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Lewis Malone Ayer papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-10367
Scope and Contents
The 1567 manuscripts in this collection document the economic and political activities of Lewis Malone Ayer (1769-1863), who served with Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War, and of his son, Lewis M. Ayer, Jr. (1821-1895), who served in the Confederate Congress. Topics discussed date to the Colonial era, the Revolutionary War, the Early National period, and the antebellum and Civil War periods.
Correspondence with factors, merchants, and other planters shows the growth, especially during...
Dates:
1769 - 1863
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Robert Richardson Coker papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-11295
Summary
Chiefly business and personal correspondence relating to Coker and the management of Coker's Pedigreed Seed Company and other family businesses including Coker's Experimental Farms, J. L. Coker & Company, Sonoco Products Company, and Hartsville Oil Mill.Coker was actively involved in the National Cotton Council; through this organization he worked tirelessly to find a way to eradicate the destructive boll weevil. His knowledge and expertise also led him to assume important...
Dates:
1890-1988
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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- African Americans -- South Carolina. 1
- Boll weevil. 1
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- Cotton -- Diseases and pests. 1
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- Embargo, 1807-1809. 1
- Farmers -- United States. 1
- Plantations -- South Carolina. 1
- Seeds -- Development. 1
- South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
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- Ayer, Lewis M., Jr. (Lewis Malone), 1821-1895 1
- Ayer, Lewis Malone, 1769-1863 1
- Brown, Tarleton, 1757-1845 1
- Coker family 1
- Coker, Robert Richardson, 1905-1987 1
- Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1
- Gulf Life Insurance Company 1
- Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864 1
- Hartsville Savings Bank (S.C.) 1
- J.L. Coker & Company (Hartsville, S.C.) 1
- Pedigreed Seed Company (Hartsville, S.C.) 1
- Peeples, Darling, 1774-1850 1
- Sonoco Products Company 1
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