committee of his classmates charged with planning a five-year reunion on commencement day 1851; and letter, 1889, re biographical information. As graduating seniors, the Class of 1846 agreed that five years hence, it was to be the responsibility of each graduate "to give a sketch of his History from the time of Graduation up to the time of meeting and also of any absent member with whose history he may be acquainted." An orator and alternate were to be "immediately elected to deliver an address to the meeting," and each member was to communicate news of the death of any classmate. Each member of the graduating class was to be presented "a copy of these Resolutions in pamphlet form signed by the Class in Alphabetical order." The resolutions are signed by members of the committee "appointed to make all necessary preparations for the meeting" - H[amilton] G[aillard] Witherspoon, A[lbert] A. Morse, John K[ing] Jackson, William B[lackburn] Wilson, John C[hestnut] Lang, L[adson] L[awrence] Fraser, and H[enry] T[homas] Moore - and each member of the graduating class. Letter, 17 Dec. 1889 (Columbia, S.C.) to Belmont Perry (Woodbury, N.J.), re Perry's request for biographical information on a past S.C. governor; Means explains that he had served as Secretary of State for S.C., from 1858-1862, and that his uncle John Hugh Means had served as governor during the antebellum era, and his grandfather, a native of Boston, Mass., had settled in South Carolina after the American Revolution. Means signature includes his title of Librarian of University of South Carolina.

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